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Activity for Lundin
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Introduce a spam reaction? It just occurred to me that it would be nice to have a "spam" reaction feature, to mark a post as potentially harmful while waiting for moderators to delete it. Benefits: - Prevent other users from thinking the post is legit and clicking on links posted. - Making it easier for other users to ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: What's more important for codidact - quality or helping questions get answered? Codidact started as an attempt to make something better/different than SE. When it was started, pretty much everyone involved shared a consensus about what it should not be: - Not run by a private company for profit where the agenda suddenly changes at a whim, depending on which buzzword is fashi... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: Please review a new Accessibility Statement and Accessibility Policy status-completed Just a minor concern: I don't think a single person should be the point of contact, maybe set up something like `access@codidact.org`. That is, if it even needs a dedicated mail address - I don't quite see why support@codidact.org address won't do? If all accessibility conc... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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Communities drop-down/switcher upgrades The communities "drop-down"/"switcher" menu next to the user profile could do with a few tweaks. The communities appearing there are sorted after order of community creation. That is: Writing, Codidact Meta, The Great Outdoors, ... This is a strange default order. - For searchability, it would mak... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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A: Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself? Regarding the "5 second google" part: We did discuss this very thing at some point over at Software Development Questions easily answered by studying a beginner-level book. There were lots of diverse opinions and no consensus, with votes and arguments all over the place. Bit of a touchy topic. ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: How can we poll a community? One answer per choice works pretty well. Check out how we rolled out proposals for scope at Software Development: https://software.codidact.com/posts/278648 There we went by voting, consensus can be said to be reached when the majority agrees, although if there's close to 50/50 that's probably not... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Who should be able to create new tags? The main, temporary problem across the network right now is that most sites are young and all fundamental tags that ought to exist for a given community are not necessarily created yet. Meaning that a new, well-meaning user who wants to ask a question might find themselves out of suitable tags to... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: How can Codidact be independent from Stack Exchange, when you have same moderators? Having staff from Codidact as prominent moderators or doing other important volunteer work on SE (Charcoal project etc) is an asset to Codidact. It means that they have a public record of being dependable and experienced moderators. That's free, positive publicity for Codidact. Because even if you ha... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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Should we have a network-wide policy against AI-generated answers? We had this discussion over at Software Development: Should we allow answers generated by ChatGPT? The general consensus so far seem to be that such answers shouldn't be allowed. Mostly because they are low quality content. But now I'm seeing such answers popping up on other Codidact communities ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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A: Should we have organization accounts? What is preventing staff from using a second account, potentially using an anonymous alias? If they want to only express their personal opinions, then simply register a second account, without the admin/staff/moderator etc status attached to it. As long as the multiple accounts aren't interacting ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Clicking on the square with an arrow no longer displays community drop-down Clicking on the square with an arrow next to the user profile no longer displays the drop-down menu to show other communities. I talking about this one: arrow If I click on the white area around it, the drop-down menu appears. Just not when I click the actual symbol. This appears to be a recent... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Why are comments hidden by default? It's "status by design". I made the very same remarks when this feature was released, here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282342/282346#answer-282346. Responses from the dev team were: > ArtOfCode wrote 11 months ago: > > Part of the intent of this change is to create slightly more fri... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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Can we please get useful source code formatting? []()My patience is running thin with code formatting on Codidact. I've made this feature request before on Software Development only (here) but no reply. We currently have 5 communities which definitely need to frequently use the code formatting feature: Code Golf, Electrical Engineering, Linux ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content Regarding politics in user profiles: I think the contents of the user profile should be relevant: that is, describe who you are, what you do, what you like etc. If it's relevant that you are for example member of some party, by all means include that information in the user profile if you like. ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Incubator (takes all questions that aren't on-topic anywhere else) community I disagree for the following specific reason: Quality of site content is ultimately what drives domain experts into using a certain site - they are drawn to each other, so the more experts a site got, the more will join. And then the big majority of users who aren't experts will follow, because wh... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content Does Codidact have any policy against using political content in posts, user names or user profiles? I'm not talking about questions about political content, which should obviously be fine given that it's on-topic at the site where it's posted. But I'm rather referring to the promotional kind,... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful I agree that automatic deletion1) would be a useful way to reduce clutter and manual moderation. I would propose implementing something along the lines of the draft below. 1) Deleted as in "not displayed on the site" - the technical definition on what gets archived and what gets deleted from the ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How to grow all of our communities? In order to make more users join a community, there must be actual content present Casual users don't join some random community no matter how interested they are in the topic unless given an actual reason to. Reasons in this case include already posted high quality content or the ability to ask q... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How to grow all of our communities? As most have noticed, there's been a discussion raised on all the community metas about how to grow that particular community. It's a good question and I do believe they should be answered on community basis. However, there are some common universal issues with all Codidact communities that I thi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Actively investing in non niche network websites It isn't clear to me exactly why these particular communities would attract more users than others. For example we already have Cooking, which is something that concerns everyone and which lots of people around the world are interested in (as evident from the massive amounts of never-ending cooki... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Encoding error when accessing https://codidact.com/ I did some further research and it appears that this was caused by corrupted cookies/browser cache in Firefox. I deleted all Codidact cookies, restarted the browser and now the problem is gone. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Encoding error when accessing https://codidact.com/ When trying to access https://codidact.com/ Firefox (93.0) gives me "encoding error, contact the site owners". This appears to have happened just now, as I could use that address fine for less than an hour ago. I can access any community just fine, not just the main URL, so I don't think it's some DN... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Reacting without signing in error Related: also maybe blank out the "works for me" option in case you react to your own posts. I can see why someone would want to set some of their own old posts as outdated though. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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"User was not notified" incorrectly displayed in comments. I just had an incorrect "user wasn't notified because they haven't participated in the discussion" warning (I can't recall the exact wording). What I did: - Responded to a comment here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/284526, specifically this one. - First thing I did was typing @ and 3 letter... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Include (major) tags as part of Hot Posts link It just occurred to me as I was looking at Hot Posts at Software Development that it would be helpful to include the tags with the title, so that people can judge if that post is interesting and/or relevant to them. Software Development implicitly seems to have inherited the "no tags in title ple... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Let's improve how we handle duplicates > Question closure can leave people feeling judged (as we learned Somewhere Else) > > ...counter the impression that duplicates are bad To solve that problem, one needs to address the source. Somewhere Else would instantly make a conclusion like "aha it's the evil community being rude again" a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Stop inserting space after question titles This is kind of minor so I haven't bothered reporting it before, but it's been there since day 1: the site is inserting a space character after every question title. Example (from here): `Newsletter #8 (August 2021) ` <-- space here This is annoying since it sometimes screws up link markdown fo... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Get a [faq] tag, mods! I started to write this as a comment in response to @Canina's answer, but realized it's a different proposal on it's own. Bit of brainstorming: A FAQ is not necessarily some help page with everything written down. It could as well be integrated site support. Such a FAQ system would have: - A wa... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Reaction system for comments I don't think many want the site to behave like social media. In particular, we don't need the narcissism of social media - I truly don't care if "Bob likes this" or "Ten people found this funny". The use of smileys `:)` to indicate that you are joking is another thing, this is fine and well-estab... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Has anyone seen my unicorn? Has anyone seen my unicorn "Fluffy"? It has green fur and loves apples. It was last seen-... Since a few days back, the user avatar is missing on my profile: missing unicorn And I've seen the same on other user's profiles or posts too. Not sure if this is related to the unicorn generator... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Please, don't kill Olin Elthrop! Issues like this should be flagged for mod attention, not "discussed on meta". There is nothing to discuss & the staff doesn't need input from random users about their "opinions" on the matter. Impersonating other users is simply not OK, nor is discussing individual users on meta for whatever the rea... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Duplicate links in help centers I just noticed that any help center on any site has lots of duplicate links below "About Codidact" and "Legal". The same links are listed 2 times in a row. I get this on every single Codidact community. Using Firefox. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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The homework dumps are coming - how about a network-wide policy? I'm starting to see the first signs of the inevitable "homework dumps" on Software Development as the site is gaining traffic a bit. The criteria for a homework dump is roughly: - A raw copy/paste of a school assignment. It is not necessarily even asking a question, it could as well be a work orde... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Threaded comments are here! status-completed a different way: thread page now has expanders for the post and, if it's an answer, also the question. This provides the missing context without having to go through the extra hassle described here. Bug/feature request. When you click on a notification about someone respon... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Threaded comments are here! Great feature, I've been looking forward to this! Some thoughts: - Expand/collapse with a little + or arrow etc to the left of the comment is probably a more intuitive GUI to most users (?). - You could probably have comments expanded by default if they were in a more compact format. I think... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Should we be able to tag answers? It sounds like a feature of very limited use. I agree that it would be neat for Code Golf, where different answers are per definition of "different kinds". I don't really see any use for it on any other of the existing sites though. Regarding the specific example of C++ on Software Development... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted I really don't like the change to tags. "...without necessarily being in your face" They need to be in one's face! The way these kind of Q&A sites are designed, tags are super important. They need to work as a head's up of what the post is about and what knowledge that might be required in order... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Tag wiki too prominent when sorting posts by tag When sorting posts by tag, the tag usage part pops up as expected, but also the whole tag wiki. So when you actually start writing a proper tag wiki for a tag, anyone who wants to see posts under that tag has to scroll past the tag wiki each time. The wiki could get quite long. Example here: https... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Battery Science & Engineering Almost every single electronics development project is multi-disciplinary. I'm a software engineer but I rarely ever do any project which doesn't involve electronics- or mechanical engineers/engineering. Including several projects revolving around batteries, battery chargers, batteries in EX envi... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Improving the "copy link" button I'd like to have the "copy link" button below questions improved so that it gives something more useful. Currently when clicking on it, you just get a raw URL like: https://unicorns.codidact.com/posts/123456 That's not really meaningful, I could as well just copy the URL from my browser. So... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Add an option to retract a flag before it's handled I agree, we know from experience that this is useful. "Someplace Else" got this feature and I've used it now and then. Often when you get some "wait a minute..." moment, realizing that you have misinterpreted something. Or when an OP changes the question with clarifications so that it makes better se... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How's the interest for a Worldbuilding site? Our existing Scientific Speculation mostly covers what would be on-topic at Worldbuilding stack exchange etc. The site can also do with more attention. So rather than to launch a new community, I would strongly recommend to go over to that site's meta and raise discussion there. If you can find a... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts? I agree, this is a problem when the site activity is low. For example I wrote a very long answer at Software Dev the other week, then re-visited it later and corrected some typos etc. Then someone else found a typo too and edited it again. This could easily be mistaken for purposely "bumping" the pos... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Should we change the score required for the Curate trust level, and if so, to what? At this early stage I think you'll simply have to give out the privilege manually to users per community, similar as to how we've gotten temporary moderators in place. Given that they are active users and interested in acting as "curators"/"moderator lite". Most communities have been around long enou... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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Giving question feedback in private - a moderating system to reduce conflicts Some background: A discussion about deleting/preserving comments and giving user feedback popped up on Software Development meta here: How are we supposed to give feedback for poor questions if such comments are deleted? However, I believe these concerns are network-wide and should be discussed wi... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Currently, where should we ask any OS related question? - We currently have a proposal for a "power user" PC site here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278833. It has score 13. - And we also have another proposal for a Linux user site here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276824. It has score 16. Both of these proposals are popular. At the same ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Disallowing quoting question parts in answers, rather, in comments only > Quoting parts of questions in answers is a problem because it prevents the legitimacy of a question's OP to try to improve a bad question in case community members think the question is bad by heavily downvoting it, let along, explaining severe problems unclarity or misleadingness in the question. ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Codidact marketing for community posts > We currently let users with the Curate ability promote posts across the Codidact network. Should we choose some subset of these for promotion? Well this seems like an extremely hard ability to earn. Does anyone but moderators and staff actually have it? As an example from Software Development, C... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Advertise Codidact.com on your vehicle? It's not that kind of product - it's not tooth paste or Coca Cola. Random advertising to random people is unlikely to increase site activity. Advertising needs to be directed to those who are interested in participating in online communities. For example like some brilliant person managed to do by... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Why not broaden Electrical Engineering to Engineering? This has been proposed before https://meta.codidact.com/posts/74999. My comment then was: > 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 ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |