A milestone for Software Development - congratulations!

When we launch a community on our network, it starts in "new community" mode to ease bootstrapping. This means that all users start with the Participate Everywhere ability, which lifts new-user restrictions (mostly rate limits).

The Software Development community is doing well -- you have a lot of active community members, questions get answered, knowledge gets shared in the form of canonical Q&A, problems get addressed -- you all are making this a great place to learn about software development! We've talked with the moderators, and we agree that this community has outgrown the "new community" bootstrapping.

From now on, new users will start with only the Participate ability, which means:

• 3 questions per day (as opposed to 20)
• 5 answers per day (as opposed to 30)
• 3 suggested edits per day (as opposed to 20)
• 10 flags per day (as opposed to 30)
• 5 votes per day (as opposed to 30)
• can comment on your own posts or answers to your own questions, but not elsewhere
• links in profiles will not be shown to anonymous users (spam mitigation)

(I think a day is a rolling 24 hours as opposed to a UTC day, but I am not certain.)

All of these limits can be adjusted upon request from moderators, so if you think something should change, please bring it up here on Software Dev Meta. (The help pages for abilities are, alas, static, so they can't show the current values.)

But wait, you might ask, what if these restrictions get in the way of a valuable new user? If you've got someone who's ready to contribute a lot of good content and is being hindered, moderators can grant abilities directly. They can also revoke abilities if needed.

Thank you to everyone who has helped to build the Software Development community here on Codidact! As we enter 2025, I look forward to even more growth (suggestions welcome).

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Monica Cellio‭ staff

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