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| Edit | Post #286486 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years 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 |
| Comment | Post #286192 |
@#8046 Thank you. The vertical length is the critical issue, more horizontal width is just a nice to have thing. (There's a taboo among programmers to never write source lines longer than 80 characters, but that doesn't necessarily include comments.) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286192 |
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| Edit | Post #286192 |
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| Edit | Post #286192 | Initial revision | — | about 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 |
| Comment | Post #286052 |
It should however be mentioned that unlike SE, Codidact has no ulterior motives like paying stock holders or selling adverts etc. So Codidact won't do a Facebook and sell database contents to the highest bidder without any qualms. Sites owned by private companies might get such ideas at a whim though... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286052 |
This was recently proposed here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/285842. The proposal wasn't well-received by the community. Since there is no community consensus, it will unlikely get implemented. The main reasons seems to be that while you might not care about collecting points, the community cares... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285776 |
@#8046 Thanks, you did leave a comment here: https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/5748#comment-16225 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285783 |
I agree with everything said (I was about to post an identical post here too just the other day) and something must be done now, there's some 4-5 communities suffering a lot from this. I think the answers by Canina and Monica are fine but that's the long term solution. For now I think we should simpl... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285776 |
@#8046 Yes this is a duplicate but the problem is just escalating and no measures against this seem to be on the roadmap. At any rate I don't think we can wait for a site update - we have to do something drastic right now. Olin is right that no amount of explaining or down voting works, these users (... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
@#53518 No I clearly don't like it, but _you_ need to make an actual argument regarding why this feature is useful here. We have lots of feature requests and not many devs. Therefore we need to put some thought effort into proposals before presenting them, explaining what the feature is, why it would... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
@#53518 It actually sounds exactly like LinkedIn. Now what's stopping you from entering such things in your profile currently? The sole purpose of "Developer Story" on SO was to utilize candidate searching/matching by job recruiters. It didn't have _anything_ to do with the Q&A. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
@#53518n "if such a feature would help a great deal in attracting the kind of people Codidact wants to see" And what kind of people is that, more exactly? I could be wrong, but I'm pretty darn sure it isn't headhunter recruiters, HR departments in commercial companies and misc LinkedIn fans... You ne... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
It's basically Stack Overflow marketing barf meaning CV. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
Why would Codidact have that? The purpose of Codidact isn't to provide a CV, or to have it's users hired by external parties, or serve as some poor man's LinkedIn. I strongly oppose any attempt to turn any of the sites here into social media. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285545 |
@#53177 For example this https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take-a-stand followed by this https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342480/should-the-time-to-take-a-stand-question-be-closed-moved (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285576 |
@#54706 SO already tried this, they called it "Not Programming Related" and ended up as a garbage dump, though certainly not advertised as such. This suggestion does give a vibe of history repeating itself, at least to me. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285576 |
I think creating a proposals.codidact.com similar to SE's Area 51 is a good idea, but I think that's a separate issue from this incubator community. Apart from my concerns about question quality, it also sounds to me like it might end up as the network's garbage dump, where every low-quality question... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283928 |
Also suppose we add something like roomba deletion and using closed posts without answers as something it should delete. This should include closed articles. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285550 |
@#36356 Either way, I think such users can get a friendly nudge to pick another user name. On less tolerant platforms such names might just get outright rejected/banned. But then of course almost everything means something bad in some other language or context, so it has to be within reason. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285551 |
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| Edit | Post #285551 | Initial revision | — | over 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 |
| Comment | Post #285550 |
@#36356 I think moderators should be able to use common sense here, just as we expect users to pick user names using common sense. If I was a user and my name was Lenin, I would surely be aware of the historical figure and pick a more explicit name, Julio Lenin or whatever applies. Also I suspect tha... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285547 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Edit | Post #285545 |
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| Edit | Post #285545 |
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| Edit | Post #285545 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #285257 |
@#36363 Common sense: if you don't present any arguments then why would one of our non-paid volunteer devs prioritize this request? You end up at the very bottom of the pile of all feature requests. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285257 |
Also we might not want to have private companies like Google tracking our users and their activity for unknown purposes. That would be an argument against such a feature. Before you know it they will make an association between the Codidact user, your gmail account, your search history, your Youtube ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285257 |
Why do you want this? You didn't state any arguments. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285264 |
I posted [some things to sort out](https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/285123/285241#answer-285241) over at PU meta. I think we need to clarify these things before voting is meaningful. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285221 |
Also, we know from experience of SE that educating new users by providing optional reading material regarding how to use the site _simply doesn't work_ - nobody reads it. I would assume that this is not only true for help files but also closed posts, it's wishful thinking that new users would go arou... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285221 |
This has to weighed against the first site impression of new users, which was why this was proposed to begin with. If they see nothing but closed and down-voted questions, then that suggests that the content of the community overall is of low quality. In particular this might scare away new users who... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285216 |
@#8046 So maybe a first step would be to not show closed posts to anyone but the one who posted the question (and maybe those who posted answers). Then add a feature where anyone can opt-in to see closed posts. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285216 |
I once proposed something similar here: [Giving question feedback in private - a moderating system to reduce conflicts](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/281546). Scroll down to proposal. Particularly the part regarding removing closed posts as swiftly and as effortlessly away from the main site to som... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#8046 No, communities decide what gets closed and the bot cleans up closed post after a certain network-wide criteria. Off-topic posts for example aren't useful on any of the sites, so there's no reason why closed off-topic posts would be treated differently. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#8046 Each community should rather decide what kind of content is on-topic/off-topic. We can have general rules for post deletion across the whole network without disrupting specific community rules. Generally: if something was closed, it was either a duplicate or it was found off-topic at the commu... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#54706 Or (another complex solution) grab the stuff from the closed dupe, include it in the site info of the dupe target, then delete the dupe. I know too little of search word optimization to tell if this is even feasible though. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#8049 I wrote score (sum of all votes) and not down-votes. There's always the "jealousy down-voting" which happens to very high scored posts. Looking at my most up-voted answers on SO, those with some +50 to +100 tend to be pure up-votes, but when going beyond that you sometimes attract "jealousy do... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
I think we can trust moderators to manually remove content far beyond these very narrow criteria. For example there's the spam or offensive aspects. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#54706 I'm not certain which is most important: it's searchability vs site clutter. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285197 |
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| Edit | Post #285202 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |