It has been almost a month since I have come into college. But due to COVID, everything is shut down for a while. The Vice President has nothing to say about when will the college reopen while students are stuck in their hostel rooms for about a month now. Every week, an email is being forwarded ...
interpersonal.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic < The help center. Every site has it's own /help/on-topic page (it's even a magic link, if you type [/help/on-topic] in a comment it will automatically link) where it describes what is on (but also a bit what is off)-topic
I'm pretty good at sniffing out information, but I missed that one... I also noticed this on-topic page is not directly linked from the 'Ask a public question' form... if this was available there, it might cut down on off-topic questions by quite a bit :)
Would be useful if both under 'helpful links' and the 'Asking a good question' popup (especially the latter), there would be a direct link to said page
You mean this page? It's on there, it's just not called 'help/on-topic' but it's linked in "Be on-topic Our community is defined by a specific set of topics that you can view in the help center; "
But yeah, perhaps seeing if the helpful links bulletin can include it.... It's not moderator-editable, but...
@Tinkeringbell no, that is very generic and relates more to how to ask questions... I specifically mean the page (per community) that specifies what is and isn't on-topic :)
Because this is what I see when I press 'ask question':
So no 'Asking a good question' popup, which means I assumed you were talking about the "Find more information about how to ask a good question here" in the Helpful Links section XD
@Tinkeringbell this may seem trivial, but I reckon a lot of people who come in have a burning question, and it's human nature to want to not extensively browse through the manual before doing so... So providing the information required in a quick and concise manner goes a long way :)
It's not so much about willingness to read in general, but what you feel is important (and possibly counterintuitive to the user), vs everything else... I bet that if you do a count of 'off topic' posts from all but the most frequent users, 'interpersonal skills' will receive a lot of off topic fluff
There's a whole backload of stuff that needs fixing, tbh. I proposed a new version for /help/on-topic back in 2020, and I still need to get around to rolling that out :|
It can probably use yet another meta discussion at this point.
A select few help center articles can be edited by moderators, and we can add custom close reasons to the close vote dialog (up to 3, if we need/want more we need to ask too) but that's about it.
jeez... BTK ! @Tinkeringbell : it's about language and usage. I watched "undercover" in Dutch (and English and French to check this out, but didn't help). Many many times, they use french or english words instead of dutch words. I mean like "f***" word, "of course", "merci", "au revoir", and so on. I made sure of this checking the subtitles in other languages, and they're not look-alike words (even if they sounded so with some accents).
My Q: is it common in your everyday language? or just in series/shows? I can't remember Dutch acquaintances speaking that way, even though it was decades ago...
Sounded weird to hear those words, even if I'm used to vlaams accent
@MiG : yeah! and you grow tulipes, ride bicycles and smoke weed :D
@OldPadawan I think it depends on where you are, and who you're hanging around. I can't imagine doing this where I'm from, but I can imagine in student cities (or cities in general) it's more usual.
I mostly know the Wallon part, but sounded weird too, as they use different words too, but as I never hear them speaking Dutch, didn't know they could add/exchange/modify words/expressions like that