Users are currently able to use "magic" (shorthand) Markdown links in comments, which are expanded into full urls with anchor text on submission. Unfortunately, the anchor text on many of these magic links are the same, and aren't very descriptive; many of them all say "help center", even though ...
The problem: Bad questions are getting asked, human intervention is expensive.
Your solution: Warn the asker before they ask, based on a list of specific phrases (in regexes).
Pitfalls:
Telling users that a phrase is "bad" will make them change their wording more than improve the question, ch...
ok i turned off Intellitrace and it works again.. hmm...
Hope it helps someone here
THANKS
Now that posts can't be automatically converted to community wiki, it makes sense to just ditch all those annoying messages for "why" a post got converted in the first place. The code for selecting the message that gets displayed there has always been buggy and inaccurate. In many cases, the reas...
How do you determine when a tag is bad?
When a tag implies no clearly defined meaning (this could either be in its name, or in its tag wiki). Something like "a generic term", as is the case with merge, is usually a bad sign. This could perhaps be considered synonymous to a tag having vastly dif...
