Engage

[MessyAshy]

I've been stressing over this curator thing. How do I get people to engage? How do I get people participating?
And the answer is, I can't. I can't be the forum, i can't be the community. The platform is here, now y'all need to
use it. If you pop in and don't immediately see a post that piques your interest, make one. If you're feeling
like there's no engagement, then engage with people. If you want to be a part of community events, organize
a community event.

In short, this is a space we build together. If you feel it is lacking something, then build it, and we'll be the foundation.
We'll engage, we'll reply, we'll promote, we'll moderate. But the first step is you. Think of what you would want from this forum,
and then create it.

 

[Butterfly]

Yes! All of this!
I can only do so much. When I am home, I spend hours a day trying to create new content, bump old content, engage with people. But really that is all I can do. Other people have to want to engage as well.

I appreciate you!

 

[Jaro]

If you pop in and don't immediately see a post that piques your interest, make one.

Or search or browse the forums. There are multiple pages. We have a lot of interesting threads that have little or no replies.

So yes, I agree, more engagement from others is needed. I'm not sure how to help make this happen.

 

[baloo]

*coughs* Engage? Make it so, number one!

Maybe promote the roll call more, encourage people to say hi and express what they are here for? I almost forgot about that but when I first joined I missed that one and thought "huh, no introduction threads? That's new" - perhaps I am not the only one. (This is mostly my sci-eng brain going "get data!")

 

[Butterfly]

*coughs* Engage? Make it so, number one!

Maybe promote the roll call more, encourage people to say hi and express what they are here for? I almost forgot about that but when I first joined I missed that one and thought "huh, no introduction threads? That's new" - perhaps I am not the only one. (This is mostly my sci-eng brain going "get data!")

I don't know how to do that though. How do we promote it and get people to look?

 

[baloo]

How do we promote it and get people to look?

Perhaps move it to the top on the forum list and call it "announce yourself" or something like that. Could also point towards it when people register first, like an automatic DM they receive. Those can be a good idea in general. Even though I know it is an automatic thing it does feel a little more welcoming. (I am a bad example though since I honestly cannot recall if either of those things happened)