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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #291107 |
@#61308 With my proposal, you'd still get a username. It would just be disconnected from everything else about yourself and your account, and not be very memorable. (A GUID is one way to do that. There are other possibilities.) And the idea is to offer the *option* of being anonymous even against peo... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291106 |
@#53890 Yes, it probably would be. (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #290930 |
This feels like an interesting proposal for improvement, but I don't think it's a high priority issue; it seems likely to be moderately complex to implement, and there's a relatively easy existing way to do the same thing.
I also wouldn't call lack of a feature a "bug". We do have the "feature-req... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290923 |
You ask about "site policies", which I take to mean policies of each respective community (which need not be the same), but then you show an organisational chart of the Codidact development *organisation* which is something very different.
Can you clarify in your question what you are actually int... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290040 |
@#61308 As a general rule of thumb: Yes.
If you see something which you feel is in violation of the code of conduct, flag it for moderator attention.
If you see a moderator acting in a way which you feel is in violation of the code of conduct, use the contact page to contact the Codidact team.
... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289990 |
@#61308 @#64656 Both of my examples were, of course, just that: examples. They were hardly finished, properly formatted, easily readable questions, nor were they intended to be. The point was to illustrate that a question absolutely can list things that someone has already tried. In some cases doing ... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289793 |
The specific question referenced looks answerable, so I have reopened it. You can always flag a question for moderator attention if you feel that it was closed in error, or that the issues that caused it to be closed have been resolved.
Codidact/QPixel isn't quite as refined yet as some commercial... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
You can select a default license for your posts per community, or you can set it to force you to make a selection for each post on a community. So if you regularly participate on, say, *The Great Outdoors*, *Photography* and *Software Development*, and want content you post to each normally licensed ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288399 |
@#8046 Whatever the issue was, it appears to have been resolved. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288325 |
@#61308 Considered something like *Professional Career*? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288399 |
@#8046 For what it might be worth, I can browse to `www.codidact.org` just fine with the same browser on the same system. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288361 |
I don't think ActivityPub has specific allowances for that, but the more general concept of Fediverse federation certainly does. Look at the /about page on almost any Mastodon instance, and you'll see a list of servers with which federation is restricted.
However, that's still in one sense approac... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288292 |
You mention that you have taught college level courses in GIS since 2017, which intuitively seems like a great way to build both a user base and a question base. If this community is created, would you recommend it to students in class? Are there others who you might feel comfortable recommending it ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287771 |
Nothing prevents a user from creating a thread with the title "General comments". So the thread title itself is not conclusive evidence of its age, though it certainly can be indicative, especially if also the post was created before threaded comments were introduced. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287766 |
It's not all that uncommon for people to be red/green color blind; basically, they can't (readily or at all, depending on the severity of their condition) tell the difference between red and green. So using specifically red and green to indicate opposites is a quite poor choice; and in general, IIRC ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
@#53890 Both. It's next to and largely similar to the follow/unfollow action link on the comment thread page. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
There's another place where this is an issue: the "tools" moderator action link on a comment thread page. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287155 |
I don't doubt that there are lots of people out there who have an interest in chess at varying levels, but where would the people to make up a chess community on Codidact come from? How would a chess community on Codidact attract them? I see you have yourself tagged this proposal as needs-people, so ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287046 |
This isn't an issue just for inbox links, but anywhere a direct link to a post is followed; such as if someone copies the "copy link" link and posts it elsewhere. For such use, it's entirely plausible that the user viewing the page is entirely unfamiliar with Codidact. In my opinion, that makes it ev... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287020 |
@#53890 For what it's worth, I think this could be made clearer in the UI *in general*, so this still has merit as a suggestion for a change, but I'm glad I was able to help you with your immediate problem. :-) (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287020 |
You close the "react" box by clicking again on "react". This maps to how other UI elements work in QPixel. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286816 |
This looks like a duplicate of [Hobbling of users who consistently post low-quality content](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/284472) (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286795 |
Why would you want to do that? What problem are you looking to solve by doing it? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286753 |
@#53196 The latter sounds like a potentially useful feature; maybe you should propose that in its own right and see how it goes. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286582 |
@#8045 Very good. :-) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286582 |
Please do take care to not set up any permanent redirects during the migration, the way it happened during an earlier maintenance window. Permanent redirects have a tendency to break things that aren't supposed to change. :-) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280879 |
Still an issue: [The letter "ৡ" shows as a "?" in a community generated link to a question](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/286297) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285848 |
@#54706 At which point one can just as well type up the question elsewhere and then copy and paste it into the submission interface when logged in whenever convenient, like I suggested in my answer, because then the question won't appear immediately *anyway*. Composing a post doesn't have to happen a... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285842 |
@#36363 What @#54706 said. Not least in software development, "problem" can be a quite broad term, as exemplified in, for example, "problem statement". "It is too cumbersome to accomplish X" can be a valid problem statement regardless of whether X is something that should be accomplished at all and w... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285846 |
> The assumption that suspended users can't grow up is something I personally reject.
