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Posts by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Links go to writing.codidact.com instead of "self"

The Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Code of Conduct links on meta, outdoors and photo are all pointing to the pages on writing.codidact.com. They should always point to "self".

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Mod tools - Flags - Duplicate - make it a link

I received a Mod notification for a Duplicate Flag. In such flags (and anything similar where a Post reference is included), the referenced possible duplicate target should be a link instead of pla...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Improvements to "Recent Comments"

Recent comments (e.g., https://meta.codidact.com/mod/comments ) could use some improvements. Five specific things that come to mind: 1 - A reference above each comment showing the post title. This...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A "Remember last post edit in process" not clearing automatically

Echo... I just posted a question https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280045 When I started to post my next question (not this one, another one that will be soon) by clicking "Ask Question" again, the...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Hide Deleted Comments

In places where I can see deleted comments (admin/moderator, possibly also comments I wrote myself and deleted (not sure if that's the case or not)), they should be secondary to the active comments...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Bootstrapping: who can speak for a community?

SE moderators as automatic "pro-tem" moderators. Absolutely. While the specifics will be different, particularly the available tools, the principles of moderation will be largely the same here a...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Show User's Vote on List of Posts

Since Codidact shows + and - votes on the list of posts, would it be possible (practical...) to show if the currently logged in User has voted on each post? When displaying an individual post, ther...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A A friendly error when trying to upload a profile picture more than 2 MB

This is an extremely common problem. The true geeks among us know how to resize and compress an image before uploading. The rest of the world just knows (barely) how to upload an original image fro...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How can we improve community proposals?

One of the problems is Proposals that get an initial posting, possibly a quick flurry of activity, and then absolutely nothing. One option is to make a rule along the lines of: No new answers o...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Can we get an optional featured image for the home pages?

Concept is good. A few suggestions for the details: Image should have a tag line showing where it is from. That could be the name of the post, author, timestamp. That tag line should link to t...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Unable to upload a picture to answers, questions, etc.

OK. This appears to be a variant of the known image issues. Specifically, it is relying on extension to determine image type, rather than doing an analysis after upload. However, it appears that So...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Block adding answers and editing of question/answers of deleted questions.

A deleted question should: Be viewable only by author, Moderators and appropriate high-TL users. Not allow new comments or editing of comments on question or answers. Not allow new answers. Not al...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Sefaria Linker bug

If I go to: https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276449#comment-1676 the Sefaria links work fine. However, if I click on "Show 3 more comments" below the Question, the Sefaria links all disappear.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A automatic linking to a specific category, by title

I like this idea (obviously, clearly it is partly inspired by my post https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276421 ). A bit of confusion though about "category", "post", etc. A category is a group...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A "Tour" for new users?

In my opinion, the Tour on SE/SO left a lot to be desired. It provided an extremely brief overview of some features while leaving out a lot of important functional details. I am not sure if a Tour ...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Self-answered Q&A - posting Q and A at the same time

That's perfectly fine, at least as I understand it. However, one thing we have been working on here is a "post-only" item with no actual answers, which can include "Canonical questions" or "FAQs" o...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Browser-Specific Image Problems

There have been some "images don't display in all browsers" problems. This is a test of that. Each image is "Test Image" in magenta/pink letters on a white background. PNG JPG TIF BMP ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by 10 Rep‭

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Q&A Requests to improve the contests

When it comes to Q&A in general, I am very much against: Disallow downvotes, upvotes are enough to determine winners, and downvotes can hurt people's feelings. as that turns the whole world...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Can we move questions?

I have raised this discussion in the past, particularly in the context of "one database per community" vs. "one database per instance". We are currently in "one database per instance", where moving...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A New Close reason needed [duplicate]

I received a flag for https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279799 that it was a duplicate of https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279637 That is indeed a duplicate and I closed it. However, the text...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes?

instead of - Absolutely not! Showing separate + and - votes is a good thing. Or as they say, that's not a bug, it's a feature. If you want to show the score (whether integer net score or Wilson # o...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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