Questions tagged [new-users]
Questions that deal with general issues regarding new users and their assimilation into the Math Stack Exchange community.
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How to guide users re PSQs
I’ve reviewed a fair slug of the discussion here on the meta about so-called problem-statement questions (PSQs). I know that some of us disdain them and that others defend them. I also know from ...
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Ideal onboarding for MathSE
As a community, we expect new users of the site to do a lot of work before making their first post (which is on average a new question). They have to
make an account and sign up,
be at least somewhat ...
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Closing new users questions without comments.
I saw some questions in my close votes review queue that were asked by new users and had 4 close votes (and eventually got closed) without any answer or comment at all and without any comment ...
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What can we do to deny bot-users a platform for their content?
I hardly ever visit Meta so forgive me if this has been addressed already. I just wanted to flag an issue:
The user Statistics Tutorial is a bot. So far I have deleted, along with other community ...
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Standard response to "homework" questions [duplicate]
Does there exist a boilerplate response to comment on questions that consists of a problem with no effort at a solution (as might be posed by a student posting a problem from a problem set)?
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Proposal: Require first time question askers to pass a short quiz on how to ask a good question, before posting their first question
Given the large number of first time question askers who evidently do not really read the advice on how to ask a good question, I propose:
The site should require first time question askers to take a ...
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The ever rising barrier to entry of Mathematics SE
Recently, I have been going over the accounts of a few users (using since 2 years or more) here and sorting questions by newest. I found that, usually, most people's oldest questions or answers weren'...
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Implementing a fill-in-the-blank type structure for new users asking questions
A notable problem on this site seems to be PSQs from new users. In order to encourage better questions, I suggest implementing a fill-in-the-blank type structure for new users asking questions. Once a ...
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How to respond to newbie answer.
I came across a late answer by a new user to a question, which I link here; and I have a dilemma how to respond.
The formatting was pretty bad (read: non-existent), so I edited it and commented, ...
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Are the curators becoming overbearing in impeding the use of the site by askers/answerers?
I see one dimension into which MSE users might be partitioned into two parts, is into the "asker/answerers" and the "curators".
Asker/answerers view the site as a place for those ...
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A Beginner and the Problem with the 50 Reputations Requirement
I have just started studying calculus and sometimes have questions which are super easy for the most members of the site.
I had a question and did not want to ask it because a similar one was already ...
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About a possible change of instructions to ask a question, for beginners.
It's a well known problem that a new user often doesn't ask a question properly, e.g. asks a PSQ.
Perhaps the user can be suggested to check just this
table, (to begin with), instead of the current 2 ...
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Calling attention to the Staging Ground, a new site area under development to help new users
Recently Stack Exchange is developing a new area of the website called the Staging Ground, and the announcement is now a featured post on Meta.SE. Having searched the meta and a couple of chatrooms ...
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Feature request to help new users [duplicate]
I had this thought the other day on what was concerning new users the most, and one thing I noticed was how new users' questions were regularly downvoted. Being a new user means being exposed to many ...
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Is there a shorter and more opinionated version of "How to ask a good question?" that we can direct new users to?
The advice in how to ask a good question is good, but reading through the whole thing takes a while and, IMHO, requires some familiarity with the site to interpret. It also presents the reader with ...
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