Timeline for Proposed change to Server Fault guidelines, round 2
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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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| Dec 21, 2014 at 20:41 | comment | added | SpacemanSpiff | Perhaps questions and answers that demonstrate a certain level of professionalism should be recognized and made front and center? | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 6:59 | comment | added | cutrightjm | Also, this NEEDS to be READ by moderators and taken to heart: serverfault.com/help/be-nice | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 6:24 | comment | added | cutrightjm | To give a professional appearance, even non-professional questions should be dealt with in a professional manner. I have seen more than a few cases on this site where mods are NOT professional at all in their dealing with sub-par questions. Yes, the questions are sub-par, but the mods themselves once asked lackluster questions too. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 0:17 | comment | added | Shog9 | We can customize Formatting Help to a degree now (Geoff just rolled this out). Think about what you want there, keep it short & clear, post a feature-request. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 19:04 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | @pepoluan The problem is not usually that people are failing to see the copious quantities of help that we provide. The problem is usually that they intentionally ignore it. | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 1:02 | comment | added | pepoluan | What if we add a pop-up for 'beginners' (e.g., those with less than X questions), with a BIG ARROW pointing to the "How to Ask" sidebox? The big arrow should provide a kind exhortation to check out the links in the sidebox. After the new user 'graduated' from beginner status, no more need of the big arrow... | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 20:31 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | Formatting help should be there, but it doesn't need to be anywhere near as prominent (maybe have the "helper bar" above the edit window that you get when you click the red question mark expanded for low-rep/young accounts & clearly label it "Formatting Tips" or similar?) | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 20:01 | comment | added | Jaydles Staff | @ShaneMadden, yeah - we've recently noted that "formatting help" is pretty low on the list of things we'd pick to use that guidance real estate for if we were picking today. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 17:50 | comment | added | Shane Madden StaffMod | I like that idea. Right now there's the "How to ask" box and the "Formatting Help" box - it does offer a tiny bit of direct advice ("Provide details. Share your research."), but I think we could definitely stand to use the space we have there more effectively. I believe we'll need some development work to make that happen, I'll look into it. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 16:38 | history | answered | Hyppy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |