Activity for Monica Cellio
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #38520 | Question reopened | — | almost 5 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #39408 |
Sounds like a great idea! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #38848 |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #39353 |
Post edited: Creating tag -- textbooks, being instructional and with assignments, are different enough to warrant a tag. |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #39333 |
Post edited: I don't seem to know how to do footnotes here; <sup> doesn't seem to be it. |
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| Edit | Post #39332 |
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| Edit | Post #39333 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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How shall we handle our old (imported) content? When we created this site, I made the executive decision to import all our content from Stack Exchange instead of starting with a blank slate. I did that for a few reasons: - We have a lot of good content there, and we should continue to have ready access to, and curate, that content. - I felt... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #15438 |
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| Edit | Post #15436 |
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| Edit | Post #15436 | Question reopened | — | almost 5 years ago |
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| Edit | Post #39328 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: How to use professional jargon when writing fiction? Handling realistic jargon that your readers might not know is similar to the problem described in Using real words from a foreign culture feels like 'Calling a rabbit a "smeerp"', a question about fantasy language. In an answer there I pointed out that density is one problem; if every fifth word in ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #23442 |
Post edited: Clarified title; I was mentally composing an answer until I got to the end of the question and realized it was about in-person groups specifically. |
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| Edit | Post #39327 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: How do you track dependencies for your co-authors? I've changed teams (and companies) since asking this question years ago, and the doc set is even larger on my current team. Here's how we manage changes that affect parts of the documentation with different primary/responsible writers. First, we do use source control as mentioned in another answe... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #39321 |
That sounds good -- how often are people going to read more than 25 questions at a time anyway? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39319 |
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| Edit | Post #39319 |
Post edited: can't make the markdown play well with the underscores in the name, so just removed it |
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| Edit | Post #39319 |
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| Edit | Post #39319 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: How can I highlight changes in HTML output from Flare, based on branch diff? We did not find an off-the-shelf solution to this and built our own. I'm not the author and can't release the code, but here is an overview of the approach. Flare versions from 2016 onward support adding pre- and post-build steps to a build target. We modified our "branch build" target to call o... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39318 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: Questionable Promotions! I think this would particularly help in this "new site, imported content" stage. There are a lot of questions and answers that are old and valuable. They all started here at score 0 (that's by design), and some of those questions would almost certainly benefit from new or updated answers if we saw ... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #39311 |
Sorry about that @Mark; I meant the text at the link I posted is for Codidact, not specifically Writing. (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #39305 |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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