Questions tagged [new-users]
New users are those users who may be new to the Stack Exchange Q&A format, and generally have a low reputation score.
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Why can't I upvote posts when my account is new?
To upvote answers or questions I have to have 15 points. To get these I have to first create questions.
I don't understand the reasoning behind this.
Does creating questions make my upvotes more ...
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Insert an image into a MWE of a question or answer
Why don't some users add images when posting a question or answer? I believe that, at least for me, sometimes when the question is not very clear, the drawing helps to understand what you want. Do you ...
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Should we "educate" (new) users by not answering until...?
I catch myself answering questions that are not well asked (without MWE, question not clear to everybody,...), sometimes with comments that request exactly what's missing, because I think I understand ...
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New User posted a "question" in "Answer" Section which was deleted
A new user posted a sort of question in the answer section:
A better \pm symbol
and this got deleted.
Will that user still be able to see the comments so that he knows to post a new question? If, ...
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Proposal: can we add a tutorial+admission test for new users?
It is so frustrating to have so many first posts that miss a MWE or simply show lack of understanding of the style of a Q&A site (vs a forum).
To avoid the tedious comments and big duplication of ...
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When flagging for close: Adding a reason
Posts on StackExchange are closed for numerous reasons, and ticking of the right box for the exact reason might not always fit the question quite right, or the reason might sometimes be very vague. ...
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Maintain motivation for new members [duplicate]
While looking through old questions I noticed the majority of questions is answered by around a dozen of people.
New questions reach a stunning short answering time, which makes it difficult for ...
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"Welcome to TeX.SX!" might be misleading as such a website doesn't exist
The often seen "Welcome to TeX.SX!" message for new users may look like a URL to someone and therefore get used in such a manner ("hey checkout TeX.SX, it's cool"), but the website called tex.sx is ...
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How can we (and should we) help new users on pushing unanswered posts?
I just noticed that it can be hard for new users on our site to push some existing but not answered question. If a new user finds such a post (maybe the first visit on our site), he will have only two ...
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Notifying the user when they are about to post a "give me the codez"-question
We get questions like this all the time, where someone wants us to draw something for them in TikZ or some other graphics package, without providing a minimal working example.
I'm wondering whether ...
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Author unregistered
I posted a answer here: Angles in three dimensional space
But in that post, the author is "unregistered".
How can I specify that response as being posted by me?
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Recommending deletion
It happens fairly frequently that some one with very few reputation points posts an "answer" to a question that the community feels was more suited to being a "comment". Some one then starts an action ...
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How to make an account?
How can I make an account?
The
Welcome to TeX.SX!
page suggests "please consider registering your account", without saying how.
If I start from
tex.stackexchange.com
the option "help" presents me ...
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Recommendation for new users
Here at TeX.SX and Meta.TeX.SX we have some questions and bundles of answers too about etiquettes, e.g.
on downvoting
on closing
on suggested edits
I can not add and link all of them, just for ...
user31729
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Bug in how new user status is calculated
These, I suppose, are relatively exceptional circumstances1 that the designers of the stackexchange network didn't necessarily think about, but it seems that there is a bug in the calculation of new ...
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