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Q&A Ways to replace the phrase "after all?"

As a reader, it doesn't add much, if anything. Note that all the same meaning is still conveyed in your examples when "after all" is removed. It's one of those content-free words or phrases peopl...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Upvoting imported comment - wait for user to join?

Will upvotes on imported posts be included in the authors reputation when that user joins? Or does it make sense to wait with upvoting until the user actually joined?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by celtschk‭

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Meta Add "ask question" button to main page

It took me a second to see "Ask!" in the top right of the page. The way there is an "Ask Meta Question" button on the meta subpage is great; it's inline with the content and list of questions. Ea...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by cegfault‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Bug - Imported images aren't scaled to fit the page

Take a look at my recently imported question: https://writing.codidact.com/questions/36723 The first answer contains a picture which is scaled on the SE site, but no scaling is applied to the post...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Troyen‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by luap42‭

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Meta Could the question list show what the most recent activity was (and by whom), rather than the author of the question?

I've realized in using this site how dependent I am on the information on the SE question list about who and what bumped a post. "Answered by" + name is a valuable "hey, go read this!" clue, as do...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 5y ago by System‭

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Meta I answered a question 2 hours ago, but the front page says the last activity was 8 hours ago.

According to the question list, this question was last active 8 hours ago as I write this: However, I answered it 2 hours ago as shown in the history on my answer: Is this list heavily cached...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 5y ago by System‭

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Meta Question list shows activity that I can't find

This might be related to this issue, which is sort of the reverse of the one I'm reporting now. According to the front page, ArtOfCode did something on this question an hour ago (as I write this)....

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Tags: regular/Meta, and tag wikis

Just checked: the tags for regular questions and for Meta are all available everywhere. I can ask a question tagged "feature-request" on the main page, for instance. Is it possible to have them sep...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Galastel‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Three vaguely-related bugs

Hello. One. I entered some basic info on my profile, including my personal website which I'm glad to see we can have, here. However, clicking the link that resulted, led to a 'page does not exist...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by DPT‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Suggestion - Direct links off of notifications

Today I got a notification that I had been mentioned in a comment. However, when I clicked on the notification, I went to the question the comment was on. On SE, you go straight to the comment, and...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Search page should link to advanced search options help page

The question search page has a short description of advanced search options, but it doesn't tell users what search operators are available. It should include a link to the advanced search options ...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Stevoisiak‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Stevoisiak‭

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Meta Is there a tags page?

Is there a way to see a list of tags? When I want to answer questions, it'd be helpful if I can zero in on areas of interest.

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Neil‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Ability to 'Favourite' questions

One element of the former platform that I made great use of, was the ability to assign 'Favourite' status to a question that I particularly wanted to be able to find again. This feature made it a s...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Arkenstein XII‭

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Meta Why can't I upvote this answer?

I tried to upvote this answer but my vote doesn't seem to register. Maybe it is because it is owned by System, but then, there are other answers owned by System that already have upvotes. Note that...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Notification cannot be marked as read

I have a notification. I click on it, but the notification doesn't go away. This always happens. (After a while, it does disappear, but I don't know when.) For example, to get to the question Ther...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Ooker‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta What happened to the Questions Tab?

What happened to the Questions Tab? We used to be able to see multiple pages of questions and view them in different ways, including "Lottery". Now there is just one page of questions with no navig...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mark Baker‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Shall we showcase some of our fiction, poetry, and other work?

You might have noticed the new "categories" feature on this site. I mean this: What are categories? Categories are types of content -- main Q&A and Meta are the two that all sites share, b...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Neil‭

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Q&A How to write strategy and schemes beyond my real-life capabilities?

Your main advantage as a writer is that you KNOW what is going to happen. Dumb example first to make a point I have an IQ of 100. I am writing someone who has IQ of 1000. He says "I am so smart I ...

posted 5y ago by Andrey‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Writing slurred speech

To show that somebody is drunk you should add descriptions about what the person is doing and how the environment, especially other people are reacting to it. Staggering through the bar and nearly ...

posted 5y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Secespitus‭

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Q&A Email subscription

This is [status-completed]! I've added a few different types of email subscriptions: Everything: get all the new questions. You'll get some duplicates, because this is just a reverse chronologic...

posted 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A A Code of Conduct, dare I say it

I love it in its current form. Short. Simple. And primarily, it deals with being nice on an individual level, not on putting people in a mold.

posted 5y ago by anonymous2‭

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Q&A Writing slurred speech

P.G. Wodehouse succeeded with this. I don't think you can do better than Wodehouse as a model. Here's a thought: Think of how an artist starts with an outline of a house, and then conveys to the ...

posted 5y ago by aparente001‭

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Q&A How shall we handle our old (imported) content?

To be honest, part of the reason why I asked this question on the Codidact forum was because of how writing.codidact.com (Writing.CO) looks a lot like a clone site. There's 366-ish pages of questi...

posted 5y ago by becky82‭  ·  edited 5y ago by becky82‭

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Q&A Writing slurred speech

Dr. Johnson is supposed to have said that you cannot reproduce the effects of dullness and garrulity without actually being dull and garrulous. Being slightly less 18th century (I'm more of a Victo...

posted 5y ago by Mark Baker‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Q&A How can I make names more distinctive without making them longer?

The problem with your names is not that they fail to be distinct, but that they fail to be sticky. The stickiness of a name is a measure of how easily the brain can retain it and assign it to an ob...

posted 5y ago by Mark Baker‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Mark Baker‭

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