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Ask HN: Where can I find meta.News.YCombinator.com

by tzury·17y ago·5 comments·view on hn ↗

Hi,

There are many (hidden) features which are not documented, at least not in a single point where one can find them all.

I always wondered what is the way to create polls. You know, with the up/down voting options, etc.

Also, how to quote in comments, and how to post code having it displayed in a fixed width font.

There are probably more features which I, and probably other members of the community would appreciate if they were documented.

(although, this poll thing might be risky, if some might misuse it, and will turn this site into a stupid poll site, but I am not afraid too much since the signal-vs-noise ratio has been kept very well ever since).

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Both of your questions are answered in the FAQ: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

well, I should have looked at there first, faq me!

Thanks!

The poll feature is, I think, intentionally vague as a soft-firewall to having a shed load posted (I wont post a link just in case that is the theory; it's not hard to work out though). THere is a karma threshold but I am not sure what it is.

There arent too many guidelines on how to quote. I usually use italics and others use >.

Formatting guides exist on this help page: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc (it's linked too next to most text boxes but sometimes not hugely noticeable)

(I dont know if your asking to find out about these things or requesting additional help pages; either way at least the questions are answered for others :))

I managed to guess it (poll url) though! thanks anyway