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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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I have found three posts from one user having the same statement: I'm a computer illiterate One of these posts derived on-topic question in this site, which have two answers; the top answer m...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Wicket‭ · 2023-06-22T21:33:52Z (over 1 year ago)
Are non power users questions welcome in Power Users?
I have found three posts from one user having the same statement:

> I'm a computer illiterate

One of these posts derived [on-topic question in this site](https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/281860), which have two answers; the top answer mentions that the question referred to it is off-topic, besides the OP admitting not being a "power user" but mainly because the OP doesn't show understanding of the required concepts.

If questions are not closed, these statements should be removed from the question as they don't provide any value, especially while Power Users have so few questions; otherwise, these posts might attract more people looking for a Q&A site for "computer illiterate".


On the other hand, if I understood correctly, the welcome banner was recently enabled for users not having signed in. The content of the banner is the following:

> **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.

I think that the site blurb should be more specific. 

> Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware.

Besides mentioning the topic, it also should mention the scope: what kind of questions about computer software and hardware are allowed. 

- Are we allowing beginners questions from people that don't understand the core concepts of what is being asked? 
- Is the Power Users community open to guiding step-by-step beginners to Codidact and computer software and hardware to help them solve the issue that brings them here? 
- Should they be able to write their issue according to the ask-question norms?