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Activity for Lundin
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| Comment | Post #291921 |
@#61308 Some mod deleted the accounts after I pointed them out. There's plenty of the same out there still though. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291921 |
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— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291921 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Codidact's policy on "spam accounts"? A somewhat well-known phenomenon from SE is "spam accounts" - that is a user profile containing self-promotional material which just sits there - the user isn't making any posts. Supposedly a parasite using our search engine rank to generate hits from external searches, rather than someone hoping to ... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291474 |
@#36396 The main harm in case of GenAI would be that it steals licensed content, bakes it into the training and then uses that stolen content without any attribution to the original author (since the AI itself normally doesn't even know where the training data is coming from). Or worse: uses the cont... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291474 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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What can be done to block Codidact content from getting used by crawlers/for AI training? Given the latest debacle Somewhere Else, where users fear that the site contents will get used for the purpose of training AI, what can be done at Codidact to prevent such from happening? - At what extent can we block "crawlers" and the like from stealing site content? What is technically possibl... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
An application which repeatedly scans your HD for what programs you have installed/running and then sends that information to unknown places on the Internet for unknown reasons without your clear consent has to be categorized as spyware/malware. I won't use it out of principle indeed. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291193 |
It would have been nice to try this at that point when we had one of a few quite active user(s) posting lots of poorly-received questions at some of the communities, flooding the "front page" of them with down-voted questions. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291193 |
I agree that my proposal is a bit controversial simply because it is quite far from the SE-inspired Q&A format of doing things, ie the "slowly grind bad questions into the dust" part mentioned in the proposal. There would have to be strong community consensus behind it in order to give it a try live.... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291174 |
As for blocking new users from posting links, that might be a bit too restrictive. There are lots of situations where links are necessary in order to post a good question. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291174 |
Disabling links is a sensible idea. Maybe even editing out the link could be a temporary solution, although that means "bumping" the spam so it's not ideal. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291174 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Introduce a spam reaction? It just occurred to me that it would be nice to have a "spam" reaction feature, to mark a post as potentially harmful while waiting for moderators to delete it. Benefits: - Prevent other users from thinking the post is legit and clicking on links posted. - Making it easier for other users to ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #281546 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #281546 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
@#61308 What you are saying sounds similar to a "brainstorming" exercise, which is basically about locking up a bunch of people together and have them toss out any idea they can think of. Nobody is allowed to say anything negative or even forward valid criticism. You just gather all ideas that everyo... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
@#8163 You are pretty much saying that the sites had one single enthusiast user, which I believe is correct, to the point when one single user stops posting it becomes notable. This only proves my point that the sites were launched prematurely and without proper advertising in relevant channels. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291160 |
I know there's been various opinions about why the said sites struggle with activity. I don't believe it has anything to do with "gatekeeping" or high quality standards, nor do I believe it has anything to do with the high amount of imported content from SE either.
The sites were simply started to... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291153 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: What's more important for codidact - quality or helping questions get answered? Codidact started as an attempt to make something better/different than SE. When it was started, pretty much everyone involved shared a consensus about what it should not be: - Not run by a private company for profit where the agenda suddenly changes at a whim, depending on which buzzword is fashi... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290764 |
The front page of the various communities is not a "feed". It is not hand-picked based on a private company spying on you and trying to "fingerprint" you, like in social media. It is simply the chronological order of activity, but can be sorted in some other ways too.
