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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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I think we must commence the Accounting, Economics, Finance forthwith to take advantage of the current bull U.S. stock markets! As you may have seen on the news, many amateurs are piling into investing and cryptocurrency now, and stock market indices are breaking record highs. The Sub Reddits for these topics are skyrocketing as much as meme stocks!

Communities for Accounting, Economics, Finance can attract these investors. Perhaps Codidact staff can message the moderators of r/economics, r/economy, r/finance, r/investing, r/stocks, r/stockmarket, r/personalfinance, r/options, and ask if they can advertise our communities there?

I know they're getting more questions than their moderators can handle. They will be happy to divert some of the traffic to us!

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Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

What we need is for some folks here -- needn't and probably shouldn't be Codidact admins, but rather people who would participate on these communities -- to do some of this outreach. If there's a group of people who want to support a community here, we want to set it up. But we're a small team and can't go find all those participants for all those communities ourselves; we need some evangelists from within the community to lead that. Interested in working with those Reddit subs?

PSTH‭ wrote almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago

"Interested in working with those Reddit subs?" yes, but unfortunately, I have literally zero karma on Reddit. I mostly lurk. I don't think I should ask because Reddit moderators may intepret a zero karma account as spam. Do you know if there are Codidact users here who are already moderators on Reddit, or at least have more karma, who can carry more weight?

Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

The Codidact team can't take on the task of finding people to support every community that someone would like to see here. We need supporters of community proposals to do that legwork. By the way, I don't have any status on Reddit either. If there are people there who would potentially come here, somebody who's invested in the proposal needs to do that outreach, talk with them, work together to shape the proposal, etc. I don't know how you do that on Reddit.

ArtOfCode‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

So... I am a moderator on reddit with a decent amount of karma, but... I'm also Codidact staff. I could reach out, but Monica has an excellent point that it really should be people who actually want to use these communities.

Chgg Clou‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

@ArtofCode Can you try reaching out to mods on those investing subreddits? Let us know their replies.