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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #282538 |
Re: Monica's question - would it make sense to call the site something like "Arts and Crafts?"
Also, would digital design up to and including UI/UX features be included in scope, or would belong elsewhere? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282039 |
I think this is a great idea, but please add more detail for a site proposal. See guidance here: https://meta.codidact.com/help/proposals (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
@Moshi how does the system determine whether it bumps or not? If it's the result of a human marking it (similar to Wikipedia) how do we ensure people are marking in good faith (trust level based approval)? If it's some kind of system determined level (more than X characters changed), what level trigg... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281592 |
This seems like a decent proposal. I would worry later about the potential for perceived favoritism from moderators, but maybe we handle that on a case-by-case basis when it appears. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281579 |
Yes, that's how the internal promotion currently works... with the effect that moderators and admins promote posts. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281403 |
Unfortunately we have limited development resources, so we'd really like to let them focus on core Codidact development. Down the line it would definitely be nice to have an automated or semi-automated promotion workflow, but right now whatever we have will need to rely on one of the admin folks post... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279809 |
Accounting proposal: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279062; Economics proposal: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277995 (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279809 |
I'm not sure there's enough niche interest in each sector to justify separate communities (e.g. one based solely on asset pricing), at least at first. What do you think of starting a "Money" community, possibly using separate categories for the different disciplines? There has been some interest expr... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276995 |
Casual user, probably questions about WSL. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279062 |
Additionally, this proposal would be improved with more detailed information on who the users would be, any challenges (e.g. international differences), proposed categories, etc. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279062 |
Most people have to do taxes, but I'm not sure a good accounting site is one that caters to everyone. I would support a community whose primary audience is accountants and accounting students, with everyone else as a secondary beneficiary. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278840 |
Is this broad enough to ask video game questions? "Where can I most efficiently farm resource X in game Y?" Etc. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278765 |
Interested. Reformed Baptist, decently read in the western tradition, particularly reformed. Will both ask and answer questions.
Current mod on cd.cooking, willing to mod here as well if needed. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278491 |
Would econometrics be in scope? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278272 |
"The Codidact community team have accepted to be the staff and run the community. So, in my opinion, if Codidact is an aspiring platform, one may expect that they work as paid staff do."
We will work as paid staff when we get paid staff wages.
// And same, I'm a full time accountant with famil... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277917 |
I guess that depends on what you consider the basic features of the SE model. A lot of the things you mention in your comment above (flagging, closing, editing, etc.) are needed as part of the baseline for any community maintained site, c.f. Wikipedia. Rep is going away (ish). Other things will likel... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277549 |
@user53100 isn't p V np more of a computer science and computational problem? Though I recognize its mathematical relevance I would definitely not immediately associate it with mathematics. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277555 |
If you have a core group of users who would be interested in building a knowledge base I think we could likely move forward. Something like an official partnership with a suite could also drive traffic, e.g. if Libre or Open Office wanted to host their general support Q&A on Codidact. It's just that ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277497 |
Reproduced. Same issue. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277245 |
I see you included statistics; this is often considered a separate discipline and it might be worth including in the title to be explicit that it's in topic. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277345 |
I downvoted for the reasons others have mentioned. I would support either a general STEM / hard sciences site or a dedicated subject site, but restricting to math and physics only seems incredibly arbitrary. Additionally I think the physics community is fairly well supported by physics overflow alrea... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277238 |
Is this a practical question based on a situation or a more general question? Comments are getting reworked hopefully soonish, eventually they will be flaggable. For now your best bet is to ping a mod. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277015 |
Can you please add a screenshot showing the behavior you describe? The title seems to come first to me. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276832 |
A big piece of the Codidact philosophy is that the communities - the people actively involved asking and answering questions on a specific topic - are more familiar with the best way to manage that process than some central gatekeeping authority. The "Codidact Team" may suggest best practices, provid... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276832 |
>By tag number limit I meant per question. // Again, needs to be decided by the community. Some communities may want to limit every question to one or two tags. Their prerogative. Other communities may allow a virtually unlimited number of tags. It's not the "Codidact team's" job to tell them the bes... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276832 |
>Would you mind if a site decided (without any particular reason, just a mild preference) that spaces be permitted? // Not at all. If those communities need that functionality and want it enabled they are absolutely allowed to make the best decisions for them. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276832 |
>Other sites may not want mod-only tags damns the rationale for having them on other sites. // Allowing the functionality to exist doesn't mean a community needs to use them. Part of the vision of Codidact is enabling communities to make the best decisions possible and use the best tools available ON... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276780 |
Can you suggest an edit to improve the phrasing? I think it is an important point of clarification to have consensus on before opening such a site. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276701 |
I will actively help build. English, Mandarin, historical Greek. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276675 |
Is the intention for these scores also to decay over time? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276590 |
"You don't want a close-class of user emerging where all they do is close questions without actually participating in the site in a more meaningful way."
Sure, it would be nice if they did more, but shouldn't people be able to choose the level of contribution they're comfortable at? If they want... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276590 |
I agree that the current formula is somewhat complex and fragmenting it across a bunch of different metrics makes it even less intuitive. I have three semesters of stats and have to think through the math carefully - how is a casual user expected to grasp what is going on without frustration? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276581 |
The edit is (at minimum?) the spelling of "catagories" -> "categories" in the first sentence. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276572 |
To add to this excellent answer - hosting is currently under the AWS free tier, which means there are very minimal fees for things like domain name registration, etc. We've discussed creating a legal entity to begin setting up things like a donation page, but there is a certain amount of bureaucratic... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276144 |
This sounds vaguely similar to Reddit's crossposting but with combined response streams - is that what you have in mind? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275837 |
We can also add redirects, c.f. scispec.codidact.com -> scientific-speculation.codidact.com. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275785 |
+1, and I guess we can always add categories later and migrate posts.
Per Art it seems like changing the name of a site is not particularly onerous - would it make sense to start with something like "Tabletop RPG" and change it if we come up with something better down the road?
(more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275785 |
Okay, so maybe we start with Q&A and only add other categories if we think we need them. I'm definitely okay with that as long as we have good tags to distinguish. Good point that "The Tavern" sounds like it's about homebrewing - I'm certainly not attached to it. Any other ideas? It's hard to come u... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #75015 |
I think a place to show off creations would be important as well. I'm not sure if this would be best included in Cook's Notes, or if a separate "Brags" category would be more appropriate. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74852 |
Perhaps I should have said gamebuilding. I had in mind things like "How do I design a believable villain?" or, "How should I adjust for a group of fighters in a high magic setting?" or "What are some good ways to introduce atmospheric horror? #coc"
These are much more broad than rules about trpg... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74897 |
Your resident wod player is skeptical. Apart from the fact that a lot of questions apply to all systems, a lot of people *play* more than one system. Declaring other games off topic would drive those folks elsewhere. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74852 |
Tumblr has a very large community. I personally play with couple dozen people on discord I can invite... Not sure how many would actually be interested.
One of the main places where questions come up is worldbuilding - would that be in scope for the community or something separate? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74947 |
I was thinking something like Allrecipes, where the reviews often contain incredibly useful information about variations or substitutions (if you don't have ricotta, you can substitute crumbled feta but omit the salt). I'm not sure if requests and technique posts would fit the same format; a blog mig... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74929 |
specsci.codidact.com? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74947 |
I certainly would be willing to contribute. We definitely need a recipe category... yum! (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74870 |
The downvotes were across three different posts - three to four downvotes per post seems hard to call piling. In this case it seems that the consistent downvotes did get the OP to reconsider his approach and realize why his site suggestions were receiving a negative approach.
Additionally, please... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |