Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: How can we revitalize our community? This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on another answer. I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on. As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else are almost certainly hurting SEO and, in volume, can give a negative impression -- we look like a copy... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278987 |
@MarkBaker I agree with that assessment, but had previously perceived you to oppose deleting imported content. Thanks for clearing that up. Speaking for myself, I do have a few imported posts that I went on to *improve*, and I want to give them a new life here, but since I've claimed them they no l... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278987 |
@MarkBaker, are you suggesting we delete the imports (if we haven't improved them; I know some have been edited)? Not opposed, just asking for clarification. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278987 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: How can we revitalize our community? I wonder if segregating content that was imported and not further improved would help. Create a new category, maybe called "Archive", and move there any post that hasn't had any modifications post-import. This means those of us who want to preserve our bodies of work can, but people visiting the Q&... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278891 |
We use italics for variables. In my first example, schema and table-name are variables and would be italicized, but "if not exists" is literal text that is optional. (We do try to include examples on all our reference pages too. We're trying to support both the "just show me the formal syntax" re... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278883 |
Post edited: switched gears on the first example halfway through and left bogus SQL; I realize it's just an example but still... |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278883 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Syntax summaries use brackets for optional elements; how do I represent literal brackets in a way readers will understand? In our documentation of SQL functions and statements, we include a BNF-style syntax summary. As is conventional, we indicate optional elements in square brackets, like this: CREATE [IF NOT EXISTS] TABLE [schema.]table-name (column-definition[,...]) ... There's more to it, but that's the id... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278810 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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How can we revitalize our community? We've had low activity on our community for a while. Low activity means people visit less often, which means lower activity because they're not here asking and answering... iterate. We have ads active Somewhere Else, but without activity, people who follow them are unlikely to stick around. We s... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39319 |
Post edited: we've made some improvements since my last update |
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Post edited: creating the "support" tag so I can add it to the list of special tags for the tag set |
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| Edit | Post #275971 |
Post edited: creating the "support" tag so I can add it to the list of special tags for the tag set |
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| Edit | Post #278005 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Is there any benefit when writing out instructions to split it up into lots of little paragraphs, or is it better to leave it in one paragraph? Writing in fuller paragraphs feels like it creates better reading flow, as opposed to short choppy chunks of text, but that's a prose consideration. For instructions, the primary goal is to help the reader do all the necessary steps in applicable order. If lots of steps are combined in a single par... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #7374 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277206 |
I found this to be really well-done and touching. I haven't had dogs as an adult but I grew up with pet dogs and now I have cats. I've had to make that painful decision. We had a dog who had been previously abused, though obviously we didn't get the dog's POV, just saw the effects (trust, fear, et... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277082 |
@aCVn `<pre>` is what we're using now (actually inside a `<div class="example">` for some other styling; don't know why). It doesn't have to be that specifically; I don't know whether this was intentional or an artifact of porting from a prior tool, but either way it was ten years ago and we can cer... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277083 |
I might be misunderstanding, but how does this account for the different line lengths needed on different devices? This looks like a way to style wrap, but how do you get automatic wrapping inside a pre? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277082 |
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| Edit | Post #277082 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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How can we format code examples so that they work on a range of devices? We use Madcap Flare to produce a large documentation set that contains many code examples (primarily SQL, but also C++, Java, and Python) and command-line operations. When the doc set was first planned, years ago, the people designing the layout assumed desktop browsers, as was the norm back then. ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276843 |
This is excellent. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276643 |
Also, I'm pretty sure the "writing" tag is a data-import bug; that doesn't make sense. I've pinged the developers. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276643 |
I did some structuring in some of the tech-writing and tools tags. I made software a child of tools since tools is broad, and the put Word and Scriviner under software. As we come across more we can add them in. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276451 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Hierarchical tags are now available We just got hierarchical tags. A tag can have one or more children, and when you search on a tag you can either search just that tag or also search its children. This gives us another way to organize content. This feature was proposed on the Judaism site; you can see more background there. (Thi... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276129 |
@MarkBaker with the poor records we have it's hard to tell, but people also didn't used to be as mobile as they are now, so that probably led to more pressure to conform too (you're stuck with these people or, alternatively, the consequences of being expelled are severe). Plus you need something to ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276129 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Could a 13-year-old have morality to disagree with their family's unethical business practices, while those are the norm in their society? Setting aside your specific case, which I'm not qualified to comment on, I'll address your general question of a 13-year-old opposing family and the broader society's ethics. I have no particular expertise in history or sociology here; this is just what I've observed. Sure, this happens quite fre... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275895 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Would content at ebooks.se be in scope here? This answer is my opinion, not moderator/admin edict. Voting and feedback in comments still apply. Their site description says the site is for publishers and readers of ebooks. Anything about publishing ebooks is on-topic here (and was on Writing.SE). Reading is probably not unless it's stuff pu... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275876 |
Oh, that's bold? It's a small-enough difference that, on its own, I didn't realize. Thanks. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275876 |
Nice! Did you mean for the first line to also be inside the blockquote? Or is it a title and not part of the poem itself? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #275819 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275819 |
Confirmed. It happens if you use the controls, but not if you type markdown (which is what I tried first, before realizing what you meant). (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #75027 |
@aCVn agreed on all points, including using sparingly. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |