Timeline for How do off-topic question askers find MO?
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| Jun 8, 2021 at 9:11 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | It's right to be skeptical - but still I think that it is worth trying. In my 2021 feature request I have mentioned some data from other sites. This was follow-up to the previous feature request from 2017. One of the moderators said back in 2018 that they are planning to do this - it took more than two years. (I understand that some MO users might see advantages to having such questions here - but I did not recall objections to these changes.) | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 9:05 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | @MartinSleziak That's interesting, but I'm skeptical. As Internet users, we are trained to close modals (which usually contain ads, cookie/tracking-related boilerplate, newsletter registration forms, or similar useless information) as quickly as possible to get to the useful content. | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 8:59 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | It is worth pointing out that Tim Campion recently escalated to SE the request for some changes in the text of the modal window shown in your screenshot: What should the modal window for first-time askers say? (The final proposal is in the accepted answer.) | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 8:35 | comment | added | Neil Strickland | Thanks, that's interesting and useful. I got similar results in private mode with a variety of browsers. The precise search term "ask a math question" seems to be important; I did not find MO with various other terms like "math problem" or "math help". Also, searching Bing for "ask a math question" did not find MO. | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 7:16 | history | answered | Najib Idrissi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |