Timeline for Feature: Making the MO-guidelines visible while editing questions?
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| Jan 27 at 1:00 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 21 at 10:52 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | There was also this suggestion (posted in February 2022): Feature request: add short "about MathOverflow" section to the front page. It is not about adding some information during editing - that suggestion is about things displayed on the frontpage - but perhaps it is related enough to be at least mentioned here. | |
| Dec 31, 2023 at 20:07 | answer | added | Iosif Pinelis | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 22, 2023 at 5:42 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | One of the moderators added the (featured) tag, so the question will now be shown in the community bulletin for some time. Hopefully it will attract a bit more attention and some feedback from the Mathoverflow community. | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 20:12 | history | edited | Stefan KohlMod |
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| Dec 14, 2023 at 7:25 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 14, 2023 at 7:23 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Answers to this question on Meta Stack Exchange list some examples of the sites where the "Draft your question" pane is customized: What site-specific changes can be made to the Ask Question page to help askers on that site write better questions? | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 22:38 | answer | added | Thomas Kojar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 7, 2023 at 16:05 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | Thanks, I still prefer having it inside the editor rather than front-page. That way the user is forced to look at the guidelines while typing their question. | |
| Dec 7, 2023 at 10:58 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | This suggestion from 2022 seems a bit related, too: Feature request: add short "about MathOverflow" section to the front page. | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 23:00 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @ThomasKojar I suggest writing as comprehensive answer as you reasonably can, and see what people think of it via votes. If there seems to be some support then that would be helpful. | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 4:33 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | I can try to write some suggested shorthand-list of the existing MO-guidelines. | |
| Nov 17, 2023 at 4:49 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | @DavidRoberts Is there anything else I can do to promote this feature-request? I just saw yet another question "here is my homework". People can always revert back to not having any short-list of rules, if it is not helping filter. | |
| Oct 25, 2023 at 3:29 | comment | added | Alec Rhea | Personally, I think some additional clarity regarding what kind of questions we’re looking for would be nice; judging by the amount of obviously out-of-place questions (as highlighted by Thomas), the current infrastructure leaves people ambiguous on what belongs here and what doesn’t. | |
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| Oct 23, 2023 at 5:45 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @DavidRoberts In some cases, one could create such a comment faster using the templates collected here: Comment template for questions more appropriate for MSE. More to the point, do you think that perhaps this question could be featured (in order to gain more attention and gather more input from the MO users) - as suggested in the above comment and in the MO chatroom? | |
| Oct 22, 2023 at 23:38 | history | edited | Thomas Kojar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2023 at 23:26 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | I agree that the MO-specific (as opposed to generic SE question-asking advice) question guidelines are not as easy to find as they could be. When I want to link to them in commenting on a well-meaning but off-topic question, it's always a bunch of clicks, and I have to figure out how to get there every time, since it's not that often. Yes, I could bookmark, but it shows how hard they are to find the first time from the front page, as opposed to during asking a question. Once people are writing their question, rather than thinking about whether this is the place for it, is almost too late. | |
| Oct 22, 2023 at 19:35 | history | edited | Thomas Kojar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2023 at 19:29 | history | edited | Thomas Kojar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2023 at 9:42 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I think that adding the tag (discussion) might improve chances that some users might notice this question and provide thier input on the content of the sidebar. (Without that tag, the question doesn't get into the community bulletin. The other conditions are score at least +3 and not older than 14 days. Still, the moderators could add the question into the CB simply by adding the (featured) tag.) | |
| Oct 22, 2023 at 7:22 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | On Mathematics, the sidebar text was modified back in 2015, see Shog9's answer here: Show "how to ask" advice before a new user asks a question. (Just in case looking at the text on other sites could help when discussing what should be used here on MO.) | |
| Oct 22, 2023 at 6:45 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | So that while the OP is editing their question, they can't help but stare at the "do not" rules. | |
| Oct 22, 2023 at 6:45 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | I see. Thank you. Then my feature request is to add a "second layer" of defense. | |
| Oct 22, 2023 at 6:17 | history | edited | Thomas Kojar |
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| Oct 22, 2023 at 6:13 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I think that the tag (asking-questions) would be suitable here. The content of the sidebar on the right is customizable, one can read more details here: The new ask page is now live on the network! Perhaps it is worth mentioning that user is shown some basic information when they ask their first question - this part was created and customized after the discussion here: What should the modal window for first-time askers say? | |
| Oct 22, 2023 at 4:27 | history | edited | Thomas Kojar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2023 at 4:16 | history | edited | Thomas Kojar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2023 at 4:06 | history | asked | Thomas Kojar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |