Timeline for Let's have an explicit triage system for questions from new users
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/ | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 9:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ | |
| Oct 7, 2014 at 22:41 | comment | added | IMSoP | I haven't time to expand this into a separate answer, but the key for me here is "the people who want to give it". I was reminded of the volunteer "Assistant Community Editors" (ACEs) on h2g2.com, whose primary purpose is to welcome newcomers to that community - a user-focused role, with user-focused tools to support it. There need to be features which both encourage and assist those experienced users who want to help with that task in helping new users get constructive feedback and help in integrating, alongside the separate features for improving the quality of content. | |
| Oct 7, 2014 at 22:29 | comment | added | IMSoP | I think the difference in emphasis between welcoming and winnowing is a difference in emphasis between building a knowledge base and building a community. Treating content quality as the only thing that matters says "we have enough users, only come in if you're going to be up to scratch", and maybe that is the case for SO and other established sites. For the Stack Exchange concept in general, though, establishing community is important, and for that, you need to teach people how to stay, improve, and fit in, not just drive them away. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 14:32 | comment | added | Shog9 StaffMod | From the perspective of Stack Overflow, there are simply many more people asking questions than there are people willing and able to hold their hands. Triage is 100x more important to SO than the welcome wagon - forget nice words to misguided people, SO needs more efficient winnowing. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 13:30 | comment | added | ɥʇǝS | I agree with most of this. After thinking about it, this really isn't much different than the current first post queue and doesn't seem to fix any of its "problems" (which in my opinion isn't really a problem with the queue, it's a problem with the people using it). | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 6:57 | history | edited | user163250 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Lead with main point. |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 6:46 | history | edited | user163250 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Add explanation that these opinions are from a heavy Stack Overflow user. Also made new section to clarify biggest point. |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 5:12 | history | answered | user163250 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |