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Activity for Lundin
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| 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277961 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous" I kind of like the idea, especially for outdated/obsolete technology. But I'm concerned over how subjective a "dangerous" mark might end up. For example when it comes to programming, I work with safety-critical embedded systems. The concerns I might have for what makes a program dangerous are not... (more) |
— | over 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277887 |
Part of the problem is related to this bug: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277308 (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277887 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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The site claims I made edits to post while I was offline The site claims I edited this post 6 hours ago: https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/276256 6 hours ago I was very much asleep since that's around 4am here. I don't remember editing this post at all, but maybe I did long time ago and it didn't get approved until now? At any rate it's r... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277548 |
@msh210 Fair enough. CRM, ERP etc systems would indeed make the scope far too broad. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277871 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Site for office suites Regarding scope, maybe extend it to all software used in an office environment, such as mail clients and VOIP meeting/chat software etc. Some of these might not be considered part of a "suite". Skype wasn't, for example, until MS bought them. Regarding programming and things like VBA that are inte... (more) |
— | over 4 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 4 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 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277549 |
Why not just use the letter pi as the logo? (more) |
— | over 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277574 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: I cannot understand the meaning of some downvotes Votes on meta supposedly means "agree/don't agree". Which may make sense in some cases, not so much in other cases. I have argued many times on the Codidact forums/meta that using the same Q&A meta model as SE should be avoided. It is a model that we know is ill-suited both for discussion and supp... (more) |
— | over 4 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 4 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 4 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277308 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Suggested edits don't show meaningful diff When a suggested edit review appears for your post, it isn't possible to see what was changed. Someone made an edit to my post here https://software.codidact.com/posts/suggested-edit/86 and the diff I get contains the whole post, in the form of an unformatted wall of text. It's not possible to see wh... (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276661 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel Some thoughts: - A clarification of the term "community" might be needed. My take is that this is meant to be a Codidact network-wide panel. But currently we use the term "communities" as in this listing: https://codidact.com/. I take it that having one panel per site ("community") isn't what you ... (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276545 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: How should we approach a programming site or sites? Lessons learnt from the past I've been at SO pretty much from the start. It is true that SO has sub-communities in a sense. Each major programming language (tag) has their own flavour of slightly different posting rules, different ways to deal with FAQ and canonical dupes and different tag usage r... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276539 |
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| Edit | Post #276539 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Bug Reports category I agree. We could benefit from having: - One category for discussing site/network use and features (current Q&A) - One category for plain bug reports. - One category for support requests and beginner help. - The existing categories for site proposals and blog/info. There are all non-related ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276406 |
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| Edit | Post #276406 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Hot Network Questions like feature? I think there needs to be criteria for why a post should end up there. Whom should the post be interesting to? There are two possible different audiences/scenarios: - This post is interesting to read for beginners of the topic or for anyone generally curious, who do not have any deeper knowledge o... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276297 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Self-answered Q&A - posting Q and A at the same time I'm assuming that self-answered Q&A is fine and on-topic in most communities - if not, open for discussion below. "That other site" got a little check box which you can use upon posting a question, so that you can write your answer at the same time as the question, then post both at once. Could... (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |