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Improving opening paragraphs of GIS SE Help Center (and Tour)?

I would like to drop the last sentence: Questions that are too basic (meaning the answer is indexed in any number of general internet reference sources designed specifically to find that type ...
Aaron's user avatar
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When I skip a review what happens?

The Skip option skips that review for you and will not place it in your queue again. It's not counted as a review in your stats, and is as if you never saw the review. Another reviewer will see that ...
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Improving opening paragraphs of GIS SE Help Center (and Tour)?

My suggestion herein is not what I was originally thinking, but in this sentence: That will help you write a great, focused question that gets excellent answers. the word "gets" could be ...
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Improving opening paragraphs of GIS SE Help Center (and Tour)?

I am using this answer to try to draw all the suggestions into a single post. If it floats to the top we can be confident that it has community support in its entirety. If not, then depending on ...
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Improving opening paragraphs of GIS SE Help Center (and Tour)?

I suggest removing the italic formatting in: as well as Programming/Databases specific to the aforementioned. It is a bit disrupting. The lack of bold formatting in this part already says ...
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Improving opening paragraphs of GIS SE Help Center (and Tour)?

The sentence below has concerned me for a while: With your help, we are working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about GIS. I think it implies that we are an "...
PolyGeo's user avatar
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Private Beta link on the help > asking page

I think that the link should be removed from that location. However, since it occurs in the Help Center of every site including Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Exchange, for that to happen will require ...
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Wrong version of question showing up (or some info at the profile page)?

I suspect that this came about by caching on the device used by @kahukowhai but that is not something that I can be certain of. It may also have been that the user read your original question earlier ...
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