Timeline for What about the community is "toxic" to new users?
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| S Jul 22, 2022 at 15:41 | history | suggested | Rick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Amended unnecessary reference to a serious and debilitating mental health condition with a more suitable word
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 16:59 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Active reading [<http://stackoverflow.com/legal/trademark-guidance> (the last section - scroll down - "Proper Use of the Stack Exchange Name" - "As a name, Stack Overflow, is always written "Stack Overflow" (two words, capital letters).")].
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| Sep 24, 2020 at 16:06 | history | edited | Dagelf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Two more thoughts.
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| Sep 24, 2020 at 12:37 | comment | added | user1937198 | And badges and emoticons go the wrong way, they add to the noise, whereas I'm looking for ways that comments could be more easily removed when they outlive there usefulness, so that we can encorage them more without increasing noise. | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 12:22 | comment | added | Dagelf | I've been dreaming of such a comment system for years. Badges and emoticons became popular, but they're still pretty meaningless IMHO. kialo.com is just about the only real experiment I've yet come across. I'm keen to help build and trial better commenting, but I'm not going to do it all by myself :-D | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 12:18 | comment | added | user1937198 | Combine that with improvements to the help system, (a lot of which is currently documented in random meta posts), perhaps with a crowd sourced wiki, and you could have some significant improvements. | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 12:17 | comment | added | user1937198 | Yep, and really it goes back to what stackoverflow was designed for, the production of quality answers. I suspect that expansion of comment functionality could really help here, perhaps classifying comments into clarifying/improvement comments which an OP/editor could mark as resolved, deleting them. Also some form of explicit pre-answer comments where someone isn't sure they have an answer, so they don't put an answer, but put some ideas/concepts/references that could be used by someone wanting to edit into an answer, again deleting the comment in. | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 11:48 | comment | added | Dagelf | @user1937198 I've added two more impressions on unpopular opinions, and feelings. I can't imagine how overwhelmed you've been with all the feedback, but I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with... by far the hardest problem to tackle here, that I can think of! Kudos. | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 11:46 | history | edited | Dagelf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added unpopular opinion thought
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| Sep 24, 2020 at 11:26 | history | edited | Dagelf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Feelings sectoin.
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| Sep 24, 2020 at 11:22 | comment | added | user1937198 | There is also the issue that those who are willing to spend the time to help with those who are struggling with basic concepts are generally not the same as those who can answer complicated or unusual issues. Focusing on the first time users has a risk of damaging the workflow for the complicated cases, whilst focusing on the complicated cases results in situations that are opaque to those that are simple. This conflict that can't be resolved by the community alone. | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 11:18 | comment | added | user1937198 | I have often wondered if more obvious filtering on the front page to allow a greater proportion of whats on there to be content the user is directly interested in would help the perception of the quantity of junk, thus increasing willingness to engage with specific marginal posts to help turn them into useful content. | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 10:54 | history | edited | Dagelf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2020 at 10:47 | history | edited | Dagelf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2020 at 10:39 | history | edited | Dagelf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2020 at 10:30 | history | edited | Dagelf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Minor clarifications
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| Sep 24, 2020 at 10:25 | history | answered | Dagelf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |