Questions tagged [help-center]
For issues regarding the help center of Stack Exchange.
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The NEW new "Be Nice" Policy ("Code of Conduct") — Updated with your feedback [duplicate]
Update: Thanks for all the additional feedback below. We incorporated a lot of your suggestions, and this is going live (as https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice).
We're also looking at ways ...
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Proposed new code of conduct for all Stack Exchange sites
UPDATE: We've incorporated lots of the feedback below into what we think is a much better version than the one we proposed originally. Thanks a ton for all the input, and let us know if you like the ...
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Introducing a brand new, consolidated, Help Center
UPDATE: This is now live on all Stack Exchange sites. You can access it at /help or by clicking the "help" link in the top nav or footer of any page.
We can all agree that Stack Exchange is a ...
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What is a meta for?
A guest at my house over the weekend stood puzzled next to my driveway. "What is that for?" she asked, pointing to a framework of 2x4s and hardware cloth perched on an old tire amid piles of ...
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“How to Ask Questions in Private Beta” is listed in every site’s help centre
When I go to /help/asking on any Stack Exchange site (example), there is a link to How to Ask Questions in Private Beta (example). It starts with:
Welcome to the private beta for [site]
The tone and ...
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Improved Help Center - site-specific pages and site-specific edits to all pages
Right now, moderators can edit some pages in a site's Help Center. For example, the entire /help/on-topic page can be edited. However, the /help/dont-ask page can't be edited at all.
I'd like to see ...
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Creating new Help Center documents for Review queues: Project overview
As part of our efforts to improve the Review Queues, the Public Platform team is creating Help Center pages for each individual queue. We're here to solicit the community’s help to make sure that this ...
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Regain of reputation from downvoted and deleted answers - update FAQ
I have down voted and flagged two answers as "not an answer." Doing so reduced my reputation by 2 (1 for each down vote). It seemed both of my flags were helpful and both answers were deleted.
As ...
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Use the new helpcenter for the question/answer ban message
Related: "We're no longer accepting" message should not be hosted on meta
The helpcenter has an entry for the question ban message. It still links to the meta page for further details. ...
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Why does Server Fault's new help system de-emphasize the professional audience?
The new help system doesn't work at all on ServerFault.com.
Only IT people know the expression 'stack overflow', thus 99% of new Stack Overflow users know it's a coding site. Unfortunately the same ...
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Add thanks as unnecessary chit chat to Expected Behavior page
I think a large part of each Stack Exchange site's community considers terms like "Thanks", "Thanks in advance", "Much appreciated", "Tks", "Thx", &...
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Allow moderators to add local guidance to the "how to ask a good question" page in the help center [duplicate]
The help center includes some good advice on how to ask a good question. This is good baseline advice for all sites, and this page is the same across the network.
Some sites have developed ...
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Implications of the Help Center: "Plagiarism doesn't matter unless it's an answer"
When you actually read what's written in the Help Center, it strongly implies that only answers need to give attribution (see added emphasis):
Plagiarism - posting the work of others with no ...
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The Help Center page titled "Our model" doesn't describe … our model
The Help page whose title is "Our Model" (but whose URL slug is /help/stackexchange) is currently a random grab bag of policies, formatting help, and random questions.
I was hoping that a ...
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Please add documentation about the redaction tool to the moderator help
Some of us were trying to figure out how to use the redaction tool correctly, as it can be a little counter-intuitive, when somebody pointed out the documentation in the moderator newsletter. That ...
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