Questions tagged [new-users]
New users are those users who may be new to the Stack Exchange Q&A format, and generally have a low reputation score, which starts from 1 at the time of registration.
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Is something in the Stack Exchange UI inadvertently wrongly leading people to MSE?
I've noticed recently that among the various posts here on meta.stackexchange.com that appear clearly intended for one or another main network site (and there seem to be a handful per day) that:
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What is the expected way for a NEW user to identify the correct SE for a question?
Are the different SE sites intended to operate as a whole? Or is there no expectation that any one site should care about getting questions answered unless they are on topic for that site?
Use case: ...
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Can new users not be bait-and-switched?
As a new user on SE, I shared the common new-user experience of questions downvoted, and closed, and the feeling of being kicked around by (well-meaning) moderators, and perhaps worse, the suspicion ...
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Flag link for new user own post does nothing
A new user (tested only on an unregistered one) has three links below their own question: share, edit, and flag.
The last one (flag) actually doesn't do anything. No popup is appearing. Is there ...
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Add context "refers to site" for "About" used on welcome block for new users
If you are a new user to the site, you will see the welcome block on the right side of the main page:
That block has three links in the bottom part:
About
Help
Meta
Sometime ago, we decided that ...
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Feedback about joining a new Stack Exchange site (with suggestions)
I'm not questioning the moderator decision; this is about the experience.
I'm an experienced Stack Overflow user, but I just joined this Web Applications Stack Exchange site today to ask a related ...
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Request for new user limitation: minimum character count to ask a question
Over at Worldbuilding we periodically receive new users who (not surprisingly) don't believe they need to take the tour or read the Help Center pages before they use the site. Call it being human... ...
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What can I do if an answer in the "First Answers" Review Queue is objectively wrong?
All the options presented to me through the UI do not seem to address the situation correctly. Here is a screenshot of the options available to me.
And here are the Share Feedback options.
The only ...
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Could or should the "search first, ask question later" principle be made more prominently visible?
I'm relatively new (roughly a month), so please excuse any great misunderstandings.
Presumptions / Impressions:
(A) It may vary a bit per case or community, but in general, the approach seems to be ...
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Add on-topic notice to the top part (logo row) for 1 rep users
Whenever I see the blatantly off-topic questions on the site, I'm curious why the asker did this. This is probably due to a hidden from the asker's eyes on-topic notice.
What if we make the on-topic ...
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Reputation graph suggests you've been a member for longer than you are
I joined a new site two days ago. When I look at the reputation graph on my profile, it looks like I've been a member for a couple of weeks already:
Wouldn't it be better to limit the graph from the ...
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Effectiveness of site name / descriptions of sites for "power users"
This is a follow-up of How can a community know who outsiders think a community is for?.
While it could be argued that people posting "bad" don't read the directions of the Ask Question form ...
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Guidance for "me too"ers (answerers / commenters and upvoters)
On Web Applications SE we have a lot of short questions that get lots of views and "a lot" of "me too" or alike answers, comments and upvotes.
Regarding me too upvotes, from ...
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Why can new users only answer every 30 minutes? [duplicate]
Since a new user to Stack Overflow like me can only post an answer to a question every 30 minutes, this makes it extremely irrelevant for new users and will in short; drive users away from Stack ...
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New feature to encourage improvement and discourage hasty closing of almost-good questions from new contributors [duplicate]
A new contributor asks a question that, on face value, is poor. Maybe the wording is off topic, or is phrased to solicit opinion, or is a little cloudy or asks too many questions.
If:
the situation ...
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