Rename the FAQ? How frequently are the FAQ questions asked?

[DaveX]

I was looking for the format codes for posts, and thought to click on

https://forum.arduino.cc/faq

It doesn't even state the questions it is answering:

• Is this a civilized Place?
• How should I move the discussion?
• How should I talk to people?
• Does the forum care about me?
• What should I do if I find a problem?
• How should I behave?
• Should I make a mess?
• Can i plagiarize?
• Who posts stuff?
• Am I agreeing to anything?

Instead of FAQ, I suggest renaming the tab on the header to "Conduct" or "Rules" or something else that doesn't mislead about its content.

ETA: Supported formatting in posts (markdown, BBCode, and HTML) - users - Discourse Meta had some guidance, but [spoiler]spoiler doesn't work.[/spoiler] Also A thread with tips and tricks for the new Discourse based Arduino forum

[Ballscrewbob]

@DaveX

• Is this a civilized Place?
  For the most part YES

• How should I move the discussion?
  Flag it to the moderators.

• How should I talk to people?
  As if they don't know what you have and cannot see what you are doing as the OP
  As a responder try to take notice of the tone of the Q. and try respond in kind until you have more idea.

• Does the forum care about me?
  Yes it does.

• What should I do if I find a problem?
  What kind of problem as they can have different responses ?

• How should I behave?
  Try be polite and offer as much info as you can.

• Should I make a mess?
  Not recommended but it would need more definition to give a better answer .

• Can i plagiarize?
  To a degree YES. Most projects could often be considered off shoots of similar ones but might need adaptive changes.

• Who posts stuff?
  Anyone.

• Am I agreeing to anything?
  Yes. Small print does exist but so do rules on that aspect too eg GDPR or similar.

Some items need a little more detials.

[DaveX]

Thanks. I was trying to infer the implied questions to the given FAQ answers, because my first thought on reading the FAQ was "Who is asking these supposedly Frequently Asked Questions?"

And next was a search for bad faq

Which turned up :

Why FAQ Pages Are Almost Always a Bad Idea (And What to Do About It)

In regard to the specific question that prompted my click on FAQ, I think the forum would be better is there was a '?' in the edit box that pointed to Arduino's flavor of discourse editing, which seems in some ways different than Discourse's flavor of editing.

[Ballscrewbob]

FAQ can be good and bad.

Implementation is often the key factor.
Many can be stripped down to cover a more basic and easily digestible format.

Referring to a longer more complete version also has its place as some people need to understand past the basics.

[DaveX]

But for this particular document at FAQ - Arduino Forum , if someone looked at the text of it without seeing the title (scroll it up just a bit), could anyone honestly classify it as a "FAQ"?

[Ballscrewbob]

There use to be some section specific "FAQ" these were cut loose by Glados and replaced in a lot of cases with less than generic and sometimes non meaningful responses.
No rhyme or reason to the cutting loose or even a heads up.

Instead of FAQ they were "HOW TO" and covered some specific knowledge.
Not all the "how to" were generic.

New to the NANO 33 BLE, SENSE, IOT please read this first.

The BLE SENSE, BLE, and 33IOT have TWO COM ports. The second COM port also often referred to as "BOOTLOADER" can be invoked by quickly double tapping the reset button. It can also be used to help clear out a sketch that does not behave. For that simply put it into BOOTLOADER mode then upload either BLINK or BARE MINIMUM from the EXAMPLES. The IDE knows and expects this type of action and can handle it. Most often there is no need to chase the new COM port or to force your OS to choose anothe…

How to use THIS section of the FORUM

Welcome to the ONLINE EDITOR... How to use this section of the forum - please read. Before you start please ask yourself if you followed the The getting started completely. SELECT THE PLUGIN OPTION ! [getting started v2.jpg] 1. Basic information needed This is the CREATE ONLINE EDITOR section. Please try to include the following information in your post. • Your computer operating system and version. E.g. Windows 10 pro x 64. • Your Browser information such as Chrome Version 56.0.2924.87…

Just two of many cases.

[Ballscrewbob]

Welcome to the ONLINE EDITOR.pdf (649 KB)

CLEAN UP BEFORE INSTALLING ANOTHER COPY OF THE IDE OR ARDUINO CREATE.pdf (345 KB)

Importing sketches and libraries.pdf (285 KB)

These were often made with the participation or permission of Arduino staff.
And by staff I mean EMPLOYEES not contractors.

EDIT...
Yes I could trim them a little more, but with with the current admin they would not be allowed to remain or be useful floating around. The picture simply show how long ago they were made under SMF. No point making edits for them to be also changed with no form of heads up.
Or as was the case for so many redirected to a totally obsolete version by an admin aka GLADOS

They are just examples of SPECIFIC faq / how to.
Still worthwhile but crapped on from on high.

[DaveX]

I've seen some of those, but they don't match the current editor.

doesn't look like my edit box:

The newly spelled out code tag icon doesn't wrap <CODE></CODE> around the selection. Where is a poster supposed to find out how to syntax highlight code with markdown like this?

    ```cpp
    
    ```

It sure ain't in the FAQ.

[Ballscrewbob]

No point making changes with the current ADMIN !
Would only get lost somewhere or be incorrectly appropriated and no suitable "derivative" produced.

You can however see that they were quite specific even in the "fleshed out" state.
Zero point making a "thin" version either as that would still suffer the personal wrath of "Glados"

[ZinggJM]

Thanks to this topic I finally got a severely missing badge: Read the community guidelines. Thanks.
Yes, I also think it should be renamed!
BTW: I need to change my behavior:

• Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.

-jz-