Timeline for Can the opening line in the FAQ be updated to match the About page?
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.serverfault.com/ with https://meta.serverfault.com/
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| May 17, 2013 at 20:58 | comment | added | the-wabbit | Let us just put the regex in there instead. It should be coupled with an admission test presenting the user with 10 choices and the task to find the two which are not covered by the regex. Only after providing the correct solution should new users be able to post to the site. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 17:09 | comment | added | Rachel | (And wtf, I searched for those links repeatedly, including searching by "[sffaq]", and clicking on the tag itself! It told me when typing the tag for my question that there were 27 other questions with that tag, but my searches kept coming up with 0 results. Thank you for the links though :)) | |
| May 17, 2013 at 17:06 | comment | added | Rachel | 2 versions in ~5 years??? Wow, the few SE sites I was active enough in meta to pay attention to (Programmers and the Workplace) have made many more changes in much less time. Since the moderators have the ability to tweak it, there are often meta proposals suggesting changing to wording, or add/removing links or bullet points, or in general keeping it up-to-date. Server Fault mods should definitely be given this ability, as it's one of the larger SE sites out there! | |
| May 17, 2013 at 17:05 | history | edited | Chris SMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 285 characters in body
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| May 17, 2013 at 17:02 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | We don't wade into mSO willingly... They're the only site notably more unfriendly than SF. There's only been two versions of the FAQ in ~5 years, so not sure if we really need that power anyway. I think in the meantime you're right that the FAQ and About should say the same thing, and the About page is less bad than the FAQ. =] | |
| May 17, 2013 at 16:59 | comment | added | Rachel | It could just be something overlooked for the original trilogy sites. It might not hurt to ask a SE employee or community manager about it next time you see them, or make a MSO proposal asking for moderators here to be given the ability to edit the FAQ, like other SE2.0 site mods can. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 16:53 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | Quite possibly... They hate us, even though we're mostly low maintenance. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 16:49 | comment | added | Rachel | Hrrm is that something specific to ServerFault? Because I know moderators can make changes to the top section of the FAQ on other sites, and was recently shown screenshots of how it looks by another mod when I was asking what they could edit :) | |
| May 17, 2013 at 16:46 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | Moderators can not change the FAQ. Only blessed Stack Exchange employees can. =] | |
| May 17, 2013 at 16:11 | comment | added | Rachel | lol ok, so does your answer mean you'll make the change, or disagree with the change? I'm a bit unclear about that. :) I know moderators can change the FAQ, and the exact "single sentence" wording of the change I'm proposing is in the question. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 16:03 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | The rewrite wasn't failed so much as the initial attempts tried to solve too many problems, so it got trimmed back until it only solved the worst problems. The influx of "poor" questions has caused new problems however, and now the attention is focused there. It's sort of a "pick you battles" situation, but any way you look at it you're still losing. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 15:52 | comment | added | Rachel | I had heard it mentioned that there was a failed FAQ rewrite in the past, but I couldn't find it on meta and assumed it was simply trying to do too much. This proposal is only to change the opening line so it matches the About Page's opening line, because as a fairly inactive ServerFault user who frequently needs to check the FAQ before posting, I found the About page opening much more helpful at conveying the site's scope than the FAQ opening :) | |
| May 17, 2013 at 15:49 | history | answered | Chris SMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
