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| Edit | Post #285302 |
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| Edit | Post #285302 |
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| Edit | Post #285302 |
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| Edit | Post #285302 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Does the community have any mechanism to tackle serial (emotional) downvoting? I'll defer to the answer from someone who knows better than me what can and can't be done within the software and by digging deeper. That said, since the votes cast are visible to the user who cast them, of course the data is there; therefore, if there's suspicion of poor voting behavior, the exact v... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285189 |
Post edited: Move the update to the top (it's the most relevant part), and rephrase the explanation to use past tense |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #285189 |
Suggested edit: Move the update to the top (it's the most relevant part), and rephrase the explanation to use past tense (more) |
helpful | almost 3 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #285142 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Should we modify the default (front) page for anonymous visitors? I agree that such a front page looks bad. I also agree with a comment that trying to simply hide poorly received posts is hiding the problem instead of solving it. It's sweeping the problem under the rug, which is just going to leave us with an odd-looking rug along with the problem we already had... (more) |
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| 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.
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #285081 |
A moderator elsewhere on Codidact should *not* hold any special status on other sites in the network. Such a user is more likely to be invested in the network as a whole, but that's about it. If you flag such content for moderator attention and feel that the response is inappropriate, you can escalat... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285013 |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #285013 |
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helpful | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285006 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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If a tag search yields exactly one exact match for a tag, go directly to that tag's page When using the search feature in the Tags part of each category, if one searches for something that is an exact match for just one single tag, the page returned lists just that one tag. To get to the list of posts, clicking through to the exact tag is needed. This is reasonable when multiple tags ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284973 |
@#53922 That wouldn't be a given. Even if that was because of a post deletion (I don't know whether that's the case), if a post is hard-deleted *properly*, it should be as though that post never existed. The non-existence of the post should then not have any effect on anything else, just as was the c... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284973 |
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| Edit | Post #284971 |
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| Edit | Post #284973 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Permanently delete duplicated questions and answers? I'm pretty sure you can't. Of course, it would be technically possible for someone with database access to go in and permanently delete a post. But no such feature is exposed in the UI, up to and including users with administrator access. Deleted posts are also only visible to a subset of users... (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #284971 |
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helpful | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284937 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Deleted answers are being shown to logged-out users, but not to logged-in users without the Curate privilege The title pretty much sums it up. It looks to me as though deleted answers are visible to anyone who isn't logged in, but they aren't visible once you're logged in (at least as a user without the Curate privilege). For example, compare How long does it take for energy to propagate in a circuit?... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284930 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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Post history diff shows apparently double-escaped HTML entities As Exhibit A, I present revision 2 of Switching to an admin user within Powershell SSH session on Power Users, and specifically its diff view against revision 1 of Stated Post. The post itself contains simple quotation marks (`"`, U+0022), but the diff shows `"` which is the HTML character en... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284847 |
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| Edit | Post #284847 |
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| Comment | Post #284847 |
(1) I fail to see why you bring that up in response to my answer.
(2) If that's how you feel, then I suggest that you propose either changes to the current method, or an entirely different method, of solving the problem that the site proposal process aims to solve; which is unrelated to any partic... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284847 |
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| Edit | Post #284770 |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #284843 |
Suggested edit: Make the title more descriptive (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284847 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Actively investing in non niche network websites (Please note that at the time this answer was posted, revision 4 of the question was current. That revision of the question, as the initial revision, had as its first paragraph "I think that the website must have about 5 more new communities in "piquant" topics to become more well-known and contribut... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284770 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: A Site for Privacy and Data Protection Enthusiasts As for two of the suggested on-topic scope points, > Questions about the usage and functionality of privacy tools (TOR, VPNs, ...) > Questions about how to better protect your data while being online I would argue that those should be on topic on Power Users, and thus don't need a separate s... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284764 |
Curiously enough, that exact information *is* available on the front page (but of course only for the post that was most recently edited). This definitely feels like an oversight. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284733 |
Works for me for both `https://codidact.com/` and `https://www.codidact.com/` with Firefox ESR 78.15.0 on Debian Bullseye. It sounds odd that DNS itself would cause such an error. Still, I would try switching the not-working system to Google's DNS temporarily if possible (or switch the working system... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284733 |
Worked fine for me at 08:04 UTC. What version of Firefox are you using? Can you reproduce the problem with a fresh browser profile? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284729 |
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