Can we link the FAQ from the header?

September 11, 2006 1:13 PM

I was having trouble figuring out how long I needed to wait before I posted again. I eventually found it in the FAQ, and that's all well and good, but I found the FAQ itself difficult to find. Sure, it's linked at the bottom of the various MeFi sites, but only on MeTa is it linked at the top. That's an issue for people like myself that mostly read MeFi through the RSS feed and don't normally scroll through the site to the bottom. Heck, I didn't even know the footer existed prior to today! So my request is to link to the FAQ from the header on the sites that don't currently have it there.
posted by taumeson to Feature Requests at 1:13 PM (12 comments total)

Sounds like a reasonable request to me, but cue the vehement disagreement.
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:19 PM on September 11, 2006

Doesn't each error page saying you can't post again tell you how long you have to wait?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:19 PM on September 11, 2006

Doesn't each error page saying you can't post again tell you how long you have to wait?

Probably, but I guess my request goes a little beyond that to making the FAQ more noticeable. I may soon have a few things to post to MePro (what's the abbreviation used round these parts for Projects?) and went hunting before I posted. Good thing, too!
posted by taumeson at 1:44 PM on September 11, 2006

Sounds like a good idea. The FAQ link is indeed hard to find on the front page.
posted by brain_drain at 1:53 PM on September 11, 2006

"The Projects," I think.

*looks askew for confirmation*
posted by yeti at 1:55 PM on September 11, 2006

While you're all looking at the FAQ, if you notice anything it's missing, or anything that's glaringly wrong, feel free to let mathowie or I know.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:05 PM on September 11, 2006

How about a big visible link to the FAQ on all the error pages. (like when you try to post a question the day after posting one).
posted by blue_beetle at 2:08 PM on September 11, 2006

Yeah, good call blue_beetle. Though the error pages should already say "sorry, you can only post once per day/per week/per month".
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:21 PM on September 11, 2006

BTW, love the AskMetafilter guidelines page.
posted by terrapin at 3:36 PM on September 11, 2006

Plug: AskMe next question timer Greasemonkey script. If there was demand, I could have it support all three four n sections.
posted by Plutor at 8:34 AM on September 12, 2006

Just wanted to say that I have also looked around for the FAQ and not been able to find it. A link in the top bar on Ask would have helped me.
posted by LobsterMitten at 3:39 PM on September 12, 2006

Also: if you search for "FAQ" you don't get the FAQ. And it's not tagged with FAQ. (Maybe there is some obvious reason why, but if so I don't know it.)
posted by LobsterMitten at 3:41 PM on September 12, 2006