Questions tagged [collectives]
Collectives™ on Stack Overflow are dedicated spaces where developers can find content that's organized around an area of technical practice or a technology provider's product suite. Use this tag for questions about Collectives; if your post relates to a specific collective, you can also use the tag for that collective, if one exists.
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Collectives Update: WSO2
The WSO2 Collective will be decommissioned on July 17. Questions and answers that were part of the Collective will not be affected, apart from the removal of collective-specific markup. All published ...
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Shouldn't we enforce the few existing rules for Collectives?
Right now we have few rules (beyond the enforceable SO rules) specific to each Collective (for instance, rules for RM selection within r-collective).
In the case of the CI/CD Collective, there are ...
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Only honor reputation earned on open pages when calculating Collection Leaderboard scores
In recent months, I've observed a revitalized energy to answer new low-hanging fruit duplicate (and otherwise closable) questions tagged with php.
I am a Recognized Member of the PHP Collective and I ...
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If we don't have any programming collectives other than R and PHP, what's the point of them and why keep them?
I've just noticed that R and PHP are the only programming languages with their own Collective. A lot of the "discussions" in the PHP Collective are more fitted to be questions (such as this ...
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Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
UPDATE: February 7, 2024
As detailed in the original version of this post, Discussions can now be created on a wider range of topics, using any existing Stack Overflow tag.
To get started with ...
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People blocked from asking questions should be blocked from posting discussions
People are abusing public discussions to ask for help. Not only they are abusing the site and evading restrictions, they are also wasting time of people in collectives. They post non-discussion topics ...
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Discussions require immediate moderation tooling, rep requirements and rate limiting
As of last night (between 19:00 and 21:00 UTC 07 January 2024) the discussion feature has started to be flooded with spam. Prior to that time, there were maybe 250~ posts on the Discussions Page, ...
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Add Discussions to the Network Profile
I refer to the activity tab of a user's network profile fairly frequently to see what they've been up to across the network. However, it doesn't show Discussion activity, which I think would be ...
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Unanswered question list in Collectives shows merged questions
This is a bit of an edge case, but it does need some noting, as this is potentially confusing to users.
There was a flag on this question that read
This is the top unanswered question in the PHP ...
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Please implement a rate-limit for discussions
There is currently a spam wave going on in Discussions which was noticed here by Luciano. What is noteworthy here is that this spam wave is done majorly by only two user accounts and that they have ...
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The [huggingface-transformers] tag should not be a NLP Collective tag (anymore)
Hugging Face (see also Wikipedia entry) offers transformer models for vision, audio, etc., and it is not purely NLP-based anymore.
There are is a variety of questions that use the huggingface-...
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Extremely poor text wrapping in nested Discussions on mobile
I flagged a Discussion, and found this:
The flag icon is tiny, the word Flagged is wrapped every two letters, and Share is wrapped partway through.
If it matters, I'm on mobile iOS.
To protect the ...
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Support programmatic detection and flagging of spam and rude/abusive content in Collectives Articles and Discussions (WebSocket and SE API endpoints)
Currently, there's no method (without scraping) to automatically collect Articles & Discussions.
At one point there was a way to get Articles, but it's since been removed from public functionality ...
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Quality of discussions in collectives [closed]
In particular I'm looking at the mobile dev collective here, maybe this is uniquely bad. But looking at the discussions- on the first 2 pages of discussions, more than 80% are downvoted, most of them ...
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How do I view my flags in the ‘Discussions’ tab of a Collective?
A while back, I’d flagged a post in the Discussions tab of the Mobile Development Collective. I couldn’t find any option to track or view my flags. How can I view my flagged posts in Discussions?
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