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Activity for Lundin
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| 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) |
— | about 3 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) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284531 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
"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) |
— | about 3 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) |
— | about 3 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) |
— | about 3 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) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284472 |
This definitely sounds like something that needs to be brought up at the specific community meta. Preferably along the lines of "how can we improve post quality?" which is productive, and not along the lines of "user x is bad what can be done about them" which is counter-productive and quite rude. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284523 |
I kind of agree, but coming up with a meaningful title is sometimes harder than writing the comment itself (which I suppose could be as per design to make people think twice before commenting). So how about adding 'General' as I did here, when there is no title? That's how comments older than the new... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284526 |
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284526 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284489 |
How is this suggestion different from your suggestion here? https://meta.codidact.com/posts/284474 (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284486 |
You make some good points, if we want people to improve we need to post a comment saying why we think a post is bad. Not the snarky "I down voted because..." thing from SE but rather just genuinely explaining why you think a question is problematic. Silent down votes aren't very constructive. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284473 |
I agree because it is obvious that down votes isn't getting to them. "Everyone down votes everything I post on any site, so everyone else must be wrong". Nobody seem to stop and consider why they are repeatedly getting down voted over and over. At this point it doesn't seem to work as a way of modera... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284368 |
We previous had [this](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278176) bug related to picture uploading. It seems to have been fixed, but maybe this is somehow related. Did you use upper case for the file extension, .PNG? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282433 |
Your examples aren't actually about movies, as much as reality checks. That would rather be a site like Skeptics on SE, or in this case maybe some military enthusiast site. And overall, questions of the nature "this movie sucks, it's so unrealistic, am I right?" are probably not a good fit for _any_ ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284257 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
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 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284083 |
@#53196 Firefox. I get the extra space no matter marking direction. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284083 |
@#53196 It's super-easy to reproduce, just copy/paste any post title. Unless maybe you copy/paste by placing the mouse marker at the exact spot after the last letter and drag to mark the text? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284083 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
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 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284005 |
Or biology/medicine. There are studies proving that fertility and the number of children per family go down when living standards go up and vice versa. Which has nothing to do with technology as such, just the general quality of life and how easy it is for one to survive. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283588 |
@#54114 I don't see how the metas and main categories are different in this regard. The need to assemble a FAQ will eventually happen everywhere, when the site gets enough activity. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283588 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
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 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283580 |
We discussed creating a FAQ system back and forth back on the old Codidact forums, and how to best handle duplicates, but it never boiled down to a consensus. I remember arguing in favour of having a user-maintained FAQ system per site, but reactions were mixed. It's probably hard to create such a sy... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283444 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
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 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283375 |
Maybe this issue again? https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277109 (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283375 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283375 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
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 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277961 |
@#52991 It's still fairly subjective. Your examples are obvious cases. But for example any RF product made by some quack could be dangerous if it disturbs or jams out legal radio equipment, or causes EMI in general. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282833 |
If you don't understand why disciplinary matters or individual users should be discussed in private instead in some public meta discussion, then I suspect you have no experience of moderation. Lynch mobs or witch hunts isn't democracy, it is the opposite. You are the one building toxicity here. Discu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282833 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281298 |
I agree with Olin, these kind of questions belong on a DIY/"Lifehack" site rather than a Chemistry one. I'd rather expect questions about the chemical structure of isopropyl, what other chemicals it may react with, the process of making it etc. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282591 |
Now as I had posted the above comment and viewed it from the answer page, I came up with something I wanted to add. I can't edit it from there, so I have to open up the comment thread to make the edit link appear - not very intuitive. And then as I edit I apparently hit the 500 symbol limit because I... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282591 |
The 5 minute limit is in my opinion a very bad idea. I don't know how many times I've written a comment without too much care, then get interrupted & go do something else, then come back and think more carefully about what was written. If I find something in the comment factually incorrect, or if it ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282561 |
@user It's not so much the reason to close it, but the punishment. If you get off with a warning at the Electronics site but get one week ban at the Software Dev site for similar homework dumps, then that's inconsistent. My main argument being that these posts are _rude_ a therefore violate our CoC. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282570 |
This was specifically about "raw" copy/paste dumps. There's no grey area and I don't see how these could ever be considered good or on-topic anywhere, short of someone starting a "homwork for free" community. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282563 |
Currently we have this at Software Development (from [here](https://software.codidact.com/help/on-topic)): "Off-topic - questions asking for implementing a certain feature (or homework). You should include your (partially working) trials in the post". I like your more detailed post though. If we are ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282562 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282561 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282538 |
I think if you rule out discussing artists or works of art, then the site will become incredible narrow. The Music site is very inactive and then there's not even a rule against music fans/popular music questions. Photography & Video is very inactive as well. If we are to launch an Art community, we ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
Another thought: would it make sense to have a certain category for support questions? Looking at SE's Arcade, the majority of questions actually seem to be about tech support. Games crashing, lagging, players getting stuck on bugs, help with installation, benchmarking graphic settings and so on. I'm... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |