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A: Show last user names if users change their user names I disagree that this would be desirable. First, unless we want people to focus on the user, instead of the content, who posts something should have little or no bearing on anything. Act on whether it's good or bad content (or proposal, or whatever), not on who posted it. The only case where who po... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278656 |
@Mithrandir24601 Not a post type; a category setting. The post type that would be most useful for this would most likely be Question for the foreseeable future. @MonicaCellio Technically yes, I suppose using Articles could accomplish much the same thing, but I'm not sure it's really an advantage to h... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278656 |
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| Comment | Post #278605 |
For your "copy post" function, it is possible, at least for a moderator, to move a post from one category to another. The post URL is independent of the category the post is in (the post ID does not change), so this solves everything except the reference back to within the sandbox area. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278605 |
You might be interested in my feature-request [Categories should support a "closed by default" question setting](https://meta.codidact.com/q/278656). (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278656 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Categories should support a "closed by default" question setting I propose that a category should be possible to set such that questions are closed by default (with a specific, selectable close reason that applies to all questions posted to that category) immediately when they are posted. One major use case for this would be something like a question sandbox, w... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278655 |
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| Comment | Post #278488 |
Also, what if that is done *somewhere other than in an answer directly to the question*, say, in a blog post elsewhere? Such use might be in compliance with, say, CC BY-SA, but not CC BY-NC-SA. Lots of complexities that might need consideration. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278488 |
Regarding the last bullet point, consider also where someone answers a question and, in doing so, quotes part of the question. If the person who posted the question then changes to a more restrictive license, does that affect the use of that material in the answer? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278494 |
I don't think there's any inherent contradiction between liking a feature and advocating for it to be selectable by the user, but that's just me. :-) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278490 |
Post edited: have default license as an answer here, aiding prioritization, linking to the question for details |
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| Edit | Post #278458 |
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| Edit | Post #278506 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? status-partially-completed: can now set per community (but not per category). Allow users to select their own default license per site and category, possibly per post type I'm adding this as an answer here mainly to aid in prioritization relative to other preferences that the community would li... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278494 |
@OlinLathrop Not everyone wants their works-in-progress to be saved to a remote system, for a variety of reasons far beyond the ability to reset the state of a post *edit*. Besides, this should be quite easy to implement, especially if we assume some kind of overall preferences infrastructure already... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278501 |
I agree with @MonicaCellio here. This is an interesting idea (I'm not sure I'd use such a view myself, but I can certainly see how some people might find it useful), and it can probably be broken down into a handful of actual specific features, but it's a bit beyond the scope of *this* question. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278490 |
Regarding my default license setting proposal, note that the proposal is per community and category, possibly per post type. So one could select a different default license for Writing Q&A compared to Writing Challenges, and possibly a different default license for *questions* in Writing Q&A compared... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278476 |
I think this needs an example or two. https://writing.codidact.com/posts/277446/history (Writing Q&A, category ID 1) and https://math.codidact.com/posts/278447/history (Mathematics Q&A, category ID 41) both seem to me to link back to the question just fine. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278446 |
Another potential *con* would be increased complexity in the UI and UX. People understand something that signals "this is good" or "this is bad", for some values of "good" and "bad" -- things like "upvotes", "likes", "thumbs up", or a variety of other ways to express the same thing. How many will und... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278458 |
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| Edit | Post #278458 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Allow users to select their own default license per site and category, possibly per post type Each site and category has a default license that is selected as default for new posts to that category. The license actually assigned to each post is that selected by the user when the post is initially created, and cannot be changed afterwards (though a workaround is to recreate the post and delete... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278457 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Allow licence change when there's only one contributor It should be possible for you to fix your mistake by, if nothing else, deleting the post and re-posting it with the correct license. Doing so would effectively dual-license it, under CC-BY-SA and CC0. Since anyone who uses it under CC-BY-SA should also be in compliance with CC0, that shouldn't be a p... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278406 |
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| Comment | Post #278406 |
@MonicaCellio What @Moshi wrote matches the rendering in my browser: there actually **is** a horizontal scroll bar, but I completely overlooked it because one has to scroll to the bottom of the embedded scrollable code to see it. If I overlook it, I can't imagine how confusing it might be for less te... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278406 |
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| Edit | Post #278406 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Horizontal scroll bar is out of view in some code blocks If a code block has longer lines than will fit within the width of the code block, there is no indication that this is the case, nor any obvious way to scroll horizontally. For an example, see dig -6 works but dig -4 does not on Software Development. Ideally, code blocks should have a horizontal s... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278377 |
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| Edit | Post #278396 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Proposal: tool for user-requested import of a single question and its answers from SE > We don't care about /.../ edit history. I'm going to disagree here, actually. Edits can be substantial in their own right, introducing new content from users other than the original author of the post. (The golden rule for edits Somewhere Else is to always preserve and respect author intent, but... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276824 |
I think including all UNIX-like systems (including the various free \*BSDs as well as commercial UNIX variants, including Mac OS X to the extent that the UNIX-like portions are what matters) makes sense. A reasonable restriction might be that programming questions that require a separate step *before... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276995 |
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| Edit | Post #278377 |
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| Edit | Post #278377 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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User avatar image is stretched (image aspect ratio not maintained) in the top bar User avatar images get stretched in the top bar because they are resized to a 1:1 aspect ratio (specifically 40x40 px) regardless of the image's actual aspect ratio. This isn't a problem for square or nearly-square images, but it is a problem for rectangular images. It looks like this should be fi... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278370 |
For the benefit of others: The setting is in [profile > Edit](/users/edit/profile) > Preferences > Enable or disable keyboard shortcuts. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278294 |
I'll hazard a guess that the problem is that whatever renders the Markdown to HTML sees only one post (the question, or a single answer) at a time. So the ID numbering starts over at 1 for each new post, resulting in multiple `#fn1`, `#fn2` and so on anchors in the document tree. A brute force soluti... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278290 |
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