Questions tagged [help]
THIS IS NOT A GENERAL TAG FOR ASKING FOR HELP! Use this tag for questions about how help and information is provided to users.
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Why are there so many rules, and how can we figure them out? [duplicate]
I would think one would talk online, as they do in real life. That is apparently not allowed on here. Every question I ask is banned for violating some unreasonable rule. Every comment I make is ...
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Context-sensitive help - put help where it is needed
I had a problem with a situation on one SE site, basically with a single button/link, and was more or less lost.
I decided to google around and found some good help in the SE meta questions.
It would ...
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Unobtrusively show site usage tips / info
Getting the most out of this platform requires learning. People may not be interested to seek out information about what this site is and how to get the most value out of it, and/or how to contribute ...
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Perhaps add a superfluous About link in each StackExchange's home page three bar menu
Visit https://stats.stackexchange.com/ .
We see a logo, "Cross Validated". That's nice, but doesn't quite tell us what the site is all about.
Feeling rather uneasy, we look around for some &...
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Search help links to Stack Overflow for Teams on all sites instead of the help center
The "Search help" link in the search bar is supposed to link to this help page but is currently linking to a Stack Overflow for Teams article instead. This bug can be reproduced on all of ...
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Formatting tips below the body textbox of a post are wrong
When posting a question or answer, there is a formatting help below the body textbox, which includes tips for how to format code, make text bold or italic, and quote text:
However, the tips for ...
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Explain reasons for accepting an answer in Help Center
A new user on an SE site indicated in the comments that one of the answers to their posted question was best. I left a comment encouraging them to accept that answer, and gave a link to this help ...
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Stack Exchange should show rules on the right side when making post to help users follow the rules
When making posts on Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange, you can see on the right side "Draft Your Question" and "Helpful Links." While the latter contains links for asking good ...
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When assisting with software navigation, what is the best way to differentiate between a question and a support request? [closed]
All the sites that include questions about software applications in their scope have the same situation frequently seen in Web Applications Stack Exchange; people post a request asking for help ...
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What are the exact conditions for the /questions/ask/advice ("interstitial") page to show to a user?
Ex. the page on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/advice
What are the exact conditions for such pages to show to a user?
On what sites?
With what history/conditions of the user'...
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Guidance for "me too"ers (answerers / commenters and upvoters)
On Web Applications SE we have a lot of short questions that get lots of views and "a lot" of "me too" or alike answers, comments and upvotes.
Regarding me too upvotes, from ...
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Let's improve the "How do I ask a good question?" page
I did find this question, but I have a bunch of suggestions. Also yes, some of this is from my post over on AU Meta
I think the "How do I ask a good question?" Help Center page could use ...
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Click does not work for Stack Exchange pages [duplicate]
I usually use the Mathematics and TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange sites. From today, the usual mouse-click suddenly started not to work for these sites. For example, I found a useful code in this page, so ...
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How to see Review Queue help boxes again?
Recently new help boxes for Review Queues were displayed to users. E.g.:
The box above is about a specific queue. There is also a main box for queues in general like shown here.
After dismissing, such ...
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How can I help? [closed]
I am very new to Stack Overflow, but I want to help on the Mathematics site. The problem is that I'm not particularly smart enough to answer the majority of questions.
How should I help?
I'm decent at ...
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