Questions tagged [new-users]
New users are those users who may be new to the Stack Exchange Q&A format, and generally have a low reputation score, which starts from 1 at the time of registration.
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Reputation points for joining more than one Stack Exchange site
I saw that you could get a reputation bonus +100 for merging accounts across multiple Stack Exchange sites.
I don't have anywhere near that 200+ reputation, so if that would still apply when I get ...
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Is it advisable to vote up two/three questions/answers in order to make his/her reputation/points to 20, So that he can join chat room
PS: I don't know that other guy; I just want to help that user for the issue he is fighting for.
Sometimes I have observed that people just join Stack Overflow and ask a question. They have less than ...
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How to handle a "new user" migration situation?
From this question: Saving "enlarge image" with web pages
We have a new user who asked a question on StackOverflow, not knowing it wasn't appropriate for his question. Someone told him it ...
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Why can't I immediately self-answer as a community wiki?
Why is it not possible to self-answer your own question immediately while marking it as community wiki?
As I understand it, with a community wiki answer you won't get any points out of it, and it's ...
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Discourage code dumps
Lately, I've seen a lot of "this is my code, please find the bug" questions, i.e., people just dump their complete class file instead of creating a minimal working example.
When I see this, I usually ...
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Pre 100 Rep: Answer own question suggestion/advice popup
While there are other pre 100 rep answer own question threads, none that I've seen put forward what I'd like to ask.
I have only just recently joined so my reputation isn't large, so user privilege ...
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Stackoverflow is becoming less and less noob friendly nowadays
Stack overflow is not the same what it used to be one year before. Experience is very bad for noobs. Moderators are rigid. Recently, they closed one of my question on assembly. They gave me two links ...
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better notification of migrated question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Notify Author when Question is migrated
I have thought it would be very helpful to have a notification in the top left that says something like:
Your question(1) was ...
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Sort order of New Users tab by reputation
This is really minor, but the sort order is backwards when viewing new users by reputation. Since its focus is on new users, you'd expect those with the lowest rep to be first, but it actually shows ...
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What can we do to prevent people from posting their coding questions on Meta?
As you may know, the amount of questions here that actually belong on Stack Overflow is huge. If I'm allowed a guess, it probably happens a few times a day.
Why are people posting in the wrong place?
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Precautionary steps for new users so that their questions won't get closed
It seems that I wasn't clear about what I'm asking:
I've noticed that new users might not always post the best questions and subsequently have their questions closed. Usually the users with low ...
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Do not allow giving minus one for new user questions
I always see Stack Overflow users giving -1 to new users' questions. This is not how you welcome a new user to the community. A new user does not know the rules yet.
I suggest that if one wants to ...
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Why is the "First time here?" banner on the Login Page?
I don't know if there's a valid reason for it, but something which's been bugging me lately is the fact that the "First Time Here? Check the FAQ!" bar appears at the top of the login page. Can we get ...
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Should we create a section for less experienced programmers to ask "easy" questions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Propose Newbie-Overflow site or section
Stack Overflow might consider setting up a section for less experienced programmers who ask what appear to be foolish questions to ...
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On Area 51, what do we do with the users who have no previous exposure to the Stack Overflow network?
I've noticed a very popular Area 51 site proposal: Myanmar IT Pro
At the moment it is the second most followed proposal with well over 100 following users. The problem is that most of these ...
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Badge Suggestion: Nice to Newbies
It would appear that questions asked by users with 1 (or, say, <10) rep points get less attention and are often left unanswered (please correct me if I'm wrong on this). Perhaps people believe that ...
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Why do protected questions only require 10 reputation to answer?
I have noticed that questions are sometimes protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. In order to answer those questions, you must have earned more than 10 reputation on ...
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Rep threshold for upvoting answers to your questions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Shouldn't a rep-less newbie at least be able to upvote a good answer to his/her own questions?
I've been told by a couple of 1-rep users that they can't upvote answers to ...
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A more visual FAQ
I have a hunch that most new users don't read through the entire FAQ before participating. This leads to poor-quality posts and sometimes even hostility from veteran users. This makes it hard for a ...
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Give new users some indication that comments exist
I remember back when I first started using the trilogy being extremely baffled by comments - I could see them in a few places, and people invited me to add them, but I couldn't for the life of me ...
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Question incorrectly moved to Serverfault
I have a question that I don't believe should have been moved to Serverfault.
Update0
Here's what the faq states are appropriate topics for questions on Serverfault:
Servers
Networks
Desktop PCs ...
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On closing new users' questions
I've seen several cases of new SO users getting their 1st question closed, and it really irritates me. In all cases, closing the question was totally justified (unclear, too general, etc.). I often ...
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How much chance/warning should newbie first questions be given before closing as 'not a real question'? [duplicate]
This new user's first question got closed as 'not a real question', way too abruptly in my opinion.
As a first question from a new user it was pretty ok, considering what else is out there.
He did ...
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Reputation of new users with downvoted question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Removing a downvote adds reputation that wasn't there
I've spotted a problem question on travel.SE. At that moment it had -1 score.
