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22 questions linked to/from What about the community is "toxic" to new users?
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Why are some people on Stack Overflow so toxic? [duplicate]
I have tried to make my questions on Stack Overflow as good as possible. They are clear, have no typos, and I even spend an extra 15 minutes making sure they are ready to post.
The moment I post, I ...
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Perception of toxicity in newcomers. What can we do about it? [duplicate]
My problem, resumed, is that since I started being actve on Stack Exchange some days ago, I've got already three members behaving rather nastily to me. Probably acting as they thought was totally in ...
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Should 'Hi', 'thanks', taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?
I edit a lot of posts every day. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:
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Should these items be ...
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The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
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Thank you everyone for the feedback you have provided. At this time, we will work through the feedback we have received to help us determine where to take our research on reputation next.
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Come Take a Look at our New Contributor Indicator!
This feature is now live across the network.
We've been doing quite a bit of research into ways that we could help new users have better experiences that ultimately lead them to becoming increasingly ...
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GPT on the platform: Data, actions, and outcomes
In a meeting with some moderators last week, I committed to releasing the data sets from our initial studies around the efficacy and false positive rates of ChatGPT detectors to them. Tuesday ...
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What are some deferred, ignored, or sunset projects we wish SE would work on to facilitate the community?
We all have our pet projects - things we wish SE would do but which seem to be forever stuck in the backlog pile. Other times, something that's well received gets forgotten in the shuffle.
Inspired by ...
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Introducing new user onboarding project
Following the Public Platform Q2 2021 roadmap, the team is kicking off the new user onboarding project and announcing our plans for the product-discovery phase.
New user onboarding – Purpose
We see ...
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What should I do if I am afraid to post for fear of downvote hell?
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Should I avoid posting (writing questions or answers) unless I am willing (and able) to put forth the exorbitant effort required to produce "exceptional content". **Will ...
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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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Has or does SE suffer from shills or cabals of special interest groups looking to peddle influence or control narrative?
Excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_is_not_so_great
Editors have learned that formation into "gangs" is the most effective way of imposing their views on opposite-...
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Closing questions while being friendlier to newbies
The SO community is very aggressive about closing duplicate and off-topic questions. This is a good thing overall, but I feel like the experience for new users who ask dup or off-topic questions is ...
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Can we have the dataset for the loop #2?
Independent verification is a pillar of the scientific method, partly for sanity-checking and also because (and I've mentioned this multiple times before) both the cohorts used for the loop and the ...
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Why hate Reddit and ChatGPT? [closed]
Does the Stack Exchange community hate Reddit?
I mean, Reddit is much better Stack Exchange. Isn't it high time to change our mindset? Stack Exchange is dying without any new questions and answers. I ...
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What does it mean when we say "be nice to new users"?
Today a brand new user to the SE community, asked a question about graph theory. This is the full text of their question
Let G be a bipartite graph with 2n vertices exactly one perfect matching. Show ...
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