It is currently not easy to find the description of what is on-topic for a given stack exchange site - at least not until you know how! I've been more or less involved with various stack exchange sites for a few years now, and I never did understand how to find this.
The help button is fairly hidden away and small, and even when you find the help pages, then there usually just seems to be a fairly large bunch of different pages about 'Asking'. However, in fact, for (almost?) all stack exchange sites, just take the base URL and add /help/on-topic
and you will find the page I wanted all along.
I think it would be extremely useful if the left-hand links on any given stack exchange site included an 'About' link, which always links to the /help/on-topic
page of that site.
If you try this for a few different sites, you will see that this given page very much does serve as an 'About' page for that site.
I think that this is something that a great many people are going to want to find, and that is also really quite hard to find at the moment.
The suggested change would make it more or less self evident (and arguably as another desirable side effect might help a bit in keeping first questions on topic?).
@TheLethalCoder has produced the following image, which very much captures what I am suggesting here (includes [tour], [help], [help/on-topic] & [help/dont-ask] links, as discussed in comments):
[help/on-topic]
resolves as help center on any site towards the relevant help center?[help/on-topic]
- posting it where? How?[tour]
becoming tour./help/dont-ask
. A lot of the "early" stuff isn't too consistent.m
, i.stack.imgur.com/1DSRpm.png, the image is smaller.