@#36363 Suspensions on Codidact are time limited. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285842 |
@#36363 If there is, as you put it, no problem to solve here, then please don't waste people's time with frivolous proposals. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285848 |
@#36363 I wasn't aware that this question was about implementing anonymous posting (without logging in) only for you. Perhaps you could somehow make that more explicit in your proposal?
No, seriously. *You* are an anecdote. *You* could be the most exemplary person *in the world*. But that doesn't ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285528 |
@#54706 Pretty much. It might even be reasonable to break currently known science (and engineering) if that can be justified; the hypothetical Alcubierre drive, for example, requires matter that has negative mass, which we have no idea how to make or even if it can exist, but it's still possible to p... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285528 |
You are right that [Scientific Speculation Codidact](https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/) is primarily about extrapolation from currently known science. (It was conceived as a more focused, somewhat more science-y counterpart to Stack Exchange's Worldbuilding site.) It's possible to extrapol... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284930 |
@#8046 It looks to me too like it's being rendered correctly now. Certainly the specific example seems to be. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285402 |
Following the "success" link in the original question, I get a 404 "Not Found" page back. Doesn't work for me on Writing either, so it's not an issue of "you need to be a Moderator". Can you, or someone else, check again when logged in as an unprivileged user? (I realize that since there's money invo... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285374 |
@#8046 Not being able to set up a filter at all because you're in the wrong category for the particular selection you want to make for the filter sounds like a recipe for confusion, especially if coupled with filters, once created, being accessible across all of Codidact. ("Why in the world doesn't i... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285302 |
@#53919 For the record, yes, I intended it strictly as a placeholder. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285302 |
@#36363 Sure; I don't think of it as pejorative, and I certainly didn't mean for it to be, but I can put something else there instead. Do you think it's better now? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285199 |
Especially for an open source project, the beauty of having a discussion out in the open about whether or not some particular kind of functionality should exist (or even a more detailed feature request) is that if someone comes across this half a year, a year, two years from now and it isn't yet impl... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
Suppose some question is voted (and I exaggerate here for effect) +100/-4. Should that be a candidate for deletion, because it's got three or more downvotes? I suggest using a Wilson score threshold instead of a vote threshold, the same as is done in many other places on Codidact where vote scores ma... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285199 |
I agree that developer workload should not be a factor in suggesting features. Also, this isn't even an actual feature suggestion, it's a *discussion* along the lines of the boldfaced "should we do this?". Developer workload absolutely can be a factor (even a large factor) in deciding which features ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278171 |
@#54706 Good point. I don't think I have encountered this issue in a while, so maybe it did get fixed at some point. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285149 |
@#8046 They have a quite prominently placed "contact us" link, and the top "department" selection on that page, in turn, is "Tips, Suggestions, and Press Releases", along with "Press Inquiries, PR" and "Contributed Bylines/Sponsored Posts". Depending on the focus, any of those could potentially apply... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285134 |
> Example: Negatively received (more downvotes than upvotes) contributions may not be very useful but I would not call them "drivel" because that is a too strong/too negative label that does not serve any use.
I agree. Every person who uses the network is, of course, entirely entitled to their opi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285134 |
At least tentatively, I actually rather like the suggestion to put up a banner especially on the less-active (everything is relative?) sites to the effect that you suggest. (The specifics would need to be worked out separately, of course.) Like a "beta" label, it's a form of expectation management. I... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285146 |
In the question, you wrote "Wiki" over and over, but you seem to be talking about Wikipedia more specifically. If that is the case, I suggest that you edit the question to be more explicit about it. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285149 |
Ars Technica tends to have pretty good coverage of open-source issues, they have covered events relating to Some Other Company relatively recently, and is broadly seen as a reputable, if somewhat niche, news site. Might pitching Codidact to them be worth a shot?
That doesn't solve the issue of low... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284764 |
@#54706 *Technically* that makes the date and the time two distinct points in time, as opposed to parts of one point-in-time identifier. *In practice*, I agree. And in that venue, might be worth changing the "Z" time zone specifier at the end to " UTC" (with a space) as well, for ease of reading.
... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285081 |
@#8163 I actually find myself agreeing with @#36396 here. Consider the initial revision of [this question over on Judaism](https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/285008/history), which was just plain confusing for someone who is not already familiar with Judaism. A simple edit later, the question is now ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |