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How to encourage members to engage with the group?
The short answer is often, "people like to be where people are." It takes a lot of energy and pump-priming to get people used to a new community and willing to engage with it. The more they see is new,...
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How to convince an annoyed user
Background: You cannot force trust, but build it. People remember what they feel, what they experience.
Proposal:
Next time this user makes a post that is likely to be moderated,
do not moderate, ...
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How to convince an annoyed user
Why would his answers be deleted when he "helps the community with his contributions?" If you're deleting due to inaccuracy, then I question the "helps" statement. If you're deleting due to tone of ...
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How do you onboard new community members?
The best way I've found to onboard someone is to assign them a person (or two) that are their "tour guides/main contacts." Get someone to do this who is charismatic/friendly, but also shares ...
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How to survey for real participation?
What I've seen be effective in the past is to not merely ask if they're "willing" to participate, but to actually get them to sign up for some specific task / task family.
Someone who tosses-out the ...
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Choosing a platform for your community
I think you are bumping into one of the core laws of community building: People want to be where people are.
Barring unusual circumstances (an unusually driven community that has no other options or ...
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On a peer-to-peer internet network (e.g. IPFS), how is it possible to ensure users to seed content?
I'd question if it really demands responsible behavior from all users. The point of peer to peer systems is to reduce the load on a single point of failure. At worst, if nobody seeds then you are no ...
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Can I use data from public Google Docs file to seed my new site?
Here are some factors you should consider:
License: You said you didn't see a license, but the absence of a license doesn't mean it's free to use. It means you need to look harder. (Reviews are ...
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How can I transition a mostly physical community in a mostly virtual or hybrid one?
Consider adding some sort of incentivization to the online meetings. Maybe each member of your community could receive a token at the end of each meeting (if they showed active participation during ...
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Effects of supporting multiple languages on community engagement?
There are pros and cons...
Pro's:
A bigger User-Base
Some nice interaction(maybe)
A bigger repository
More interaction(if you have the right user)
Con's:
More work(controlling, setting it up, ...
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Build a "liking" feature that best fosters an active community
Many sites encourage participation using gamification, awarding things like points and virtual prizes for activity that demonstrates engagement. If you're asking which approach is best, that's hard to ...
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How did you successfully introduce Slack and on-board your community?
How did you successfully introduce Slack and onboard your community?
Successfully? Oh, gee. That's hard. Here are a few things I've learned along the way/things I would do if I could try it again:
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How can I transition a mostly physical community in a mostly virtual or hybrid one?
How can we encourage them to come by and attend? How can we remove the feeling that this is just "another online meeting"?
Make it valuable for them. This is something subjective.
How can ...
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Why is moderation important?
Here, click on this totally not malicious link unsuspecting users. Now, since there’s nobody looking at this answer since it isn’t that popular a question, it’ll stay here forever. Isn’t that just ...
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Why is moderation important?
Moderation of any site that lets users contribute content, regardless of whether it's on the Stack Exchange network or not, is important as it directly leads to a higher quality site. A higher quality ...
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On a peer-to-peer internet network (e.g. IPFS), how is it possible to ensure users to seed content?
Internet access and storage are cheap nowadays, so even a slight motivation makes people seed. I suggest a motivation from my subjective point of view. (I never saw a scientific study of such ...
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How to encourage members to engage with the group?
My friends and I created a Facebook group for programmers and alike. Its aim is to have members asking questions and others answering them.
If you want to keep your membership small on your Facebook ...
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How to convince my subscribers to buy my merch
There are several layers to this. The first is, have a product people want. The only way to get people to buy a product they don't intuitively want, is to spend a lot of money on marketing in order to ...
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How to convince an annoyed user
Ultimately, it comes down to communication and determining what is an ok level of compromise. If posts were being moderated away, then clearly the user has a mix of positive and negative contribution....
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How can I encourage members of a small organization to contribute to a wiki?
I have a similar problem. I've found that introducing new members to the site in person helps enormously.
Sit beside them and talk them through their first edit.
They soon become confident and start ...
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How can I get more users interested in the future of the site, not just in the content now?
To encourage community members to participate in meta issues, the following points can be helpful:
Convince your community members that they are the real owners of their community.As we know well, ...
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How should I deal with help vampires in a forum?
Let us review the following points to find appropriate solutions in facing such situations:
When you see that many new members of your community behave in unacceptable ways, it may be due to the fact ...
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How should I deal with an active and important community member who is overly concerned with their self-importance?
The following points can be helpful in facing such a situation:
Please first note that all members of a community should be treated the same by the community managers (administrators & moderators)...
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How cooperative should a small site moderator be towards a drama queen?
First of all, let me maintain that I am extraordinarily surprised and glad to see that constructive views like this answer still survive in human communities. So, my answer below should be viewed as a ...
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Effects of supporting multiple languages on community engagement?
Mixing languages can be seen as noise by many community members.
I've seen best impact by "segmenting" communities by locale.
It actually illustrates the very definition of a community (people ...
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How to promote and encourage differently-abled participants?
One approach is to find potentially interested online communities via Google, Reddit subreddit search and so on, but then instead of rightaway mentioning your channel -- which can be interpreted as ...
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How did you successfully introduce Slack and on-board your community?
@ anonymous-penguin -s advice is very good.. OP, you should follow these. We did follow a lot of these (not all), but looking back Slack/Discord wasn’t a good fit. I have been in 2 groups, where the ...
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What to say for milestone celebration post?
First, nicely done! Your efforts have lead to over 1000 people joining, reading, and potentially contributing to your group. That's a great achievement for you, but it's also a great achievement for ...
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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?
You can definitely hire a freelancer to help you establish a PDF magazine, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Telegram group. You can post a job advertisement on various freelancer networks such as Freelancer, ...
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How to effectively grow user base of a discord server mutual aid group?
Creating a community takes a lot of work and dedication, it's definitely not something that happens over night, might even take a year or two but that depends how dedicated you are. Posting on ...
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