I been on this Q&A site every day for the past six months. I have seen OP's include the word "professional" in what it seems every single question.
The word "professional" tends to be most used by those who least have a clue what it means, and it grates on me when they do that. I have 25 years o...
So one of the most important things I learned from the election was that there are quite a few users, even high rep ones, who don't understand how some things on our site works.
To help break through this wall, I'm leaving comments, such as this one, on posts that I close:
Hey @Manager, can you edit your post to clarify how this differs from the one asking what traits to highlight for a manager role. There are answers there that appear to solve your question. If that's not the case, let's clarify so that no one is confused. When you edit your post, it gets pushed back into a review queue where the community can work to get the post reopened. Hope this helps. — jmort253 ♦7 mins ago
I added a similar comment to the template on meta:
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The goal of this comment is to direct high rep users to the review queues, so they know it's there and that there is a process for reopening posts that are closed.
Additionally, the goal is to direct new users, such as the user "Manager" to the help center page on post reopening, so that this person, and other users, can also participate in the process via commenting, editing, meta, and other means.
As regulars in The Water Cooler, many of you already understand this process. Let's reach out to others and leave breadcrumbs that help them navigate Stack Exchange.
AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for Workplace SE
CMW asked for a list of the links that we oftentimes drop in comments. I started using the Pro-forma comments Stack Apps script to increase my efficiency.
I find that I almost never use the defaults that come with the script and that I r...
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