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Activity for Andreas from the dark caverns
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| Comment | Post #291323 |
> I'm also generally opposed to making platform-specific versions of Q&A for things that can be done on all platforms. That just makes it harder to deal with platform-agnostic answers.
I agree there should be an overview, as one of the things that's been bothering me on SO, is that it's hard to se... (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291323 |
But creating a standalone executable is also different for each system. If I'm looking to make my Python application executable on my Mac without having to jump into the IDE to click the "run" button, I'm not interested in how to do it on Windows, Linux, etc, and I'd rather not have to scroll past th... (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291323 |
When splitting, you risk running into another issue: a question for how to make Python scripts into (native) executables/applications for all platforms. That's too much at once. One question per platform. Maybe there's a space for having an overview of all of them. Maybe dedicate a Q/A to asking abou... (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291323 |
> Making scripts run themselves
This entire section should be moved elsewhere.
The question is an introductory at Python, and a nice place to start learning for a beginner, but for anybody searching for how to do what this section describes, this question is a bad fit. You should make a new Q/... (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291068 |
I do agree that Codidact has a somewhat unfocused and confusing idea of «community». It kind of fails to establish what exactly it means, along with the core values and goals, the foundation itself for the community. The community is along for the content, curation and library, and taking care of tha... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291068 |
I do think that there’s a lot to do in onboarding, yes, as well as UI changes.
> I'm trying to think like an inexperienced, new user
Yeah, the site’s UI does give an impression that it’s a helpdesk. It inherited that from SE, and it is worth remembering why it was designed that way in the firs... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291068 |
> Regarding re-asking poorly asked questions, I think you should ask a separate Meta question about that. Personally, I think it's a great idea, but I can understand how it could lead to hurt feelings.
Getting rid of post ownership completely (so that every single post is like a community-wiki on ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291068 |
@#61308 I'll get around to respond to this (I think it'll mean an edit to my post) in hopefully not too long. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291068 |
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— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291068 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Don't close questions for lack of detail/confusion No. Closing is an integral part of maintaining this knowledge repository. If a question isn't up to our standards, it doesn't belong here, and closing is the first step in ensuring that. If a question doesn't meet our standards, it shouldn't have been posted at all.[^1] Closing is our way of letting ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #285067 |
Same experience long ago. Seems to have been fixed after some months of hard working by the valuable volunteer programmers. :) It's been months since I ran into one, and I used to pull my hair out at it. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290007 |
We should strive to always ask ourselves: "will this be useful to future visitors"? If the answer is yes, we should strive to find a way to preserve it on the site. If the answer is no, we have no reason to host the content, even if the question author _can_ receive a useful answer here. Because that... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290007 |
But, I would be more than interested to actually see an example where you think that such a question works out on a Q/A site like Codidact. If the question author can precisely define the requirements for comparing them (in a way usable to future visitors), I have no reason to oppose such a question ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290007 |
> Novices often frame a question as "What is better, X or Y?" This is a teachable moment. We can factually discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different solutions, the history of their popularity, and the real-world reasons you would choose one over the other. On SO, such a question would be ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290007 |
I have been following the launch and development of the Discussions feature on Stack Overflow, and I can tell you _one_ thing about it: it's doomed for failure, and the current state of it, is bad. It won't provide much value for future visitors. And when there's a lot of valueless content, it covers... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290007 |
> SO is now promoting their new Discussions site, a place for opinion-based and otherwise fuzzy questions, **which is what this site should have been.**
That is not what Codidact should've been. Codidact remains a Q/A site just the same way that SO is a Q/A site, and the Q/A format is _unfit_ for... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290645 |
Don't duplicate your own questions. Edit the existing one instead. Don't just repost a question of the same or less quality. Your question is still extremely unclear, and maybe too broad. Don't post links to off-site code. Format your question properly.
https://software.codidact.com/help/how-to-as... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290488 |
Especially this subquestion isn't for this site:
> Why is the number of symbol table combinations in the password oh so important on almost any Internet site these days? (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290488 |
You should focus the question more into Software development. The only real strong argument for why this question belongs on Software, and not Power Users, that I can find, is that it's an attempt at providing programmers good advice when implementing password authentication for their services. But i... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290280 |
There's already a post about this on CDM: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282281
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— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290280 |
How do you expect this to interplay with the content ranking mechanisms (voting)?
What would the presentation of these tags look like? How do you pick the sorting? There will also be untagged answers.
Is it really beneficial to add tags without separate functionality for them in addition?
> I... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289932 |
Looks like spam, but is potentially a real question. If so, it's completely unclear. Needs more information. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289560 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How should I organize material about text encoding in Python into questions? The list you provided seems huge for a single Q/A. I think you're better off breaking them up, and linking to each other in the answers. The theory behind text encoding can be decoupled from Python, as it's relevant to the whole world of programming. If you already know about text encoding, and how i... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |