Questions tagged [welcoming]
Questions related to the Stack Overflow aims of becoming more "welcoming" to newer users. Use this for discussions about potential policy changes, and not to deal with specific incidents (except as mentioned as part of broader discussions).
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The moderation culture of the site needs to change or it will finish killing it [closed]
SO has been steadily loosing user traffic over time in recent years:
https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
There is a combination of factors, such as more competition arising ...
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The question asking experiment in "Unconvering SO toxicity" by Alex Ziskind [duplicate]
A year ago, a YouTuber named Alex Ziskind published this video:
Uncovering StackOverflow's TOXICITY
One can discuss all sorts of aspects of that video. But - I don't want to do that, nor do I accept ...
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Another slap in our face with this newest Stack Overflow blog post [closed]
"Are LLMs the end of computer programming (as we know it)?", ask our overlords at Stack Exchange Inc, through the person of Ben Popper (sp?), the Director-of-Content, and Ryan Donovan, blog ...
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Focus on answering questions may help to mitigate the decline of traffic. And it *can* be coupled with making quality generic answers
Update: it seems we can ditch that Library of quality answers goal, as it failed already. So the only option left is to answer questions, without any drastic modifications. While that ridiculous ...
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How about an interactive welcoming tutorial?
Some students say:
without a clear understanding of the community’s rules, it was hard to get started. [...] it seemed like the site punished people for not knowing how to engage with the community ...
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Is starting an answer with "Welcome to Stack Overflow" discouraged? [duplicate]
I posted this answer on a question asked by a new Stack Overflow user. Since the Stack Overflow user was new, I decided to start my answer with “Welcome to Stack Overflow!”.
However, my answer was ...
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Did I just get told off by email? If so, what did I do?
I just received an email from Stack Overflow with the subject "Stack Overflow - Guiding question askers - Part 1", which appears to be (quite patronisingly and passive-aggressively IMHO) telling me ...
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Why do people downvote questions from people with only a few reputations? [duplicate]
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: Why do we separate ViewModels per Activity/Fragment?
This is a question I got from a professional website and I couldn't answer the question.
The ...
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Under the radar: unmonitored tags
So here's a systemic problem I've noticed for a while: tags without active moderators are generally much worse than tags that do have active moderators.
A lot of the "unwelcoming" atmosphere on Stack ...
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Another new user complaining about the site being unfriendly and elitist ... what to do differently?
Screenshot:
The fire-script of the 'MachineGun script (js)' does what he wants (from https://answers.unity.com/questions/207890/shoot-when-gui-is-pressed.html)
The answers of https://answers.unity....
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How can we stop failing the users who we actually want to join, and remain as, members of our community?
For context, please read this excellent answer by Scratte, one of the very users this question is concerned with.
What was your reaction to that answer? Sadness? Shame? Despair? Because those were ...
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When do we stop blaming the community?
After a contribution hiatus from SO for reasons of time, meta drama, and general lack of quality, I have "come back" during my downtime. And basically, nothing has changed. All these welcoming posts, ...
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Have the comments posted on Stack Overflow by itself become more friendly over the years?
Looking at the graph showing the historic evolution of the percentage of unfriendly comments made (red line) as detected by the Unfriendly Comments Robot v2 (UC-R2) taken from this answer of Did Stack ...
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"Do you consider yourself a member of the Stack Overflow community?" Question
Since when the "welcoming wagon" started, I have this little question in my mind:
Are answers to "Do you consider yourself a member of the Stack Overflow community?" really coherent to what we ...
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Dissecting a specific instance of an unwelcoming complaint
Here's an interesting situation I came across recently that I thought could be an object lesson in what is wrong with Stack Overflow these days. (None of this is particularly new, but examples help to ...
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