Questions tagged [user-engagement]
Use this for questions about user interactions within the community.
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I'm always interested in ideas for presenting difficult to understand topics in discussion forums
Obviously, a topic can be overly challenging. You wouldn't, for example, invite me to speak at your online structural engineering meeting. But I DO want to be challenging and not "dumb down&...
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How can I attract users to engage with non-political forum games and communities amidst the overwhelming focus on politics?
I feel like some users are so entrenched in political discussions that they overlook or dismiss non-political content.
Is there a subset of users who intentionally downvote non-political posts as a ...
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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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How to effectively grow user base of a discord server mutual aid group?
I have some people who have joined to offer help, but no one yet asking for help. The group doesn’t have enough critical mass. Not enough people know about the group, that they could turn to it in ...
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I want to create a community specific to the sector in which I do business. Can a freelancer do this for me?
I want to establish a PDF magazine, Linkedin, Facebook, and Telegram Group where I share sectoral news. Can a freelancer do these if I put a job advertisement in freelancer networks?
Can those who ...
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A Q&A site I moderate is full of highly simple questions, and very low / slow community participation in moderation. Options?
A +10-year-old site that I moderate is full of "too simple questions". Blame whatever you like, groupthink, low community participation on moderating the site, blame me, etc.
I think that ...
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Best practice to balance the dynamic nature of a community
On Stack Exchange Networks, sites are called "communities". I have observed that many users (let's say N) come to join the site, several of them (S=N-100) stick with site for a while, very ...
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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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How can I transition a mostly physical community in a mostly virtual or hybrid one?
Due to current events surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, physical meetings are prohibited and can be punished, severely, in the country I live in.
We are an organised service club. Normally, we ...
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What is the threshold of engagement that determines an active community?
Is there a metric that defines a difference between an engaged community versus content produced locally by the agent? What is a good protocol for scaling up and scaling down when the threshold on ...
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What to say for milestone celebration post?
I have a Facebook group about philosophy, and it gets 1000 members. How should I celebrate this, and encourage people to engage and interact?
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How far in advance should I post a reminder for a scheduled livestream to maximize viewership?
I help run the social media for (and am a player in) a weekly Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition actual-play podcast called Planeslip: Echoes of Creation. The campaign is set in a homebrew setting of ...
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How can I maintain user engagement/interest during "off weeks" for a weekly podcast?
I help run the social media for (and am a player in) a weekly Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition actual-play podcast set in a homebrew campaign setting of the Dungeon Master's own creation. We ...
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How to convince my subscribers to buy my merch
I have few subscribers support at a social media platform, I made some merchandise thinking that my subscribers (around 30K) will show me some support. But it did not happen, no one bought any of my ...
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How to promote and encourage differently-abled participants?
We run a community mostly on slack, with almost 4k participants. We have been creating lots of channels to promote and talk about inclusivity, and intersectionality.
In that spirit, we would like to ...