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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The box to contribute an Article in Collective is partially hidden
Here: https://stackoverflow.com/collectives/php?tab=articles
I see one box on top left that is behind the top bar:
When simulating a smaller screen, the whole box is visible:
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Deleting and undeleting removes "Recommended" status from Recognized Members' answers, allowing self-recommendation
In Collectives, answers by Recognized Members (RMs) are implicitly marked as "Recommended" (although after this feature was implemented, there's no visual difference). However, deleting such ...
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Collectives: remove "implicitly recommended" from answers to downvoted questions
According to the answer to this question:
For Collectives, there are two types of "Recommended" answers:
explicitly recommended: A Recognized Member or Admin of the Collective has chosen ...
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How are R and PHP collectives going?
I don't use R or PHP, but I know that they're currently two programming languages that have special "collective" status. When they were released they were generally treated with some ...
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Collectives Update: AWS, Twilio and looking ahead
Collectives on Stack Overflow moves into a new stage this month.
The AWS Collective is shifting over to community oversight as of today. AWS has been an outstanding partner in exploring the concept of ...
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Receiving "The 'knowledge-article' tag is not allowed" error when editing Collective Article
I posted a draft for an Article in the CI/CD Collective "Articles" section.
See it at https://stackoverflow.com/collectives/ci-cd/articles/79297905/ci-cd-basics-and-definitions
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Proposed changes to Twilio-related tags
The Developer Advocacy Team at Twilio, who work with Stack Overflow on the Collective, have done an assessment of the Twilio-related tags on Stack Overflow and have proposed changes to several tags. ...
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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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