Questions tagged [help-center]
For issues regarding the help center of Stack Overflow
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Inconsistent explanation and kinds of locked post
The question linked from corresponding meta discussion Locked post says contributors should edit, but suggesting edits is disabled for both the question and its answers has edit links for both the ...
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Updating link on the "flag posts" privilege page in Help Center to be more informative
I recently had an answer flag declined, and in doing due diligence to try to understand why I've been reviewing many site guidelines. This revealed conflicting guidance on when to use the not an ...
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Update "How do I ask a good question?" with regards to AI
A recent question included a disclosure along the lines of "I asked ChatGPT, and it said it didn't know".
I wonder if it would be worth addressing, under https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-...
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Cannot indent code in the new editor
The Markdown Editing Help page states:
Code and Preformatted Text
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You can also select text and press CTRLK to toggle indenting as code.
This used to work. Previously, I could easily indent any ...
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The Discussions Help Center article claims that users can downvote discussions
The Discussions Help Center article claims that users can downvote discussions, saying “ Any user can upvote or downvote a post or a reply.” Can this be fixed?
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The Staging Ground Badge help center article claims active askers can earn gold badges when they can't actually do so
The Staging Ground Badge help center article claims active askers can earn gold badges when they can't actually do so, saying "gold badges are given to the most active and committed reviewers and ...
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The Staging Ground Badge help center article claims reviewers can earn 9 badges when only 7 are listed
The Staging Ground Badge help center article claims reviewers can earn 9 badges when only 7 are listed. Could this be fixed?
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The help center article "As an asker, what is considered a successful question from Staging Ground?" reads as though the article writer is an asker
Currently, the Staging Ground Help Center article "As an asker, what is considered a successful question from Staging Ground?" says "As an asker, I can earn the Graduate badge when ...
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The Staging Ground Badge help center article is totally wrong about the Graduate badge
The Staging Ground Badge Help Center article claims that the Graduate badge is a gold badge which you can get if you "Ask two questions successfully on the main site from Staging Ground."
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Arrows labelled "Leaderboards" on "See reduced ads" privilege wiki are pointing at the wrong thing
When looking at reduced ads privilege docs page, I got very confused looking at the illustration.
It appears that the red arrows that are labelled "Leaderboard" are actually not pointing at ...
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"How to Answer" help page could use some references to code
Stack Overflow's version of How to Answer doesn't mention the word "code" once. I'd love to see an excerpt about code-only answers somewhere in there.
I don't know exactly what would belong, ...
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Should the "Can I answer my own question?" guide mention question quality standards?
We encourage questions with instant self-answers, like How do I return the response from an asynchronous call? and How do I melt a pandas dataframe?. This category of questions contains some of the ...
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Is there / Should there be a reference list of banned AI tools? [duplicate]
My understanding is that AI tools must not be used to help generate answers: https://stackoverflow.com/help/gen-ai-policy
It is not necessarily clear from a product's website if it counts as such a ...
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Help center page on deleted answers still links to old, broken GPT policy page
The help center page on deleted answers still links to a help center article, /help/gpt-policy, that was deleted last October:
[...] Answers copied from language learning models such as ChatGPT may ...
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An asker indicates... should be 'reviewer' instead in the Staging Ground help page
I have noticed the following lines in the help article What is Staging Ground?
An asker indicates that your post is ready to leave the Staging Ground. Your question will then be posted directly to ...
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