Questions tagged [new-users]
for questions about the new user experience & how to improve upon it. If you're a new user, try tagging with what it is you are trying to do instead, such as [asking], [answering], [allowed-questions] or [editing].
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Do we have different definitions of "Looks OK"?
When a new user asks a question, I usually open it to check it and give them a welcome. Sometimes those questions are badly worded, have missing punctuation or some misspelled words, or in other cases ...
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User with multiple lost accounts
Something weird appened in this question, a couple of "answers" talk about lost credentials, and it seems that these users are actually the same person, asking for help, who clearly can't ...
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Can (should) new users be able to answer their own questions?
The question
The Help center states about answering your own question:
If you have more than 15 reputation and already know the answer, click the checkbox that says "Answer your own question&...
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New users asking questions to update old answers? [duplicate]
So, upon writing this, I have found a similar meta question asking the a similar thing; "Communicating with new users who ask a duplicate question", to which the answer was to basically ...
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Can you upvote/downvote answers to your own questions even without the required reputation?
The upvoting privilege comes at 15 reputation points, and the downvote privilege at 125 points.
If a user that has not surpassed this baseline has received a good answer to their question, can they ...
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Would adding an additional prompt for 'game identification' questions encourage users to provide more information? [duplicate]
I've been on a number of SE sites for a while now but this is my first post on a Meta. If this has already been suggested before, I'm happy to recind the question.
Game identification questions are ...
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Can we stop voting down new user's posts? [duplicate]
Please stop voting down new people, instead just fix their spelling mistakes, say whats wrong and don't be the guy that sounds like this:
CAN YOU PLEASE SPECIFY MORE OF YOUR PROBLEM BECAUSE I DON'T ...
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Create a chat room for the posts that don't fit the Q & A guidelines
It seems quite clear that the arqade site is not a forum and after looking at posts by new users it seems that quite a few of them do not know this and try to treat it as such.
I was wondering if ...
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What to do with Pokémon Go questions where askers mistake us for Niantic support?
With the Pokémon hype, we're seeing a lot of new users finding their way to our Q&A site. Unfortunately, this means a lot of low level questions:
Duplications
Error related questions (i.e. ...
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Please don't discourage new users from using this site
Don't discourage strange or odd new users to use this site. I saw this question with a score of -8 and closed. (I've edited it recently) It was asking about filling some hotel rooms using cheats, ...
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Add a redirect from arqade.stackexchange.com to gaming.stackexchange.com
I'm fairly new to this site, and whenever I'm talking about the site I call it 'Arqade'. A lot of times I will type arqade.stackexchange.com into the address bar, but I get a message that it couldn't ...
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Do we need more reputation to comment than to answer?
I raised an issue I see a lot when reviewing new users posts, in that the answer the user had given was more of a comment, if anything.
The user replied that they were forced to supply an answer to ...
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Duplicate user accounts
I've found something strange on pokemon-oras
This makes me think that this guy has created several accounts, each one has only asked a single question. He hasn't even upvoted or accepted an answer. ...
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What to do with unruly users?
Earlier today, a new user posted a question about a Minecraft crash. Being a regular user, I made a couple of touch-ups, edited the title, removed unnecessary tags, etc. This was not received well. I ...
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Temporary users
I see a lot of new/temporary users coming and going through this site, often posting incomplete or nonsensical questions that just can't be answered for one reason or another, like this one.
Now by ...
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