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Meta What should our policy be toward rudeness?

This is a small site with 5 questions in 30 days, rudeness is just going to drive people asking questions away. Casual users seeing newbies get insulted for not knowing things isn't going to make ...

posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Charlie Brumbaugh‭ · 2021-02-09T21:23:37Z (almost 4 years ago)
This is a small site with 5 questions in 30 days, rudeness is just going to drive people asking questions away.

Casual users seeing newbies get insulted for not knowing things isn't going to make them want to ask their own questions or stick around.

Stackoverflow/Stackexchange has a well-earned reputation for rudeness, if the rudeness here is just as bad one might as well ask there because they have a larger user base.