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Is my modest english skills a handicap to write on the site?
Your English is fine
Hi, I'm bobble. I have been the one editing most of your posts. (If you want me to, I will go back and edit your old ones.)
Your English is fine. I will repeat this as often as ...
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Is my modest english skills a handicap to write on the site?
In addition to @bobble's answer, remember that other users might edit your posts to fix the issues in there.
I'm not an English speaker either and it happened a lot of times to my posts, I find it ...
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Popup that suggests commenting after new contributors' post edit
Editing a post already sends a notification to the user's inbox (at least for non-trivial edits: changing a single character or two won't activate the notification). The notification comes with a link ...
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Request: Restriction to ask a new question for new users
I see where this request is coming from, but I don't think this is a good idea, at least not the right execution.
I've listed the questions with First Posts reviews (so they must have been posted by a ...
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Learning to solve puzzles for new users
Tips and advice how to start are very broad and personal, they depend on a lot of things like whether English is your native language or not (if not, better not start with crosswords) and your ...
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How not to discourage new contributors?
I think we could do with more consistency in explaining why questions get flagged for closure. I thought we were supposed to do it anyway, but it isn't always there - look at this post from this ...
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How not to discourage new contributors?
That might come off as opinion-based, but even though I partially agree to the outside-stated fact that stack exchange can be harsh to newcomers, I have really felt this is not the case with Puzzling. ...
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How not to discourage new contributors?
It's hard to come up with good, original puzzles (see our years-long quest to have question upvotes reward 10 reputation instead of 5 for some arguments), and most classics have already been asked in ...
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Let's write a proper "Read Me First"
Since the question is getting a lot of support, but there are no answers yet, I'm starting this CW on Rand's idea: FAQify the posts in here and summarise the rules.
Since I lack the power to add the ...
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Request: Restriction to ask a new question for new users
I do understand you, but no, I do not agree with you. I do agree with the line,
There are some users who sign up for puzzling but they just ask a question (most probably from ongoing contest, or for ...
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