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on-topic question in this site
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.
- What type of questions are on-topic in this site (Power Users)?
- 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).
A starting point is the proposal. I'm going to quote from the question and from this answer. Again, these are starting points.
Our current short description:
Power User Codidact is a community where computer enthusiasts (power users) ask and answer questions about software and hardware usage.
That was derived from this in the proposal:
I was thinking more of a community related to software applications usage more than OS tweaks, so "Software Applications Codidact" sounds well for me. This should include office applications + others [...].
Another option would be to have a broader community to encompass both system tweaks and application usage which might be named "Power User" (it sounds great IMO).
From the answer I linked:
On-topic
- questions about the usage of communication applications such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Discord.
- questions about office applications such as MS Office, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Libre Office, and Open Office (examples)
- questions about command-line interfaces (example)
- questions about browsers usage (e.g. tweaking some setting lead to page display issue on a particular web site)
- questions about the usage of e-mail clients
- questions about operating system usage (settings, trying a new OS etc).
- questions about any software application (even more obscure ones), as long as enough details to reproduce the issues are provided (OS, software version etc.)
- questions about software recommendations? (to be discussed)
- questions about computer hardware usage. This includes video games and consoles
- questions about personal networking (i.e. home networks)
Off-topic
- questions about software development
- questions about video games, unless they are related to the infrastructure (i.e. issues with using a gaming console)
- questions about usage of Web applications, sites, or services such as social networks
That answer has a couple downvotes; I don't know if it's because of something in this proposed scope or something else (the answer is broader). This is approximately what we had in mind when we said "yes, there seems to be enough interest (and enough questions that are off-topic where they're asked but would fit here".
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