Questions tagged [welcome-wagon]
For question about the Welcome Wagon initiative, which was started in 2018.
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Does the management or the Welcome Wagon care to know about activity that makes users want to leave their platform?
Does the management or the Welcome Wagon care to know about activity that makes existing users want to leave their platform or is the goal only to welcome new users?
I would like to post some simple ...
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Are the blog goals for the next year just repeating our goals for this year?
The current blog post talks about
big goals for the year ahead. We want to make Stack Overflow more diverse, inclusive, and welcoming.
Isn't it 2019 with 2020 in sight? Weren't being "diverse", "...
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Let's take a look at the interaction between staff and the "power users" of the network
Recently, it was announced that the "Hot on Meta" questions would no longer show up on the SO sidebar. Sara Chipps elaborated a little bit on why:
Stack Overflow Employees have panic ...
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If 95%+ of comments have been rated as "fine", does the site deserve its reputation of "unwelcoming"? Do we still need to focus on it?
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There's been much ado over the last 5 years or so about the SE network being "unwelcoming".
From the summer of love to the code of conduct, from the welcome wagon to the instantaneous ...
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Is a recap of the welcome wagon coming?
In the last couple of months Stack Exchange has undertaken significant effort to make the network more welcoming. From a regular user's perspective, we can only see the internal consequences and ...
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Please host the Stack Overflow Comment Evaluator 5000™ under Stack Overflow domain
Received this email:
Link sent me to https://false-mammal.glitch.me/
If this is truly your research then please put it under the SO domain. Otherwise it looks like a phishing attack and may cause the ...
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Let's use the Snark Detector to actually find out if the Contributor Indicator is having any effect where we want it to
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Regarding the need for persistence of the New Contributor Indicator, Animuson pointed out, there are some particular "users who definitely should be seeing it" (Emphasis in ...
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Are we creating divisions in our quest to make new users welcome?
One of the more frequent accusations that get leveled against long-time users of various sites is that we treat new user questions differently. That we downvote and close vote them maliciously, to "...
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How were the comments selected for the Comment Evaluator 5000?
We've got an analysis of 3,992 comments. How were these selected? Right now, it's not very clear at all how this entire process worked, other than comments were served up, rated, and recorded.
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Can we get a comparison of new user comments?
So. We just got another welcoming blog post. Leaving aside analysis of it, I think it's missing a critical piece of information.
We've got a tiny subset of comments that were used to compile this ...
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