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I am a middle-of-the-road SE user. Not anywhere near the top, never a moderator, etc. But also stuck around long enough with some specific communities to have (I think) some productive and positive impact.

Mi Yodeya was **never** one of my main sites - I mainly participate(d) on DIY/Home Improvement and Retrocomputing. Why? I felt I could contribute more on those sites - they were, dare I use the words, *more welcoming*. Welcoming does **not** mean a bunch of crazy popup reminders about new users or guided tours or "be nice" notes - all the things SE management has, in recent memory, been pushing. Mi Yodeya always seemed to have a bit of an "elitist" attitude. I think part of that is due to a quest for truly high quality Questions and Answers - which is a wonderful goal. But somewhere along the way, it feels to me, as a moderately learned & observant Jew, but not a Rabbi or anything close, to have grown to the point where if you can't cite Gemara, Tosfos and Rishonim to support the simplest statement that it gets pushed away as "need sources" --> "junk". More to it than that, I think, but that is the sort of impression I've had and I ended up occasionally visiting Mi Yodeya but rarely contributing, and not even reading on a regular basis.

It remains to be seen how Judaism Codidact plays out. I do want it to be high quality, but I also want it to be the type of place where anyone with the right intent (not trolls, etc.) can participate even if their level of Jewish knowledge is not "almost Rabbi".