When I join a new site I don't want my first question to be closed as off-topic. On the web I can navigate the help labyrinth to arrive at an answer, but I can't find that info in-app, nor a link to the help.   I think it's natural to have this close at hand when writing one's first question on a new site.   Unless it's already in here somewhere, I'd like to request it
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Can the Stack Exchange developers add an option to access the site-specific Help Center via the iOS app?  My use case is when I read a question that I think is off-topic, and want to double-check that the wording from the site's Help supports that position, having the Help Center available would be nice.
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When viewing a question on a site which I don't use (I never registered on it), I can't figure out how to get back to the list of questions of the site.  See this example  from the Stack Exchange Android app. Where should I click to see the list of questions? (I chose Mathematics Educators because it's the most recent site, it is very likely that most users don't have an account on this website)  Here is a random example:    When viewing a question, I don't know how to view the list of questions. This site can't be found in the sidebar since it's not in my Your Sites list. The top menu containing the site's title only opens the sidebar.
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I asked  on the website. It was closed as being off-topic. The off-topic message says If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit your question or leave a comment. all of which I had done approximately 2 hours before the question was closed.  So I would like to know how do I ask the users who cast the vote to close the question after I had commented about the validity of the question about where else should I comment in order to fulfill the criterion regarding commenting in order to explain the question?
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I just had that rare case of a newbie who barges in with off-topic content, it gets closed, and instead of starting to spew invective, politely asks &quot;what are the rules&quot;. Currently, his or her  is on Cooking meta. The question text mentioned a curious thing:  Admittedly I only use the app so maybe that is where I am going wrong but I can't seem to find any rules about what can be asked, what sort of answers are allowed and what format it all has to be in.  The whole network already has a problem with getting new users to accept our high-moderation and strict-rules culture, especially when their expectations are set by general discussion forums which don't restrict themselves to objective non-poll questions. I think that the rules might be even harder for the users of sites outside of the trilogy, because the interested population is not made up of geeks who automatically value the information-content-aspect of information  above the other aspects. Even for users who have easy access to the help center, there is lots of friction to get accustomed to our rules (and many leave in anger instead). So, for the people who are willing to RTFM, I think that we should make the access easy. I admit that I hadn't expected somebody who hasn't used the site to start using the app, but now we have observed it happening. So, I think that it is important to include a link to the help center in an easily accessible place in the app. Even if at the beginning, it cannot be brought into the app format and has to be a link which opens in the mobile browser, it will be useful for the poor confused new users.
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on Ask Different.  We've been working hard on ways to help improve the experience of new users, and one of the best ways to do that is to help teach them the basics about how our sites work before they run afoul of them.  This will improve their odds of having a good first experience, speed up how quickly they can become contributing members of community, and head off the frustrations they sometimes have as a result of crashing into one of the many things that make us... different.  So We've just rolled out the first version of our new "quick start" guide. It's designed to help teach new users the absolute minimum they need to know to get started and have a good experience. How we're different from discussion boards, the basics of rep, what you can do right off the bat, why some questions aren't allowed, etc.  We spent a LOT of time on trying to get to the absolute minimum length that will still cover the key things new users need to know to be successful, but if you have feedback, please share it.
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Here's my issue, mostly with privacy:   I connected all my SE accounts long ago but recent events have made it much easier to jump from my profile here to my profile elsewhere. I have questions on site A that I'd rather not be associated with my "identity" from site B. I have no way to delete a question on site A since it has been answered and I have no way to anonomize it for privacy concerns.   Is there a way to:   Delete the question Anonymize the question Unlink my account from site A?
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Over the past couple of days there have been a few questions about overlapping proposals and questions that could belong on multiple sites:        What is the best practice before / after asking a question if you think your question might be better on another site?  or  If I think my question might belong on multiple sites as per the above posts?
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I was looking for a possible duplicated question about  in , then looked using the Big G! since the integrated search didn't give me any useful result (laugs) then I found the , but in Stackoverflow! Then, I proceed to flag as off-topic, but since "It's too old to migrate" I don't have the option to do so...  So, my question is, should I leave it like that? Or the question is better in UL (also on topic, just read the question)? Any guidance to this young pada-wan is greatly appreciated.
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I've seen a number of cases when questions have been migrated from one site to another (SO--&gt;SF, SO--&gt;SU etc). If the original asker doesn't have an account on the site to which the question has been migrated, he basically loses track of the question.  This is especially true of questions that are migrated to SU which still needs a password having to do with . I suggest that once you have an account on one of the sites, you should also have an account in each of the sister sites so that you can easily keep track of all your questions that have been migrated. Edit:  I know you can link the accounts.  I just think this should be automatic in order to reduce friction.
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Some questions might be asked on three different sites, each site needing three different answers. For example, a question about a text editor.  So perhaps there should be a way to link the questions on the three different sites. Adding a link manually in the questions is certainly possible, but perhaps a feature officially supporting this will be beneficial.
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I noticed that the locked message still references the FAQ. See :  locked by  yesterday This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here. This question and its answers are frozen and cannot be changed. More info: .  Since the FAQ has been replaced by the , this message should provide a link there instead. Currently, the link actually takes you to the ; even if it doesn't link to the help center, the text should probably be something like &quot;More info: &quot;.
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I've been asking quite a few questions on several Stack Exchange sites, and I'm finding it harder and harder to keep track of them all.    Is there any way/place to see a listing of all my questions with no answer accepted on all of the Stack Exchange (2.0) sites? Or even just per site? If not, are there any plans to implement such a feature?  Although Jeff offered an answer, I don't feel it's the answer to my question; as far I'm aware there still is no way to list only my unanswered questions.
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I always see Stack Overflow users giving -1 to new users' questions. This is not how you welcome a new user to the community. A new user does not know the rules yet.    I suggest that if one wants to give -1 to a new user, you prevent that and ask the downvoter to write a comment instead. new user = 2 first questions    I see the credit rating on my question is now at -9?  My question, is she not well formed or formatted? If you don't agree with the content of a question do you down-rate it? If an Ubuntu user asks a question that might not be reasonable, will you also down-rate it?  No. You post an answer that will present your thinking and correct him? I think that is part of the problem. When you first go to a community like Facebook, and you don't know the faces, you don't feel like any of those people are your relations. Newbies exist here as well, especially in a professional community.    First, welcome the new user in more appropriate way. And most importantly, force them to see/read how to post a good question.
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I am working with many questions and want a way by which users don't need to use the NEXT button for every question.  It should be flexible, so that the user can move any where on any question he wants and view a summary of the questions.   Maybe a slider or anything? Please give suggestions. Thanks in advance.
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Today I have stumbled across a question that was closed . When reading this question , I thought it was valid, and I even might have an answer for it . So I went and read  and  along with some other related questions here on meta . The issue is that because :  I do NOT have 3000 points to vote for opening,  The said question is not my own ,  The person who closed it did not leave a comment, It seems that I have no option to reopen it and answer.   What one should do in that case ? Flag it for moderator ?  I would think this is not the appropriate action here . Contact the closer personally  ? - Same as Above (and also , how ?) Leaving a simple comment ? By reading the above mentioned questions - leaving a simple comment will do nothing by itself to reopen or to catch attention (unless someone else stumbles upon it ..) So what are my options for action ?? (the question is  for reference)
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This request was sparked . The vote to close as a duplicate on meta, in contrast to the main site, does not require for the duplicate to have an answer. Yet, the closure message still says:     This question has been asked before and already has an answer.    ...even when this is not the case. Perhaps we should either only show this particular sentence if there is indeed an answer, or remove this altogether for meta.   Note: I fear this might be a duplicate request, but I was unable to find one. (Not even one without an answer :) )
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Subtitle:  Should beginner's questions be off-topic strictly because they are beginner's questions? The sorts of questions that newbie programmers ask has come up before many times in side discussions, and comes up constantly on the main site.  Here are two examples from today:   Both of the above questions are well-formed, specific, answerable definitively, not open to opinions and are otherwise directly on-topic for StackOverflow. However both questions were downvoted and closed by users who said they were off-topic because they were too basic in nature.  To quote one particularly pointed comment:  This question appears to be off-topic because it is trivially answerable by reading a beginners' language tutorial.  That pretty much sums it up. Here's another case posted yesterday:  This is another beginner's question.  The topic is fairly elementary.  The answer can likely be found in Strustrup's book, or any number of other books that we recommend.  Considering only that it is a beginner's question of a fundamental nature, should the question be considered off-topic? Lots of questions are posted from lazy people who are just looking to be spoon-fed answers.  Those questions should all be closed because they never meet the quality guidelines.  That's not what I'm asking about here.  What I'm asking about is just the elementray nature of the question.  If the question is elementary, but otherwise meets our quality and topical requirements, is it off-topic? I have always thought that .  But enthusiasts come in all shapes and sizes, from the bright-green newbie writing their first program to the grizzled veterans who have seen and done it all a million times before.  I have always felt that SO's stated audience does not, or should not, discriminate based on the expertise of the asker. Some  that newbie questions are off-topic because they aren't interesting enough for the answerers.  But this seems highly subjective to me.  After all, every question is a &quot;no-duh softball&quot; to someone.  Just today I provided what I thought was a  to a problem, only to learn a few minutes later that KonradRudolph and Yakk had come up with the  over a year before.  No-duh. It seems to me that this has been coming up much more recently.  Sometimes I'll chime in with a comment to the downvoters and close-voters suggesting that the level of expertise is not a parameter in deciding if a question is topical.  The downvoters will often agree.  But we don't have a difinitive resource to point to that says this is so -- it doesn't say it in the FAQs, and I've not found anything difinitive in meta. So what says meta?  Can a question about basics be on-topic for Stack Overflow?  If it can be off-topic, how do we know where to draw the line?