Unanswered Questions
28 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How to bring people only “interested” by an event to come to it?
I am organising swing dancing parties in a big city in UK. It used to be free and hosted inside a house. It brought around ten people at each event. We mostly communicate on Facebook. The reached ...
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How can I run a remote open space?
I have participated in several open space events at technical conferences, and I found them to be effective for getting people to loosen up and learn and contribute.
I conduct frequent technical ...
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Models of community growth
The academic literature often proposes simple models that help us think about the behavior of a system. For instance, the Bass Diffusion Model is a famous mathematical model that captures the dynamics ...
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What forms of guerrilla marketing can be effective when building a community on the web?
I read a lot about small hacks that can help when gaining traction with very small budget. Some of the most commons strategies are:
Profile signature in related forums. No cost, but some forums have ...
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Examples of majority rule/mob rule communities that have succeed long term and don't degrade to lowest common denominator?
A recent episode of The Orville - Majority Rule - had an interesting premise: the entire society's laws were voted on by everyone all the time. The majority vote wins and that is how laws are created ...
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How reasonable is it to hold chatbot authors accountable for their bots' behavior?
In a non-Stack Exchange online community, there is a chatbot that runs with the permission of the administrators. The primary purpose of the bot is to analyze the posts of others and suggest helpful ...
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How to change a policy that's has always been this way but needs to be changed now?
I'm a member in a local community which is associated with multiple associations above it (think of it like statewide, nationwide and so on). So there are a lot of layers to the community. However, ...
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Adult Edition Online Community
I'm starting a new online art and entertainment website but I'm facing an censorship issue.
As the site is art orientated, and of a certain niche ( not "adult" ), it is a certainty that from time to ...
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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 incentivise users to contribute data back to my community
I trying to build community x, which is kind of a stack exchange for domain y. At the center of this community would be data pertaining to domain y. However, in order to get the data, I need users to ...
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If we're trying to attract attention to a specific event, how much should messaging focus on only the event?
My synagogue is holding a food festival in a couple months to raise money. For budget reasons, the planners want to do advertising exclusively on social media (as opposed to, say, newspapers or ...
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How to estimate one's facebook reach by its likes and shares?
Are there any existing models how to estimate / calculate the reach of a facebook post (not my own) by its interactions (likes / shares) and the likes of the page in general?
Certainly the reach will ...
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How to create an organised association that is project oriented?
A group of youngsters (age average of 20 years ) would like to establish an organisation that makes projects into reality. The question would be : What kind of structure would be the best to manage ...
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What reasons make enthusiastic members not being active?
I am a novice in community building, and am managing a group of ~8 volunteers for a nonprofit plan that I initiated. The group is running via Facebook chat. I understand that leader should be active, ...
