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Welcome to Codidact Meta!

Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

Posts by Mithical‭

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Q&A Could we adopt the domain “.cd”?

This would require that we purchase a new domain for each community hosted on our network. As a non-profit project funded by donations, that's not a commitment we can make, nor the best use of the ...

posted 9mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A A note on April 1st 2021

Managed to get a score of 15, but I'm afraid the Codidactyl has gotten into the sugar... And immediately afterward, I managed a score of 56 :D

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content

Caveat: This is from my personal perspective and should not be taken as the official Codidact stance on this. Your profile is your personal space: You get to decorate it how you like, more or le...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A What do we do with suspected AI users?

As with most other suspected violations of site policy, please raise a moderator flag. The mods can then look into it, and escalate it to the Codidact Team if necessary. The mods and admins can the...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A What are the pros and cons of gamifying Codidact.org?

"gamification" is a bit of a different concept from "fun". Gamification refers to incentivizing participation; we do this currently via reputation (and Abilities to a certain extent). You get poin...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A FR: Meta categories

Meta is its own meta. The entire site is already for meta-discussion of the Codidact network. Since this site is itself part of the network, discussion of Codidact Meta on Codidact Meta itself is f...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A How to import my StackExchange questions into Codidact?

Welcome to Codidact! This option refers to large-scale data imports that we performed on a couple communities - such as Writing and Outdoors - when we first started in 2019. However, we soon disco...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A After I logged in, 418 STAT ERROR. "Please re-enable the encryption protocol."

You seem to have run afoul of one of our system blocks. This particular system is usually engaged by a pattern of poor behavior across multiple accounts. While I can't detail exactly how this syst...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Meaningful hovertext for voting area

As sau226 mentioned, this is the score of the post. Since the way we calculate post score can be a little confusing, there's a help center article that explains exactly how it works. I agree that ...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Is it OK to edit a post in order to bump it?

No, making useless edits just to bump the post isn't something that we want to encourage on Codidact communities. Edits should be to improve the post and that's it. Looking at the reasoning for bu...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Privacy policy needs meta-variables to be expanded

This has been fixed, thank you. I've restored it to the version last updated on March 9th, 2023, according to my local files from when we were making changes at the time. (Although since it only we...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Why are my comments deleted?

First off - comments aren't the proper place for feature requests such as increasing the size of the comment box. For a feature request, please ask a new question. Secondly, your comments were dele...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Feature request: direct messages

I don't believe this is something that we're considering for the general userbase, for several reasons. Our mission The mission of the Codidact Network is to provide a space for communities to sh...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center

Done. I've also fixed several typos while I was at it, as well as some general rewording for clarity. I've also added a section to that doc about why some users may earn the "Participate Everywher...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Why was this answer to the volunteer-discussion removed?

Update: The answer has been edited and undeleted. The last paragraph - the one calling for staff to step down if they cannot make Codidact their top priority - has been removed, since that constitu...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Add pending suggested edits to the dashboard

The Dashboard is an easy way to get an overview of the whole network at a glance; on a single page, you can see where there's been new activity that you haven't seen yet, on a category-by-category ...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What can be done to block Codidact content from getting used by crawlers/for AI training?

At what extent can we block "crawlers" and the like from stealing site content? What is technically possible? We can block at least the OpenAI crawler and the Google-Extended crawler (for Gemi...

posted 6mo ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Codidact's policy on "spam accounts"?

We don't allow these on our communities. They're an abuse of the system, and they'll be removed once someone with the appropriate tool access notices them. I generally trawl all the new user pages...

posted 5mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A What do "YOU" need to realize those improvements?

I'm going to categorize "improvements" into two main categories: "Social" and "Technical". On Social changes I'm categorizing Social changes as what you've termed "Site Concept" in the question. ...

posted 3mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A "You need to select a reaction type." But I see no reaction?

Languages & Linguistics Codidact does not currently have any reactions enabled. This means that when you go to react to a post, there are no available reactions, and so you can't actually react...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 3y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Q&A Heads up: small design changes, a better user card and some long-expected features

[feature-request] Can we increase the size of the license a bit? It's... really small at the moment and for those of us without great eyes it's a bit difficult to make out at default size.

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A What does "status-declined" tag mean when it's added to discussion type of questions?

I wasn't the one who added the tag, and I didn't handle the flag. But the way I see it, the [status-declined] tag was added specifically because of this line: The Codidact community team have acce...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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