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| Comment | Post #282591 |
Now as I had posted the above comment and viewed it from the answer page, I came up with something I wanted to add. I can't edit it from there, so I have to open up the comment thread to make the edit link appear - not very intuitive. And then as I edit I apparently hit the 500 symbol limit because I... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282591 |
The 5 minute limit is in my opinion a very bad idea. I don't know how many times I've written a comment without too much care, then get interrupted & go do something else, then come back and think more carefully about what was written. If I find something in the comment factually incorrect, or if it ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282561 |
@user It's not so much the reason to close it, but the punishment. If you get off with a warning at the Electronics site but get one week ban at the Software Dev site for similar homework dumps, then that's inconsistent. My main argument being that these posts are _rude_ a therefore violate our CoC. ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282570 |
This was specifically about "raw" copy/paste dumps. There's no grey area and I don't see how these could ever be considered good or on-topic anywhere, short of someone starting a "homwork for free" community. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282563 |
Currently we have this at Software Development (from [here](https://software.codidact.com/help/on-topic)): "Off-topic - questions asking for implementing a certain feature (or homework). You should include your (partially working) trials in the post". I like your more detailed post though. If we are ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282538 |
I think if you rule out discussing artists or works of art, then the site will become incredible narrow. The Music site is very inactive and then there's not even a rule against music fans/popular music questions. Photography & Video is very inactive as well. If we are to launch an Art community, we ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
Another thought: would it make sense to have a certain category for support questions? Looking at SE's Arcade, the majority of questions actually seem to be about tech support. Games crashing, lagging, players getting stuck on bugs, help with installation, benchmarking graphic settings and so on. I'm... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282459 |
As I read this, I start to wonder who "owns" a comment thread? The person who started it? What about deleting the whole thread? Sometimes you make a comment, then realize that you were wrong, or alternatively the post which the comment was about got changed so the comment got outdated. The same goes ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282346 |
Overall, the more I use this new system, the more I dislike it. I can't help but feel that the separate comment page is just bad UI design. This alone causes the new comment system to be far inferior to the simplistic one we had previously. I understand the rationale why you want there to be a separa... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282367 |
Fairly trustworthy source regarding the origin of the Linux penguin, Tux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot)#Origins (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282346 |
I dont think making the UI more cumbersome and unintuitive is the solution to that problem. Moderators, scripts and good flag systems, rather. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282336 |
These seem like good candidates for different _categories_. That is, different kinds of questions that may have different rules for posting and get moderated differently. SE doesn't have categories so they might have no other option but to use separate sites. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282321 |
I suspect someone with the relevant expertise would rather make distinctions between different fields: cardiology, neurology and so on. And surgeons are specialized in certain areas. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282291 |
@celtschk My point is that the answer tags might _encourage_ people to write off-topic answers. "Btw this is how you do it in C++17" kind of answers. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282291 |
@celtschk But they could post a C++98 answer to a question tagged C++ and C++17. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282291 |
It might be of interest to us to peek at SO's ["Outdated Answers project"](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405302/introducing-outdated-answers-project) and see how that experiment turns out. Not quite sure what happened to it. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282291 |
@Monica Cellio That's a rather different scenario. I remember some other meta discussion about some way to mark posts as outdated, dangerous etc [here](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277957). Though in general, everything that is software quickly decays and turns outdated, it is kind of specific to... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
It would seem that games and game development are quite different topics, possibly with different posting rules. These could be two different categories on the site. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282086 |
@Monica Cellio That sounds like a good idea, assuming I'm correctly visualizing what you are saying :) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281986 |
Anyway, sensible categories on the EE site would rather be "Power", "Analog", "RF", "Electromechanical", "Interface", "Firmware" or similar broad terms. I don't really see a need to add more categories there currently. And for now categories are used there for separate types of questions, not for sep... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281986 |
All electronics aspects of batteries sort under power management. If you want to design a battery charger, then power management is the headline to look for at the silicon vendor site, unless they have a separate charger category. Low voltage in this context means <75VDC so that goes for the vast maj... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281986 |
@celtschk Batteries aren't really a sub-category of electrical engineering. That would be far too narrow - batteries would be a sub-category of power management, which is a sub-category of low voltage power electronics, which is a sub-category of power electronics... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281990 |
I agree, I don't see how battery questions would be off-topic on the EE site even if they are about the underlying chemistry. If there's enough people who can answer such questions in detail, well that's another story. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281983 |
I'd assume that the most common place to share Codidact links would be on Codidact. So it would be nice if the site allowed for a way that's compatible with itself... That ought to be way more important than supporting some format for social media platforms. Now on Someplace Else when you paste a lin... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281796 |
Every time this has happened, it's been announced as featured posts across the whole network, visible from every Codidact site. Why wouldn't that be enough? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281781 |
@Mithrandir24601 It's pretty much only useful when someone makes a proposal of something new. It's counter-productive when someone just wants to discuss something and toss around ideas. And it doesn't make the slightest sense for things like bug reports, support requests etc. What does voting even m... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281781 |
I'd also question the relevance of rep on meta. From experience of SO, my highest voted posts _by far_ are those containing complaints about something. This after posting some hundreds of diverse posts, feature suggestions, moderation/tag clean-up stuff, misc discussions, helping newbies etc. It's al... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281651 |
I remember this edit, it was me removing myself from the list of users who declared interest in the site proposal. Alexei had listed my name and I removed it, that was the only edit I did. It was _not_ a tag edit. This post was an answer btw so it doesn't even have tags. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281646 |
I think I've reported this very bug before too. Btw referring to users with @username in questions doesn't notify them. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281648 |
I think your arguments here are regarding implementation details. How many and who gets access to the feedback channel isn't all that important, by all means give all trusted users access to it. What's important is that the poster only gets feedback from people actually willing to give it, in a patie... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281615 |
And no matter the arguments, the disadvantages overrule any advantages bumping might give when there is low participation. Bumping only makes the lack of new content situation worse. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281615 |
@Nick Alexeev I don't really buy that argument when there's a edit review system in place. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281577 |
I just got the blue circle when I clicked "mark all as read". (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281579 |
In addition to what's said at https://meta.codidact.com/abilities/flag_curate I think this privilege would also give the ability to promote posts? So maybe that page should be updated? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281576 |
SO did a big experiment with mentors who would help people write better questions. I wasn't part of it but from what I heard it was based on chat similar to this. Not sure why exactly they cancelled the idea, could go dig at old posts at their meta. I would guess the people willing to actually listen... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281570 |
The main issue is perhaps that you give the option to leave feedback to people who have absolutely no interest in giving it, they just want the bad question gone from "their" site. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281570 |
"it helps prevent redundant feedback" You'd think it would, but it really doesn't... if we look at SO it's pretty much the norm that some 2-3 people say the same thing in comments. Some like to copy/paste the close post message too, that the OP will see anyway when the question gets closed. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281570 |
"On Codidact, we're losing face in front of strangers whose opinion has little impact on our lives." Except it's in front of the whole world and not just some local people. And again, the Internet never forgets. While your co-workers at a company are prone to forget something embarrassing you did qui... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281570 |
"But is that the fault of the comment mechanism?" Partially, because there's the "pile on" effect, there is the public shaming and the "Internet never forgets" aspect. And also the exposure - the bad question keeps getting exposed and piled on even after it's established that it should be removed. If... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
Or do I call out your design in front of everyone at the next personnel meeting and hold it up as an example for how we should not design electronics? What will make you the most motivated to 1) fix the PCB and 2) not get pissed off with your boss and quit? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
@Olin Lathrop To invent an electronics metaphore... Suppose I'm your boss and I've tasked you to design a PCB. Upon getting the result from you, I don't like it because I think the BOM is too expensive. How do I best tell you to swap out some expensive components: by sticking my head into your offic... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
@Olin Lathrop The purpose of these communities should not be to punish people for posting bad questions. That doesn't sit well with our "be nice" Code of Conduct. The most important thing here is that the question is removed as quickly as possible, both to set the quality bar but also to minimize ne... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281521 |
The overlap needs to be addressed more in detail. For example, suppose I have a hardware problem with my Linux machine, where do I go? Or if I have a trouble-shooting question which could either be caused by Linux software/drivers or hardware. Would these be on-topic on the Linux site? If not, the ov... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281458 |
Sorting your own posts first by Q or A and then by tag from your own user profile would be ideal. On Someplace Else you'd use the site search `[discussion] user:me` to sort all your posts after tag, but that's both Q and A mixed. The `user: ... ` search feature would be handy regardless. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281554 |
If they don't want to listen to feedback from there on, fine, we can hide the feedback thread so that you have to click somewhere to open it and add an opt-out. To avoid the "pile-on" problem all user feedback should be visible to other users with the same privilege that are willing to help, but not ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281554 |
Ideally some "Ask a question wizard" will prevent as much bad questions as possible before they even hit the site, but they won't catch everything. "New users don't know how things work, so we need to keep it simple." They'll receive the same notification as with the current system, but saying that t... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
@ r~~ Ah yeah that's a strange wording, will fix it, thanks. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
One example from earlier today on SO. Some very bad question was posted with an image of code. I counted the number of comments telling the OP to post the code as text not as a picture. 4 people saying the same thing, all in all pretty hostile. And this post was so bad that it should just get removed... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
@Olin Lathrop But the OP might not want that - you are missing the whole point. And this proposal is meant to reduce duplicate/careless comments from people who don't care to help the OP anyway. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276604 |
Overall I agree but you may want to refer to an existing answer in your own answer. Such as "the answer by @Bob shows the main problem but-...". As in give credit to the other answer when you use it in your own, instead of silently copying parts of it just without attribution, then add more details. ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |