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Should we add 'designers intent' questions to the "don't ask" questions list on the tour?
I don't think we should. There's a few reasons.
We're still in a mess with designer reasons: lots of people are over-sensitive to determining a question is designer reasons, but really the only thing ...
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Can/should we include the system tag requirement in our tour?
As you found in comments, there's only three places we can edit in the tour: the blurb at the start, the sample question, and the on-topic/off-topic lists. This doesn't fit into any of those.
I'll ...
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Contradiction with accepted answer descriptions
It is the answer the OP considers the best, that helps them the most with their problem.
That does not mean it is the objectively best one. Feel free and vote for the answer(s) you like.
However, ...
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How long has [tour] automatically linked to the tour page?
As far as I can tell, comment shortcuts have been around since basically forever.
The [tour] link got added sometime soon before June 6, 2014 (officially confirmed on June 11†), a short while ...
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Change the question featured in the Tour
What we should probably do is deal with the answer post's content issue, either by deleting it, editing it to be minimally complete, or converting it to a comment.
Aside, this is a great example of ...
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Revisit: Should we include rule intent/designer intent as off-topic in tour and help pages?
Do it in a similar way of Game recs.
In the section "Before you ask your question, though, consider the following:", we have the following statement about game recommendation:
If you're ...
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Should we add the citation requirements to our Tour?
Diamond moderators can edit three parts of the tour:
The summary of what the site is about.
The sample question the tour uses.
The “Ask about...” and “Don't ask about...” lists.
Our citation ...
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Stack Devs: Please let us show longer answers in the Tour page
The difficulty with the Tour is that it is trying to do two contrary things:
Show the sort of posts communities are looking for and
Fit in a relatively small vertical space.
As you've mentioned, we ...
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Stack Devs: Please let us show longer answers in the Tour page
After some investigation it turns out there is one question I can choose that actually works well for the tour: Are Hags Fey or Fiends?
With this question chosen the tour will present the stronger of ...
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Contradiction with accepted answer descriptions
We can't do anything about it
From mxyzplk's comment from GreySage's answer:
We can’t [modify the hover text], as we can’t edit any other automated text on the site except one small part of the help ...
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Should we add a definition of a good answer to the tour?
We can't modify the tour that way without developer intervention.
Only three parts of the tour are editable by diamond moderators:
The blurb at the top—we can change its text. That's the paragraph ...
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Should we add a definition of a good answer to the tour?
There is a help article dedicated to this, and we have our own guidance we can link.
How do I write a good answer?. Link this article if you feel the need to leave more detailed guidance about writing ...
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Contradiction with accepted answer descriptions
Perhaps we should modify the hover text to read:
The question owner accepted this as the best answer for them < time >.
or
The question owner accepted this as the answer that worked for them ...
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Should we add a definition of a good answer to the tour?
The tour is only a basic introduction to the site
The tour gives a basic, high level introduction to the site. And it's hard to give an actually useful definition of what a good answer is, especially ...
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Should we add the citation requirements to our Tour?
As a new and eager to participate community member, i agree.
The system right now is deferring the task of teaching this and other simple concepts to us new members to a reactive rather than ...
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