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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comment | Post #292483 |
I've enabled wiki posts in the incubator. (more) |
— | 15 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293212 |
Very cool! Thank you for sharing this piece of history.
The text game you mentioned sounds like Adventure to me (or as it was known on the (Tops20? RSTS?) computer at CMU around 1980, Advent, because six-letter filenames). I definitely remember the maze of twisty passages (two variants: all alik... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293224 |
Using a common parent tag is a great idea, thanks. The dark tags on Meta indicate "you must choose one of these", so we can't do that (most posts won't need to specify a category). We could render them the same way as proposals, which might be a little confusing, but if we keep "category" in the na... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293152 |
Every incubator post should indicate the proposal already. I'm suggesting a second tag for the category in that proposal, if the proposal has other categories. By "workshop", I mean the sorts of posts talked about in https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/292481 and https://proposals.codidact.com/pos... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293221 | Initial revision | — | 16 days ago |
| Question | — |
How should we indicate non-Q&A categories for Incubator posts? Some proposals include categories beyond the defaults of Q&A and Meta. We don't have all those categories here on the proposals site, but we need a way to indicate which category a post is intended for if it's not the default of Q&A. In addition to communicating more clearly in the incubator, label... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293152 |
I'm proposing a convention via tag rename: `category-whatever` means the post is intended for the `whatever` category on the indicated proposal (worldbuilding in this case). I'll make a meta post for more visibility. (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293152 |
Everyone should be able to create tags here, but if you're typing them into that field on the post, you need to create them one at a time -- type a tag name, hit return (which finalizes that tag), then type the next one, etc. If you just type a bunch of words with spaces between them and then hit re... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293152 |
@#53890 this post feels more like the workshop/brainstorming idea of the category, and for that I think Q&A is better as it allows people to respond to the proposition. There's *also* an idea floating around of collecting worldbuilding resources, which would work best with a wiki. I'm happy to add ... (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292483 |
Among the several related meta questions, I see two ideas: something like resources or collaborative development, which calls for a wiki post type, and something more like "help me refine this idea", where Q&A seems the better format. Enabling wiki posts in the incubator is easy and would help with ... (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293152 |
Post edited: candidate for the workshop/exploration category for the worldbuilding proposal |
— | 19 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293152 |
The launched site would have the category, but we don't have all the categories here on Proposals. You could edit in a note at the end saying this is intended for that category. (more) |
— | 19 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293153 | Question closed | — | 19 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292483 |
Post edited: |
— | 19 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293152 |
Candidate for a "workshop"/"exploration" category? (more) |
— | 19 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293154 |
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— | 19 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293153 |
Is this a duplicate of https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/292481? They're coming from different starting points but it feels like the same root issue. Opinions? (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293157 |
Right -- ask questions in Incubator Q&A, use the `chemistry` tag and any other tags that make sense (think about how you would tag it on a chemistry-only site), and dive in. For discussions about the proposal (like this one), use the Meta category.
There is a (somewhat sparse, in this case) descr... (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293156 |
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— | 22 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293157 |
Post edited: |
— | 22 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293157 | Initial revision | — | 22 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can we have a Chemistry community? We would like to have more and more-active communities, but we don't just want to create a bunch of communities and hope people will use them. (Some of our early ones have failed to thrive.) This is why we created this Proposals site. There is a proposal for a chemistry community. It's being fo... (more) |
— | 22 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293156 |
Post edited: required tag for meta |
— | 22 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293156 |
Moving this question to Meta. (more) |
— | 22 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293154 | Initial revision | — | 23 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How can Worldbuilding support more open-ended questions? I had forgotten about this question when I asked this. There's some good discussion there, including a possible category name that I'm including here. Let's create a separate category called something like "Workshop" with the following properties: - A category description that explains what th... (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293153 | Initial revision | — | 23 days ago |
| Question | — |
How can Worldbuilding support more open-ended questions? The Worldbuilding proposal has some "conventional" questions and some that are more open-ended or even "idea generation". This happened in the SE Worldbuilding community too, and the latter got shut down as not fitting the stricter Q&A format. And on most communities that's probably the right call,... (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293132 |
Thanks TRiG. Typist is new to me, so I didn't know what's out there at all. (more) |
— | 25 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293132 |
Do you happen to know of other sites that have code highlighting for Typist, or what highlighting packages they use? (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293125 |
In my case, a plumber was digging nearby for some sewer work and reported a gas leak. Naturally, that's something a plumber who's already there could fix, for a fee. The question: could the leak have predated that plumber's arrival with no human-detectable symptoms? (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293123 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Does a leaking underground gas pipe reliably show symptoms? I live in the US midwest (we have all four seasons). Most houses here use natural gas for heating (and usually some appliances), and many homes are about a hundred years old. The main supply from the gas company is under roads or sidewalks, and each building has an underground supply line. I could... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #292857 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Why was the codidact proposals down all day An incident postmortem with more details was posted on the blog (on Meta) today. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288582 |
Post edited: fixed variable that crept in |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288580 |
Post edited: fixed variable that crept in |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288584 |
Post edited: fixed variable that crept in |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292731 |
And long-term damage, in addition to being a permanent cost for a temporary (one-time) gain, gets in the way more directly: you won't *stay* an Olympic sprinter for long if you start smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292720 |
I was coming here to suggest essentially the same cost; I was thinking of it more as "karmic debt", meaning you robbed your future good probability to apply it here and now something's going to go against you. This answer explains it much better, thanks. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292499 |
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— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292675 |
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— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289081 |
[Should Accounting merge into Finance?](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/292571) (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288604 |
Post edited: moving the contact link out of the footer (doesn't apply on other networks) and putting it here |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292424 |
If everyone were to agree, we would launch Worldbuilding (which people also need to agree to), and then have a database ninja move everything from SciSpec into wherever we decide on the new community (presumably a "science-only" category, name TBD), and we'd have a web ninja make URL redirects work. ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292424 |
@#53970 I'm glad you got back in (and have asked for help with the problem you were seeing in a different browser). The suggestion to merge SciSpec into a new WB community is recent. It looks like the idea is well-received on SciSpec so far (see Lundin's link). We want to give folks there time to ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292572 |
@#85389 my goal is to elicit either activity (incubator Q&A) or a better understanding of why we're not getting that activity. Just saying "I'm interested" without posting doesn't help very much, though using the reactions on the proposal to indicate interest helps us gauge who is already here and i... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292580 |
I added to the guidance that anonymous users see. If you share a link to the proposal, [this](https://proposals.codidact.com/uploads/igtz248vf1wgl4hvyv6io4b18fyl) is now what people will see (before signing in). This is part of site configuration (no code changes required), so please let me know how... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292577 |
Post edited: proposal tag |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292560 |
Post edited: proposal tag |
— | 4 months ago |