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Do you think it would be insufficient to just add more links to useful meta FAQ posts builtin to the site UI where appropriate/relevant? If so, why?
– starball
Commented Nov 30, 2022 at 17:31
@star after a community gets to about 10 years old, you sometimes have some forgetfulness. I moderate Christianity.SE and we have a lot of people who come there and are befuddled by the rules that we created to keep things civil and objective. The explanations to new users for why they're having a hard time with the site (if they didn't start by appreciating why we're different than other sites) is almost always tailored to the individual. Oftentimes new users just think we're making up the 'rules' as we go along.
– Peter Turner
Commented Nov 30, 2022 at 19:38
I can definitely empathize. I've started keeping a "saves" folder for various meta posts that I find useful for guidance to myself, and one for meta posts with guidance that I often give to others. Ex. don't post images of text, what specific kind of content needs to be in English, why "can you help me" isn't a real question, why not to post certain kinds of comments like LMGTFY, idownvotedbecau.se, "we are not a programming service", etc. IANAL, but I'd image this is a bit like how it feels to pull out precedent cases and such. All those meta posts are hardly discoverable to new users.
– starball
Commented Nov 30, 2022 at 19:44
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"without injecting their own opinions about procedures - only going off of what has become community consensus." I'm not sure that's possible.
– JBH
Commented Nov 30, 2022 at 22:01
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Like the concept, hate the name. "Historian" gets to the need and duties much faster. Should be an advisory role, privy to both public and private discussions and both expected and empowered to research and provide contextual input on matters such as those you describe.
– Shog9
Commented Dec 3, 2022 at 3:28

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