@Cerberus Yeah, we started near the end of February.

@Cerberus Which one would be best? We can ask several, of course.

@JoonasIlmavirta I don't know who reads this, but fwiw, I do not believe that anyone became hostile. I think it's perfectly fine to say someone got something wrong. I may have disagreed with fdb, but that doesn't mean he wasn't in his right to disagree with me, too.

@C.M.Weimer Good to hear. It's very hard to guess what will end up offending someone online.

A little disagreement is healthy. Preferred, even.

We're all here to better ourselves, one way or another.

Indeed. Disagreement is good. But it should be friendly in tone.

The reason I posted the note in the chat that I care a lot about the atmosphere of the site. I wanted everyone to pay some attention to the tone.

By the way, do you have opinions on what should be discussed now that our first anniversary is close?

Some kind of feedback and reflection is probably good, but I'm not sure where to focus it.

Do we have access to a Wiki?

I think having some sort of "welcome: start here" page would be incredibly helpful, especially in enumerating sources people should consult before asking questions (stuff easily discoverable in Lewish & Short or other free, online resources).

Of course, if they still don't understand, then further elucidation can be given, but it would definitely be useful, and should be a click-magnet in Google searches.

Or even perhaps doing something the way StackOverflow does it: stackoverflow.com/documentation/r/360/…

@JoonasIlmavirta *I probably should have tagged you.

@C.M.Weimer No, not really. Maybe we could create a wiki thing somewhere, but that would be technically separate from the SE system.

@C.M.Weimer I would like some kind of a welcome page as well. The automatic tour is the best we have, and I feel it could be better.

Such a welcome page could be realized as a meta thread. It'd have to have the Q&A form. We'd just have to figure out what the question is and what kinds of answers we want. Or maybe just one answer to tell one coherent story?

We have the resource request questions and a separate meta question for proposing them. We have some nice resource lists, especially the one for dictionaries.

@C.M.Weimer My responses can be delayed whether I'm tagged or not. I sometimes concentrate on life outside this site.

@JoonasIlmavirta No worries, just tagging just in case.