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Chat FAQ section-specific links don't expand, essentially hiding information [duplicate]
Just now I was searching for official information on the criteria for chatrooms to be frozen or deleted, in order to help a user who was asking about it.
The auto-message notifying that a room has ...
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Chat FAQ is misleading regarding markdown in multi-line messages
This question follows the discussion in comments here.
We know that Markdown in chat fails for multi-line messages. Debatable, but OK.
However, the Chat FAQ for formatting shows us what appears to ...
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Add "> text" quote markup to chat FAQ
It's possible to quote a block of text in chat by preceding it with a greater-than sign and a space:
> I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts
This produces a nice vertical dotted line in the message.
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Should we continue to use "The Stack Exchange Network" on the Chat FAQ text?
I saw today that the site still refers to itself as "The Stack Exchange Network" in some places but I'm not sure if that's correct, current terminology.
Here is an example from the Chat FAQ ...
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making the chat help for inline references more clear
The chat help includes the line "Some links will be automatically inlined if posted on a single line by themselves, such as":
I interpreted this "oneboxing" as only having to do Shift+Enterpaste-in-...
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Why does the chat FAQ say we have to be nice to people who don't deserve it?
From the chat FAQ:
Yes. We expect community members to treat each other with respect … even when they don't deserve it.
(Emphasis mine.)
Can anyone explain this rule?
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Clarify standards for rooms worth retaining in the chat FAQ
The chat FAQ says here that:
Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages ...
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