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There is some available real estate in the navigation header. Maybe a "posting guidelines" link up there is warranted? If it clutters the interface, it could g
by euccastro 18y ago
There is some available real estate in the navigation header. Maybe a "posting guidelines" link up there is warranted?
If it clutters the interface, it could go away once you get 100 karma or so.
- unalone 18y agoI like tying it to karma rather than user date length. That way, long-time users that haven't done anything will still see the guidelines, as a sort of hint.
- adamc 18y agoWhy would long-time users that "haven't done anything" need the hint?
- diN0bot 18y agoOne may still benefit greatly from the experience of posting and commenting rather than observing. I was reading hn a while before I got an account, and never really thought about karma, submission titling or type, or comment voting. I have often wondered why the posting, submission, and voting guidelines haven't been more prominent. I appreciate Paul's active role in this community--I think it account's for much of the civility to have benevolent moderators--but definitely making the principles easier to access would be helpful, too.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoIncidentally, having the page detailing the post-formatting capabilities on the Reply page would be handy, so people are aware of italics, code indentation and so on.
- aneesh 18y agoYes, please. It took me a while to figure out how to indent code. FYI, text surrounded by asterisks (*) will be intended. Begin a new line with two spaces, and you have code indentation.