Timeline for Come Take a Look at our New Contributor Indicator!
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| Aug 23, 2018 at 19:11 | comment | added | Wildcard | @Shog9, actually that seems more related to just meta.stackexchange.com/q/252641/307622 for everyone. | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 18:14 | comment | added | Shog9 | Related (in a good way): meta.stackexchange.com/questions/165179/… | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 17:56 | comment | added | doppelgreener | Yeah, totally fair to say. On per-site metas I experience established users still learning about parts of our process they'd never encountered before. | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 17:52 | comment | added | Masked Man | @doppelgreener That is also fine, but there's no specific reason to be not patient with not-so-new users. Honestly, I couldn't think of any reason why interactions with new users should be different from interactions with everyone else. Let's say a 100k rep user posts a comment wondering why his question got closed. Why can't we explain it to him just as we would to a new user? There's no reason to be nasty with comments like, "you have 100k rep, you should already know this, you idiot!' | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 17:43 | comment | added | doppelgreener | I imagine the intention was to remind people to be patient in explaining how things work because this person's new and Stack Exchange works differently to other sites, if that was the case, that got totally lost in translation to the point this is completely speculative of me. | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 17:17 | comment | added | Masked Man | @CharlieBrumbaugh Of course! I think SE got carried away too far with their Welcome Bandwagon this time. While I am certain this wasn't their intention, the "New contributor" indicator seems to suggest that being nasty with everyone else is somehow less of a problem ("You are not a new contributor, how come you haven't read the help pages?" type of comments) ... or at least, some people will interpret it that way. So, we just end up replacing one problem with another. | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 17:13 | comment | added | Charlie Brumbaugh | As a long time user who still gets rude/condescending comments, I support this 100%! | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 17:05 | history | answered | Masked Man | CC BY-SA 4.0 |