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Activity for Lundin
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| Comment | Post #278438 |
@Moshi Eh, have you ever used Discord? It is obvious that it tracks what programs you have installed and which ones that are currently running. Then it sends that information to a server. The very definition of spyware. And yes Steam does that too, but only if you agree to participate in a "survey". ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
Discord has always been a [nasty piece of spyware](https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html). Never understood why it got so popular. And no, I won't use it either, it tracks pretty much everything possible to track. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278413 |
Please make sure that it is enabled on the metas for the tech sites though. There will occasionally be a need to bring up the technical content of posts on meta. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278394 |
@Monica Cellio But because of licensing, we can't really edit them to shape during import, right? Like merging two answers into one. It's either grab the answer(s) as-is or leave it be? (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278394 |
So a complete re-write of these canonical "patchworks" would be ideal, not just importing them out of habit. Codidact offers a fresh start to do just that. Also, some of the old canonical posts might be outdated, particularly when it comes to tech communities. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278394 |
While this might be useful, I'd still be very restrictive with what to import. I've been re-reading through various canonical posts on SE that I've been used as duplicate targets there for years. And found that most of them are not actually that good, suffering from "fragmented answers" where answer ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278392 |
I think this might be very specific to the particular community. On SO I've made lots of community wikis and the problem was rather to get others involved, rather than bad edits. Or it might simply be that SO is so vast that posts easily drown there. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278388 |
I agree that we should use another term. "Free for all"? Or maybe just change the author to a special bot? Then let all posts by that bot be freely editable. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278387 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278386 |
Or maybe I'm overreacting & nobody cares about imaginary internet points, so the whole partial thing is a non-issue? I personally stopped caring about them many years ago on SO, once I had unlocked all user moderator privileges. And from what I hear, a new system for moderation privileges unrelated t... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278387 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Do we have/should we have community wikis? Alternatively, we could just make a policy that it's OK to close vote posts as duplicates even when you are the original author. This was never explicitly forbidden on SE, but sometimes frowned upon. Maybe code a mechanism where anyone can suggest a duplicate target, even if they are the original... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278386 |
@Dani There has been various community-specific proposals about adding a separate documentation/wiki category, which is related but still kind of a different thing entirely, like in that link at the bottom of my post. On the electronics site this was added as a separate "Papers" category. https://e... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278386 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278386 |
Also for bonus points: if we can create high quality content here, that is better than the corresponding equivalent post on That Other Network, that gives us a reason to link to the content here, rather than to that other place. We have the advantage of all the lessons learnt from there - the equival... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278386 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278386 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Do we have/should we have community wikis? Over at Software Development, I've tried to write a self-answered Q&A that addresses the by far most common FAQ of all time in the topics of C and C++ programming. When posting it on SO, I would have made such a post "community wiki", meaning that I would up all claims & credits for the post and ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278364 |
Sorry, we aren't interested in discussing _you_, only the Codidact network. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278311 |
The post is however classic internet trolling: not interested in contributing constructively but posting for the sole reason to cause conflict and drama. The post could/should have been deleted for _that_ reason. "Not constructive" or similar - that's a concrete and valid reason. "Breaking the spirit... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278311 |
Whatever the reason for deleting a post, it most be made visible in the edit history log. We can't have arbitrary, subjective moderation. It was _not_ a personal attack, since such need to be directed towards a person. I'm not even sure it can be said to target a group, that's rather subjective too. ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
For tech/scentific sites, it definitely doesn't make much sense to make a tight coupling between moderator suitability and domain expertise. If we can manage to separate those, that would be great! Rep should probably(?) reflect domain expertise, nothing else. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278232 | Question closed | — | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278221 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Let us have a transparent review system. Anyone who has been remotely close to any form of moderator position, or a leadership position in general, can tell you that all forms of disciplinary actions must be carried out privately. Nobody responds well to getting a temporary suspension or a warning. They will react far more negatively if... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278200 |
I wasn't even aware that a new user tutorial/wizard existed. Very nice one! Good job, everyone who was involved in it! (Can we start a dragon community now. Pleeeease?) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278180 |
So if you provide both on the same site, the design is distracting. Normally if they were two communities, they might go visit one site and then the other, focusing on one thing at a time. Also, the carpenter's boss might be OK with them visiting the carpentry site during work hours as part of their ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278180 |
@ r~~ I don't think there exists a stereotype behavior, but perhaps in general people are not necessarily passionated about the things they are most skilled in. A skilled and professional carpenter who does carpentry 40 hours per week but gardening as their hobby activity now and then, might be much... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278199 |
Oh? If I manage to gather over 2.14 billion down votes, will I get an underflow wrap-around to +2.14 billion rep? :) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278180 |
@ r~~ The professional carpenters decreased their activity in the carpentry tag in favour of answering easy gardening questions. And the professional gardeners did the same, answering easy carpentry questions instead. Both tags has a big increase of shallow questions, causing the in-depth topics t... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278180 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278180 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278180 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: How granular should network communities be? If you'll allow me to come up with a made-up dystopia community scenario: Suppose you are a professional carpenter who like to discuss your trade with other professionals. So you start a carpentry site. The first thing that went wrong was that the site attracted a lot of "do it yourself" amate... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278176 |
As for who should pay the cost of having this bug fixed: bill Gates. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278176 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278176 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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File extension bug when uploading pics I just noticed a bug related to file extension when uploading pictures to the site. If you have named your file `.JPG` the site complains about invalid file extension since it only knows `.jpg`. Renaming the image file to lower case solves the problem. Very likely a classic Windows vs Linux bug. L... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278169 |
Things like these usually sort themselves out when the site turns more active though. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278166 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Strange dead "communities" link from the main site From https://codidact.com/ there is a link "communities", leading to https://codidact.com/community-assets/. Clicking on it gives 403 forbidden. I'm assuming it's just some minor cosmetic hiccup and the link should simply be removed? Given that all communities are already listed on that page. U... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278110 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Community Rules We should hope that different communities have different moderation standards. On SE it was a huge problem that users started applying the standards from one community onto others. The majority of new users came from SO - a site with fairly strict moderation and zero tolerance against subjective topi... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278077 |
@tommi Some manner of hiccup was present yesterday and disabling the badger fixed it. Today it works just fine again. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278077 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278006 |
Other communities might face the same fate or alternatively get shut down for being too low traffic. From what I understand, they already pretty much shut down Area 51 this winter by firing the CM who was the only one working with that site. I don't think they have any interest in creating new and th... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278006 |
SE might at any point decide that the main purpose of the math sites is from now on to help kids with their elementary school homework problems and blatantly ignore all veteran users who disapprove. They _have_ already done this on SO, over and over. It didn't happen overnight, it's a death of thousa... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278077 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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No notification about too long comments during edit If you write a long comment close to 500 characters, then edit it and go beyond 500, you get no notification that the comment is now too long. The letter counter isn't present during edit and when you click done, nothing happens. The comment doesn't get changed and you get no error message, the s... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277966 |
@luap42's suggestion is sound. I'd also consider restricting the ability to use these to trusted users. "Revenge down-voting" is a big problem at SE and will be here too - now imagine "revenge reaction spam". It would be much worse since it vandalizes the content in a way. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |