#social 2019-02-25
2019-02-25 UTC
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Gargron hey cwebber I have a question
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Gargron the Question type is an activity, rather than an object, which is super weird
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Gargron can i Create/Announce a Question?
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Gargron and Delete?
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tantek we've done some very light documentation here, could definitely be expanded with more examples etc. https://indieweb.org/question

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Gargron I'm talking about ActivityPub/ActivityStreams, sorry
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Gargron right. in that case I agree
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Gargron it's not even "Ask", "Question" is a strange keyword to make an activity
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Gargron I'm working on polls in Mastodon
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Gargron So my idea is to just use "Question" instead of "Note" for toots that have a poll attached
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Gargron there is no Poll
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Gargron the Question type supports oneOf/anyOf arrays of answers
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Gargron so it's intended to be a multiple-choice thing
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nightpool[m] if we were going to make Question an activity, what would it's object even be?
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Gargron its an IntransientActivity so it has no object
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Gargron i dont see a reason why its not simply an Object though
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nightpool[m] ah.... hm
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cjslep[m] There's some non-obvious pitfalls to making an Activity the "object" in another Activity. I made a post discussing specifically if the outer Activity is an "Update" here: https://socialhub.network/t/updating-an-offer/413/4
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Gargron i am not aware of any implementations
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cjslep[m] In that particular discussion, the "should have been an Object instead of Activity" is an Offer type.