Timeline for answer to User activation: Learnings and opportunities by Resistance Is Futile
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| Sep 20, 2024 at 11:22 | comment | added | Gerry | I agree with the sentiments here. I had left the site for quite some time because it turned into a place for putting people down with snarky comments. There's an inverse relationship between snark and really wanting to teach. Rather than ask, "Why aren't people joining," you might ask, "why aren't people staying?" | |
| Sep 17, 2024 at 7:09 | comment | added | Resistance Is Futile | @Mari-LouAСлаваУкраїні This is what I am doing in wherever I can. But, there is just way too many really bad questions on SO, and at the end I am more often downvoting than upvoting. | |
| Sep 14, 2024 at 6:32 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | Here's an unpopular opinion: New contributors who have potential should be mentored, helped, and then allowed to spread their knowledge. New questions which are specific to the user should nevertheless be upvoted if they show a decent amount of effort and are not answerable within a minute of Internet searching. Even upvoting content that do not thrill you is helping that new user feel their contribution is worthwhile. If many high-rep users suck at being "nice" the main problem of participation and engagement lies with them. | |
| Sep 14, 2024 at 5:56 | comment | added | Resistance Is Futile | @BenVoigt That is true. But, if they got it wrong, so can I ;) Also in context of this question, which asks how to "solve" problems with engagement of already signed users, it fits to mention the signup first, as this explains why they are not engaging. | |
| Sep 13, 2024 at 21:39 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | The only problem with this answer is that it got "Problem #1" and "Problem #2" backwards. Having "the order of usage/participation wrong" (as you so accurately diagnosed) is the cause of pushing users to signup before they have any use for an account. | |
| Sep 13, 2024 at 15:12 | comment | added | NathanOliver | I wish I could upvote this more but I can't. This is basically the answer I was going to post myself. | |
| Sep 13, 2024 at 10:57 | comment | added | Resistance Is Futile | @CodyGray Now I am interested in what your suggestions might be? I have listed the ones that were floating in my mind when writing this, but I am sure there is more, but I just cannot remember at the moment (doing 10 things at the time does not help) | |
| Sep 13, 2024 at 10:52 | comment | added | Cody Gray | This is the definitive answer. As a fellow SO moderator and someone who has been a member of the site for almost 15 years, I wholeheartedly endorse this answer. I might quibble with some of your suggestions, and I might have picked some different ones. But this answer conclusively identifies the core problems, many of which (lack of onboarding) we have been trying to tell the company about literally for a decade, but no one has listened. Everything that has been done by the company within the past ~5 years has made the problem much worse, not better. The downward trend continues. | |
| Sep 12, 2024 at 12:46 | history | answered | Resistance Is Futile | CC BY-SA 4.0 |