In some cases it can be more ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290442 |
On Software Development, it's actually there but not under FAQ but [What type of questions can I ask here?](https://software.codidact.com/help/on-topic). I think having a page like that outlining the scope of the site should be mandatory. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289044 |
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— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290389 |
Yep... the thing is, most of these features did not just happen nor were they implemented arbitrary. For almost every single thing (voting in particular), there are corresponding discussion/feedback threads. So in other to give the best possible feedback constructively, one would dig up the relevant ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290393 |
This could be anything... Tool chain purchasing, programmer personnel questions, big picture "run a company" questions, patent and licensing, questions about software companies etc etc. A few of these might fit in with existing site proposals at https://proposals.codidact.com/. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290388 |
@#53890 I was going to suggest accessibility too, but the word _accessibility_ isn't exactly the easiest one to spell, with dyslexia in mind. Would be kind of ironic if the e-mail address to complain about accessibility is needlessly hard to access... But maybe I'm overthinking things. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290388 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Please review a new Accessibility Statement and Accessibility Policy status-completed Just a minor concern: I don't think a single person should be the point of contact, maybe set up something like `access@codidact.org`. That is, if it even needs a dedicated mail address - I don't quite see why support@codidact.org address won't do? If all accessibility conc... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290090 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Communities drop-down/switcher upgrades The communities "drop-down"/"switcher" menu next to the user profile could do with a few tweaks. The communities appearing there are sorted after order of community creation. That is: Writing, Codidact Meta, The Great Outdoors, ... This is a strange default order. - For searchability, it would mak... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289953 |
"In my experience with top experts, they often don't have the time nor interest in online discussion communities like QA sites. For example, most answerers of StackOverflow are programmers of middling skill, not the top talents of our time" Well that is evidently not true. You might not realize it, b... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289977 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself? Regarding the "5 second google" part: We did discuss this very thing at some point over at Software Development Questions easily answered by studying a beginner-level book. There were lots of diverse opinions and no consensus, with votes and arguments all over the place. Bit of a touchy topic. ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289912 |
What makes a good question is quite different between different Codidact communities. The science/technology sites may have different takes on this than the humanities/religion sites. Some sites are more or less tolerant regarding scopes and subjective questions. Sites like Code Golf and Software Dev... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
@#65260 Except _I_ isn't a random word, it is a word with very special rules in English. As a non-English native, this was actually something I learnt in English class during 4th grade, at the age of ten. I don't recall any cabbage lessons though... And even before 4th grade, I learnt how to capitali... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289470 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: How can we poll a community? One answer per choice works pretty well. Check out how we rolled out proposals for scope at Software Development: https://software.codidact.com/posts/278648 There we went by voting, consensus can be said to be reached when the majority agrees, although if there's close to 50/50 that's probably not... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289430 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Who should be able to create new tags? The main, temporary problem across the network right now is that most sites are young and all fundamental tags that ought to exist for a given community are not necessarily created yet. Meaning that a new, well-meaning user who wants to ask a question might find themselves out of suitable tags to... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289368 |
I think tag naming vs number of tags are separate issues. There are situations at SO where 5 tags could be too restrictive. Example from programming: you wish to ask about the feature "anonymous structures and unions" and how it is different between the C11 and C++11 standards. Here the tags `anonymo... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289044 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: How can Codidact be independent from Stack Exchange, when you have same moderators? Having staff from Codidact as prominent moderators or doing other important volunteer work on SE (Charcoal project etc) is an asset to Codidact. It means that they have a public record of being dependable and experienced moderators. That's free, positive publicity for Codidact. Because even if you ha... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #277871 |
@#60977 This discussion predates the launch of Power Users and is therefore irrelevant. It would be ridiculous to update old meta discussion posts to bring them up to date with how the site is now. For example iirc we did migrate all office suite questions from Software Development to Power Users. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287896 |
@#53398 It might be a tad bit optimistic to believe that people are posting AI-generated answers as their own out of a willingness to contribute positively to the community. Rather, from what I've seen on SE there's a close relation between such answers and spam. It's often users with commercial inte... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287896 |
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— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287896 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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Should we have a network-wide policy against AI-generated answers? We had this discussion over at Software Development: Should we allow answers generated by ChatGPT? The general consensus so far seem to be that such answers shouldn't be allowed. Mostly because they are low quality content. But now I'm seeing such answers popping up on other Codidact communities ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287694 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Should we have organization accounts? What is preventing staff from using a second account, potentially using an anonymous alias? If they want to only express their personal opinions, then simply register a second account, without the admin/staff/moderator etc status attached to it. As long as the multiple accounts aren't interacting ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |