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Activity for Lundin
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #279371 |
Web browsers often handle this or can get configured to handle it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279292 |
@Moshi Yes that's quite likely the same issue. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279292 |
@Monica Cellio I updated the question with details of what I tried to do. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279275 |
Just for the record, this is the 3rd time or so this was reported. I reported the same bug [here](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278077) and that was closed as dupe to this report [here](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276896). I'll close those two as dupes to this one since it now got statu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279065 |
Because they have 100 or so of them and we don't want to create 100 ghost towns? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279001 |
What's even the purpose of that site? "I found a random picture of a place on the Internet and now I want to go there"? Decent sources usually list where a photo was taken, by whom. In fact publishing photos on the Internet (or elsewhere) without permission from the photographer is legally questionab... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279039 |
Possibly the same issue: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277887 (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279017 |
Are there any plans of having unused tags "age away" and delete themselves like on SE? It was quite handy, since the community could remove tags without involving moderators. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #41993 |
@Monica Cellio I noticed that you've added status-pending to some site suggestions such as this one. What does this mean specifically, since it is apparently different from status-needs-people? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278908 |
Btw the community name should totally be **Codidact Power User** (CPU) :) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278908 |
Please don't assume that people who discuss launching new sites are interested in contributing to the content once launched. I'm only here because this community would offer a place to migrate questions from other other communities where I'm active. I'm not likely to be active on this one, though. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278171 |
I have this bug too in Firefox. Very easy to reproduce: reload the whole site such as meta.codidact.com, click on inbox - dropdown appears. Click on a post to open it, then click on the inbox. The dropdown is now broken. If you refresh the page, the bug disappears. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278946 |
Also, illegal content ought to be covered by the CoC and not by community scope. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278946 |
Wouldn't all of this be covered either by a "Power User" site or a Law site? Or in case it's a pure technical question about how to implement something, Software Dev. Seems to me that the scope of this proposed site will be far to narrow to get an active community. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278890 |
@Moshi I don't think such questions belong on Writing at all, except maybe if the question is about writing lyrics yourself. A separate category for a music site sounds like the best fit to me, if we are to welcome such questions. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278857 |
Both EE and Judaism had lots of veteran users and mods from SE coming over and that's simply the main reasons why those two communities seem to do OK. This is exactly why I insist that we should look for how many such core users a community can count on before launching. We can argue about the exact ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278853 |
As things stand, we have some ~3-4 "ghost towns" and also several sites struggling with participation. The ghost towns in particular should probably not have been launched. It looks bad on the network as whole if you have lots of dead communities. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278853 |
@Mithrandir24601 I said mods _or_ domain expert/professional. Like if you launch the Cooking site, you might want at least 10 people who are either willing to do moderator work, _or_ work professionally in the restaurant business _or_ has cooking as a major hobby/passion. Not 4-5 people who say "yea... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278853 |
I think it will be misguiding to count the number of casually interested. Those might not end up very active, lose interest or just end up as passive "readers". Maybe we should ask how many that are willing to act as moderators or consider themselves domain experts (or at least professional). That gi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278833 |
Your specific examples would rather be more at home at a community for [office suites](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277548). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278764 |
One thing I would imagine that you need to address in your scope is what to do with questions of the nature "It is said that [popular work of fiction x] was inspired by the Bible - why is that?". I'd expect these kind of questions to be very common & the poster would be someone who just came across s... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278702 |
A fairly common reason why users change their name on SO is that they used their RL name and then homework vampires figured out how to get in touch with them over email or social media, to pester them with even more homework questions. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278661 |
On SE, duplicate chains mattered a lot. They used the number of duplicates to a post to determine if it was "frequent" and they used it to determine if a post could be closed/deleted etc. It doesn't seem unlikely that Codidact will come up with a similar needs in the future. Posts that are duplicates... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278552 |
I would imagine that the main reason SE displays it, is to see which posts that are most profitable. They refuse to delete some bad or off-topic old posts if they have enough traffic. We hopefully will have no need for that. But maybe there are other uses - knowing which ones that are high traffic vs... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278542 |
I've infrequently had this problem too, where the site forgets about me and I have to log in again, even though "remember me" was always checked. It got nothing to do with cookies. Happens intermittently maybe once per month, on several different computers. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278492 |
This means that if I wish to discuss a tag in the main site on meta, I might actually be discussing a tag with the same name but different meaning and tagi wiki on meta. Seems messy. I'd rather have meta get access to all tags of the main site, but the main site doesn't get access to meta-specific ta... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
@Moshi Eh, have you ever used Discord? It is obvious that it tracks what programs you have installed and which ones that are currently running. Then it sends that information to a server. The very definition of spyware. And yes Steam does that too, but only if you agree to participate in a "survey". ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
Discord has always been a [nasty piece of spyware](https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html). Never understood why it got so popular. And no, I won't use it either, it tracks pretty much everything possible to track. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278413 |
Please make sure that it is enabled on the metas for the tech sites though. There will occasionally be a need to bring up the technical content of posts on meta. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278394 |
@Monica Cellio But because of licensing, we can't really edit them to shape during import, right? Like merging two answers into one. It's either grab the answer(s) as-is or leave it be? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278394 |
So a complete re-write of these canonical "patchworks" would be ideal, not just importing them out of habit. Codidact offers a fresh start to do just that. Also, some of the old canonical posts might be outdated, particularly when it comes to tech communities. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278394 |
While this might be useful, I'd still be very restrictive with what to import. I've been re-reading through various canonical posts on SE that I've been used as duplicate targets there for years. And found that most of them are not actually that good, suffering from "fragmented answers" where answer ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278392 |
I think this might be very specific to the particular community. On SO I've made lots of community wikis and the problem was rather to get others involved, rather than bad edits. Or it might simply be that SO is so vast that posts easily drown there. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278388 |
I agree that we should use another term. "Free for all"? Or maybe just change the author to a special bot? Then let all posts by that bot be freely editable. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278386 |
Or maybe I'm overreacting & nobody cares about imaginary internet points, so the whole partial thing is a non-issue? I personally stopped caring about them many years ago on SO, once I had unlocked all user moderator privileges. And from what I hear, a new system for moderation privileges unrelated t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278386 |
@Dani There has been various community-specific proposals about adding a separate documentation/wiki category, which is related but still kind of a different thing entirely, like in that link at the bottom of my post. On the electronics site this was added as a separate "Papers" category. https://e... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278386 |
Also for bonus points: if we can create high quality content here, that is better than the corresponding equivalent post on That Other Network, that gives us a reason to link to the content here, rather than to that other place. We have the advantage of all the lessons learnt from there - the equival... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278364 |
Sorry, we aren't interested in discussing _you_, only the Codidact network. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278311 |
The post is however classic internet trolling: not interested in contributing constructively but posting for the sole reason to cause conflict and drama. The post could/should have been deleted for _that_ reason. "Not constructive" or similar - that's a concrete and valid reason. "Breaking the spirit... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278311 |
Whatever the reason for deleting a post, it most be made visible in the edit history log. We can't have arbitrary, subjective moderation. It was _not_ a personal attack, since such need to be directed towards a person. I'm not even sure it can be said to target a group, that's rather subjective too. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
For tech/scentific sites, it definitely doesn't make much sense to make a tight coupling between moderator suitability and domain expertise. If we can manage to separate those, that would be great! Rep should probably(?) reflect domain expertise, nothing else. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278200 |
I wasn't even aware that a new user tutorial/wizard existed. Very nice one! Good job, everyone who was involved in it! (Can we start a dragon community now. Pleeeease?) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278180 |
So if you provide both on the same site, the design is distracting. Normally if they were two communities, they might go visit one site and then the other, focusing on one thing at a time. Also, the carpenter's boss might be OK with them visiting the carpentry site during work hours as part of their ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278180 |
@ r~~ I don't think there exists a stereotype behavior, but perhaps in general people are not necessarily passionated about the things they are most skilled in. A skilled and professional carpenter who does carpentry 40 hours per week but gardening as their hobby activity now and then, might be much... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278199 |
Oh? If I manage to gather over 2.14 billion down votes, will I get an underflow wrap-around to +2.14 billion rep? :) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278180 |
@ r~~ The professional carpenters decreased their activity in the carpentry tag in favour of answering easy gardening questions. And the professional gardeners did the same, answering easy carpentry questions instead. Both tags has a big increase of shallow questions, causing the in-depth topics t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278176 |
As for who should pay the cost of having this bug fixed: bill Gates. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278169 |
Things like these usually sort themselves out when the site turns more active though. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278077 |
@tommi Some manner of hiccup was present yesterday and disabling the badger fixed it. Today it works just fine again. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278006 |
Other communities might face the same fate or alternatively get shut down for being too low traffic. From what I understand, they already pretty much shut down Area 51 this winter by firing the CM who was the only one working with that site. I don't think they have any interest in creating new and th... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |