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| 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 |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#54706 Or (another complex solution) grab the stuff from the closed dupe, include it in the site info of the dupe target, then delete the dupe. I know too little of search word optimization to tell if this is even feasible though. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#8049 I wrote score (sum of all votes) and not down-votes. There's always the "jealousy down-voting" which happens to very high scored posts. Looking at my most up-voted answers on SO, those with some +50 to +100 tend to be pure up-votes, but when going beyond that you sometimes attract "jealousy do... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
I think we can trust moderators to manually remove content far beyond these very narrow criteria. For example there's the spam or offensive aspects. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#54706 I'm not certain which is most important: it's searchability vs site clutter. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285199 |
The workload of the devs is irrelevant for suggesting and discussing features - people shouldn't hold back on discussions. The more something is discussed, the more mature the feature suggestion gets, the easier it will get to implement - particularly if many the "ifs and buts" use-cases are consider... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285132 |
Notably, on SE they decided to show score (up-votes minus down-votes) instead of two counters. This makes the view more compact and one can see the up/down votes by clicking on the score to expand. Regarding the color meter, I'm not a fan - for some reason my brain doesn't even register it, probably ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285075 |
I don't think it's a duplicate since that one is about promoting community _content_ specifically. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285149 |
I found this regarding the early project launch: https://sdtimes.com/os/sd-times-open-source-project-of-the-week-codidact/. No idea how well-reputed the site is or if the reporter happens to be the RL alias of someone here. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285134 |
It's a good idea, maybe start a separate thread about it here on meta.codidact.com? Then it can be peer reviewed and people can come up with suggestions how to improve it. Then you can just copy/paste post the final result of what the community came up with. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285126 |
I don't think it's particularly helpful for anyone except the poster and trusted users/moderators to see closed posts in the lists. They are the only people who can do anything about the posts and until the problems are fixed by the OP, none else but those with the ability to re-open it needs to see ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285076 |
@#53196h Yeah you might have a point there. Maybe that would also increase activity on meta, which is necessary when a site is new. People might easily get the idea that everything is already in place and decided. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285081 |
@#8163 Accusations like that with no proof or context offered aren't very friendly either. Sure, we shouldn't name & shame nor start any lynch mobs on meta... but perhaps the root of this supposed rudeness problem is that you feel that there's no good way for moderators to escalate such issues. On SE... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285080 |
I can't say that I like your post classification idea, but one way to give more positive attention to posts deserving such would be to make the "Hot Posts" more prominent somehow, maybe even network wide as done at SE. Right now, "Hot Posts" seem based on activity rather than anything else. If we can... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285081 |
Btw regarding expertise, someone could be a hardcore survivalist expert and not knowing what an "ursack" is. Everyone doesn't live in USA - the fauna is very different across the globe. Sure, if they don't know what it is, they should probably refrain from commenting or answering, but on the other ha... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284468 |
@#8046 It's actually an interesting feature, as upper/lower case can have a big significance particularly on the technical and scientific sites. As things stand currently, I don't think those sites would be overly sad if we turned everything lower case. A lot of people are used to that from SE. But I... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285081 |
You wrote a very similar post on Outdoors meta. All of this seems related to that one specific community. Network-wide, the amount of expertise is incredibly varied from community to community. Lack of voting I would imagine is directly related to site activity overall, or perhaps unclear scope. As f... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284468 |
Seen where? Here on meta or on a specific community? It should be discussed at meta at the community where you found it. It's curious why upper case is allowed in tags though - sounds like a good question on it's own. It could perhaps even be a conscious design decision. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285046 |
The point of cross-posting across multiple communities is naturally that the answers might depend a lot depending on community. As for why there is no site for economics, you can read that yourself here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277995. The proposal has been well-received so far and status is:... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284888 |
So I read the Github thread and the rationale sounds strange. I'm no web programmer but surely there must be a way to separate source formatting from output? Most programming languages has a feature to break up a source line in several. Someone already proposed a fix a few hours after you posted this... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284847 |
@#36363 Who are the "community owners"? This is a non-profit open-source platform managed by volunteers. It is explicitly designed so that no single person or private company owns it. If you don't like how something is done, then the solution is gather community consensus with a lot of other people a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284750 |
Can't we just implement it like SE? That is, if a tag exists and no post is using it, the tag deletes itself after a certain time. This enables tag clean-ups by regular users and not just by mods. Mass deletion without manual edits is likely a useful mod tool to have as well. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284733 |
Actually I just found the error. It wasn't DNS :) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284733 |
It has persisted for 24 hours though and https://codidact.com appears to be the only URL affected. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284733 |
@#8046 Still failing. I updated my Codidact bookmark to www.codidact.com which works. And then when I now type codidact.com in Firefox's URL window it automatically replaces it with www.codidact.com, supposedly because I saved a bookmark. If I type out `https://codidact.com/` it still gives the error... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284733 |
I just noticed that www.codidact.com works, but not codidact.com (which was my old bookmark). Firefox 93.0 64 bit Windows. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284688 |
Maybe I misunderstood the post, but if you can use Paypal then why does it ask for credit card info? Or is Paypal not an option? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284523 |
@#8056 Yeah... after giving it some thought, I do agree with you. Though I still think requiring a title would improve it further. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284523 |
@#8056 It isn't ideal but a title like "what if we were to" (cut short there) is even worse. So maybe the best solution is simply to enforce a manually typed out title after all. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284531 |
@#53922 Ah yeah definitely a duplicate. But this history of how I got the bug might provide some clues to the devs (I can reproduce too, replying to you here just now). (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284515 |
@#8046 Someplace Else has this automated question ban which kicks in after asking x badly received questions. It always seemed a bit drastic to me, but then I don't know how/if it scales up. For automated tasks I think something that scales up would work best, a script that looks at recent post score... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284526 |
@#8046 The Software Development community didn't really raise the matter for discussion yet, I think it's just culture from SO spilling over. As for why SO discouraged tags in titles, there's multiple discussions about it. I think one of the main reasons is to avoid bad titles like "Java problem", "H... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284526 |
@#53078 Yeah it would definitely become cluttered if all tags are included, hence "(major)" tags and tag hierarchy - it would be top level tags only I suppose. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284515 |
This sounds good overall. I think the main question is: should this be automated by the site (by looking at recent post score, closed posts etc) or manually by moderators? I'm not sure which would be better. Automated means (perhaps?) less friction and drama as people don't feel singled-out, manually... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284472 |
This definitely sounds like something that needs to be brought up at the specific community meta. Preferably along the lines of "how can we improve post quality?" which is productive, and not along the lines of "user x is bad what can be done about them" which is counter-productive and quite rude. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284523 |
I kind of agree, but coming up with a meaningful title is sometimes harder than writing the comment itself (which I suppose could be as per design to make people think twice before commenting). So how about adding 'General' as I did here, when there is no title? That's how comments older than the new... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284489 |
How is this suggestion different from your suggestion here? https://meta.codidact.com/posts/284474 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284486 |
You make some good points, if we want people to improve we need to post a comment saying why we think a post is bad. Not the snarky "I down voted because..." thing from SE but rather just genuinely explaining why you think a question is problematic. Silent down votes aren't very constructive. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284473 |
I agree because it is obvious that down votes isn't getting to them. "Everyone down votes everything I post on any site, so everyone else must be wrong". Nobody seem to stop and consider why they are repeatedly getting down voted over and over. At this point it doesn't seem to work as a way of modera... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284368 |
We previous had [this](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278176) bug related to picture uploading. It seems to have been fixed, but maybe this is somehow related. Did you use upper case for the file extension, .PNG? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282433 |
Your examples aren't actually about movies, as much as reality checks. That would rather be a site like Skeptics on SE, or in this case maybe some military enthusiast site. And overall, questions of the nature "this movie sucks, it's so unrealistic, am I right?" are probably not a good fit for _any_ ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284083 |
@#53196 Firefox. I get the extra space no matter marking direction. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284083 |
@#53196 It's super-easy to reproduce, just copy/paste any post title. Unless maybe you copy/paste by placing the mouse marker at the exact spot after the last letter and drag to mark the text? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284005 |
Or biology/medicine. There are studies proving that fertility and the number of children per family go down when living standards go up and vice versa. Which has nothing to do with technology as such, just the general quality of life and how easy it is for one to survive. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283588 |
@#54114 I don't see how the metas and main categories are different in this regard. The need to assemble a FAQ will eventually happen everywhere, when the site gets enough activity. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283580 |
We discussed creating a FAQ system back and forth back on the old Codidact forums, and how to best handle duplicates, but it never boiled down to a consensus. I remember arguing in favour of having a user-maintained FAQ system per site, but reactions were mixed. It's probably hard to create such a sy... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283375 |
Maybe this issue again? https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277109 (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277961 |
@#52991 It's still fairly subjective. Your examples are obvious cases. But for example any RF product made by some quack could be dangerous if it disturbs or jams out legal radio equipment, or causes EMI in general. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282833 |
If you don't understand why disciplinary matters or individual users should be discussed in private instead in some public meta discussion, then I suspect you have no experience of moderation. Lynch mobs or witch hunts isn't democracy, it is the opposite. You are the one building toxicity here. Discu... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281298 |
I agree with Olin, these kind of questions belong on a DIY/"Lifehack" site rather than a Chemistry one. I'd rather expect questions about the chemical structure of isopropyl, what other chemicals it may react with, the process of making it etc. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |