Timeline for The site's availability to newcomers seems startlingly low
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://rpg.stackexchange.com/ with https://rpg.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 18:30 | comment | added | Premier Bromanov | Chat is also a good place to ask general meta questions. You can even summon mods, i think. It's been a good help to me when I need a general opinion on how this site operates, and the chat system allows people to respond to you hours later, and you will be notified of such a response. | |
| Sep 27, 2015 at 4:52 | vote | accept | Nemenia | ||
| Sep 26, 2015 at 16:24 | answer | added | KorvinStarmast | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 26, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Hostile? Yes, in some ways it is. When I arrived here, I found the site climate to be hostile to new users, particular the inability to reply to a comment when someone made a comment until "x" rep was earned. (As you figured out, that is what Meta is for, and the Chat). That hasn't changed, nor has the tendency for some users to (1) not say why on a downvote, nor (2) provide "this would help your question" points. Some folks added comments to early answers -- "x" would improve your answer" and a few still do. That helped, but this varies among the user population. | |
| Sep 26, 2015 at 0:02 | comment | added | nitsua60 | meta.rpg.stackexchange.com/q/5726/23970 chronicles (after a fashion) a big faux pas I made early on (a month ago) and different responses that resonated through RPG.SE and meta. All through it I remember feeling very much like those involved wanted (a) what was best for the site and (b) to educate/acculturate me. I hope the closure, comments/feedback, editing, and reopening of your question's been as productive an experience as my debacle was for me. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 14:29 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | On the help center itself or that FAQ'ed, featured Q&A that expands on it for new users? | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 14:17 | comment | added | Nemenia | I already commented on how "helpful" that is in the question @mxyzplk | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 14:16 | answer | added | mxyzplkMod | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 12:52 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | Also meta.rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/5758/… | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 6:22 | history | edited | doppelgreener | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 56 characters in body |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 5:28 | history | edited | Nemenia | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited body |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 5:27 | comment | added | Nemenia | Got it. Thanks. Will fix those | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 4:01 | comment | added | Purple Monkey | Although it may matter a little less here on meta it's worth letting you know now; there's no need to signal your edits, we have an easily accessible edit history and it just creates clutter. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 3:59 | history | edited | Purple Monkey | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Fixed up grammar, removed edit signal. |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 3:14 | comment | added | doppelgreener | @Nemenia In your EDIT, you've said "comment" in several places where I think you mean "question" or "answer". | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 2:24 | history | edited | Nemenia | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Added an example that I think will help bring home the problems with the site's vague problem-solving |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 2:15 | comment | added | Nemenia | @mxyzplk im aware of that, but the problem there, similar to here, is that nothing was addressed or solved. People talked about it... didnt do anything about it. And a few of my points weren't addressed at all. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 1:30 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | See also meta.rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/5141/… and the new-users tag in general. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 1:01 | comment | added | Nemenia | I didn't want to come off as rude or upset, because I love this site and the answers are incredibly well thought out and detailed. They've already helped me in a ton of ways with my campaigns, I just wanted to say something since it seems to have been brought up so shyly in the past. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 0:54 | comment | added | Shalvenay | Part of the problem is that most people in the RPG community are used to typical forums -- and the Stack is very different, both mechanically (comments are designed to be transient, vs. Qs and As which are permanent), and culturally (we don't like leaving trash questions around because they attract trash answers) | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 0:53 | comment | added | doppelgreener | I'm not able to provide an answer that does justice at the moment, but I do want to thank you for bringing this up thoughtfully and calmly with us. Newbies do experience collisions with Stack culture sometimes, and RPG.SE's version of it, especially considering how differently it works to other systems it resembles (like forums). | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 0:42 | history | asked | Nemenia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |