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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 ‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​"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 3y 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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y 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 3y 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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y 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 3y 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 3y ago by msh210‭

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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 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Hot Network Questions like feature?

Considering the planned differences between sites (autonomy with respect to various policies, different categories, etc.), I think the interaction between sites (except Meta) should be kept to a mi...

posted 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A It is possible to close a question as duplicate to itself.

I don't think this is a big problem. Presumably such errors will be rare and can be corrected easily. Adding code to prevent this human error doesn't seem like a good use of resources (coders' time...

posted 3y ago by msh210‭

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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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y 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 3y 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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y 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 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A FR: Meta categories

I notice that all the other Codidact sites have Meta categories, places to ask about the site itself, but this one doesn't. I think this site should have a Meta category where people can ask questi...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by msh210‭

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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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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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 3y 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 3y 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 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Clicking outside of notification popup does not close it

Many many things online don't close when you click outside them. But then the UI usually shows how to close it (usually with an 🗙). I think the top of the list should have an 🗙 on the right side (n...

posted 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 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How should we approach a programming site or sites?

This is less than a proposal: merely an idea. That's because I've not used SO much and don't know what works and what doesn't. So the following all has a big "maybe" attached to it. The programming...

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

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