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Show new users the interstitial pages before they can ask questions
Let's try something a bit more subtle first:
This'll appear to folks visiting /questions/ask regardless of their reputation.
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6
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Accepted
We need the asking and answering advice pages back!
Fun fact: we had around 4 different versions of the same pages, so we just cleaned things up a little. No features are lost in doing this.
The content of these pages was literally identical (give or ...
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Show new users the interstitial pages before they can ask questions
I'd echo Michael Hampton's point - based on what we saw on SF, we concluded that an interstitial with a ton of info essentially tests one thing:
How badly do you want to post? Unfortunately, that ...
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Accepted
Should we link to the quality guideline from the how-to-ask section?
If that were possible (reading the comments), then Yes. This, however, may be not possible as looking at some of the other StackExchange sites, each Help Center is exactly the same. This may be ...
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Should we link to the quality guideline from the how-to-ask section?
I'm told this is possible. We just need to come up with exactly what we want changed.
I propose adding this line to the top of the page, just under the "How do I ask a good question" heading:
This ...
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