Timeline for Might featuring some FAQ posts on meta be useful?
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| May 4, 2022 at 12:02 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @TimCampion As I have mentioned in chat, the choice of the posts to put up there would be up to the mods - certainly not all FAQ posts are equally important. Perhaps this can be seen as an alternative to using a sidebar. The advantage of the sidebar is that it is more prominent and one can put there more text. The advantage of the community bulletin is that it can be done by the mods (without any help from SE) and it is not static. (But it is definitely less prominent.) | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 5:06 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Here is a link to a similar suggestion on Mathematics Meta: Could Community Bulletin be used for reminders about correct tagging and other good practices? (which I posted some time ago - it includes a screenshot from a site where I saw something similar). | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 18:52 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | Given that the Featured tag expires after 30 days, I think it is rather meant to be used for somewhat more ephemeral posts -- e.g. for announcements and such. | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 4:25 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | @MartinSleziak Oh sure, I understood that much. But there are 20 questions tagged "faq" -- I suppose we could do each of them, one after another. If each one lasts 3 weeks that would take a little over a year. | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 4:11 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @TimCampion By FAQs I meant primarily the posts tagged faq. Many of them are collected here: What are the Frequently Asked Questions on meta? | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 21:19 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | From your list of counter-arguments, I gather that the main motivation of the suggestion is to reduce the number of low-level questions by new users on the site. But actually, I'm thinking that doing something like this would probably be more useful for more experienced users -- as a sort of "review" kind of thing. This could be interesting. I'm not sure precisely which FAQs you have in mind. | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 12:33 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Apr 20, 2022 at 10:00 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @TheAmplitwist That would be in the spirit of this feature request: Feature request: add short "about MathOverflow" section to the front page. That post got no response from the MO moderators. | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 9:51 | comment | added | The Amplitwist | A sidebar element as on Law, Medical Sciences, etc. seems to me to be an attractive option. | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 9:02 | history | asked | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |