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Activity for Lundin
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| 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) |
— | 24 days 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) |
— | about 1 month 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) |
— | about 1 month 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) |
— | about 1 month 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) |
— | about 1 month 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) |
— | about 1 month 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) |
— | about 1 month 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) |
— | about 1 month 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 4 months 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) |
— | 5 months 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) |
— | 5 months 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) |
— | 5 months 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) |
— | 7 months 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) |
— | 7 months 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) |
— | 8 months 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) |
— | 9 months 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) |
— | 11 months 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287529 |
How exactly can you even CO2 balance a school? Have the students breathe less? The only thing of concern is heating since it consumes by far the most electricity. Don't sign up for electricity from sources like gas and oil and that's about it. What's the balance sheet for, just look at the electricit... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286486 |
@#53196 Now that you mention it, I noticed a sneakily collapsed option at the top. I didn't know that! :) Was that always there or was it added at some point? And why would I ever want it to be collapsed instead of fully expanded... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286486 |
@#53196 Yes, but this is how it goes... I get a notification that I got a comment from Moshi. I end up on a page with comments seemingly out of the blue and a link on top. As I land on this page, I find that I must have previous written something in a post called "Why are comments hidden by default?"... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286486 |
@#8046 I think the current layout would work fine if you could just easily expand/collapse each comment thread and reply there, without opening up a new page. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286192 |
@#8046 Thank you. The vertical length is the critical issue, more horizontal width is just a nice to have thing. (There's a taboo among programmers to never write source lines longer than 80 characters, but that doesn't necessarily include comments.) (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286052 |
It should however be mentioned that unlike SE, Codidact has no ulterior motives like paying stock holders or selling adverts etc. So Codidact won't do a Facebook and sell database contents to the highest bidder without any qualms. Sites owned by private companies might get such ideas at a whim though... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286052 |
This was recently proposed here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/285842. The proposal wasn't well-received by the community. Since there is no community consensus, it will unlikely get implemented. The main reasons seems to be that while you might not care about collecting points, the community cares... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285776 |
@#8046 Thanks, you did leave a comment here: https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/5748#comment-16225 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285783 |
I agree with everything said (I was about to post an identical post here too just the other day) and something must be done now, there's some 4-5 communities suffering a lot from this. I think the answers by Canina and Monica are fine but that's the long term solution. For now I think we should simpl... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285776 |
@#8046 Yes this is a duplicate but the problem is just escalating and no measures against this seem to be on the roadmap. At any rate I don't think we can wait for a site update - we have to do something drastic right now. Olin is right that no amount of explaining or down voting works, these users (... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
@#53518 No I clearly don't like it, but _you_ need to make an actual argument regarding why this feature is useful here. We have lots of feature requests and not many devs. Therefore we need to put some thought effort into proposals before presenting them, explaining what the feature is, why it would... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
@#53518 It actually sounds exactly like LinkedIn. Now what's stopping you from entering such things in your profile currently? The sole purpose of "Developer Story" on SO was to utilize candidate searching/matching by job recruiters. It didn't have _anything_ to do with the Q&A. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
@#53518n "if such a feature would help a great deal in attracting the kind of people Codidact wants to see" And what kind of people is that, more exactly? I could be wrong, but I'm pretty darn sure it isn't headhunter recruiters, HR departments in commercial companies and misc LinkedIn fans... You ne... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
It's basically Stack Overflow marketing barf meaning CV. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
Why would Codidact have that? The purpose of Codidact isn't to provide a CV, or to have it's users hired by external parties, or serve as some poor man's LinkedIn. I strongly oppose any attempt to turn any of the sites here into social media. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285545 |
@#53177 For example this https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take-a-stand followed by this https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342480/should-the-time-to-take-a-stand-question-be-closed-moved (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285576 |
@#54706 SO already tried this, they called it "Not Programming Related" and ended up as a garbage dump, though certainly not advertised as such. This suggestion does give a vibe of history repeating itself, at least to me. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285576 |
I think creating a proposals.codidact.com similar to SE's Area 51 is a good idea, but I think that's a separate issue from this incubator community. Apart from my concerns about question quality, it also sounds to me like it might end up as the network's garbage dump, where every low-quality question... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283928 |
Also suppose we add something like roomba deletion and using closed posts without answers as something it should delete. This should include closed articles. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285550 |
@#36356 Either way, I think such users can get a friendly nudge to pick another user name. On less tolerant platforms such names might just get outright rejected/banned. But then of course almost everything means something bad in some other language or context, so it has to be within reason. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285550 |
@#36356 I think moderators should be able to use common sense here, just as we expect users to pick user names using common sense. If I was a user and my name was Lenin, I would surely be aware of the historical figure and pick a more explicit name, Julio Lenin or whatever applies. Also I suspect tha... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285257 |
@#36363 Common sense: if you don't present any arguments then why would one of our non-paid volunteer devs prioritize this request? You end up at the very bottom of the pile of all feature requests. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285257 |
Also we might not want to have private companies like Google tracking our users and their activity for unknown purposes. That would be an argument against such a feature. Before you know it they will make an association between the Codidact user, your gmail account, your search history, your Youtube ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285257 |
Why do you want this? You didn't state any arguments. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285264 |
I posted [some things to sort out](https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/285123/285241#answer-285241) over at PU meta. I think we need to clarify these things before voting is meaningful. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285221 |
Also, we know from experience of SE that educating new users by providing optional reading material regarding how to use the site _simply doesn't work_ - nobody reads it. I would assume that this is not only true for help files but also closed posts, it's wishful thinking that new users would go arou... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285221 |
This has to weighed against the first site impression of new users, which was why this was proposed to begin with. If they see nothing but closed and down-voted questions, then that suggests that the content of the community overall is of low quality. In particular this might scare away new users who... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285216 |
@#8046 So maybe a first step would be to not show closed posts to anyone but the one who posted the question (and maybe those who posted answers). Then add a feature where anyone can opt-in to see closed posts. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285216 |
I once proposed something similar here: [Giving question feedback in private - a moderating system to reduce conflicts](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/281546). Scroll down to proposal. Particularly the part regarding removing closed posts as swiftly and as effortlessly away from the main site to som... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#8046 No, communities decide what gets closed and the bot cleans up closed post after a certain network-wide criteria. Off-topic posts for example aren't useful on any of the sites, so there's no reason why closed off-topic posts would be treated differently. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#8046 Each community should rather decide what kind of content is on-topic/off-topic. We can have general rules for post deletion across the whole network without disrupting specific community rules. Generally: if something was closed, it was either a duplicate or it was found off-topic at the commu... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |