Questions tagged [site-culture]
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How can I encourage members of a small organization to contribute to a wiki?
I am the web site administrator for a local ham radio club. Our old site was in a blog format, and only one active member of the club did anything with it. Almost two years ago, I set up a new wiki-...
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Why is moderation important?
After trying to draw some attention to a community about the lag time in review queues being handled, I was met with this response from one of the users:
"I'm still confused why should I care ...
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Are there reliable community benefits to "cake days"?
Your "cake day" is the anniversary of the day you joined a site. These are probably most well known from Reddit, but are also supported in some other internet softwares, or from mods.
My experience, ...
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How did you successfully introduce Slack and on-board your community?
I'd like to know about your experiences on-boarding a community specifically related to Slack.
How did you introduce your community to what Slack is, why you're choosing the platform, and how the ...
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How do you onboard new community members?
I help lead a virtual community of practice where we share ideas and help each other solve problems in research computing facilitation. The group's main platform is an email list with several ...
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What are best practices for creating engaging experience in a forum-based community?
So, I'm building a science and tech forum website and I need recommendations on
how to make the experience for the members more engaging so that more of the membership will return, and become more ...
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How should a tech company communicate on Twitter?
I'm working in a software company where we regularly do coding dojo (practices with peers) and tech monitoring to stay up-to-date (reading article, watching conferences, etc.).
I'm a software ...
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How do I encourage the development of subcommunities?
My users have a range of topics they discuss. Obviously, not everyone is interested in everything. The platform has the ability set up different tags. These tags become subcommunities (on other sites ...
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Detecting and preventing hostility to women?
Background: I participated pretty heavily in a topic-centered online community. I joined soon after it was created, so there were a lot of discussions about how to run the site, what's in-scope and ...
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Can't watch 24x7; how do we keep comments under control?
"Don't read the comments" is pretty common advice on the Internet, and for good reason: once somebody starts leaving snarky or rude comments others tend to follow suit. Blog owners or community ...
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How can I introduce changes to cover costs without enraging the community?
Many communities begin as small projects and hobbies. They start as a passion and the creators pour their time and money into the project. As a community grows, though, the need for new hosting, ...
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How to make elitist users be nicer to beginners without "protecting" bad users? [duplicate]
After a "digital community" starts getting old, it gathers a group of old timers who were there from the beginning, and now feel they "own" the site. These old timers often get angry/frustrated with ...
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How should I deal with help vampires in a forum?
We have a forum where we have assembled a collection of users, many of whom are highly skilled, experienced, and friendly too. We have been lucky to attract these people. The dedicated purpose of this ...
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