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Activity for Lundin
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #278006 |
SE might at any point decide that the main purpose of the math sites is from now on to help kids with their elementary school homework problems and blatantly ignore all veteran users who disapprove. They _have_ already done this on SO, over and over. It didn't happen overnight, it's a death of thousa... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277966 |
@luap42's suggestion is sound. I'd also consider restricting the ability to use these to trusted users. "Revenge down-voting" is a big problem at SE and will be here too - now imagine "revenge reaction spam". It would be much worse since it vandalizes the content in a way. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277114 |
The only way to deal with this is peer review and voting. That's the only content quality guarantee that the site makes. Someone recently proposed on meta adding a "dangerous" mark to posts https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277957 but it would still be fairly subjective, since we don't know how rea... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277114 |
This is the same problem that SO always had. You have everyone and their mother posting code there, then others integrate it in their commercial products. It's not necessarily more dangerous to have someone posting incorrect medical advise, than someone posting incorrect firmware advise which some qu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277023 |
If you don't know what you are about to ask at the point where you decide to ask it... then I don't think any GUI tricks will save you. We know from SE experience that if the title is bad, the rest of the post is very likely bad too, including content and tags. I think more direct "ask a question wiz... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277948 |
I've been meaning to ask for this too. Often you are writing an answer as comments pop up, and you might want to post comments at the same time as you are writing an answer. You don't want to refresh the page then. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277904 |
Also related: on SE they add more details by distinguishing between "asked", "answered" and "modified" changes. That way people browsing can separate interesting activity (new question, new answers) from less interesting activity (typo fixes etc). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277904 |
The problem is that it says on the main page" last activity 6 hours ago by Lundin". If someone was to ask me why I made edits to that post 6 hours ago (when I were asleep) I wouldn't have a clue. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277887 |
Part of the problem is related to this bug: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277308 (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277548 |
@msh210 Fair enough. CRM, ERP etc systems would indeed make the scope far too broad. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277548 |
Maybe name it Office Software? Maybe it's just me (who's non-native English) that struggles with suite and suit, but we wouldn't want people to think the site is about dress code :) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277555 |
I don't agree with the lack of userbase, literally everyone out there use these suites. The potential for casual visitors is enormous. Like any community, the success will entirely depend on the number of experts it will attract. Finding people willing to ask questions won't be a problem, getting the... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277549 |
Why not just use the letter pi as the logo? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277345 |
Also, some people may actually be interested in Physics and other natural sciences but not in math. I am such a beast - I regard math as a tool of the trade (engineer) at best or as a necessary evil at worst. It is not something I enjoy reading about in my free time. I may enjoy reading/discussing ph... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277851 |
Why not? SE has _five_ different math sites, why can't we have a single one? Seems to me that the potential for a math site is great, much bigger than some more niche topic sites that we've already launched. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277851 |
What I don't get in the specific case is why we can't have one math site and one physics site. The math site is gonna happen by the looks of it. In case it will be hard to find enough users to support a dedicated physics site, make one called natural science and include chemistry, astronomics etc as ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277574 |
@Olin Lathrop In theory yes, but since this is open source, the devs will ultimately focus on features that they themselves believe in. Nobody is going to spend days of their volunteer time designing something popular that they don't believe in - though they might have done so if it was paid work. Vo... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277345 |
Similarly you could say that physics and chemistry have very much in common, or physics and electronics. And so on. It's weird to combine two of them in one site I think. Better then to create a "natural science" site and let it cover everything, then branch off that one into several when needed. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277348 |
@ArtOfCode "if a moderator engages in ToS-violating conduct, they're getting kicked off the network period, and the Panel won't be able to override that." Umm but what if the Codidact team decides that a moderator is violating a future, yet to be revealed part of the ToS. Sounds awfully familiar... ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277311 |
Looks like a hotel from the Monopoly game. Degrees of user trust go from no houses to 4 houses and then hotel for admins? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277182 |
We know from SE experience that all sites that include some manner of identification service get lots of such traffic from casual/first time users who don't always post good quality questions. A separate category would filter out all such posts from stealing all the attention and distract those who a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277182 |
Consider making song/band identification questions a category of its own, since I suspect such questions will take up a significant amount of the site content otherwise. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276918 |
(As a non-English European I had honestly never heard the term ground beef until this post, I've always used the term minced meat and didn't even know it was British.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276918 |
I think it depends on the context.
To take one example, technical ISO/IEC programming standards for C and C++ uses American English, simply because these were originally American standards that became international. So there's formal technical terms such as _undefined behavior_ (not behaviour), al... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #75033 |
@joel It's fairly easy: everything which is addressed in a beginner-level class/book of the topic is beginner stuff. So we aren't talking super advanced discussions here - if you have taken a programming class/read a book on the subject at uni or equivalent, you are qualified. It's just that some 90%... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276593 |
I think the "Software engineering" site needs to be broad and tolerant as suggested here: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/74893#answer-276171. Not necessarily career advise and fuzzy "story of my life" discussions however. Perhaps a different site for that, similar to SE "The Workplace" but progr... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276141 |
The main/only purpose with "Professional programmers" or similar names is that it does exclude the flood of crappy, uninteresting homework questions. That's a MASSIVE benefit. By all means have sites dedicated to learning programming, but don't try to make teachers out of domain experts unwilling to ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276260 |
These cases need to be explicitly dealt with upon launching a new site, by explicitly naming overlap topics as either on-topic or off-topic, and name specific rules for such topics. So that overlapping scopes are reduced and clarified. I expect veteran users to already know from experience about mos... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275914 |
@aCVn The point is that IoT is a _marketing_ term, so nobody (including marketing) knows what it's about. It's a term people toss around when they don't know what they are talking about. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276178 |
@ArtOfCode No, on SE the log out option logs you out from all sites. There was some hard-to-find loop-hole, but it took me a long time to find and I don't remember how. Basically if I clear the cookie cache on my computer, one of my accounts is blocked until I find out how I managed to set it up last... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276175 |
Just as long as picking the license is kept optional, because most non-lawyers don't have a clue or care about the difference between various licenses. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276168 |
The problem is that the poster _is_ doing a copy/paste on the different site. Just the other day, I told someone that their question was about electronics, not programming, so it should be asked on the electronics site instead. I specifically told them that part of the question was a buying/tool reco... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74999 |
Looking at the existing SE engineering site, it's just looks like a place to dump questions that don't fit in anywhere else. Mostly because one specific engineering discipline couldn't raise enough users to form their own site. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74999 |
I'm a dipl. computer engineer and if you ask me what an "engineering site" is about, I wouldn't be able to answer.
The only thing that brings all the diverse engineering disciplines together is structured workflow, scientific methods, critical thinking and other broad terms. Plus a tonne of math. ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275914 |
Similarly, without knowing much about it, I suspect that "Cloud" is just network communication & security + server administration + database administration. Then you'll have various user interface products on top of these, which might be marketed as Cloud-whatever. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275914 |
Personally it makes me cringe whenever I see a site which is based on a marketing buzzword instead of the engineering/science term describing what the site is actually about. Including "IoT", "DevOps", "Machine learning" blah blah. You can break these down into the actual technologies used by enginee... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #75033 |
Over at https://forum.codidact.org/t/how-to-treat-debugging-and-easy-to-google-and-very-basic-questions/1122, I proposed that we should make a distinction between professional and beginner/student sites. Is this what you mean with "professional"? Because one certain way to draw a crowd of experts ove... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276139 |
Like when I occasionally did some clean-up at a niche tag, I could do the ground work, then call for backup from the "close vote review chat" by dropping links to questionable posts there. And then suddenly get an army of friendly, competent moderators helping me out, fixing everything in no time. Th... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276139 |
What worked well on SO was that even though sub-communities emerge with their own chat rooms and tag rules, the moderation rules of the site were pretty much unison. So "power users" following a certain set of tags could moderate a lot of other tags too, when domain knowledge isn't needed. This benef... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276140 |
Embedded systems programming is much more closely related to electronics design than it is to PC programming. In fact you can't even work with embedded programming unless you understand basic electronics and know how to use an oscilloscope. I'm all in favour for moving 100% of embedded systems below ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276140 |
Another problem appears on SO when you forget to add the embedded tag, is that you get the clueless hordes of PC programmers replying, causing more harm than good. And then the name of the tag is very bad in itself, pretty much every day it gets people who want to "embed x into y" and then add the ta... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276140 |
Similarly, questions about common serial buses and protocols (SPI, UART, CAN etc) are only borderland related to software. Wheras on electronics.stackexchange, such questions are always on-topic no matter where the problem lies. -> (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276140 |
I've been one of the most active users/user moderators at the "embedded" tag at SO, I'm pretty much the only one moderating it. It's a problematic tag for several reasons, most notably when someone has a problem but they don't know if the problem is in SW or HW. So they don't know if the question is ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |