Activity for Monica Cellio
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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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #23795 |
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| Edit | Post #74774 |
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| Edit | Post #39219 |
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| Comment | Post #74769 |
This is now fixed. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74774 |
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| Edit | Post #74774 |
Post edited: updated for new UI; categories are more discoverable now |
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| Edit | Post #39197 | Question reopened | — | over 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) |
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| Edit | Post #74774 |
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| Edit | Post #74774 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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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... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #39575 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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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 ... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #39219 |
Post edited: updated for change in strategy |
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| Edit | Post #39572 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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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 ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #38434 |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #39559 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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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... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39549 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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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 ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39525 |
@xtal it got fixed between my post and your comment. I'll edit. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39525 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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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 ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39524 |
Test comment to confirm bug report. Confirmed! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39522 |
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| Edit | Post #39522 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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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... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #39510 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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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... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39509 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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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. ... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #39493 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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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,... (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | almost 5 years ago |