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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