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@Borror0 I'm thinking out loud, since no-one else discusses it with me. I think it's harmless. When I think of a revision/improvement that I want to try, then I do revise the answer. It's been a work in progress. Some of my comments are merely not-yet-constructive criticism, i.e. not part of the answer: a statement of the problem.
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@Oddthinking As a reader I'd find it convenient to see all the positives (must/should) in one place ... and for everything to be positive instead of negative where possible ("must be polite" not "must not be rude") ... all the avoidably-negative (list of off-topic question) in another one separate place. To make "religion" invidivually linkable you could make a whole new question "What questions cannot be asked here?" but I think that's going too far.
It would be better to have +ves and -ves on one page, all about questions. Expecting people to read more than one page is too much.
5:32 PM
If we were constructing an FAQ which was a big text file, I would nod completely with your grouping together ideas. The fact that the FAQ won't look like that is what is making me think.
@ChrisW, whoops, I just noticed it has been 45 minutes since you posted, and I haven't pinged you yet!
I believe that the expectation from the StackExchange crew is that FAQ-tagged meta posts will be one Q with one A. But we have created these single Q with multiple A proposed-FAQ questions. It makes it difficult to see how they should be dealt with.
Merge into one giant answer, and make official? Make several answers official? Where is the cut-off? Which ones have achieved consensus and which haven't?
"I think you, in particular, will find interesting" - yes but not very novel (I've used/read the platform for a while).
I think there may be another FAQ which you didn't mention: a page which is only displayed to new users? On some forums? Which summarises everything on one page? Part of creating an account? I read that once: someone mention it on meta-SO as a new feature which I wouldn't have seen. I don't know its URL. I remember a feeling of being impressed at the attempt to get everything on one page, while being friendly and informative.
5:53 PM
Somewhere on meta there is/was a page which was an index of all the other FAQ pages/topics. "What is reputation?" and question like that.
This forum only needs two: What questions, and what answers. Possibly one but I don't think so (that's what the /faq page is for). Preferably no more than two. Two are permissible because there are two uses cases (or 2 kinds of reader): more than one page for each use case is excessive ("TL;DR").
The format of the "what questions?" page could be two subtopics ("must" and "must not"), or several "must", "should" "must", "must", "should", "may", and one "must not").
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