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Edit Post #74774 Post edited:
updated for new UI; categories are more discoverable now
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39197 Question reopened about 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...
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about 4 years ago
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #74774 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Question 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: screenshot of categories tabs What are categories? Categories are types of content -- main Q&A and Meta are the two that all sites share, but the feature allows sites to build other things too -- blogs, question sa...
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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...
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39575 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Answer A: Is there any popular wisdom on the word "seem"?
Your example is first-person narration in the past tense. That is, your narrator is reporting events that previously happened. At the time of the events, the narrator thought the walls were moving -- no "seemed" about it. But at the time of the narration, the narrator (presumably) realizes that ...
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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 ...
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39219 Post edited:
updated for change in strategy
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39572 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Answer A: How to prove that my blog is just not average?
Assertions about quality from the creator of a work, whether it's a blog, a novel, a video, a podcast, or anything else, are not convincing because of the conflict of interest. Even if your work is the greatest thing since sliced bread, you saying it undermines the claim, because lots of people who ...
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about 4 years ago
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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.
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39559 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Answer A: Have we ground to a halt?
I think your assessment is correct: we have lots of people here to answer, but we aren't seeing many new questions. Inertia is keeping the new questions mostly on SE. I, too, have been going through the lottery tab, casting votes and looking for things I can add useful answers to, but we need new q...
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39549 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Answer A: There is no accept button?
QPixel doesn't have an "accept" button, no. QPixel is a work in progress so it doesn't have everything SE has. QPixel is also a path toward Codidact, and Codidact won't have an "accept" button either. Why not? Which answer the asker of the question likes best isn't particularly significant ...
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about 4 years ago
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about 4 years ago
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about 4 years ago
Comment Post #39525 @xtal it got fixed between my post and your comment. I'll edit.
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39525 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Answer A: Design changes are a-coming!
Edit: fixed. The font face and size make posts too hard to read (and also, I'm now discovering, to compose). The current font face is vertically "squashed"; this is not the Arial or similar that we used to have. This face is harder to read, especially when combined with: The body text size ...
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about 4 years ago
Comment Post #39524 Test comment to confirm bug report. Confirmed!
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39522 Post edited:
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39522 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Answer A: Design changes are a-coming!
Edit: fixed. Thanks for the update and the announcement. We seem to have lost our Writing-specific header graphic in the migration; it's been replaced by a QPixel logo. May we please have our graphic back? I see that Codidact Meta has its icon, so it's not a general problem. (Also, the fav...
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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.)
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about 4 years ago
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Edit Post #39510 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Answer A: Advice for indicating sources in tables
A core principle with citation is: if you say it's from source X, it must be exactly what's in source X. Not a summary. Not a translation. Not a refactoring. By citing a source you are invoking that source's authority, in a sense; by adapting a work but citing it without noting the adaptation, yo...
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39509 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Question Ads for this community
One of our community members, Paulster2, has created some ads and submitted them on SE sites where we've advertised in the past. These are "community promotion" ads, meaning the SE communities vote on them and that decides what ads are shown. This year the ads are similar but the URL is different. ...
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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.
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #39493 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Answer A: Documenting framework features and descriptions
If you are documenting programming interfaces (APIs), look for a tool that generates documentation from comments in the code. This allows you to place the documentation right with the code, and the tool extracts the function interfaces from the code directly. This means there's one source of truth,...
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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).
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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...
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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...
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #38520 Question reopened 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...
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over 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...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #39408 Sounds like a great idea!
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over 4 years ago
Edit Post #38848 Post edited:
over 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.
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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 ...
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over 4 years ago
Edit Post #39353 Post edited:
Creating tag -- textbooks, being instructional and with assignments, are different enough to warrant a tag.
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.
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over 4 years ago