Timeline for What should the modal window for first-time askers say?
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| Jun 17, 2021 at 15:43 | history | edited | Yaakov EllisStaff |
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| Jun 17, 2021 at 15:43 | answer | added | Yaakov EllisStaff | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 3, 2021 at 0:25 | history | edited | Tim CampionMod |
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| Apr 28, 2021 at 16:54 | answer | added | Tim CampionMod | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 26, 2021 at 16:42 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | @Neal: Which it does, to a substantial degree, so such a neural net would be quite useful. | |
| Apr 26, 2021 at 16:27 | comment | added | Neal | @DmitriPavlov A neural net capable of grading the MO-worthiness of the question based on the existing dataset is only useful insofar as the community's behavior over the last ten years reflects the ideal standard of MO-worthiness :) | |
| Apr 26, 2021 at 16:25 | comment | added | Neal | Are there any exemplary questions that could be linked in the modal? | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 10:11 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | @DmitriPavlov: The best way to make more users read dialogues is to make the contents clear, concise, and useful. | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 1:03 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | And maybe the "helpful links" in the sidebar should be changed. Currently they link to the help page on how to ask which seems to be inferior to this FAQ meta question. | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 0:54 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | Another small detail I've noticed -- the hyperlinks on the English Language and Usage modal window behave inconsistently when clicked -- the one from the non-customizable section opens a new tab whereas the ones from the customizable section open in the same tab. I think it would be preferable to have all links open in a new tab. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 17:35 | answer | added | Tim CampionMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 5:24 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | @MartinSleziak: Not really, in this approach several steps/forms are necessary, whereas in my suggestion there is only one step. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 5:07 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @DmitriPavlov I think that your suggestion sounds a bit similar to the Ask Question Wizard, which was tested on Stack Overflow and latter abandoned. See: What happened to the Ask Question Wizard / Guided Mode? and The Ask Question Wizard Is Now In Testing! | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 3:51 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | Pie in the sky. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 3:35 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | You would think that by now there would be a neural net capable of automatically grading the MO-worthiness of a question. We certainly have a huge dataset. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 3:34 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | Actually, SE already has some kind of algorithm which gives you feedback after you click "review my question". I just tried it out with a question titled "I need homework help!!!" and it told me that my question was ready to publish. Maybe we could ask for certain key words to be added -- if the question contains the word "homework" for example, we could have the algorithm recommend that the question might not be appropriate for the site. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 3:34 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | A technique I have seen: no model window is presented, instead the main window is decorated with colored arrows pointing to various parts of the dialog, annotated with some hints. For instance, the input field for the title can say “Need an informative title. Do not use titles like “A question about measure theory”.” But this requires redoing the software. Other than that, I have a strong suspicion that most users now reflexively close modal dialogs. (I certainly do.) | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 3:28 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | @DmitriPavlov We might consider propping their eyelids open as in A Clockwork Orange. Short of that, I'm not sure :) In all seriousness, your point is good. Fiddling around in private browsing mode, it seems that the modal window disappears after a single click anywhere on the screen, never to be seen again. Maybe we should petition SE to keep its text visible elsewhere on the screen for first-time askers or something... at any rate I'm not sure there are solutions which wouldn't require redoing the software. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 3:23 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | A much more important question is: how do we get the new users to read the text in the modal window? | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 23:50 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | The answers I've added below are intended to get the ball rolling. Other suggestions are of course welcome! | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 18:19 | answer | added | Tim CampionMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 18:15 | answer | added | Tim CampionMod | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Apr 22, 2021 at 20:31 | history | asked | Tim CampionMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |