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Would EE like a "first-time visitor" message?

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We have the ability to add a dismissible message for first-time visitors to the site. This is intended to provide initial guidance on scope, rules, etc. For an example, Software Development wanted to communicate that its scope is broader than what visitors familiar with Stack Overflow would expect. If you visit in an incognito window, you'll see this text:

Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Electrical Engineering has guidelines in the help, which is good, but people have to know to go there. Would you like a welcome message to invite people in and link to that help? If so, just let us know what it should say and we can add it for you.

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The guidelines (3 comments)
The guidelines
Lundin‭ wrote 2 months ago

I think the guidelines pages could probably do with a bit of overhaul. They give a rather hostile impression currently. For example we can maybe borrow some things I wrote for EE.SE recently regarding boards/modules https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10261/6102. The bullet list in particular probably works as a brief summary of when something is on-topic or not here as well. Maybe I could write up a draft some rainy day...

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 2 months ago

Being slightly "rough" was a deliberate design choice. A few of the people that would be a problem might be scared off. The kind of people we do want here, that have experienced the problems elsewhere due to being overly PC, will see that we're not putting up with that crap here.

Lundin‭ wrote 2 months ago

Olin Lathrop‭ The kind of people who actually bother reading help files are the ones we want to keep, so I doubt that the tone ever had the effect you think it would. Overall there's the "be nice" Code of Conduct which applies to everyone and everything on the site.