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Answer by Jeff Atwood for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new...
If you want to reach new askers, "ask" yourself this:Why hasn't the /ask page meaningfully changed since 2010?Here's a screenshot of the ask page circa 2009 from the wayback machine, next to what it...
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NoNew users are not the problem; it's the quality of posts that needs addressing - from both"veterans" and "newbies".While it does seem more frequent that new users are creating bad first posts, I see...
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What if the new user should be given three reputation points instead of one in the beginning?If he asks a bad question the first time and get a minimum one downvote then his reputation will be 1...
View ArticleAnswer by Rachel for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user...
What about if instead of restricting user registrations, you treat questions by unproven users differently?Put them in a separate bucket and treat them as 2nd class questions until one of the following...
View ArticleAnswer by dgatwood for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new...
tl;drMake "Similar questions" search take the body of the question into account (keyword scanning).Flag newbie posts with an auto-tag that goes away when their rep exceeds a threshold.Ensure that...
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I see that Stack Overflow users are eager to close/downvote questions. (I mean instead of trying to understand the problem and help him improve the question quality they instead just see it's easier to...
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Answer by Drew for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user...
I too will present numbers without coming to any conclusions. The following is for Python and comes from a pool of roughly the last 72000 questions. The recent questions were not excluded (future...
View ArticleAnswer by the_lotus for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new...
By reading the question, it seems like your solutions are "if this then do this". I would expect you guys to have hidden reputation systems (on IP address, email, users, ...) that only administrators...
View ArticleAnswer by ASh for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user...
I can think of some changes which can reduce (in theory) the incoming flow of bad questions from new user accounts.Make Tour obligatoryLet new users be informed why Stack Overflow is different from...
View ArticleAnswer by Ron Srebro for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new...
Learning from the credit card fraud prevention industryI believe a possible solution (or improvement) to this situation should actually by learning from other service, sites that are facing similar...
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Some observations from not a new user, but a recently active user:I never search on the Stack Overflow site itself. I always useGoogle. Since Stack Overflow questions (answers) usually...
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Account-Creation RestrictionsBlacklisting one-off email services like Mailinator is as far as we should go with account creation restrictions. These services have a generally negative connotation:...
View ArticleAnswer by Nissa for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user...
Other Sites Have Similar ProblemsStack Exchange is a community of people looking for help with their problems. Why don't we ask other sites for help?In fact, I'll even offer up a site that I know.Max...
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A different approach?I suspect that some of the worst of this is due to people who have created multiple throwaway accounts to evade question bans and other limits.If that is the case, what if instead...
View ArticleAnswer by Greg Dougherty for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about...
Why?Why should anyone care if someone asks a bad question?Why should anyone care if someone else decides to answer a "bad" question?What is the harm that you are protecting against?Personally, Stack...
View ArticleAnswer by user161778 for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new...
No (mostly, anyways), because I believe there are better solutions. SO/SE is the most restrictive service I have ever used for new registrations. Many times before I reached 200 rep, I considered just...
View ArticleAnswer by sr28 for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user...
Anything that stops your question from being visible for a reasonable amount of time, such as vetting the question could end up frustrating the user with genuine intentions. Ultimately, most people...
View ArticleAnswer by user4573148 for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new...
If you restrict you will lose. Create another partition for 'off topic' questions that can receive the treatment they deserve. You are essentially treating a bad question like you would treat a...
View ArticleAnswer by Benjol for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user...
Given that most of the answers are getting downvoted like crazy, I'll throw in an extra one :)The root problem here is bad questions, but unfortunately all the ideas we ever have either get shot down,...
View ArticleAnswer by user5536767 for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new...
Creating a new email account is possible on Yahoo Mail, in 30 seconds. Use cell phone number verification instead of email. It's just as easy if not easier, and it's done on many sites today. Yes, you...
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