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Activity for Mithrandir24601
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| Comment | Post #279384 |
Ultimitely, apologies for the delay, 2021 was just a slow year. Covid delayed things much more than I was expecting to, then I had my thesis to finish, so I made much less progress on the (non-thesis) things I was working on than I would have liked. I'll be starting a normal (at least, as far as work... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279384 |
In writing the above, I've realised that we have a business plan in at least the final stages of draft form, which I need to finalise and upload here. I'll check with the other directors and if they're happy, this will be done within a week or two, longer if they're not.
All (or at least, most) of... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279384 |
We've done some of the things we wanted to do - while we do now have a 'money account' (very similar to a bank account, except that there are different regulations and it stores a variety of currencies instead of a single one), getting a FSCS-regulated 'bank account' requires yet more things to sort ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281892 |
Worth mentioning that on some sites the CC BY-SA 3.0 license appears (but with obviously wrong explanation wording), while on others it doesn't, so could be a bug? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281781 |
@Lundin For things like bug reports I agree that voting is a bit superfluous but I think voting in e.g. feature requests and announcements is still useful (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281248 |
'Easter egg' is a well-known phrase that's since been added to the English language to mean things *in addition* to what it originally meant. I for one certainly do not find it in any way offensive or insulting and if you want to have a discussion about whether certain accepted phrases in language sh... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280826 |
I have no particular objections to having an option for hiding the arrow (not that it's one I'll be using), but I do find that menu really useful, so would rather it not get deleted altogether for everyone (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280459 |
I don't think doing this is particularly useful with the current number of questions on the maths site at the minute, to be honest. There are other options, such as a new category, tags or even renaming the site, if people agreed (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
@OlinLathrop I know Judaism did, although it was maybe only ~20 questions (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280358 |
As far as I'm personally concerned, I agree that mass-imports was a bad idea and didn't help. I would like to caveat me agreeing with you here that *mass*-imports are the problem and *selectively* importing posts seems to have worked quite well on the one site that did so. I'm not really involved in ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280078 |
Huh, that's strange. Do you have a screenshot of what you're seeing? Last time I saw a suggested edit, it was exactly "the original on the left and the changes on the right", with differences marked well enough for me to easily find them. No idea what I'm doing differently though (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280044 |
I completely agree with this, except for the "Reputation is a nice feedback, because it goes up when you do nice things and it goes down when you do bad things." part. That it does so makes it a form of *extrinsic* motivation, which isn't actually a good thing in the long term - it brings people in, ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279960 |
Long term, I'm not entirely sure getting 'potential moderators' before the site exists is the best idea - you want to pick mods from the core users, once you know who the core users are, rather than letting someone say 'I want to be a mod' before they've actually done anything on the site (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279832 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Why not have a physics community for physics enthusiasts? Scope On the whole, this should be fairly self-explanatory. Anything described as 'physics' should (on the whole) be on topic. This includes (but not exclusively): - experimental physics - computational physics - environmental physics - engineering physics - geophysics - medical phy... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279663 |
My notifications are all in a single list, far as I can see (unless I'm not understanding what you're asking) - would you be able to clarify what you mean in the second paragraph? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279384 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Article | — |
Introducing the Codidact Foundation We are delighted to announce that The Codidact Foundation is now incorporated as a non-profit organization! We've incorporated in the UK as a Community Interest Company (CIC), a type of corporation that, by law, must operate for the public good. Income is reinvested in the organization; there are no... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278957 |
Cryptography is more than maths, so it'd be interesting to see it here instead, although the abstract mathematical questions shouldn't be off-topic on maths (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278894 |
What about other forms of punctuation? Is it just the full stops and spaces you have issues with, or if they were replaced with say, commas, would you find that more acceptable? Or are you suggesting we should stick with (e.g.) characters entirely from various alphabets and number systems? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278857 |
In terms of data, it appears that sites which mass-imported from SE aren't doing as well as those that didn't. One site
(Judaism) imported a few questions from SE and is doing very well, as far as I can tell. Might be more useful to give some hard numbers though (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278853 |
@Lundin There's another side of what you're writing here - it's just the way of things online that there will be more casual readers than heavily active participants and we still need to think of them. Asking for 10 people who are willing to be mods is too much, I think. We don't require sites to be ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278833 |
I'm not sure whether calling such a site 'super user' is actually all that helpful - it sounds more like a site for sys admins than software usage, although maybe that's what you're going for? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278764 |
My first instinct on such questions is that they'd be very broad - people write entire books on such questions, so I don't see how we could answer that in a single post here. On the other hand, questions *about* such books, or particular points that could appear in such books? Maybe. I'm hesitant to ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278765 |
I'd probably also just be a casual user. I have a background in the Presbyterian and Anglican denominations of Protestantism, with experience in a range of practical details and some informal knowledge of theology (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278665 |
Badges, like points, are a form of extrinsic motivation, or 'gamification' if you will. Extrinsic motivation has its downfalls, so I for one want a site based of *intrinsic* motivation which in the long run tends to be a better motivator. It's also worth mentioning that we're getting rid of the impor... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278656 |
I don't understand what the point of such a post type would be - if the plan is to move them into a different category, why is an article post type insufficient? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278391 |
This doesn't fully address what you ask here, but I do see a couple of differences: 1. we're putting this functionality in at the start (which should at least help us understand what it is/isn't good for, I hope) and 2. The *expectation* of someone using SO is that it's a Q&A site, by how they sell t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278388 |
My vote is for 'owned by system' (if the owner even has to be displayed) but with a list of 'major editors' available somehow (a list of all editors also makes sense, but I don't want to leave it open to pointless trivial edits either) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278351 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
How should staff deal with posts critical of themselves that they want deleted? Recently, we had a question asked about priorities of the 'community team'[^1]. The poster then self-answered (which is fine). This answer then got deleted[^2] and a different user asked a question about that deletion, which resulted in the answer getting edited and undeleted. However, to be cl... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278313 |
A little note: "any offensive disrespectful nonconstructive criticism would be welcomed". We've had this discussion already, [nonconstructive criticism isn't really acceptable](https://meta.codidact.com/policy/code-of-conduct) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278340 |
I'm a physics PhD student (Quantum Computing/Engineering specifically) and a mod on the Quantum Computing SE site. It's specific enough a topic that not everything I do is relevant for a physics site and not all of a physics site is relevant for me, but there's enough of an overlap for me to be inter... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278215 |
That's... Fair, I'm probably mistaking this for some other conversation about... Who even knows what? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278215 |
If I'm remembering right (@luap42 will correct me if I'm wrong), the '7' already allows for this, so that if 2(?) people are unavailable, the review process can still run as normal (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278181 |
There's a difference between 'non-constructive criticism' and non-constructive posts'. While I agree that either the CoC or close reasons need to be *clarified* as to what they mean, 'non-constructive posts' don't (as far as I'm aware) have anything to do with the CoC. From my view, I felt the contex... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278019 |
I agree with "no room for that in expansion plan considering the current size of the development team and manpower available for this and other priorities.", but I do feel that it's worth mentioning that Discord is actually really *bad* when it comes to moderation capabilities and how the company its... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277958 |
On (in addition to?) your point about 'I like this' and 'I don't like this' on cooking... What would that tell you that regular votes don't? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277917 |
There are basic features we want to 'preserve but improve', sure. That doesn't mean we don't want to risk testing novel ideas though (given due consideration based on the novelty/risk etc.). Honestly, if there's something you have in mind, directly asking about it here or on our Discord server will g... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277917 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Does Codidact have to be too similar to SE? A considerable portion of the reason we're (still) here is because we believe that SE is not the 'only possible best way'. Currently, sure, ignoring categories (and post types), it does look not dissimilar to SE. This is a largely historical thing - QPixel was first written in its original form ye... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39540 |
Post edited: Added August changes |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276961 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276961 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
Displaying user tabs in the user profile When going to my user profile, I see 5 possible tabs: 'Profile', 'Activity', 'Account', 'Edit' and 'Subscriptions' User profile tabs displaying "'Profile', 'Activity', 'Account', 'Edit' and 'Subscriptions'", with 'Profile' selected/highlighted However, when I go to the 'Account', 'Edit' or 'Sub... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276780 |
@user53100 Actually, no, I was thinking of something where, say you have an uncommon word in some other language, you would type that word and somehow label it as something to be 'linked to a dictionary' so that, when someone reads the post, that word is highlighted like a link and when clicked, a li... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276905 |
"Even then, you have to be careful that it doesn't stifle creativity in those cases where an unusual approach benefits the post." is definitely a thing that would need to be thought about - I just posted a recipe with an intermediate 'chill-in-fridge' step that can last from 30 minutes to overnight -... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276780 |
@user53100 I agree we shouldn't try and replace any dictionaries (it's *far* too big a task, for one). What about *linking* to a dictionary in a similar way to the Sefaria linker on Judaism? Also, what about a 'is my translation correct?' category? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276645 |
Yeah, having summary rejections on a separate list sounds like a good idea. Could take that further and just have a single list that contains all the summary rejections, while each 'real' rejection would be done as a separate post (maybe that's what you're getting at here?) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276645 |
We want to balance privacy with transparency, so if there's a way of doing this without violating anyone's privacy, then we'd be off to a better start here (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |