Questions tagged [help-center]
For issues regarding the help center of Stack Exchange.
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Allow moderators to edit sections of privilege help center pages
This question is inspired by the recent public reveal of the Stack Overflow Question Close Reasons - Definitions and Guidance. Briefly, the Q&A provides really useful community-specific guidance ...
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The help for chat on pingability is too vague
The chat help pages say
To get another user's attention, mention them – type @ and then the first part of their name. Your mention will be highlighted on their screen – @someone. This will happen ...
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Help page for first question review is treating questions as answers
I took a look at the help page for the new first question review (Using Security.SE as an example) and it says:
Share feedback if the post has the potential of being a good answer, but cannot be ...
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How to edit or comment on Editing help
What is the possible place to comment on or edit the page Markdown Editing Help? I understand from Editing comment help page that edits are not possible, but I find something missing from the editing ...
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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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Please add some basic guidance on voting to the tour
I just had to deal with an understandably irate user who had been participating on the site I moderate only in one specific tag, where only a very small group of people were active. It turned out that ...
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Informing new users that targeted voting is not allowed
The current help pages do not make it clear that targeted voting (either up or down) is not allowed.
The only mention of this is in Why do I have a reputation change on my reputation page that says &...
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Privilege page 'Access review queues' still says that Triage is "Stack Overflow only"
Similar to Help Center still says that Triage is "Stack Overflow only"; however, it's enabled on Physics since September, there is another Help Center page that lists the review queues ...
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Remove/Re-think "How to Ask Questions in Private Beta" page on communities no longer in beta [duplicate]
Please review the help page at /help/how-to-ask-beta for all communities that are no longer in beta status. This will lead to reader confusion. I think the right panel link (which is available from /...
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What are the actual guidelines for deleting popular off-topic closed questions?
I recently noticed a relatively popular question (34 upvotes on the question, 42 on the top answer) get deleted on Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/q/29876518/1108305). This question was ...
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/help/privileges/vote-up pages contain incorrect information for sites with unpinned accepted answers
The following inaccurate/outdated text is still presented on the /help/privileges/vote-up pages (on the Stack Exchange sites that have unpinned accepted answers).
1Except for the accepted answer, ...
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Is it Help Center, Help center, or help center?
What is the correct casing for help center? If we look at the help center we find the heading in sentence casing with only the first word capitalized (Help center) but if we look further down we see ...
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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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Help center page on flairs links to a YouTube video that has since been made private
Article in question: https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/flair
Flair is an image summarizing your accomplishments (your reputation,
your badges, the top sites you've participated on), suitable for
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Some links in Help Center articles are not being formatted
There are a couple of Help Center articles with unformatted ('bare') links:
The Community user deleted my question! What gives? contains a link to an answer by Shog9: https://meta.stackexchange.com/...
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Does the Help Center wording for Illuminator badge need adjusting?
From the FAQ here:
Illuminator
gold; awarded once
Edit 500 questions each within 12 hours of answering it (score>0).
But from the go-to help center:
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions ...
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Required rep values for privileges appears as '$Privilege-<PrivilegeName>' in help center search results
The parameter for reputation points values required for privileges is not resolved in the help center search results.
Stack Overflow:
Science Fiction & Fantasy:
This should probably be resolved ...
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The "learn more" explanation for Voting Correction does not cover all scenarios
The wording of the learn more for Voting corrected refers specifically and exclusively to multiple votes:
When a single user continually votes (up or down) on many of your posts within a short period ...
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Empty Help Center page "Collectives on Stack Overflow" on other network sites should be removed
I've just found that help center on any site contains a link to Collectives on Stack Overflow, e.g. here on MSE:
But the page is empty. It seems that that page should only be visible for Stack ...
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Help Center still says that Triage is "Stack Overflow only"; however, it's enabled on Physics since September
Triage was previously announced to be open to any site which wanted it. Now it seems Physics has an active Triage queue. However, the Help Center article listing all the review queues still claims ...
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Getting information on why I was suspended after asking a question
I've been suspended on Super User after asking a question and also answering one.
I'm wondering whether there is another way to find out why I was suspended and why my question and answers were ...
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The reopen process in the help center suggests steps that don't seem easy and/or possible. Documentation issue?
More than five years ago I asked a question about how to check the content of a non-optional value using guard. The first example of four, unfortunately, used an optional array as the input. The other ...
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Can the recommendation to ask a new question when it's closed be removed everywhere? It never works [duplicate]
Since my previous question was closed as a duplicate but the issue wasn't resolved, I'm asking a new one as the close reason recommends me to. It either demonstrates the issue or should stand based ...
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Adjust the Help Center text about flagging a question for moderator attention to have it reopened [duplicate]
Currently, the Help Center article about reopening closed questions says:
If a moderator (user with a ♦ symbol after their name) closed the question, then you may flag it for moderator attention. ...
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On Markdown editing help page, example under Monospace Spans reads: "`https://`If your browser's location bar starts with ,"
I picked this up on Law SE but it seems to be SE-wide:
There seems to be something missing between with and the comma in the address text written under the two entries for Monospace Spans:
If your ...
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Make the "Help" icon link to the Help Center
This is just a tiny request to simply change the href attribute of the "Help" icon's link from "#" to "/help".
All the other icons/menus have useful links except for ...
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The "How do I write a good answer?" help page needs a tidy-up
If you go to the page "How do I write a good answer?" in the Help Centre, the first two points are:
Pay it forward
Saying “thanks” is appreciated, but it doesn’t answer the question. ...
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reopen-questions help center article: "community's meta site"?
In https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/reopen-questions, it is mentioned:
If you're simply unsure about the validity of the closure, the best place to ask is on the community's meta site. Asking in ...
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The Help Center implies that it's OK to answer duplicate questions if there aren't many duplicates; is this correct?
The Help Center article on how to write a good answer contains the following section:
Not all questions can or should be answered here. Save yourself some
frustration and avoid trying to answer ...
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Searching on Help Center doesn't return anything network-wide
Searching on Help Center doesn't return anything, even for keywords that I've been often using before:
"promotion" (for questionable spam)
"reference" (for referencing other)
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