I think that perhaps the responses to questions like this one are too “friendly” here, on the Julia Discourse. FWIW on Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange a vague question like this one would receive comments asking for clarification, prompting the asker to fix the question, with mods standing by ready to…

I personally prefer the friendly tone here compared to the over-precise tendencies of other forums; sometimes a vague question produces some surprising replies with an interesting method coming from a person’s different way of thinking. I would also note “enforcement” of style also creates fatigue. …

Atm if you click New Topic to start a question you get the usual input window at the bottom which is divided into the text and preview field. Initially, the right is empty, but if you fill in a title then the right might be filled with Your topic is similar too... suggestions, which is already helpf…

Even worse than poorly asked questions is disappearing for several days or more and never clarifying or responding to those who took their time answering.

Funny, when reading the thread for the first time earlier this morning I was going to reply pretty much making exactly the three points above :slight_smile: I’m always very taken aback by the tone of discussions if I have to venture out into some Linux forum, and I would be very sad to see the Juli…

The first two posts you make here, you do actually get a welcome message in the new compose window, exactly as you suggest. :slight_smile: Right now it’s the discourse default message, but we can indeed customize these. New topics Welcome to %{site_name} — thanks for starting a new conversation! …

Help vampires are definitely real and they are scary. If you find yourself getting frustrated by someone that’s feeling a little blood-sucky — either publicly or in DMs — the best action to take is to message a moderator by flagging it. Moderators can step in and either more forcefully ask for fol…

I think customizing the welcome message would be a good thing to try. Maybe the three bullet points (which feel a little generic) could be replaced by simply saying something along the lines of As a new community member, we encourage you to read the advice in this post - it provides a list of usef…

Encouraging clearer questions on discourse?

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stevengj January 19, 2023, 12:54am 2

Sometimes we steer people towards this post: Please read: make it easier to help you

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