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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

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Recently, most of questions got lot of downvotes(Even, this didn't happen to any other Codidact sub-site). In Q&A site's questions have 12 upvotes and 17 downvotes. I think most of people confused of on-topic. I had added a image of help page. I think if there was any documentation on on-topic than, users could know what type of questions are allowed in this site.

  1. What type of questions are on-topic in this site (Power Users)?
  2. A on-topic documentation request.
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The obvious starting point is that in a site called Power Users, questions should be power users' questions. So to take a glaring offender:

I never used OBS before. I'm computer illiterate. ...

proclaims itself to be off-topic in the first two sentences (and goes on to reinforce that by demonstrating ignorance of basic concepts).

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I also don't know what type of questions are on-topic in this site. I have confusion like others also. I don't think that OBS is off-topic. But, the page says to do some research. I think all of your answer (of that question) is available in Google and Youtube. Actually, we are just here to say why it is not working, why it is returning error Or I tried this why it's not working that way. How I should proceed (That's what I learned from SE/SO).

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I am not sure if Codidact says something else. Cause, Codidact is different from SE. (I would request professional writer's (of Codidact) to answer it)

Peter Taylor‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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@Istiak, to be clear, I'm not saying that OBS is off-topic. I'm saying that beginner questions are off-topic.