Questions tagged [new-users]
Users who may be new to the Cross Validated SE Q&A format, and generally have a low reputation score, which starts from 1 at the time of registration.
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How should a new user navigate Cross Validated to learn more about statistics?
(Inspired by this question, I thought it might be worthwhile to post a guide for those who just want to read and learn.)
What are the best ways for someone new to Cross Validated to sift through ...
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What is the best way to give back to the community when I don't have the math skills?
I have only taken introductory statistics courses, and those were several years ago. I haven't taken any other advanced math courses either, so my math skills are clearly not strong enough to answer ...
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Is it OK to downvote newbies?
Since I'm still quite new to the site, I just wanted to poll what the general consensus is on voting down questions from people with very low rep.
As an example, I don't think the OP from this ...
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Drive-by Questions - Should Answers Be Accepted by Proxy?
I have been answering questions from users with reputation 1, knowing fully well that chances for reward in points from up-votes, or acceptance of the answer, are low. In great part it is simply that ...
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I think we need to talk about the SO/CV interface again
Two hours ago (ish), a new user posted this question on two-tailed F-values - how to do them in R.
He (or she, but I'm going to say he) was told to take it to SO. So, he did what he can see to do -- ...
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How reasonable is to inform new users about upvotes and accepting answers through an automatic message?
I have noticed that most of the questions in Cross Validated come from new users who, for a number of reasons, do not read the FAQ section and do not know about the upvoting and accepting-an-answer ...
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Are plain "Welcome to our site" comments too chatty?
My reading of the various pieces of stackexchange-network information about comments and chattiness would suggest that "Welcome to our site" comments on their own (absent any other text such as being ...
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To the best of my knowledge vs exact knowledge
As a machine learner coming from computer science, I do not had a solid education in statistics. Frankly, my past data analysis experience is dominated by hands-on approaches. I have a solid knowledge ...
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Is there any way to detect / prevent user repeatedly performing minor edits to bring the post into top pages?
A new user (including me) may want more reputation from not so good question and answers. A way to make the post popular is making it to the top page. The trick I discovered is repeatedly doing minor ...
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Converting comment to answer in simple questions. Good practice?
Sometimes there are simple questions, often by newcomers, that could be answered by a one-liner (e.g. "What method to use for my data?"). In most such cases I provide a comment rather than answer ...
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How can a new user with not enough rep comment on a question that the same user has previously asked while unregistered?
I have a question about my Cross Validated post: Polynomial regression with slope constrait in R
This question is marked as duplicate of another question here. I posted previous question as well but ...
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