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16 questions linked to/from Show "how to ask" advice before a new user asks a question
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Make new users feel a bit more involved when they first submit a question [duplicate]
Very simple thought triggered by the overwhelming amount of new users who clearly haven't read the excellent threads how-to-ask-a-good-question and how-to-ask-a-homework-question: it would perhaps be ...
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MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference
(Deutsch: MathJax: LaTeX Basic Tutorial und Referenz)
To see how any formula was written in any question or answer, including this one, right-click on the expression it and choose "Show Math As &...
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How to ask a good question.
How to ask a good question.
This thread has advice on the following aspects of writing a good question on this site. Each item in this list links to an answer below about that specific aspect of ...
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How much did “advice for first-time askers” help?
Since October 2015 a "How to ask?" page is shown before a user asks their first question on this site, and they need to confirm that they read it; see here: Show “how to ask” advice before a new user ...
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Should we add external searches in some help pages about search?
I think that it might be useful to add somewhere advice about other possibilities how to search. (I am not sure what would be right place, but it would be nice to have it somewhere where new users who ...
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Blocking to ask a question for a beginner.
Is it possible to block to ask a question for a beginner who has not take the Tour?
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Can the site-design be improved to be more welcoming to new users?
I think that the design of MSE could be more welcoming to new users. I don't know how much effort it would take and of course that should be considered. My view is as someone who is relatively new to ...
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New contributor guidelines
Are new contributors pre-notified during their first ( say 5 ) posts alerting them that
they should include details of their efforts and that pure work orders (or what may sound that way) stand a ...
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Bringing the new feature to MSE in order to make writing formulas easier
There is a site for searching formulas on stack exchange called SearchOnMath. On the site you can see an option called "Add Formula" click on that, then you can choose any symbol you want ...
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Will this site add a guided mode similar to the one recently introduced on Stack Overflow?
The Stack Overflow has an interesting guided mode which got implemented quite recently, see https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/381671/the-ask-question-wizard-is-live .
Personally I think it ...
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Couldn't there be a standard comment that is added to new users' questions automatically?
Couldn't there be a standard comment that is added to new users's questions automatically?
Many of us have seen how most of the new users of this forum format their question. Not making use of LaTeX, ...
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A message before new users post
Almost all the time, new users post a question with no explanation with no context given, and no mathjax used. I have written "Please write what you tried" a countless number of times. There should be ...
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Change the link to search in modal window for the first-time askers
Since March 2020, a modal window with some basic information is shown to a user who is asking their first question, see here: The new ask page is now live on the network! This replaced the older /ask/...
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new users : use latex?
I often edit and comment new users' questions with
Use latex (click on edit to see what I typed)
I wonder if it is possible to detect when a new user is posting a question without using latex, ...
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Who is responsible for maintaining the help pages?
Who are the authors and maintainers of pages such as this one? How does one contact them to suggest particular emendations?