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Done. Moderators have a "change category" tool that allows for moving posts between categories. I just manually moved the two challenges that were on Meta to the Challenges category.
I just got caught by something I consider a bug: I wanted to link to a web site, and used the link button above the entry box to do so. After I finished entering (or rather, pasting) the link into ...
I just looked up what Borland wrote in their user manual of the Turbo Pascal UI back when using a mouse was optional and the UI could be operated also by keyboard (you don't click on the keyboard e...
I've been away for some time (for personal reasons), and noticed that we now have a category “writing challenges”. Now there are some old challenges in Meta which predate that category, but IMHO wo...
This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on another answer. I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on. As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else ...
I wonder if segregating content that was imported and not further improved would help. Create a new category, maybe called "Archive", and move there any post that hasn't had any modifications post...
Official ISO programming standards that describe programming language syntax etc often use opt to mark an argument as optional (with "OPT" in italics). So I would propose to write ARRAY[data-typ...
Assuming you're not limited to US-ASCII in notation, I think the best approach would be to find bracket characters or some other notation that won't conflict with any characters that will need to b...
Just a bystander here, but imported content is very off-putting. It basically says to visitors: There is so little traffic that they have to copy stuff from elsewhere so you don't notice there're...
The most obvious approach, depending one where the help is to be displayed, is to use italics for optional items. That is a well established convention in command-line documentation. ARRAY[data-typ...
In our documentation of SQL functions and statements, we include a BNF-style syntax summary. As is conventional, we indicate optional elements in square brackets, like this: CREATE [IF NOT EXISTS]...
The imported content may be a problem in that Google will see it as duplicate content, and Google does not like duplicate content. I'm not sure if the whole site gets actively penalized for the dup...
Unless people here want to reask and reanswer questions previously ask on the Other Site (I wouldn't), I would say the data import is orthogonal. Something else is there really is no way other than...
We've had low activity on our community for a while. Low activity means people visit less often, which means lower activity because they're not here asking and answering... iterate. We have ads a...
The end of the school week came as a relief for Megan McAllister, and she was looking forward to going home and doing something fun. She lounged in the back of the car, staring up at the sky and tr...
In addition to what has been said about the ability to follow steps, the same thing would apply to a bunch of individual tips that don't have to be followed in order: Make each one a separate parag...
As already said, instructions are about helping the reader do the steps in the right order without missing any of them. This, of course, can take different forms in different contexts. Recipes is o...
Writing in fuller paragraphs feels like it creates better reading flow, as opposed to short choppy chunks of text, but that's a prose consideration. For instructions, the primary goal is to help t...
I was putting together an instruction page (for setting up a game that my business created), which included a whole lot of various pointers, most of which were only a sentence or two long. These ex...
Writing challenge #5 September 4, 2020 Welcome to installment #5 in Writing Codidact's writing challenges! The previous topic was cats and dogs. As we all know, the world's been quite crazy lately...
Always a good idea to state major details once, and never again. How you are going to present the details is up to you. Which characters matter more? Which ones are not a major part of the plan? Wh...
You are absolutely right that we only want to see the plan once. Either we follow the planning in detail or we follow the execution in detail. We do not need to read it twice. Unless, of course, it...
Two characters (one is a PoV character) come up with a plan to break a third out of prison. They succeed, with only minor complications. If I describe too many details of their plan beforehand, it ...
A big part of the marketing advantage that publishers have is that they have access to this kind of information. This is a problem even for authors going the traditional route, because they are exp...
