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Activity for Lundin
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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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281579 |
In addition to what's said at https://meta.codidact.com/abilities/flag_curate I think this privilege would also give the ability to promote posts? So maybe that page should be updated? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281576 |
SO did a big experiment with mentors who would help people write better questions. I wasn't part of it but from what I heard it was based on chat similar to this. Not sure why exactly they cancelled the idea, could go dig at old posts at their meta. I would guess the people willing to actually listen... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281570 |
The main issue is perhaps that you give the option to leave feedback to people who have absolutely no interest in giving it, they just want the bad question gone from "their" site. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281570 |
"it helps prevent redundant feedback" You'd think it would, but it really doesn't... if we look at SO it's pretty much the norm that some 2-3 people say the same thing in comments. Some like to copy/paste the close post message too, that the OP will see anyway when the question gets closed. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281570 |
"On Codidact, we're losing face in front of strangers whose opinion has little impact on our lives." Except it's in front of the whole world and not just some local people. And again, the Internet never forgets. While your co-workers at a company are prone to forget something embarrassing you did qui... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281570 |
"But is that the fault of the comment mechanism?" Partially, because there's the "pile on" effect, there is the public shaming and the "Internet never forgets" aspect. And also the exposure - the bad question keeps getting exposed and piled on even after it's established that it should be removed. If... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
Or do I call out your design in front of everyone at the next personnel meeting and hold it up as an example for how we should not design electronics? What will make you the most motivated to 1) fix the PCB and 2) not get pissed off with your boss and quit? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
@Olin Lathrop To invent an electronics metaphore... Suppose I'm your boss and I've tasked you to design a PCB. Upon getting the result from you, I don't like it because I think the BOM is too expensive. How do I best tell you to swap out some expensive components: by sticking my head into your offic... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
@Olin Lathrop The purpose of these communities should not be to punish people for posting bad questions. That doesn't sit well with our "be nice" Code of Conduct. The most important thing here is that the question is removed as quickly as possible, both to set the quality bar but also to minimize ne... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281521 |
The overlap needs to be addressed more in detail. For example, suppose I have a hardware problem with my Linux machine, where do I go? Or if I have a trouble-shooting question which could either be caused by Linux software/drivers or hardware. Would these be on-topic on the Linux site? If not, the ov... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281458 |
Sorting your own posts first by Q or A and then by tag from your own user profile would be ideal. On Someplace Else you'd use the site search `[discussion] user:me` to sort all your posts after tag, but that's both Q and A mixed. The `user: ... ` search feature would be handy regardless. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281554 |
If they don't want to listen to feedback from there on, fine, we can hide the feedback thread so that you have to click somewhere to open it and add an opt-out. To avoid the "pile-on" problem all user feedback should be visible to other users with the same privilege that are willing to help, but not ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281554 |
Ideally some "Ask a question wizard" will prevent as much bad questions as possible before they even hit the site, but they won't catch everything. "New users don't know how things work, so we need to keep it simple." They'll receive the same notification as with the current system, but saying that t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281546 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
@ r~~ Ah yeah that's a strange wording, will fix it, thanks. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
One example from earlier today on SO. Some very bad question was posted with an image of code. I counted the number of comments telling the OP to post the code as text not as a picture. 4 people saying the same thing, all in all pretty hostile. And this post was so bad that it should just get removed... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281546 |
@Olin Lathrop But the OP might not want that - you are missing the whole point. And this proposal is meant to reduce duplicate/careless comments from people who don't care to help the OP anyway. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281546 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276604 |
Overall I agree but you may want to refer to an existing answer in your own answer. Such as "the answer by @Bob shows the main problem but-...". As in give credit to the other answer when you use it in your own, instead of silently copying parts of it just without attribution, then add more details. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281449 |
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| Comment | Post #281473 |
@r~~ Linux users is a subset of power user. There's a 100% overlap of the Linux proposal with the power user site. Why wouldn't they overlap? I have expertise in some of these categories but I don't see how that's relevant. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281473 |
@Istiakshovon No I get what you are requesting, I'm just saying that the linked proposal doesn't really make sense since that proposal wants a community for Linux users only. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281473 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281439 |
I never understood why there is a need for *nix-specific communities. If programming was on-topic that would make sense, but programming is covered by the Software Dev site. On Codidact I think we should eventually launch this: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278833. It makes sense to have different ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281468 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281449 |
@Monica Cellio The 99% is way too high for a mature site too. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281455 |
I agree; or give the ability to filter out questions or answers. I often go to the profile to find a link to some old post and then it's a bit messy to find. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281449 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281383 |
And domain knowledge matters for more than "bragging rights" - quite often you need extensive domain knowledge to moderate certain posts, to judge if they are on-topic, duplicates etc. Codidact will get there too, where specialized knowledge is needed to moderate certain topics. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281383 |
One point that's missing here is a way to measure domain expertise. Rep was always a poor way to measure it, but it's better than nothing. At best rep might reflect your overall broad knowledge of the topics that the community is about. What worked best at Someplace Else was badges. You got bronze, s... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281276 |
There should be some community user called "User removed" or similar. So that it becomes clear to the reader that there's no point in sending them comments with @. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278888 |
@Monica Cellio Except fixing all kinds of home electronics tend to boil down to "buy a new one", no matter if it's a graphics card or a blender. I doubt misc home electronics would take up a significant part of the questions. But maybe if there will be a "DIY" community at some point, such questions ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281071 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281071 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281044 |
@msh210 The one raging in the UK, presumably... or do you know a way to open up an UK bank account from Congo? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281042 |
That's probably one of the least effective ways of advertising though... it should be done online. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280963 |
To be fair there is a cohesion of sorts between engineers that work in the same branch. I work with embedded software engineering myself, but that software goes into circuit boards that in turn go into mechanical products, so I'm always working closely with electrical and mechanics engineers. So I ca... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280964 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280953 |
But that's not terribly interesting information... it isn't far from there to "John Doe likes this" social media barf. I think the "accept solution" mindset comes from some helpdesk/support mentality where every issue must be accepted by the customer come hell or high water. There's no obvious reason... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280953 |
As for "subjecting" the viewer to questions that aren't accepted, I don't agree with that either. Only each individual person can judge which questions that are interesting to them. Some may be out to hunt down unanswered questions, others might just want to read interesting Q&A, others might be on t... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280953 |
The problem with SE's model is that the OP is usually not the domain expert and is therefore the wrong person to judge if an answer is _correct_. They can only judge which answer that was most helpful to them in person. Perhaps instead of "accepted" there could be a status "canonical", which a post w... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280952 |
They occasionally allow ad space for open source projects out of tradition, so I guess Codidact fulfils the criteria. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |