Currently if you do !faq for an invalid topic you get-
This is unintuitive, doesn't look good, and the message itself is confusing? To elaborate on the unintuitive part, the only people who are broadcasting faq's are 99% gonna be staff with the 1% rare chance of a regular broadcasting a faq in PM's to someone. The purpose of the broadcast faq is to answer questions, however a failed broadcast for a FAQ going through just serves to be annoying to staff/confuse users who see the failed broadcast and for that same reason a failed !rfaq doesn't go through and it only returns the error message. it makes no sense that a failed !rfaq only sends the error return message (which is more convenient), while failed !faq sends the failed broadcast to chat AND the error message?? We should have the failed FAQ broadcast function like a failed RFAQ broadcast.
And lastly the /faq help explanation is very poor. "Provides a link to the FAQ" and "add for all of them" is comically vague, a link that does what? "add all for all of them"- what's "add all to all of them"? that's not proper grammar and im pretty sure some poor soul has tried /faq autoconfirmed, badges, proxy etc- thinking literally add all. These faqs are designed for complete new users of varying levels of English proficiency given how wide P.S in language and age so clarifying the help message is needed in my opinion. Also there's straight up FAQ's missing from the list provided like 'customavatar'. Something like this could maybe work-
"/faq [topic] - Provides a link that answers the FAQ topic. The list of FAQ's is: autoconfirmed, badges, customavatar, decay, ladder, lostpassword, privacy, proxy, rng, staff, tiers, tournaments."
RFAQ's use the term topic so unifying this with the faq command helps, also "theme" is pretty vague too.
EDIT: If this is approved I'll work on this as well.
This is unintuitive, doesn't look good, and the message itself is confusing? To elaborate on the unintuitive part, the only people who are broadcasting faq's are 99% gonna be staff with the 1% rare chance of a regular broadcasting a faq in PM's to someone. The purpose of the broadcast faq is to answer questions, however a failed broadcast for a FAQ going through just serves to be annoying to staff/confuse users who see the failed broadcast and for that same reason a failed !rfaq doesn't go through and it only returns the error message. it makes no sense that a failed !rfaq only sends the error return message (which is more convenient), while failed !faq sends the failed broadcast to chat AND the error message?? We should have the failed FAQ broadcast function like a failed RFAQ broadcast.
And lastly the /faq help explanation is very poor. "Provides a link to the FAQ" and "add for all of them" is comically vague, a link that does what? "add all for all of them"- what's "add all to all of them"? that's not proper grammar and im pretty sure some poor soul has tried /faq autoconfirmed, badges, proxy etc- thinking literally add all. These faqs are designed for complete new users of varying levels of English proficiency given how wide P.S in language and age so clarifying the help message is needed in my opinion. Also there's straight up FAQ's missing from the list provided like 'customavatar'. Something like this could maybe work-
"/faq [topic] - Provides a link that answers the FAQ topic. The list of FAQ's is: autoconfirmed, badges, customavatar, decay, ladder, lostpassword, privacy, proxy, rng, staff, tiers, tournaments."
RFAQ's use the term topic so unifying this with the faq command helps, also "theme" is pretty vague too.
EDIT: If this is approved I'll work on this as well.
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