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Tagged with new-users discussion
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
It seems from comments that there may be confusion over who I think needs educating.
I mean the reviewers, not the users.
We currently have epidemic numbers of terrible reviews, with a stunningly low ...
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Is Super User always this slow to respond or am I doing it wrong? Can I do anything to fix it?
Early this year, I asked about a Windows 7 upgrade from Vista which made my computer unbootable, on an older account (which I can't find any longer). I followed it for a few months; it got ~50+ views ...
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Dealing with same user multiple posts & not enough details
This question relates to a user that has opened a plethora of questions(7), in an attempt to get the same rough question answered.
The problem in my opinion is this user hasn't given enough details ...
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Low-Reputation Comment Editing
I understand that users with less than 50 reputation can't comment, but sometimes answers from such low-reputation users get converted to comments by moderators, so it's possible that such comments ...
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How do I earn reputation points on Superuser?
I am new here.
I am trying to thank (ie: vote up) or comment on existing questions/answers. But those activities all seem to require points.
Ok - I need points... but all the activities to get ...
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1
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What to do when new user's answer is mischievous / mildly malicious
While reviewing the First Posts queue, I came across this answer where the new user recommends a keyboard short-cut which closes the current window. I down-voted the answer and left a comment.
I ...
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How do you use Super User and Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I have come across several questions/answers that I would like to vote up or contribute to. However, I am not cool enough with reputation points.
Anyone know how you can be cool without asking ...
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Unattended first posts
I am fairly new in the Super User community, and I am still trying to understand how things work. So forgive me for asking this question which may seem a bit silly to some members.
This is ...
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First time visitors cannot upload images - This is annoying
First time visitors cannot upload images.
This is very annoying I would imagine for both parties!
Can we create something which (for a totally wild example), when a first time user tries to upload ...
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How to defend new users from unconstructive downvoting
This may be somewhat duplicate, but I think the issue still stands on its own compared to others.
I've noticed a depressing trend for new users, who often write poorly formed questions, having their ...
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Bad answer repeat offender
There is a certain user I've seen answering some questions on SU that are... well, just bad. Most of his answers consist of a few more questions to the poster (that should be in the comments) and then ...
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Could we please be a little bit nicer to new users? [closed]
There is a distinct decline in the level of civility here. Some of this is due to new users coming in and posting spam and other nonsense, but the offtopic and downvote buttons are doing a pretty ...
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How do I post an image if I don't have enough reputation points to do so?
I am new in superuser. I knew this site from my friend and I wanted to post a question. My problem is related with Google Chrome display. However, I cannot post the image since I don't have any ...
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Why do all (recent) "First Questions" seem to have at least 1 upvote and bad ordering?
I was looking at the "Review, first questions" pages (month view, not random), when something suspicious caught my eye:
Every question has at least 1 upvote! Also, the questions are not ordered ...
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Question migrated but Stack Overflow user has no Super User profile
I just found this stackoverflow question migrated to superuser: How to switch to user perspective in Blender
It's OK so far but I see one little problem: The user has created an account at ...
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Why are late answers allowed?
Why are new users allowed to post late answers to questions from so long ago? Most of the times it's not even useful and it clutters up the Top Questions page.
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What is the effect of down votes on a low-rep user?
If a user is new and receives down votes, they cannot get negative reputation (or even non-positive, i.e., 0) right? So if that user gets down votes, then earns reputation, does the loss of rep they ...
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New Users—Cutting Slack?
I keep wondering this: if somebody with 13 rep writes an answer instead of a comment (because they can't) is it appropriate to downvote that?
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maintaining superuser signal to noise for new users
SuperUser has been open for beta for a very short time and already the flurry of questions is overwhelming and vast. There is a lot of noise (i.e. "Must have...") and very little signal at this point ...
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Superuser - Will it be different?
I am quite looking forward to Superuser. I think it's going to be vastly bigger than Stack Overflow as it could attract many more users who may be less experienced in Internet discussions.
On the ...