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Activity for Charlie Brumbaugh
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A: What's more important for codidact - quality or helping questions get answered? The quality over everything and running the noobs off users have had their way for years at this point and nothing to show for it. In the past year, Photography has had 2 questions, Outdoors 8. No one is going to look at that and ask questions, regardless of the "quality" because the lack of activ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: How to grow all of our communities? When Outdoors/Photography started there was a bunch of activity and upvoting and I asked a bunch of questions. However, my participation dropped about 8 months ago for several different reasons, 1. Lack of expertise. - Users not knowing what a lithophane is and not wanting to click the link an... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: I would like basic killfile functionality. I too would like this functionality. There are user(s) who have spent years and years being mean and rude and I long time ago I decided that I would be much better/happier off ignoring them. I ignore their questions and will not comment or upvote their posts, it's simply not worth it. It would be ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers? Most of the sites are struggling to get questions and while it seems to me at least that more effort has been put into optimizing for the answerers than for the askers. To put it another way, there are lots and lots of sites on the internet where one could get their question answered, why should t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Can we get an option to remove a post from the nominated posts list? Right now on Outdoors one of the nominated posts is for a contest that has finished, and I would like to be able to remove it from the list but am currently unable to do so. Can we get an option to un-nominate a post? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Can we get a list of questions on a site currently nominated for the Community Promotions? Right now I can only go off memory as to which questions I have nominated for the Community Ads unless I see them in the sidebar or try to renominate them. Can we get a list (not sure if it should be mod specific or not) all the posts that are currently nominated? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Where can I find the discussions over the general approach of Codidact? The old forum still has the discussions that came before this site, and there are also the channels in Discord. That's probably most of the older discussions, there might be some in the SE chats from before that point. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can we improve community proposals? Just to throw in my two cents, right now other than the link way down at the bottom of the page and extra link in the sidebar on Photography, the sites are really trying to be built while standing all on their own. If we had better ways of encouraging cross-pollination or just getting more eyes on qu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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The bottom left corner of the border around quoted text is not rounded. Quoted text has its own styling but as you can see below three of the border corners are rounded and the bottom left is not. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Notices are still on posts after claiming SE accounts and the score appears to only count votes on posts after the account was claimed. These users Cobaltduck and Oddeer both claimed their SE accounts and their posts are correctly associated. However on some of the posts, example 1, example 2 there is still a notice saying that it was sourced from SE which is no longer needed and doesn't appear on my claimed posts. Also, both p... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Wrong category is pulled in when searching by tag on a different category that shares the tag family On Outdoors there is blue icon that says what category a question is in when searching by tag. However when categories share the same tag set it will say that Q&A posts are in the Gear Recommendations category if you are searching from the Gear Recommendations category. All of the questions in the... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Arrow color on mobile remains blue after rescinding a vote On mobile if I unupvote a question the score goes down but the blue color on the arrow remains. Image alt text I think it would be less confusing if the color changed back to grey after removing the upvote. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: "Are you sure?" popup when closing a page I accidentally closed a tab with a question and lost some changes so I do feel your pain. However, if we are going to fire an event on window exit I would much rather it be saving the draft in its current state. That would avoid the popup and save your answer which should solve the problem. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Exact search doesn't seem to be searching in the title An example where an exact search returns no results for the copy and pasted title. - "Should we display the number of views?" - https://meta.codidact.com/posts/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=%22Should+we+display+the+number+of+views%3F%22 - https://meta.codidact.com/posts/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should we display the number of views? I think we should, voting score is a poor indicator of how useful a post is because most visitors aren't going to sign up and vote. Right now it's hard to tell how many people are reading the posts created here from a user or even a moderator standpoint how successful we are at getting people to r... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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On the site users page can we get a sort by votes? Being able to see a list of users and how many times they have votes was useful on the old sites to see which users were engaged in the voting. What I would propose is that on the /users page that another sort called "Votes" from most votes to least with the number of votes displayed underneath th... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Clicking on a previously read notification marks it as unread To replicate, 1. In my notification on the top left of the page, click on a previously read comment. 2. Go to the comment and read it. 3. That comment is now marked as unread. 4. Click mark unread to again mark the comment as unread. I would prefer that actions 3&4 not happen because I alrea... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Can we get a link back to the moderator dashboard from the individual mod pages? Right now the moderator dashboard has a bunch of links to different moderator tools like Flag Queue and Featured Links. However from those tools, there is not a link back to the dashboard, you either have to click the link in the sidebar or go back. Could we get a link to /mod at the top of the di... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Can we get an optional featured image for the home pages? Both Outdoors and Photography are running photo contests and it would be nice to display the winning image from the last contest in the sidebar. My idea of how this would look, Image alt text It would also be nice to make the image a link so that it could go to the past contests. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Can the featured links be ordered by newest to oldest? Right now for me, the links here https://outdoors.codidact.com/mod/featured are listed with the oldest on top, I think it would make more sense to order them the other way. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous" I will never use any negative reactions that require my name next to them for the same reason I never explain downvotes, people tend to react poorly to negative feedback and tend to take that out on the downvoter. People are always free to leave a comment explaining why the dislike or consider som... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should we allow capitalized tags? It bugs me when some of the tags are capitialized and some are not, I would much rather they all be one way or the other. It's way easier to enforce that they all be lowercase and to automatically set them that way in the DB (I can write the SQL in my sleep) so I would rather all the tags be consi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Remove parent tags from a post where a child tag is present With the hierarchical tags, it would be possible to have both a tag and its parent on the same post which is means that the parent tag is unneeded. An example would be a post with both an `animal` and a `deer` tag on Outdoors. Rather than manually removing the parent tags from these posts, it shou... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Category dropdown list hides behind the modal form when changing a posts category . When I use the tools to change the category of a question, the drop down list of categories to change to is showing behind the modal form. Modal form hiding the category dropdown Steps to reproduce, - Click the tools option below the question. - Click the target category option. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Can we get a mod page with the most recent comments left on the site? Right now there really isn't a good way for a mod to delete rude comments before their parent post is flagged, other than looking through profiles of repeat offenders. On sites with imported comments, the OP may not notice because they have yet to create an account, while someone coming from Google m... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Impolite comments As of right now you can flag the post and write in the message box that there are rude/ non constructive comments on the post since it’s not currently possible to flag individual comments. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Exclude featured posts from the Hot Posts list Can the Hot Question list be changed so that featured posts don't show up in it? They are already in the list once. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Can we get a page with links to all of the top level posts from across the network as they are created? Currently in order to check for new posts on the sites I am interested in, I have to visit the sites individually. Since the posts are stored in one DB would it be possible to get a page here that has the titles (linked to the posts) of all the posts in the order they are created from all of the s... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Do we need templates for new posts? I would like templates for the photography contests on Outdoors and Photography, the questions and the answers follow the same format and it would save some time when creating them. A template for the top level contests already exits, however it lives on Notepad++ tab on my computer and it would b... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Pending flags don't show in the mobile view Currently, the pending flags don't show in the header in the mobile view. Even if moderation from a smartphone isn't ideal, there are going to be times when I will be away from my computer for an extended period, and I would like to be able to at least see them. Can the pending flags be added to t... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Can we get a page with the tags listed in hierarchical and then alphabetical order? The hierarchies of tags are awesome, but its a little hard to see the relationship. Could we get a page where the tags are displayed like this, - Animals - Antelopes - Bears - Black Bears - Polar Bears - Birds - Bald Eagles - Robins - Bugs - Cicadas - Deer ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How should Codidact "advertise" and gain community members? Have we considered some way of displaying questions from one site on another? It seems like the easiest people to convince to join a site would be members of other Codidact sites and they would already know the ropes a great deal more than random people off the internet. Examples of questions t... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Error viewing recently deleted questions on Outdoors When I navigate to https://outdoors.codidact.com/mod/deleted/questions it throws a 500 error. The error id is 9d42606a-432e-4fed-9596-606d2ce1af89 (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Allow mods to pin posts to the sidebar Currently two sites, Outdoors and Photography are running month-long contests. Currently, both are showing up in the Hot Posts list, but that will only be for a week or so. Could it be possible to add the ability for mods to pin a post to the sidebar manually? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Don't show the option to create a tag unless no existing tags match the search. When tagging a question, as you type in Tags field its shows the option to create a new tag at the top. So if there are tags like, - Anchovies - Anchors - Alphabet, and you type - a a will be the top option for tagging. To keep people from creating frivolous tags that have to be c... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Requests to improve the contests There are a couple of things that I think would be nice to improve contests, - Hide the score while the contest is ongoing, that way it doesn't influence other people's votes. - Sort answers in two ways, random by default and then by lastest entry, as it is currently set up it's slanted towards... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Would be nice to have a link to chat on the main sites. Currently, this site and Outdoors have discord servers set up for chatting, supposedly Writing has one as well but I haven't been able to find it. It would be nice to have a link to those servers on the site either in the sidebar or the footer, I know at some point a homebuilt chat solution was in... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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I shouldn't be able to vote on deleted posts. There is one deleted answer here and given that is has been deleted, I shouldn't be able to either upvote or downvote it, but I can. It looks like up and downvotes on the deleted answer are also effecting the users reputation. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Need a better way of finding unanswered questions As of right now, the only real way to see that a question has no answers is to go off the answer count, which is small and not real easy to see. On Outdoors where I am not interested in writing answers to the imported questions because I already either answered them or decided not to, this is espe... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Can the close notice be moved to above the question? Here is what one of the closed questions looks like, and as you can see one would have to scroll all the way down to find the link to the dupe target. I think it would be much better if the close notice was above the question (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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Can related questions be added to the sidebar? A feature that SE has that Qpixel lacks is the related questions in the side bar. It makes it easier to find other similar questions or even duplicates. It also creates more engagement because after reading one question people may click the other links. In order of which questions to show I would ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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A: Is it really necessary to sign up for Codidact META when already signed up to Codidact? It's because there are two different software platforms here, - forum.codidact.org is running on Discourse - meta.codidact.org is on running on QPixel. At some point the idea is to stop using the Discourse software I think but till then the two software types will require different logins. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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A: Which communities have shown interest? Outdoors.SE has had some interest in moving away from SE, - - and the site has kind of ground to a halt after the mess, we lost plenty of our most active users and there has been very little activity among the regulars who are still around. It seems like people have lost motivation for si... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |