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Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

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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...
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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.
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Edit Post #276833 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Is gaining rep based on SE content ok?
Do you have specific examples of this occurring? If you don't wish to call folks out here feel free to join our chat server and message one of the moderators or admins privately. We will not tolerate instances of abuse. Otherwise... the vast majority (maybe all?) of imported material came in with...
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over 4 years ago
Edit Post #276832 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Please ensure cross-site uniformity for the basics of tagging
One of the benefits of Codidact is that each community can use tags in the way that best supports their community. For example, Judaism supports hierarchical tagging for references, different tagsets are available for different categories, etc. Meta's tags are mainly used as a way for the site bu...
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Edit Post #276780 Post edited:
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Edit Post #276780 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Languages 'supersite'
Scope Question Is language learning and acquisition within scope? Presumably many community members will be learning a language; are questions about resources, learning routines, etc. on-topic? In a Discord discussion the question of translation and vocabulary came up - what would be in / out of s...
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Comment Post #276701 I will actively help build. English, Mandarin, historical Greek.
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Comment Post #276675 Is the intention for these scores also to decay over time?
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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...
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over 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?
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276581 The edit is (at minimum?) the spelling of "catagories" -> "categories" in the first sentence.
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Edit Post #276579 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Bug Reports category
We do technically have a dedicated bug reports channel on Github. Rather than making a separate category on Meta, it might make more sense to keep all bug reports relating to the software on Github. Eventually others might self-host Codidact instances, and having a central repository of known iss...
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over 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...
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Edit Post #276209 Post edited over 4 years ago
Suggested Edit Post #276209 Suggested edit:

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Comment Post #276144 This sounds vaguely similar to Reddit's crossposting but with combined response streams - is that what you have in mind?
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Comment Post #275837 We can also add redirects, c.f. scispec.codidact.com -> scientific-speculation.codidact.com.
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Edit Post #275826 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Cooking Codidact site
Scope Clarification (this is a question, not an answer) How broad or focused should this site be? Is it restricted solely to the preparation of food, or are related topics like presentation, nutrition, food history, wine pairings, food sourcing and selection etc. also welcome? In other wor...
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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?
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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...
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Edit Post #275785 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Tabletop Role Playing Games
My main concern is the potential overlap with worldbuilding. However, I'd like to add some possible answers to the proposal requirements. Scope I think it makes sense to limit the site to tabletop RPG's. This is a specific but diverse category. I do not think limiting to just D&D is a good ide...
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Edit Post #275780 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: How does rep work here?
The votes shown on questions / answers are net (positive less negative). Rep is calculated at +5 Question upvote -2 Question downvote +10 Answer upvote -2 Answer downvote === You started at 1 downvote -> -1 two upvotes and another downvote -> 7 one more upvote -> 12 ...
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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.
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Edit Post #75022 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: How should Codidact "advertise" and gain community members?
A related question is whether advertising Codidact as a whole even makes sense, or if we should focus on advertising certain sites to their relevant communities. The latter is likely more effective - we're not wiki-how with a Q&A site for everything. For example, with the TRPG community I know ha...
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over 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...
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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.
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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?
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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...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #74929 specsci.codidact.com?
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Comment Post #74947 I certainly would be willing to contribute. We definitely need a recipe category... yum!
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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...
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Edit Post #74871 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Markdown preview of bulleted list with leading text
Yeah, the preview and server side are using different libraries. See also for a similar issue.
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Edit Post #74870 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Triggers for cognitive biases for non native English speakers in this site as web-accessibility issues
Hey! Welcome to Codidact - we're glad you're here! Sorry you've had some confusion about the site layout. Qpixel (the current hosting platform) is an interim step to the final form, so a lot of things are definitely under construction. For example, the links at the bottom of each page to other s...
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