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How to post your first Question so it can be answered

How to post your first Question so it can be answered
  1. Pick the Question template, not Discussion.
  2. Put the actual question in the title.
  3. Add what you already tried in the body.
  4. Add tags people search for.
  5. Mark an answer when it works — that feeds QAPage.

Skip this and you will get sympathy, not a solution. Staff cannot mark a Discussion as accepted.

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Printed this for volunteer mods. Step 3 is the one people skip.

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We followed it on a Friday deploy. HowTo steps showed up in View Source.

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Bookmarking. The 'do not delete permalinks' line needs to be in onboarding too.

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Thanks — leaving this up for the next team that searches the same string.

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How to post your first Question so it can be answered

Nia OkonkwoNia Okonkwo·· 252 5
  1. Pick the Question template, not Discussion.
  2. Put the actual question in the title.
  3. Add what you already tried in the body.
  4. Add tags people search for.
  5. Mark an answer when it works — that feeds QAPage.

Skip this and you will get sympathy, not a solution. Staff cannot mark a Discussion as accepted.

#onboarding#docs

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Jordan Hale
Member

@jordan_design

Printed this for volunteer mods. Step 3 is the one people skip.

Sarah Chen
StaffRegular

@sarah_product

We followed it on a Friday deploy. HowTo steps showed up in View Source.

Leo Mensah
Member

@leo_ops

Bookmarking. The 'do not delete permalinks' line needs to be in onboarding too.

Tomás Herrera
Regular

@tomas_sre

Campus note: we added the course entity after step 2. Worked.

Jordan Hale
Member

@jordan_design

Thanks — leaving this up for the next team that searches the same string.

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