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After “How do I submit an article”? When people will be mathematically certain to submit comments before they ever submit an article?
I have to say that I don’t like the FAQ as it stands—the entire thing strikes me as patronizing and hostile. I’ll contribute, but I’m not going to be happy about it.
How do I format my comments?
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I suggest adding that link to the help sheet or the about page—I had no idea there were formatting options beyond what was on the help sheet.
Just add it to the wiki.
Where? Under “Feedback”, before “What’s all this about upvotes and downvotes”?
Put it after 5.1
After “How do I submit an article”? When people will be mathematically certain to submit comments before they ever submit an article?
I have to say that I don’t like the FAQ as it stands—the entire thing strikes me as patronizing and hostile. I’ll contribute, but I’m not going to be happy about it.
I mean, do whatever makes sense. It’s our FAQ we can do what we want to. If something doesn’t work we can change it.
I don’t like the recent edit either. If you can make it less patronizing and hostile, do!
I’ll see when I can scrape together enough motivation to tackle it—looking at it is leaving me rather frustrated, as I implied.
I’ve edited one of the subsections to make it less patronizing.
Very nice!
I agree—a definite improvement.
In retrospect: yeah, that’s the right place. Added.