I've added another one -1 vote, but got ...
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Can we detect unformatted code and give specific help?
This is related to this feature request around "training videos" but is more specific.
It seems to me that it wouldn't be too hard to make a pretty good guess about when a question contains code that ...
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More obvious formatting help for new users
I often see new users that are unaware of the formatting capabilities of the WMD editor, prominently the "format as code" function.
Some of them don't format their code at all (especially XML and ...
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referral code for new users?
I would like to know if it would be possible to have a referral code for new users? If an existing user gives a friend a referral code to a stackexchange site, the user and the friend will receive N ...
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Closevoting in progress should be visible to newcomers
Not sure if this is a big deal at all. But it appears to me that newcomers are frequently unaware when their questions are going to get closed. And I conjecture that question quality might be raised ...
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Is it recommended for a new user (<200, say) to stick to asking questions and not giving as many answers?
Until s/he is reputable enough to be taken more seriously? I have answered five questions on all of SE (and this is my twentieth question). None of my answers were accepted, even though two were the ...
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Warn new users posting answers when there are close votes on a question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Add an alert when answering a question that has at least a close vote as duplicate
Even though all users can see close vote counts, and close votes automatically post comments ...
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Mechanism to Allow New Users to Comment Everywhere [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment
I understand why Stack Overflow does not allow new users to comment everywhere: this keeps discussions from being dominated by ...
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Retaliatory downvoting
So, after patiently trying to help a newb understand why his answer wasn't helping my question, and not wanting just to give him a down-vote without explaining why, I eventually gave up and just ...
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Trouble with new-user restrictions
I spent a long time writing the answer I found to a question that I asked and only after I hit submit, I got this:
Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:
New users can't answer their ...
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How do I write a comment to a question or a answer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Give new users some indication that comments exist
Hi,
I don't find the place/link/... where I can write a comment on a question or an answer...
I now found out that 50 ...
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What should I do with this user?
There's a new user in Google App Engine town, a user[s] that is keep asking low quality questions with three four different accounts.
https://stackoverflow.com/users/713233
https://stackoverflow.com/...
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Fixing an incorrect answer?
I just saw a (very...) common question on SO, so I copied an answer from the PHP documentation with link.
Trouble is, I misremembered what the example did (remove excess whitespace vs. removing all ...
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Shadow upvotes on own question for newbie users
There have been previous discussions on newbies being able to upvote on their own questions, and although the request was denied, the arguments for and against can be summed up as
They should be ...
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Allow upvote for <15 rep users on own questions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Allow new users to vote on answers they've received
I finally figured out why I get so many 0-vote accepts (enough to get the Tenacious badge).
I never realized (though I ...
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Highlight a phrase from the question for clarification with a drop down list
First: Yes, I know a similar request has been made and responded to before. I think my proposal is significantly different.
Motivation: Make it easier for pre-comment privilege users to answer ...
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Add "New answers from new users" to 10K tools links
We have "new posts from new users" and "new answers to old questions". I'd love to see "new answers from new users". There are a lot of "thanks" and "me too" posts coming from new users, and this ...
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suggestion on how to use this site to new users
I noticed that often new users aren't aware on how use property stackoverflow function like accepting answers or upvoting.
For example in certain cases they received a clearly right answer with many ...
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Require 15 reputation for new users to answer their own question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Suggest dynamic help text for new answerers
The single largest source of moderator flags on StackOverflow is non-answers. This is primarily because new users treat StackOverflow ...
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Odd watij questions
I noticed that suddenly several users with very simple names (e.g. "joe") and score=1 ask the same question about running watij (whatever that is). These questions are all very similarly (poorly) ...
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Flag one's own question without reputation limit
Can we allow a user with fewer than 15 reputation points to flag his own question for moderator attention? I feel that this should be similar to the ability to vote to delete answers and questions: a ...
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Award a 50 rep bonus to new users for reading the FAQ
What if there was a 50 point rep bonus for actually reading the FAQ?
I think this would address two issues.
New users often have trouble with things that are covered in the FAQ.
New users need 50 ...
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No way to please moderators
Here is what I did:
Landed on a post via google.
Found the answer helpful, but needed more explanation. Wanted to ask a question to the person who answered. Incidentally it was the same person who ...
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How to educate a user about Markdown and question style?
I've earned myself a special friend over the last few weeks. I've been cleaning up behind that user now for quite some time for two reasons:
Adds pointless noise to his questions
Does not use the ...
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Should zero-value upvotes be allowed prior to earning 15 repuation? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Buffered Voting
When browsing various StackExchange sites that I have no reputation on I frequently see great questions or answers. I tend to use these sites frequently, but ...
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Why allowing comment edits for only 5 minutes? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Should we be allowed to edit comments?
Why is the time limit for editing comments only 5 minutes?
I have low rep on onstartups.com, and I tried to edit my comment only to ...
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Can we stop users from calling themselves "Server Fault" or similar?
I noticed today that someone's called their user account 'Server Fault', personally I believe it implies, whether intended or not, some form of ownership/authority/legitamacy.
I'm sure it wouldn't be ...
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