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Monica Cellio‭

Jew. Writer. Reader. Techie. Cook. Board-gamer. Musician. Occasional TRPG player. Hard to categorize. I'm curious and sometimes geeky about many things and aspire to keep learning, always.

I'm the Community Lead on Codidact; my posts are my own opinions, not Codidact policy, unless noted otherwise.

I'm now retired, but professionally I was first a programmer and then a technical writer specializing in programming interfaces and interface design, a "speaker to programmers". I have in the past been competent in Java, C++, C, and my first love, LISP. I'm learning Ruby so I can contribute to the open-source code that runs Codidact.

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Meta Welcome to Code Golf!

Welcome to the Codidact site for Code Golf (and other coding challenges)! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without i...

0 answers · posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...

2 answers · posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · last activity 3y ago by Razetime‭

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

Please welcome your new moderators: Quintec, Chris Jester-Young, and Jo King. All three have community support and I said "at least two", so we're happy to appoint all three as temporary moderator...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing ...

4 answers · posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · last activity 3y ago by deleted user

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Meta Leaderboards are live

You might have noticed that challenges now show a leaderboard in addition to the table of contents. This is something this community has wanted for a while, and now, thanks to user contributions a...

4 answers · posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · last activity 3y ago by user‭

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Meta Should sandbox posts give rep?

Update: we can do this more easily now. We can change the reputation grants per post type per category, both up and down, without creating a new post type. Sandbox posts would continue to use the...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

TIO? This community uses Try It Online (TIO) a lot, as do other golfing and programming sites. TIO doesn't host ads, but is some sort of partnership with them possible? What might that look like...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Do you want any special tag styling or requirements?

Codidact allows you to define three special types of tags: topic tags: these are treated as ordinary tags in all respects except that they're styled differently so they stand out. You can see...

1 answer · posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · last activity 4y ago by Razetime‭

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Meta Sandbox-specific Tags

Another approach, suggested by ArtOfCode in chat, is to create a close reason for "graduated" sandbox posts. When defining a close reason you can require a URL (this is what's used for duplicates)...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Should we import our old policy posts?

For a small number of posts, it will be easier to create them here than to import them. Your moderators (yes we need to get some) can create new help topics, which you can link to from question po...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Is there a problem with the edit queues?

Addressing only the technical (platform) issues, and not community culture: We need to make pending edits more visible in two ways. As you said, you have to go to each category to see what's wait...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Filtering the sandbox for ease of feedback

"Finalized" (or "cancelled") seems like it should be a property of the post. We can close questions -- but not articles. I think that was a change at some point, because the point of closing is t...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Should posting on Meta affect reputation?

When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...

0 answers · posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta A random button for ordering Code Golf post lists

I was surprised by your post, as I don't recall any discussions about changing that, and then I wondered how to change that. I looked around in the site-level and category-level settings both here...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Short titles

This is already a category-level setting. An admin can change it to whatever y'all want it to be. I assume this would be for both the sandbox and the challenges category?

posted 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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