Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #37838 |
Yes! Fairly often for me, it is the process of writing an explanation of something that uncovers the gaps in my own understanding of that thing. The mere act of explaining something can push you to learn more about both the subject area and the craft of explaining it (writing, teaching, etc). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74810 |
Ooh, I hadn't been thinking of access-restricted categories. Interesting idea! I'll need to discuss that with the developers. (If it's visible to registered users only, that should address the search-engine concern.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74807 |
I agree with that: proactive posts not questions, and use tags to categorize things as applicable (e.g. tools, critique sites/groups, reference materials). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74807 |
That makes sense. How would you want to structure it? One Q&A per topic with answers suggesting resources, or something like articles (non-question standalone posts that don't have answers) that the community would edit, or something else? We have support for standalone post types coming soon (to ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74801 |
On SE we sometimes had challenges and prompts, for the purpose of engaging the community more and perhaps trying forms we wouldn't otherwise have used. We used meta for this, which wasn't great. The works weren't things we were going to submit elsewhere. Since there was a suggestion to bring back ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74769 |
This is now fixed. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39197 |
On SE, this question was closed as a duplicate of https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/18591/is-it-okay-to-publish-a-book-at-a-young-age. However, something seems to have gone wrong with the import of that question here, possibly because it involves deleted users. I'm going to reopen this he... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39580 |
[Trust levels](https://github.com/codidact/docs/wiki/User-Privileges) will tie privileges to activity, but I suspect @Mark is looking for something a little more visible. To whit: instead of showing a rep number, which doesn't actually tell you whether this person has a few popular posts, a zillion 0... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39572 |
@Ooker using someone else's reputation to promote your work without asking first is likely to annoy the person. I mean, it's one thing if you tweet "hey, look at this cool comment I got" or the like, but for less-spontaneous promotion, I would *strongly* urge you to ask first and be gracious if the ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39559 |
Ooh, I like that idea. When we have categories (let me ping the devs to find out how soon we can have that), then we could have a dedicated place to post our own writing, e.g. short stories, and the act of writing them would probably also generate main-site Q&A. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39525 |
@xtal it got fixed between my post and your comment. I'll edit. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39524 |
Test comment to confirm bug report. Confirmed! (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39512 |
I wonder whether SciFi objects to an ad for us or to that specific ad. Is it worth trying another ad with simpler art? (Could be the same quill-pen art as on most of the other sites.) (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39499 |
I agree with this answer. The software running this site now supports multiple communities, so a worldbuilding community here alongside our new writing community is quite possible. It just needs people to support it. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39438 |
See also the "lottery" tab, which provides a random sample of older questions (I think it's a daily refresh). (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39438 |
Welcome! Your posts came through, but we have no way to copy votes so all scores reset to zero. (Otherwise you'd have no way to know whether you'd already voted on something and might end up double-voting.) I suggest browsing posts "connected" to yours (like answers to your questions, other answer... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39437 |
Duplicates are kept (not deleted) specifically because of what you say -- people ask questions in different ways so don't find the original via search, and the duplicate links help bring them together. The "cluster" idea is interesting; right now we have unidirectional links, and that seems like som... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39414 |
Thank you for this input (definitely not useless!). One reason we didn't import the votes is that we can't connect them to users; from the data dump we can only tell *how many* votes (in each direction) a post had, but we can't tell where those votes came from. Rather than having people voting twic... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39404 |
I don't think publishing is categorically off-topic. Writers need to understand what publishers are looking for, how they will advertise your book, etc. And questions about finding an agent (as opposed to specific solicitation of same) should be welcome. Also, some writers self-publish and that me... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39408 |
Sounds like a great idea! (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39357 |
For *now*, the same scope guidelines we used on SE apply. As we move forward, and particularly when we move onto the Codidact platform which will give us some new capabilities, we can refine. I intend to create some help topics but won't be able to do so before the end of Shabbat, sorry. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39355 |
I wonder how often people look beyond the first page. If there are 360ish pages but we mostly look at the first one, then the old stuff is there but unnoticed until somebody does a search or looks at something from someone's profile. Maybe that's ok *but* we should try to improve what we find when ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39340 |
Just in case I wasn't clear, with this meta post I'm more focusing on the bootstrapping issue with our large body of imported content. I'm not talking about new content or site policies months from now. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39336 |
Yes, agreed -- deletion is part of curation, but so is editing and even writing new (better) answers to old questions. I was trying to address curation in all its forms; sorry for being unclear. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39336 |
I am talking about curation, yes. On Stack Exchange, high-rep users can vote to delete. Here we don't have that; only moderators (I think) can delete, so to *implement* this type of curation we need moderator action. (By the way, you might be interested to know that Codidact is planning a differen... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39331 |
Also, sorry about the password problem! This current site is a stopgap, to keep our community from falling apart over on SE. Better software is coming, but we could get this now. We're depending on the servers and caretaking of one person -- a reliable person, but one person nonetheless, and we do... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39331 |
A lot of questions have some nuance that makes the new one different from the older one anyway. My recommendation: ask the new question, and if it turns out to be an exact duplicate the community can mark it as such. If you know about the older question (or someone points it out), you can edit to e... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39324 |
We had to choose between a blank slate (which also wouldn't have looked great) and importing content. If the content is good, I think it's worth having even if scores are currently 0 because no one's voted yet. We can work on that. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39324 |
@Amadeus this site is a stopgap, a place where our community can continue where we left off while waiting for the more "solid" platform that we hope to move to but doesn't exist yet. Please do continue to look at questions and answers here, vote, improve where you can, and otherwise build things up.... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39324 |
I think right now we do have that band of regular users who don't have specific questions *right now* but love the topic and want to help build this repository. SE will get the Googlers but we can build a community here too. There are a lot of old questions that are timeless in nature and could be ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39321 |
That sounds good -- how often are people going to read more than 25 questions at a time anyway? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39314 |
I recently read *Autonomous* by Annelie Newitz, and it did a great job of following multiple protagonists that were headed on a collision course. They weren't working together like in the OP's question, but the author portrays each of them positively and with some depth, and even though some of them... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39311 |
Sorry about that @Mark; I meant the text at the link I posted is for Codidact, not specifically Writing. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
The challenges come up when the discussion is relevant and someone feels uncomfortable; in those cases the focus should be on *how* we talk about the topic, and a mod might need to remind people about depersonalizing etc. (2/2) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
When I'm moderating and somebody raises concerns about something, I ask myself if the discussion is *necessary*. I mean, if somebody's talking smack about a group (any group) in a chat room about, say, technical writing, that's pretty easy -- this is off-topic, someone's uncomfortable, let's chill p... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39307 |
I believe we can validate Mark's user number from [this post](https://writing.stackexchange.com/a/27869), which cites (and links to) a book that he wrote. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39305 |
Sorry for the confusion. I think you got caught by the two different versions of the "ask" button. Hey, it's a work in progress... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39305 |
Hmm, that didn't work -- tried to move this to meta by editing the title, but no luck. Since there are no answers yet, how would you feel about reposting it there and deleting this version? (Go to the "meta" tab and click on "ask meta question".) Including your SE user number from your comment wil... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
Related discussion on the Codidact forum: https://forum.codidact.org/t/proposed-code-of-conduct/462/95?u=cellio. It's a long thread; I've linked to the message that quotes the latest version (proposed by Art). This is proposed language for the Codidact network (specifically, the one this group of d... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39219 |
@DPT you can post a meta question or report an issue on GitHub (link in Art's answer). Welcome aboard and sorry you've run into a problem. Please provide details in your report. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #25665 |
This is approximately what we did. We wrote some JavaScript to do Google Docs-style commenting (select some text, click the "comment" icon that pops up, type). Places with comments are highlighted and you can click or hover to see the comment. A page in the build shows all comments with links. Co... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39220 |
@user8078 to add to what Art said, posts that were created here don't have it, and posts that were imported from SE and then claimed by users here don't have it. The latter is because those users have given us a direct license for their content (by claiming it), so the chain of authority now goes ba... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39287 |
For anybody interested, I just made [a proposal for handling meta in Codidact](https://forum.codidact.org/t/proposal-meta-is-just-another-post-type/451), partly inspired by how meta works here (plus the issues we all experienced with meta on SE). I hope Writing will move onto the Codidact platform w... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39275 |
@ArtOfCode much better! Just one thing: please spell out "SFW". I know what it means and you know what it means, but let's not assume every visitor will. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39275 |
Auditability is the antedote to relying on moderator discretion. So long as (a) other moderators can review and (b) the recipient of a sanction has an escalation path, I think we'll be ok. Granted we don't really have the latter right now (other than a public complaint), but ultimately I hope our s... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39271 |
Welcome @Caleb. If you of a more technical bent, we do have questions on technical writing, API documentation, (code) examples, and more. Also scientific and academic writing. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #34684 |
@Lauren that's very closely related and maybe they should be dupes, but that one asks only about formatting while this one asks a slightly broader question, how to indicate it (which isn't just formatting, as I suggested in my answer). I wonder if we should close the other one as a dupe of this one?... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #34684 |
Related: https://writing.codidact.com/questions/35006 (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #35006 |
Related, on telepathy: <a href="https://writing.codidact.com/questions/34684">https://writing.codidact.com/questions/34684</a>. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39275 |
That works. I want to see one bullet point, not one page -- it's disproportionate otherwise. There are all sorts of behaviors that are problematic; expanding at length on one of them is problematic, and expanding on *all* of them at length is differently-problematic. Let's keep it short and sweet,... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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