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"Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming." --- are we?

It depends. I think we don't want to be welcoming with a new user posting "plz solve teh linear algebra homework <see photo>". These questions deserve to be closed and downvoted into oblivion; they sh …
Federico Poloni's user avatar
5 votes

How to make welcoming comments on "homework-like" posts that will be closed?

A lot of times they are closed silently; they accumulate a pile of downvotes, eventually get 5 close votes, and disappear with no indication to the user of what has gone wrong. This is not correct; …
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Reword "What topics can I ask about here?"

Another time recently, an user has asked a question which is very far from research level, and has been reprimanded for not reading the FAQ. However, I realize that there might be a problem in the for …
Federico Poloni's user avatar
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Should users be shown some basic information before posting the first question?

Yes, we should have a page (or a box in the "ask question" page) filled with basic instructions, including "this site is for questions that are non-obvious to professional mathematicians" and "use Mat …
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Revising the help page on "What topics can I ask around here?"

At least from my point of view, it is not clear what "another mathematical discipline" means. Physics? Statistics? That wording is confusing, in my view.
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