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Activity for Lundin
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #281473 |
@r~~ Linux users is a subset of power user. There's a 100% overlap of the Linux proposal with the power user site. Why wouldn't they overlap? I have expertise in some of these categories but I don't see how that's relevant. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281473 |
@Istiakshovon No I get what you are requesting, I'm just saying that the linked proposal doesn't really make sense since that proposal wants a community for Linux users only. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281439 |
I never understood why there is a need for *nix-specific communities. If programming was on-topic that would make sense, but programming is covered by the Software Dev site. On Codidact I think we should eventually launch this: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278833. It makes sense to have different ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281449 |
@Monica Cellio The 99% is way too high for a mature site too. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281455 |
I agree; or give the ability to filter out questions or answers. I often go to the profile to find a link to some old post and then it's a bit messy to find. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281383 |
And domain knowledge matters for more than "bragging rights" - quite often you need extensive domain knowledge to moderate certain posts, to judge if they are on-topic, duplicates etc. Codidact will get there too, where specialized knowledge is needed to moderate certain topics. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281383 |
One point that's missing here is a way to measure domain expertise. Rep was always a poor way to measure it, but it's better than nothing. At best rep might reflect your overall broad knowledge of the topics that the community is about. What worked best at Someplace Else was badges. You got bronze, s... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281276 |
There should be some community user called "User removed" or similar. So that it becomes clear to the reader that there's no point in sending them comments with @. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278888 |
@Monica Cellio Except fixing all kinds of home electronics tend to boil down to "buy a new one", no matter if it's a graphics card or a blender. I doubt misc home electronics would take up a significant part of the questions. But maybe if there will be a "DIY" community at some point, such questions ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281044 |
@msh210 The one raging in the UK, presumably... or do you know a way to open up an UK bank account from Congo? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281042 |
That's probably one of the least effective ways of advertising though... it should be done online. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280963 |
To be fair there is a cohesion of sorts between engineers that work in the same branch. I work with embedded software engineering myself, but that software goes into circuit boards that in turn go into mechanical products, so I'm always working closely with electrical and mechanics engineers. So I ca... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280953 |
But that's not terribly interesting information... it isn't far from there to "John Doe likes this" social media barf. I think the "accept solution" mindset comes from some helpdesk/support mentality where every issue must be accepted by the customer come hell or high water. There's no obvious reason... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280953 |
As for "subjecting" the viewer to questions that aren't accepted, I don't agree with that either. Only each individual person can judge which questions that are interesting to them. Some may be out to hunt down unanswered questions, others might just want to read interesting Q&A, others might be on t... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280953 |
The problem with SE's model is that the OP is usually not the domain expert and is therefore the wrong person to judge if an answer is _correct_. They can only judge which answer that was most helpful to them in person. Perhaps instead of "accepted" there could be a status "canonical", which a post w... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280952 |
They occasionally allow ad space for open source projects out of tradition, so I guess Codidact fulfils the criteria. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280918 |
Slightly off-topic, I think we should observe the SO attempt to mark posts as obsolete. It was discussed here too, but we never implemented it. It might be a good thing to have in the long term though. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280901 |
If this is posted as a stand-alone scope proposal, you should address what's off-topic too, as well as the overlap with the Software Development community. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280871 |
I think all Unix-like systems should be allowed, I suspect the vast majority of questions would be about Linux (+ distros) anyway. One thing I'd be careful about however is making Android on-topic - it would certainly mean a flood of mobile development & support questions popping up. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280879 |
I'm pretty certain this is some UTF encoding/decoding hiccup. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280826 |
Maybe it would be a good idea to have the possibility to customize it so that only the communities you are interested in appear? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280707 |
For now, please note that most communities here are small and most sites are still just starting up. So while you can import posts from SE, please do this very carefully so that the imported content don't flood a site already struggling with activity. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280577 |
I think this seems sensible. And maybe extend the scope of Linux to cover all UNIX systems, though that will be something that specific community can decide & discuss [here](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276824). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278890 |
@hkotsubo No conclusion on any category yet. I think we should move such discussions to meta https://music.codidact.com/categories/53, there's several categories that would make sense. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279809 |
@Chgg Clou Because even the largest communities here are struggling with lack of user activity. So we shouldn't launch new communities that have a purposely narrow scope, when they could be merged with others & utilize different categories. Once the site is active enough, it can always split up. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279809 |
Reality check: we simply can't launch a Finance site, an Economics site and an Accounting site at once. I don't see either of these becoming particularly active any time soon. If you can't find a way to get these 3 merged by using categories etc, then we should probably not release them. We must stop... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280459 |
I think you should raise this on [Mathematics meta](https://math.codidact.com/categories/42) first. Maybe the best solution is rather to create a separate category for statistics? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280359 |
What if Codidact gets dismissed by searching engines as a "Stack Exchange scraper" site though? Not sure if that's even a valid concern, but it would affect the whole network. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279960 |
@Mithrandir24601 But site activity doesn't necessarily mean that they are suitable for moderator, other than that they are indeed active, which would be the bare minimum requirement. But if we want to start up a new community and someone who was an elected mod at the corresponding site at Someplace E... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276824 |
Or otherwise, if this site is more in-depth and technical, then there will instead be an overlap with software.codidact.com: kernel programming, API functions, shell scripts etc are all already on-topic there. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276824 |
I think the most important consideration is to consider overlaps. If this is a community for Linux _users_ then I would imagine that there will be a huge overlap with an upcoming ["Power user" site](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278833). To the point where I would question why *nix couldn't be ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279832 |
Astrophysics including astronomy sounds like a good candidate for a separate category? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics lists different research fields, though I'm not sure if those are automatically good candidates for site categories. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279835 |
Astronomy/Astrophysics should probably be a category sorting below a Physics site? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279821 |
Good job :) Should I re-edit this post to a bug report then? Since the feature apparently exists but can't be used for some users? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279821 |
I get this for any question no matter which community. I only get the tools icon if the post was created by me. Always the `javascript:void(0);` dead link. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279821 |
Ok. However, nothing happens when I click on that one. Mouse-over says `javascript:void(0);`. Using Firefox. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279724 |
@curiousdannii I'm just trying to assemble what seems to be community consensus so far into a single post - this came from the discussion [here](https://meta.codidact.com/a/275968/276307). I think this category can work out as long as we have strict rules and attentive moderators. Maybe "Discussion"... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277182 |
So maybe these categories then: _Music Fan Q&A_ (main Q&A category including questions about existing songs, composers, artists, analysis of their works & lyrics), _Instruments_ (how to play a specific instrument + equipment questions), _Theory_ (music theory, notes, terminology), _Identification_ (w... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275968 |
I posted a draft scope proposal [here](https://meta.codidact.com/a/275968/279724) just to get things going. I tried to address the various items discussed in other answers. Please leave feedback! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276998 |
Casual visitor. Likely to help out with various meta stuff early on to get the site going. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279464 |
I believe you are always logged in on all sites on the network. But yes, it is currently quite cumbersome to hop between communities, without using browser bookmarks/aid for such. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279371 |
@manassehkatz Firefox (for example) by default whines like crazy each time you want to close a window. I have to enable non-default settings to make that behavior go away. No need for extensions or plug-ins, just run it as it comes by default. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278890 |
So maybe this actually belongs to a music fan site, rather than a site for musicians? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278890 |
@Jirka Hanika As mentioned in my answer, all such existing sites are really bad, because they can't provide quality answers with sources and similar. But instead a whole lot of opinions and speculation, mixed with random nutjobs posting hearsay and conspiracy theories. A high quality Q&A site would ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278890 |
@Jirka Hanika I think most such questions would simply ask for an explanation of the lyrics. Like, what is Montreux in the line "We all came out to Montreux". In this case the question would arguably belong on a geography community. But if I ask why did they write "came out to", instead of "came down... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279372 |
And then someone goes to ask questions about Donald Duck on that site anyhow. After which the meta lawyers descend upon the topic and start to find evidence that Donald Duck is a fantasy character. And once you go down that rabbit hole, everything is suddenly on-topic (including rabbit holes, because... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279372 |
I would guess that the scope issue at SE Sci-fi/fantasy is simply caused by the usual meta lawyers, who must define everything in detail and can't apply common sense on a case-to-case basis. If I am to ask a question about Donald Duck, then my common sense tells me to 1) try to find a Disney communit... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279372 |
@Peter Cooper Jr. And yet all book stores in the world manage just fine to categorize fantasy & sci-fi. You will not find books about Donald Duck in the fantasy shelf. You will not find Lord of the Rings in the children's books shelf. You won't find Star Wars books in the astronomy shelf, but in the... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279390 |
Effectively, the SE Sci-fi/fantasy site has made any manner of fiction on-topic, as long as there is some "fantastic" element present. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279372 |
Perfect opportunity to not repeat the same mistakes as SE did. They made everything from Donald Duck to Grimm brothers on-topic "fantasy", because it contains "fantastic creatures". Surely it must be possible to make a much more narrow scope and a better definition of the genres. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |