Please add documentation about the redaction tool to the moderator help

Question

Some of us were trying to figure out how to use the redaction tool correctly, as it can be a little counter-intuitive, when somebody pointed out the documentation in the moderator newsletter. That was, in fact, just what we needed -- but, 11 months later, I for one didn't remember that it was there.

Moderators see an additional section in the Help Center for moderator tools. Could we add the information about this tool there? I think of the newsletter as a place for announcements, but I look for help in the Help Center. The instructions are already written; a cut/paste (or link) would do the job.

In general, when a new tool is announced in the newsletter, could you please review the documentation you've already written to see if it also belongs in the help somewhere? I know this does happen sometimes; I don't know how systematic the process is.

Answer 1

This seems to come up a lot, so I've written a detailed guide to using this tool. It can be found in the moderator-only section of the help center for your site at /help/redact-revision

There's nothing particularly sensitive about the information presented there - as you noted, we've covered this publicly in the newsletter before, as well as on meta - but I took the opportunity to flesh it out a bit more, with copious example screenshots and a bit of prescriptive guidance. Hopefully this can serve as a platform for future clarifications and guidance when next we encounter confusion.