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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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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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"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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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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Make all help pages work in shorthand links
Currently you can write [help/on-topic] in a comment, which changes to help center, and there's some other similar help short-links (see this).
But not all of them work - [help/someone-answers] doesn'...
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Privileges magic link for comments [duplicate]
In Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments a number of 'magic links' were added. These translate things such as [help/on-topic] into https://meta.stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic in the ...
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Change Help Center links to show their title
For example, if I paste the link http://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic in a comment, change the anchor text to "Help Center: What topics can I ask about here?" I think this should be done the same ...
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Comment Formatting topic for Help Center
The new Help Center could really use a comment formatting article of some sort.
While I do know about https://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help#comment-formatting at the moment, I will eventually ...
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