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How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers?

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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?

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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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Charlie Brumbaugh‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

Your looking broadly, I was asking much more specifically. Why should I, (with 2 Socratic badges on the old sites) ask my questions here? What is our selling point as to what makes asking questions here better than the other sites?

manassehkatz‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

Once we have sufficient volume (enough askers to ask enough questions that they have a good chance of already seeing relevant Q&A so that they even think to look here, and so that there are enough new questions to keep the answerers busy; enough answerers to be able to give quality answers to new questions in a timely manner), then the differences start to matter. Until then, not so much. The differences once we are big enough to "compete" have to do with governance, Code of Conduct,

manassehkatz‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

and related items (which is what drove a lot of people away from Some Other places) as well as enhanced features like Blogs/Articles and other different post types, faster turnaround of new desirable features, community-specific customization, etc.