How help and information is provided to users
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Add “what's this?” links to “user was removed” and “serial upvoting” in reputation history
Another day, another user confused by one of these contextless messages. Losing rep is scary and without a good explanation these users end up both confused and asking yet another duplicate question ...
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Could the <kbd> tag be added to the stackoverflow editing help?
I happen to like the <kbd> tag for showing when keys should be pressed, but I can never remember it on the very few occasions that it would actually be useful. Having it in the help file would ...
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Add code search syntax to search tips
After Search just code we now have a way to search code, so something like code:"-->" searches for the infamous --> "operator". (Protip: it's not an operator, it's two)
Could this be added to ...
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Add help link to FAQ
For some reason there is not a link to help in the FAQ. I think a link to it should be added to the What if I need more help? section of the FAQ on every Stack Exchange site.
The said section ...
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Syntax highlight for code - 4 clicks until I find the documentation
Very often, I mix Java/SQL/XML code and I'd like to help Code Prettify to assess what type of code I'm writing, as it's not good in guessing mixed code. I didn't even know until asking this question, ...
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Add a “ Provide context for links” section to the “How to ask” site
I think it would be a good idea to also have a "Provide context for links" section at How to ask, like the one on How to answer.
Provide context for links
A link to a potential solution is ...
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Improve text on Closed Questions on /help
I learned today that /help just launched for Stack Overflow. I have a suggestion for an improvement to the copy on one of the subsections.
There's a heading that says Question Closed and below it:
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Having trouble selected a question as answered
This may not be the right place for this but I can not seem to select an answer on a question I recently posted. I'm not new to SO but for some reason i cant seem to mark an answer.
On the following ...
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Add tag referencing to Editing Help page
I've seen questions that have properly-styled links to tags on their respective SE site (see this question for an example), but I have no idea how to do this myself.
Should these instructions be ...
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Should some frozen questions link to other stack exchanges?
I'm looking in particular at this question: How can you program if you're blind?.
I get the reason the question is frozen, but it seems like the note should link to a place people could ask ...
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Possible improvement for badges would like your thoughts
At the moment the badges page lists the names of the badges and a one sentence explanation of the badges. This is often ambiguous and I for one have been awarded badges when I did not expect it (just ...
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Any way to just re-associate my Open ID?
I have had my User ID get Lost. Rather than go to each affected site and copy and paste my info, I am wondering if there is a way I can just re-associate my Open ID and get my stuff copied over?
