I've seen the term "fishing expedition" indiscriminately bandied about lately, but this comes closest to where it actually applies: posting a whole bunch of questions because... well, because you can! I've been following one them where there were requests for clarification and answers, but no response from the OP. It's probably a culture shock issue, which means that it needs to be addressed on the level of policy, because similar multiple postings with no feedback have occurred before and are bound to occur again. Is this sort of thing considered OK? If it is not, as judged by the reaction, this needs to be codified somehow and dealt with in a polite but non-obsequious way.
]]>But it might let the inexperienced user know that posting several questions at a time is discouraged.
]]>What if I posted 50 questions at the same time and pushed everybody else off the front page? Sorry, but you were just begging for the reductio ad absurdum. I agree that posting 9 questions is not a huge deal, but the very fact that people have a negative visceral reaction to it is an argument that it is unwise to do so, though probably not worth intervening with.
]]>Some of his questions have been receiving downvotes, I presume on the basis of not having any motivation or background, and one has been closed. Should we do anything about this? I've contacted him privately by email to see if it's possible to discuss the situation. In part I'll try to ensure that he's not upset by the downvotes or closure, but ideally I'd also like to be able to encourage him to "fix" the questions. I'm not sure what exactly that would entail, so suggestions are welcome here.
I think the two main problems that cause the downvotes, votes to close and flags for moderator attention were: