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"Magic Links" displayed text ambiguous in some cases
The help-center "magic links" for comments such as [help/on-topic], [help/dont-ask] and [help/behavior] currently have the ambiguous (and poorly capitalized) display text of "help ...
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Add link to help center in the canned First question comments
When reviewing a user's first question, we can opt to leave a comment, and there is the option of picking 2 canned comments:
Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to ...
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Mention comment voting limits in Help Center (on vote up privilege page)
Some day before I was searching for suggestions I have in mind here on Meta and voting on existing posts, mostly on comments. By the end of the day I've got a message:
Daily vote limit reached; vote ...
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Clarify an easily misunderstood editing reason in /help/editing
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/editing
An example reason to edit is:
To include additional information only found in comments, so all of the information relevant to the post is contained in one ...
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New help pages needed for the latest feature additions/changes (follow, bookmarks, thanks)
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Some time ago there was a change to the icons displayed next to a question, and the favourite icon was replaced by a bookmark icon.
In addition we now have a "follow" link underneath ...
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Pre-2017 meta links remain broken in 2020
Back in 2017, SE changed their meta URL hierarchy, so their URLs are no longer meta.site.stackexchange.com, but rather site.meta.stackexchange.com. While the Community user did a good job fixing all ...
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Improve description of "comment everywhere" privilege
The Comment everywhere privilege description in many (all?) of the sites currently says (boldface added):
Please note that you can always comment on your own posts, and any part of your questions. ...
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Add to help/privileges/comment link explaining why comments need higher reputation than answers
The question “Why do I need 50 reputation to comment?” was raised many times (see duplicates of Why do I need 50 reputation to comment? What can I do instead? ).
It will be useful on Comment ...
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Can we address the pile on of comments in our help section?
We've come under public scrutiny for not being welcoming at times and actually being hostile on Stack Overflow. This screenshot is one post of many.
While these points pertain mostly to Stack ...
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Contents block overlaps document body in help page
Opening comment formatting help page from the comment section leads to a page body overlapped with the contents block.
Steps to reproduce (if using direct link is not good enough):
Click "Add a ...
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"help center" magic link isn't click-friendly
There's a magic link I use all the time: [help/on-topic]. If you didn't know it, when posted in a comment, it renders as help center - which is great!
Except for one thing: from a UX perspective, it'...
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Are magic links broken, or am I using them wrong?
Twice in the past two days, on AU and Math.SE, I've tried to make some comments using Magic links, which I want to come out like this:
As it currently stands, this does not provide an answer to the ...
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"your post was converted to a comment" has link to "deleted" page
One of my answers has
"your post was converted to a comment; see the help center "
However the link redirects to the page
https://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-answers "Why and how are some ...
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Add a magic comment link for help/formatting
The magic comment links are extremely useful. However, the one page I most often find myself linking to in comments is $SITE/help/formatting. Unfortunately, [help/formatting] doesn't work.
Could we ...
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Can we have magic links for comments that link to help center of the site we're recommending?
I love using magic links for referring someone to a more appropriate stack.
However, if I'm recommending that someone check out another Stack, often times I want to give them a direct link to their ...
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