Questions tagged [help-center]
For issues regarding the help center of Stack Exchange.
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Enhance help on uploading images
On sites where images are helpful to answer a question such as Gardening and Landscaping or Home Improvement new users regularly try and upload images that are greater than the 2 Mb image limit. They ...
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Licensing text at the bottom of the page links to Stack Overflow regardless on which site you are on
At the bottom of every page, on the right side of the footer there is the text that goes like this:
Site design / logo © 2022 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions
licensed under CC BY-SA. rev 2022....
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Change the help center privilege page text for "flag posts" to "flag posts and comments"
The help center page on privileges says "flag posts", but that privilege also includes the privilege to flag comments. I propose changing the text to say "flag posts and comments".
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Clarify what "standard flags" means on "What is Flagging?"
One of the canned responses for a declined flag is:
Using standard flags helps us prioritize problems and resolve them faster. Please familiarize yourself with the list of standard flags: see What is ...
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Change screenshots in /help/privileges/reduced-ads [duplicate]
In /help/privileges/reduced-ads, the screenshots seemed to be old. Please update them such that they match with how they currently appear.
Even the instructions need some improvement I suppose. Under ...
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Help Center page search results appear to be outdated by the tag email change
I see that email notifications for tag subscriptions was recently removed, but when I search the Help Center on various sites, the search results still indicate "email" as a possibility, ...
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Please make the revision history of help center articles public
Please make the revision history of help center articles public to all users. When a non-moderator tries to access the revision history of a help center article (example), this is shown:
I really don'...
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The /help/staff page inconsistently uses "label", "marker", and "tag" to describe what denotes staff
In /help/staff, this is mentioned:
How can I identify a staff member?
Staff fall into one of two categories, with different indicators:
General staff - these staff members represent the bulk of our ...
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Add link to Help Center article about moderators in the moderators tab on the /users page
The moderators tab on the /users page has some information and links about moderating/moderators on Stack Exchange. I think it would make sense to add a link to the main Help Center article about ...
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The Help Center is missing detail concerning Low Quality review queues not on per-site metas
Further to this question, this FAQ post states:
Low Quality Posts does not exist on per-site metas
However, this detail is absent from the Help Center section entitled What are review queues?:
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Let's improve the "How do I ask a good question?" page
I did find this question, but I have a bunch of suggestions. Also yes, some of this is from my post over on AU Meta
I think the "How do I ask a good question?" Help Center page could use ...
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Tags not rendered in preview while editing Help Center pages
Moderators are able to edit the Help Center page What topics can I ask about here? on their site. This uses the standard post editor, but it does not render tag links (e.g. [tag:support]) in the ...
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History page for Help Center articles is titled "Revisions to unknown"
Similar to Election: Questionnaire history is titled "Revisions to unknown", the history page for the Help Center articles editable by moderators, for example What topics can I ask about ...
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What license do the help center articles that are editable by moderators fall under?
I was looking at the text of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which is the license used by posts on the SE network. Specifically, I noted the phrase that...
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link ...
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Please can we document how tags and wild cards interact in the help center?
While writing this question I noticed we don't actually document how tags and wildcards interact.
As per the help pages we document them separately:
To search within specific tag(s), enter them in ...
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Can we preserve the right alignment of usercards in the recently awarded lists of badges [duplicate]
I was browsing the list of recently awarded Necromancer badges and noticed that some of the usercards where aligned to the left, instead of to the right. It is obvious that these usercards don't fit ...
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Help center page on closed questions still incorrectly indicates that feedback on closure is private, when as of recently, it's no longer so
The /help/closed-questions page on every site says:
If your question is closed, you will receive private feedback on the reason why it was closed.
However, following this change to the close notices,...
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Can we format "How do I search?" similar to the "Markdown Editing Help"?
There are a lot of excellent articles in the help center, albeit some being structured more convenient than others.
Take for example the Markdown Editing Help. Each h2 level is a hyperlink to its own ...
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Privilege page, tracker, and notifications still indicate that 1,000 reputation is required to see vote counts here, even though it was lowered to 100
Just today, the system was changed so that only 100 reputation is required to view vote counts here on Meta Stack Exchange.
However, the privilege pages here and here still continue to indicate that 1,...
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Ambiguous word use in the "create posts" privilege help center page
In the help center page for question bans, the first thing said is a quote from the blog (emphasis mine):
Asking questions is a privilege, not a right.
However, in the help center page for the "...
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"Create posts" privilege page lists incorrect minimum character length (in "About me" summary) required for expanded usercard to be shown
When the expanded user cards privilege was made universal, the minimum summary comment length was reduced from 28 characters down to 6 in 2020.
However, the create posts page in the help center still ...
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Markdown formatting problems in the Help Center article "How do I search?"
In the Help Center article How do I search?, there seem to be a few Markdown formatting problems:
In the section "Boolean Operators", the subheading "OR operator" is not rendered ...
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Markdown rendering anomaly in the Help Center on SO
On Stack Overflow the privileges for a trusted user page in the Help Center currently shows the following minor rendering anomaly:
##Deleting answers ###When should I vote to delete an answer?
As ...
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Is paraphrasing someone else's ideas and not crediting them considered plagiarism? [closed]
A certain SE site has a new policy to blindly delete all answers that cite scholars, papers and journals without looking at the merits of the arguments and if the citation addresses the question or ...
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Error when viewing revision history for Help Center article as a moderator
When I visit this revision list: https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/66740/revisions, which for regular users looks like a history for the participate in Meta privilege, I get an error page:
It ...
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How can I find the revisions history for the help center?
Some parts of the help center can be edited by the moderators and, of course, any part can be edited by a Stack Exchange employees. According to this post, the link to revisions is accessible to ...
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Update the help center page on site analytics to reflect that traffic sources are not tracked for users with performance cookies disabled
Effective May 13, 2022 (or earlier), the Google Analytics cookie will be recategorized as a performance cookie and will no longer be saved for users who opt out of performance cookies (or all cookies),...
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Outdated screenshot of set bounty dialogue in Help Center
The screenshot of the set bounty dialogue in the set bounties privilege page of the Help Center is outdated. The order of the buttons has been reversed:
Now the Next button precedes the Cancel link ...
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Old capitalization shown in Help Center screenshot of 10k privileges
Currently the 10k privilege page in the Help Center has a screenshot of review queues dropdown of the top-bar that shows "All queues" and "Tools" written in lower case while it's ...
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Help center page on reduced ads contains old, outdated screenshot of UI for reenabling ads
The help center page on reduced advertising contains a screenshot of the UI for reenabling ads in case one wishes to see the full set of ads even after earning the rep to hide most of them. However, ...