Timeline for Can we please be more generous to elementary beginners?
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| Apr 10, 2019 at 22:07 | comment | added | user279515 | Just want to point out that OP did return to the site yesterday. | |
| Apr 7, 2019 at 11:19 | comment | added | quid Mod | @BillDubuque see the last paragraph of Mark Bennet's answer. This is closely linked to the high turn-over. | |
| Apr 7, 2019 at 4:30 | history | edited | Jyrki Lahtonen | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 373 characters in body |
| Apr 7, 2019 at 4:25 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | If all the people upvoting Jack's posts would guide as many newbies as I do, the problem might be solved. But, I'm not holding my breath. | |
| Apr 7, 2019 at 4:23 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | @BillDubuque The number of people referring newbies to "How to ask a good question" and other similar guides seems to be almost a constant, but the number of newbies is increasing. The ratio is becoming worse. Shog9 at least thinks this is inevitable, when the site keeps growing. I didn't want to believe that, but it seems to be happening. | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 22:13 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | Why do you believe "this does not scale well"? | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 20:39 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | I repeat: In the case of a low quality question the answerers are also in the focus of my "janitorial" work. If the site were smaller, we could more easily do more to help new users get up to speed. As Shog9 points out this does not scale well for a large site. It is up to the interested answerer to take the role of a mentor. Don't get me wrong, many of them do! It is those users that regularly show up answering LQ question but don't give the noob help in asking that I want to reach. I'm sure we can talk it over. | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 20:31 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | The In search of a question chatroom may be relevant. | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 20:27 | history | answered | Jyrki Lahtonen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |