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+1, especially for voting up (and when needed down). I still feel that askubuntu has a low voting profile... at least with respect to for example tex.sx and even betas like vi.sx. Voting is an important part of the site behavior; maybe we are handicapped by a lot of "ask and never seen again" users who doesn't even bother to accept answers.
One thing I think we should do more often is upvote around. For example, I always upvote a question to which I answer (if I deem it worth of the time to answer, why not? --- but I see a lot of users don't do it). This is the best greeting you can give to a newcomer. And sometime I just read and upvote what I think it's decently done (Qs and As). It's the way tex.sx works and I like it...
If I can chime in: not everybody is proficient with English, and a lot of quality information is in English out there. It is much more easier for someone with a basic grasp of English to read and understand written information, than understanding the spoken language with all its nuances and accents. It happens to me with other languages; I can quite read technical French but I would be completely at a loss trying to understand an equivalent video.
I have even sent a mail to the webmaster of Ubuntu asking them to add a "make a backup!" advice on the installation page. Never had any answer, though.
I still think that we should force new users to have the "Informed" badge before posting. I know that it did little help in other SE forums, but AU is different. If we had that, we can tweak the 2 minutes tour so that the users will understand that this is NOT the Canonical's technical support and how to ask a question.
I agree with at @Oli (how not to?) but as a new-promoted reviewer, I am a bit unpleased by how the system work. Example: I start a review, read it, ponder, and decide to reject. And a message pops up: this review has been already approved. (If you try to modify the text is even more probable). This is at least wasted time (mine). The system should wait for the needed reviewers to finish before letting another one even starting doing the review... (with a timeout, but a reasonable one).
And don't let them post if they have not gained the "informed" badge, plus made at least five searches, plus have at least upvoted a couple of questions found and a couple of answers. Ok, partly joking, but only partly. I mean, we have to find a way of forcing intelligent lurking before posting.
Too true. I myself have a couple of answer for which users has commented (in the answer or in a comment linking to it) that it solved the problem, and still have 0 votes. I do not know what we can do for this --- is a matter of user education (and respect), and I fear that the average here of these two things is not exactly high. Sigh.
