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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

If they deserve the bounty you should award it to them. If the answer was good they'd probably already have 50 points or more from the up-votes so adding a bounty probably won't give them any more pri …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This problem affects any forum and is usually solved by recommending that people lurk, read posts and possibly post answers before posting questions. However, the nature of SO is that people find it …

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 …

Lurking and posting answers is a good way to learn the system and what's expected of you as a Stack Overflow/Super User/... participant. So allow users to post their first question "free of charge" - …

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 …

From the SO faq: What is reputation? ... Amass enough reputation points and Stack Overflow will allow you to go beyond simply asking and answering questions: ... 250 Vote to …