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How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers?
Most of the sites are struggling to get questions and while it seems to me at least that more effort has been put into optimizing for the answerers than for the askers.
To put it another way, there are lots and lots of sites on the internet where one could get their question answered, why should they ask it here?
Recently for me, it has not so much been that I don't have questions but more that the cost of writing questions is has not been worth the benefit.
What can we do to encourage people to ask questions here?
Chicken, meet egg. In many cases, the askers are much less expert than the answerers. The experts are the ones creati …
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This is very half-baked and just brainstorming at the moment, but it'd be good if askers received some sort of feedback …
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Elaborating on the thoughts of @PeterCooperJr., it might be sensible to provide some meta statistics on each site on th …
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A lot of Codidact's distinctives, as Manasseh notes in comments on another answer, are about how the Codidact team and t …
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Don't shoot the messenger. What about assimilating Codidact's website design — just this, nothing else, definitely not t …
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How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers? That's the wrong question. We aren't unfriendly to askers. The r …
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I think we must commence the Accounting, Economics, Finance forthwith to take advantage of the current bull U.S. stock m …
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I'll try not to repeat what's already written here. 1. Codidact just feels too cluttered compared to S.E. — see http …
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Chicken, meet egg.
In many cases, the askers are much less expert than the answerers. The experts are the ones creating this site - not exclusively, but in many cases, and not necessarily academic or professional experts but sometimes just by virtue of having hung out SomeplaceElse for years and gaining experience. These askers don't seek us out. They Google to find some answers to their questions. If they don't find their specific question (and answers to it), they go to the sites that list other similar questions and answers and ask on those sites. Until we have lots of quality content, we are not one of those sites. We'll get there, but it takes time. On the other hand, the answerers who are already here don't have so many questions to ask, so we don't get questions from them either.
In short, we need content to get askers, but we need askers to get content. We tried, largely unsuccessfully, to build that initial content by copying from StackExchange, as permitted by the content licenses. However, that did not have the hoped for effects, for various reasons largely beyond our control. Every existing Q&A site (and almost any site actually, except if created by/for a major bricks & mortar company) goes through this process. The big question is: How can we can accelerate the process to get to "big enough to be seen by the askers"?
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