New users trying to help other new users to triage questions doesn't really work well.
If someone doesn't grok the way that Stack Overflow works, the information that new users add (or ask for) may do more harm than good (see examples of people adding random formatting). Many times this just is reinforcing bad habits.
If you feel this could be useful, I would encourage you to try helping out by editing questions in the Help and Improvement queue so that they are good questions with all the necessary information (and matching the style that Stack Overflow expects).
There was a mentorship project at Stack Overflow a bit ago - but it didn't scale and the expectations were mismatched (many new users were expecting help with their problem /now/ rather than help with trying to make their question better).
The video game analogy - its not that you need to team up to solve a problem, its realizing that the quest(ion) has already been solved by someone else so you don't need to do it again.
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Perhaps a new user sandbox would make sense. A place where new users can work together to triage each-others questions into something good enough.
If SO was a video game, it'd make sense to have newbies team up.
New users trying to help other new users to triage questions doesn't really work well.
If someone doesn't grok the way that Stack Overflow works, the information that new users add (or ask for) may do more harm than good (see examples of people adding random formatting). Many times this just is reinforcing bad habits.
If you feel this could be useful, I would encourage you to try helping out by editing questions in the Help and Improvement queue so that they are good questions with all the necessary information (and matching the style that Stack Overflow expects).
There was a mentorship project at Stack Overflow a bit ago - but it didn't scale and the expectations were mismatched (many new users were expecting help with their problem /now/ rather than help with trying to make their question better).
The video game analogy - its not that you need to team up to solve a problem, its realizing that the quest(ion) has already been solved by someone else so you don't need to do it again.