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How to retain new users on a Q&A site effectively?
Stack Exchange (and some other communities on the Internet) have a gamification component in the form of reputation (and, to a lesser extent, badges). The green +x notification is (for some (most?) ...
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Deleting Forum Registrations of Users Who Never Log In
I have managed forums that follow both policies - keep every account ever made and delete inactive users. There are perceived benefits to both, but if the account is unused it probably doesn't matter ...
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What is the best way to recover from a massive dip in community involvement?
Patreon, a crowd-funding community for individual creators of all types, recently had a controversy like this. They announced that they would now start charging patrons -- the funders -- credit-card ...
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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 retain new users on a Q&A site effectively?
Provide great answers
If a user doesn't get an answer at all or there's no activity whatsoever on their question, they wouldn't be too motivated to come back to ask a new question.
If they get a ...
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Best practices to promote a private beta SE site
I see that your site is now in public beta, but since you asked about private beta I'll talk about both phases.
I've been involved in the private-beta phase of a few Stack Exchange sites, and what I'...
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How to say "We miss you, please come back!" properly?
Another option is to draw them back into conversations that you believe they would be interested in.
This is harder, but if you can evaluate the kind of conversations they participated in previously,...
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Does paying volunteer moderation teams make the team and community more effective?
I manage a couple different communities and have done some different moderation delivery models in those.
I run the support community for the company I work for and I have small team of Community ...
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How to say "We miss you, please come back!" properly?
There's something I'm surprised other answers don't address directly.
Use your content - content is king
You're essentially re-marketing your site to what in relationship marketing might be called '...
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Best practices to promote a private beta SE site
If you've identified influencers among your pre-holiday user base, consider reaching out to them individually and asking them to help you out by posting questions in the forum. I do not advocate under ...
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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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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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How do you encourage members to take initiative/remove or correct problem behavior?
First, a few questions to ask yourself:
are you getting more out than you put in? Not "as much as you possibly could if the group was perfect", that's a different question
if the "leeches" who gain ...
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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 do we better enable dialogue between new and core users on a wiki?
As a wiki, you naturally lack basic tools for short-term communication (live chats, shoutbox, etc.). Your main purpose is to provide information to various topics, therefore, you have discussions ...
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How effective are popularity contests as a way to recruit and build community membership?
Dangers of Prizes (Extrinsic Motivation):
I think your proposal is really dangerous. There are a lot of studies and research that show that you have to be really careful about these rewards, or you'...
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How effective are popularity contests as a way to recruit and build community membership?
A community with a primary activity of running popularity contests that involves recruiting and engaging members in a coalition per contestant is extremely obvious today - political parties.
I've ...
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How do you encourage members to take initiative/remove or correct problem behavior?
Should I just arbitrarily set rules?
No. This would be misjudgement right now. If I read your situation correctly, you are worried that the whole group solely depends on you and there are too few or ...
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How to bring people only "interested" by an event to come to it?
Email reminders
I used to work managing a community of event planners and event professionals, and the one thing that the vast majority do to make sure an event is a hit is day-of email reminders.
If ...
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How to bring people only "interested" by an event to come to it?
From my experience:
Post at least every 2nd or 3rd day to the event. The notification will show up to those who are "Interested" so they will be reminded of your event and eventually decide. Post ...
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Does paying volunteer moderation teams make the team and community more effective?
If you could afford to pay the volunteers (people) an amount equal to their contributions, they would not be volunteers they would be paid staff.
This leaves you with an option of paying the people ...
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Starting a community from scratch - how to create initial userbase?
Something you can do/what I do: drive them from twitter.
For example, do you have a community about music? Look for a twitter account about music and follow the users who follows them. People ...
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