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Activity for Lundin
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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 |
| Comment | Post #285199 |
The workload of the devs is irrelevant for suggesting and discussing features - people shouldn't hold back on discussions. The more something is discussed, the more mature the feature suggestion gets, the easier it will get to implement - particularly if many the "ifs and buts" use-cases are consider... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285132 |
Notably, on SE they decided to show score (up-votes minus down-votes) instead of two counters. This makes the view more compact and one can see the up/down votes by clicking on the score to expand. Regarding the color meter, I'm not a fan - for some reason my brain doesn't even register it, probably ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285075 |
I don't think it's a duplicate since that one is about promoting community _content_ specifically. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285149 |
I found this regarding the early project launch: https://sdtimes.com/os/sd-times-open-source-project-of-the-week-codidact/. No idea how well-reputed the site is or if the reporter happens to be the RL alias of someone here. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285134 |
It's a good idea, maybe start a separate thread about it here on meta.codidact.com? Then it can be peer reviewed and people can come up with suggestions how to improve it. Then you can just copy/paste post the final result of what the community came up with. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285126 |
I don't think it's particularly helpful for anyone except the poster and trusted users/moderators to see closed posts in the lists. They are the only people who can do anything about the posts and until the problems are fixed by the OP, none else but those with the ability to re-open it needs to see ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285076 |
@#53196h Yeah you might have a point there. Maybe that would also increase activity on meta, which is necessary when a site is new. People might easily get the idea that everything is already in place and decided. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285081 |
@#8163 Accusations like that with no proof or context offered aren't very friendly either. Sure, we shouldn't name & shame nor start any lynch mobs on meta... but perhaps the root of this supposed rudeness problem is that you feel that there's no good way for moderators to escalate such issues. On SE... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285080 |
I can't say that I like your post classification idea, but one way to give more positive attention to posts deserving such would be to make the "Hot Posts" more prominent somehow, maybe even network wide as done at SE. Right now, "Hot Posts" seem based on activity rather than anything else. If we can... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285081 |
Btw regarding expertise, someone could be a hardcore survivalist expert and not knowing what an "ursack" is. Everyone doesn't live in USA - the fauna is very different across the globe. Sure, if they don't know what it is, they should probably refrain from commenting or answering, but on the other ha... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284468 |
@#8046 It's actually an interesting feature, as upper/lower case can have a big significance particularly on the technical and scientific sites. As things stand currently, I don't think those sites would be overly sad if we turned everything lower case. A lot of people are used to that from SE. But I... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285081 |
You wrote a very similar post on Outdoors meta. All of this seems related to that one specific community. Network-wide, the amount of expertise is incredibly varied from community to community. Lack of voting I would imagine is directly related to site activity overall, or perhaps unclear scope. As f... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284468 |
Seen where? Here on meta or on a specific community? It should be discussed at meta at the community where you found it. It's curious why upper case is allowed in tags though - sounds like a good question on it's own. It could perhaps even be a conscious design decision. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285076 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Edit | Post #285075 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #285046 |
The point of cross-posting across multiple communities is naturally that the answers might depend a lot depending on community. As for why there is no site for economics, you can read that yourself here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277995. The proposal has been well-received so far and status is:... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284888 |
So I read the Github thread and the rationale sounds strange. I'm no web programmer but surely there must be a way to separate source formatting from output? Most programming languages has a feature to break up a source line in several. Someone already proposed a fix a few hours after you posted this... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284847 |
@#36363 Who are the "community owners"? This is a non-profit open-source platform managed by volunteers. It is explicitly designed so that no single person or private company owns it. If you don't like how something is done, then the solution is gather community consensus with a lot of other people a... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284854 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #284750 |
Can't we just implement it like SE? That is, if a tag exists and no post is using it, the tag deletes itself after a certain time. This enables tag clean-ups by regular users and not just by mods. Mass deletion without manual edits is likely a useful mod tool to have as well. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284733 |
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| Edit | Post #284745 |
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| Comment | Post #284733 |
Actually I just found the error. It wasn't DNS :) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284733 |
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| Edit | Post #284745 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #284733 |
It has persisted for 24 hours though and https://codidact.com appears to be the only URL affected. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284733 |
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| Comment | Post #284733 |
@#8046 Still failing. I updated my Codidact bookmark to www.codidact.com which works. And then when I now type codidact.com in Firefox's URL window it automatically replaces it with www.codidact.com, supposedly because I saved a bookmark. If I type out `https://codidact.com/` it still gives the error... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284733 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284733 |
I just noticed that www.codidact.com works, but not codidact.com (which was my old bookmark). Firefox 93.0 64 bit Windows. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284733 |
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| Edit | Post #284733 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #284688 |
Maybe I misunderstood the post, but if you can use Paypal then why does it ask for credit card info? Or is Paypal not an option? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284536 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #284523 |
@#8056 Yeah... after giving it some thought, I do agree with you. Though I still think requiring a title would improve it further. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284523 |
@#8056 It isn't ideal but a title like "what if we were to" (cut short there) is even worse. So maybe the best solution is simply to enforce a manually typed out title after all. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284531 |
@#53922 Ah yeah definitely a duplicate. But this history of how I got the bug might provide some clues to the devs (I can reproduce too, replying to you here just now). (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284515 |
@#8046 Someplace Else has this automated question ban which kicks in after asking x badly received questions. It always seemed a bit drastic to me, but then I don't know how/if it scales up. For automated tasks I think something that scales up would work best, a script that looks at recent post score... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284531 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #284526 |
@#8046 The Software Development community didn't really raise the matter for discussion yet, I think it's just culture from SO spilling over. As for why SO discouraged tags in titles, there's multiple discussions about it. I think one of the main reasons is to avoid bad titles like "Java problem", "H... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284526 |
@#53078 Yeah it would definitely become cluttered if all tags are included, hence "(major)" tags and tag hierarchy - it would be top level tags only I suppose. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284515 |
This sounds good overall. I think the main question is: should this be automated by the site (by looking at recent post score, closed posts etc) or manually by moderators? I'm not sure which would be better. Automated means (perhaps?) less friction and drama as people don't feel singled-out, manually... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |