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When you first arrive on Unity Answers, you can choose what type of Questions you want to view. You can also sort them further by recent activity, popularity and amount of votes.

filter posts

If you want to view Unanswered Questions in a specific space (such as the default one), navigate to the space first from the drop-down menu.

navigate to default space

choose unanswered questions in default space

We initially created a new section called the Help Room where any user regardless of reputation (amount of karma points) could post questions directly without having to wait for moderator approval. The Help Room is meant to contain posts where users are asking for more general help with problem solving. Now that we don't require pre-moderation for content being submitted to the Default space, we are figuring out how the Help Room best suits the site and users.

choose space

Sticky posts appear in a blue section above the list of questions, please make sure to read these as they contain guidelines or announcements.

sticky posts

Click on the node tree icon for shortcuts to topics, questions, users and badges.

site node tree

Start writing search terms into the search bar to receive suggested posts.

search for content

search for question

You will receive search results directly on the site and you can also refine your search further.

search results

refine search

On a Question, you can see other related threads and see how many followers the post has.

related questions and followers

 


 

Posting Questions, Answers and Comments

When you start typing a Question, a list with suggested existing threads (+ amount of answers) will appear that may already hold the Answer you are looking for.

suggested similar questions

When writing the body of the question, provide enough context for other users to be able to help you out. Do make sure to format any code that you include by highlighting the code and hitting the “101/010” button.

Unformatted code:

unformatted code

Formatted code:

formatted code

Include as many descriptive topics/tags as you can, they will appear in a drop-down menu once you start typing.

Note that topics/tags are case-sensitive, so if you can't find the tag you want to use in the drop-down list, try using lower/upper case letters as an alternative. Here is the full list of tags.

tags or topics

Unity Answers autosaves while you are typing questions, answers and comments.

auto save

Choose which Space to post in.

choose space

If you want to write an Answer, you will find the editor at the bottom of the post. Do make sure to format any code that you include in your reply by highlighting the code and hitting the “101/010” button.

post reply

If you want to follow up on an existing Question or Answer, make sure to use the Comment function rather than reply.

post comment

If you receive an Answer that helped you out, make sure to accept it by clicking on the “Accept” button. You earn karmapoints for accepting answers!

accept answer

You can edit your entire post or just the topics.

edit post

edit topics

 


 

Your User Profile

In order to get to your user profile, click on the icon on the top right of the page then on your username.

navigate to user profile

You will find a list of all your activity here.

user activity

You can manage the content you follow from your user profile.

manage followed content


 

Recognise good content and helpful users

If you find an Answer to be helpful or discover a good Question, make sure to Upvote them. This helps other users find the content more easily and rewards the OP’s for their contributions.   

You also have the option of Downvoting a Question or Answer if you find them unsuitable. Voting down can be done when you have a reputation of 100 karmapoints or more and it costs 2 karmapoints to downvote.

like content

Reward other users with your own karma points for contributing with good Answers, asking good Questions and so on.

reward users


 

User Guide for Moderators

You become a Moderator once you reach 1000 karma points in reputation and thus you must follow the Moderator Guidelines. A space for Moderators has been created to keep track of mod or site-related questions rather than using [META] threads.

As moderators, you are able to move questions from the default Questions/Home section to either the Help Room or Moderators space. Typical posts to send to the Help Room are the “fix my script” type of posts that currently hide the authentic questions we need to find and answer. These types of posts don’t necessarily have to be posted by beginners, and vice versa.

move post

Moderation queue

Moderation tools will be accessible from the top right corner, similarly to how we have it on the forums. Posts can get sent to the moderation queue for review at any time by users with a reputation of 1000 karma points or more. In the moderation queue, you can choose to either Publish a post to the default Unity Answers site, or Reject it. If you choose to reject the post, make sure to leave a comment on it by opening it up in a separate tab so the user knows the reason for rejection.

Reasons for rejecting a post are listed under the Moderator Guidelines.

You can also reach the Moderation Queue through the counter widget on the right side panel of the site.

counter widget

Closing a question

You can choose to close a question for different reasons, some are provided in the drop-down menu shown below. If you choose “Other” - make sure to provide the reason. If you are closing a question due to it being a duplicate - provide a link to the post as a comment.

close question

reasons for closing

Redirect posts

If you want to redirect a post to another, simply choose that option from the drop-down menu and search for the post which it should redirect to. This way, if you for example find a duplicate post, just redirect that one to a more suitable post.

redirect posts

redirect post into

The following reputation allows you to:

1000 - View moderation queue and approve contributions, move questions between spaces, convert answers to comments and vice versa, use the "Ask an Expert" function

2000 - Edit other people's posts

5000 - Close any questions, accept answers

10000 - Delete any post, suspend users

Welcome to Unity Answers

The best place to ask and answer questions about development with Unity.

To help users navigate the site we have posted a site navigation guide.

If you are a new user to Unity Answers, check out our FAQ for more information.

Make sure to check out our Knowledge Base for commonly asked Unity questions.

If you are a moderator, see our Moderator Guidelines page.

We are making improvements to UA, see the list of changes.




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