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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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Why is upvoting being recommended here?
I've just noticed that the full text you get on the First Posts review queue includes:
When in doubt, upvote the question and leave a comment to help the user out, or click Skip if you are not sur …
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What can we do for new users who want to ask a question that's already been asked, but hasn'... [duplicate]
I've mentioned this several times, but only in answers to other questions or comments.
What can we do to help new users who come to the site with a problem but find a question already exists, but it …
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Possible Poor grammar on the "Welcome to Stack Overflow" banner
This was originally reported back in September 2010 but despite being tagged status-completed is still a problem:
It states:
Welcome to Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers
Surely …
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What advice would you give beginners joining a Stack Exchange site?
I'd give the same advice for any forum/bulletin board/Q&A site.
Lurk.
Then once you've got a measure of the site start posting.
I realise that this doesn't really help those who come to the site wi …
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The problem with noobs and reputation points
I've been a professional software developer for 26 years now and I still don't know every intricacy of languages I'm supposed to be an "expert" in & I struggle to answer some of the questions here.
J …
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New members' behaviour
There's nothing moderators can do about down-votes, but they could decline flags that simply indicate that it's low quality, but probably won't.
There are a lot of flags being raised - particularly o …
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Too many people with just "1" rep
There is nothing intrinsically wrong in creating a 2nd account - especially if you want to keep "work" questions separate from "personal" questions.
The problems start if you then use those accounts …
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Allow pseudonym users by allowing hidden associations between users?
I can see where you are coming from on this, but I'm not sure it would be useful enough to warrant implementation.
The fact that you still want the reputation bonus from account association is the pr …
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Where IS the Stack Overflow FAQ?
Either here or on any site's meta search for questions tagged faq or faq-proposed. Stack Overflow's can be found here and here.
These will give you most of the information you need.
As you've alread …
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How to accept migrated answer from new account?
If you want to have two sets of accounts that are linked across sites, then you will need two OpenIDs. So you will need to create an OpenID for the "humanist" account on Christianity and then log into …
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Heuristics for detecting a bad answer?
There might be one class of answer that needs to be allowed - though not as an answer.
This answer has just been posted on a 5 month old question. It basically says:
I'm getting this problem as w …
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Reputation points for joining more than one Stack Exchange site
Once you have 200+ points on one site you can clear the associations and then regenerate them. This will give you the 100 point bonus across all sites.
NOTE Since I wrote this answer the situation ha …
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Allow new users to post self answers at any time
Further to this question:
Should we really be suggesting that people put the answer in the question?
I originally proposed the following solution:
Rather than blocking new users from self answering i …
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If a user asks a good question with a bad title, should we help them or close the question?
Use the edit link to improve the title - and anything else that's wrong with the post.
Even if the post is closed - or perhaps I should say, especially if the post is closed - you should edit the pos …
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Use dictionary words for new-user usernames
The amount of effort required to create and maintain a dictionary of globally "safe" words would be prohibitive.
Then you've got the problem (as others have mentioned) that you'll run out of words. W …