Timeline for Come Take a Look at our New Contributor Indicator!
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 13:58 | comment | added | TylerH | It is not a stereotype but a data-driven metric. Please do not conflate the two. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 2:25 | comment | added | user392547 | @Wildcard Hehe I'm tagging you and simultaneoously staring at several banners telling me that peterSO is a new contributor. Anyways, With 222 rep, peterSO doesn't really count as new any more. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 1:05 | comment | added | Wildcard | @Chair, careful, peterSO is a new contributor. :P (Which I think illustrates several problems with this "new contributor indicator" all by itself.) | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 4:41 | comment | added | Ooker | this has been discussed in other top answers | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 13:16 | comment | added | user392547 | I don't get what you're suggesting. Are you trying to say that the whole concept is harmful and should be discarded? Or can you propose a modification instead to kind of tone down the assumption that new users are going to mess up. | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 13:15 | comment | added | Pekka | So what, though? Hard to see how a waving hand icon will hurt those new users who are already super competent programmers, other than getting some well-intentioned "welcome, friend" fluff and advice. Surely they'll survive that. No? | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 13:00 | history | answered | peterSO | CC BY-SA 4.0 |