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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 msh210‭

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Q&A Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

Article 17.1 disallows successive warnings within two years. I don't think that's best. The second malfeasance may be of a different type from the first or a lesser degree than the first, in either...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A login should be redirect to the page one was on

On Stack Overflow and its sister sites as well as on Wikipedia and its sister sites, if you're on page X and click "Log In", you get to the login page (true here too). If you then log in, you get t...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Sign up to answer this question but no sign in

Every added button increases clutter and detracts from the other buttons, so requires a cost-benefit analysis. In this case, the benefit is to those who have accounts but are not logged in, already...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Search by category

I think a search mechanism that allows filtering by category would be useful. For example, if I want to find a recipe for a specific food or with a specific ingredient on the cooking pages, I could...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A indicate when a comment has been moderator-edited

I don't like the idea that someone's signature can appear on a piece of text that he didn't write or approve. I'm guessing moderators can edit comments. If so, can a moderator-edited comment please...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Tools button doesn't do anything when clicked

Here on Meta, I see beneath a question a "🔧 Tools" button. It looks clickable (my mouse turns into a hand and the background changes onhover) but nothing happens when I click it. On Electrical Eng...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Automatically clean up tags with zero posts

I think that if the tag has a (long- or short-form) description then it should not be automatically deleted. I can imagine a case where some enterprising soul writes descriptions for every conceiva...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A closure-as-duplicate post notice is inaccurate

The question post "Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel" is closed as a duplicate of the later "Second Iteration of Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel" and has a n...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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

I'd love a Codidact-specific markdown extension that links to a post in a particular category. That was really unclear, so let me give an example. A particular site can have a Glossary category wit...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A ‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​"Empty" posts can be created with invisible Unicode characters

This is not a bug. It's possible to post a post with any other Unicode character, why not these? We don't have automated systems (yet) to patrol content: we rely on humans to do that. This is an ex...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A What help pages need to be written?

A page on how pinging in comments works would be helpful.

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A community ad has incorrect padding, or something [duplicate]

Seen at https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/279737; it links to https://photography.codidact.com/posts/74994.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Community-promoted network posts have arrived

This is still an early iteration of this feature, so we expect there to be requests for improvements or tweaks to it — post them here! A community should have the ability to reject a specific ...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Should we have a grace period of X minutes on edits or a way to mark changes as "minor"?

A "minor" toggle on edits makes sense even if there's no mechanism to hide minor edits from the history, if people can filter them out visually. I think this can serve some use; I've sometimes used...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Community dropdown and profile information

Besides the excellent points brought up in the preexisting answer, note also that a list of communities is at the bottom of every page of the site.

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A What does ☗ mean?

ArtOfCode's user profile on the Languages & Linguistics site reads, in part: What does the "☗" symbolize?

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

I propose that we need a clause governing the criteria and process for removing a panel member in the very rare case that that should come up. (But I don't know what such criteria or process should...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Can we move questions?

I don't think we should have this feature. In my (limited) experience at Stack Exchange, when people suggest moves to other sites they, by and large, do not know the proposed recipient site's mores...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Comments improvements to indicate assent or dissent with previously posted comments

I support the me-too feature, as it saves people from repeating existing comments (and others from reading them). I don't think we should have up- and downvotes on comments, as they don't necessari...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Remove parent tags from a post where a child tag is present

It's not always correct to remove a parent tag, and therefore such removal should probably not be done automatedly — or, at least, if it is done automatedly, should be sensitive to human interventi...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

Article 22 says that all decisions are to be published, exclusive of summary judgments. I think it should specify that the decisions be published with reasons included, and inclusive of summary jud...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Should we have a grace period of X minutes on edits or a way to mark changes as "minor"?

Afaict, the benefit of a grace period is minimal — (a) that people can avoid the very slight embarrassment that comes with having to edit a post immediately after doing so, and (b) that if someone ...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Should the post title come before the body?

I think the title text area should be after the body text area for the reasons outlined in 1 and 2.

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Add a [status-pending] or similar tag

I think that whether something is actively being worked on or planned on being worked on is irrelevant to the end user: either way, he doesn't have it yet but will after some indefinite amount of t...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Second Iteration of Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

I propose that we need a clause governing the criteria and process for removing a panel member in the very rare case that that should come up. (But I don't know what such criteria or process should...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by msh210‭

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