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ocæon

12:42 AM

would people be more likely to read the faqs if they were tagged 'documentation' too?

John Dvorak

They might be more likely to read the FAQs if they were linked to from the help center

ocæon

i reffer mainly to the nature of the words; frequently asked questions on main sites are just marked as [duplicates] with no tag to denote the 'empirical' one, while meta questions get a fancy tag, but that nomenclature does little to reflect their status as empirical.

a great page to have on the help center would be meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/… ... can't even remember how i found that now

note to linux firefox users experiencing the add-on certificate problem: if you don't want to install firefox outside of your repositories, you can apply a fix by enabling 'studies' in settings>security i.imgur.com/PDUuipi.png and waiting an hour or two

Journeyman Geek

1:29 AM

@ocæon there is a community FAQ tag and process on many sites

ocæon

yes the tag exists and it is good, my thoughts were expanding on sonic's chat chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7700734#7700734 sorry i should have arrowed it.

oh you mean for main questions not meta ones?

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@ocæon Yeah, that seems to be for main sites.

ocæon

oh great another newbie numpty of mine! i should keep a blog

Journeyman Geek

1:56 AM

@ocæon yup

It's also worth remembering that we intentionally don't have empirical answers for many things

And that in some, not all cases we need to consider whether it's desirable to close something as a dupe, and that the point of a dupe closure is still to let someone find an answer....

ocæon

yes, dupe closure is not a negative act

Journeyman Geek

@ocæon but also that true, universally useful, canonical answers are not that common

ocæon

not that i ask much, yet. i still have dreams of merging being a simple way to tidy up though, and maybe a distant fr for having question synonyms instead of separate pages

Journeyman Geek

Merging is seriously destructive

ocæon

seems so, another way in wich this is not a wiki! lol#

Journeyman Geek

2:04 AM

And IMO, tidying up isn't as useful as people think

ocæon

my natural reflex is to tidy up, so it's just as well i got over that idea while i was still a nameless noob.

my goal these days is to learn the ways of tidying up my own input, so that i can usefully support others in learning that process too

Journeyman Geek

2:43 AM

@ocæon oh that's fine

Also... Ironically... Don't get too caught up in meta

Meta is a means to other ends

ocæon

hehe, it's literally my middle name, but yes it felt like a natural starting point.

i may join code review and puzzling next, overflow is proving quite.. overwrought

/me goes now

Journeyman Geek

3:57 AM

@ocæon I started on SU - and quite a lot of my involvement initially revolved around that. I'm vaguely active elsewhere - but I feel meta needs to be a means to getting change to the main site(s) rather than a goal on its own

Mithrandir

6:48 AM

Sometimes, I'm very glad I don't live on the other side of the country.

Like when 430 rockets are fired there.

@Sha do you have any family or anything down in the south?

Journeyman Geek

._.

Mithrandir

In under 24 hours, 430 rockets have been fired from Gaza at Israeli civilians. https://t.co/3hjMkGmtL6

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