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How to grow all of our communities?
As most have noticed, there's been a discussion raised on all the community metas about how to grow that particular community. It's a good question and I do believe they should be answered on community basis.
However, there are some common universal issues with all Codidact communities that I think should be addressed here at meta.codidact. Please post an answer if you have ideas or want to raise discussion about how to increase activity concerning all our communities.
In order to make more users join a community, there must be actual content present Casual users don't join some rando …
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Here maybe some things that others may have forgotten or may not have emphasized as such: Continue supporting the sof …
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In addition to what Lundin said, we should do something Monica alluded to in her posts to each community. Some commun …
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Start Marketing? As I said earlier, I am not a marketer and I don't have relation in huge community. So I don't have …
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When Outdoors/Photography started there was a bunch of activity and upvoting and I asked a bunch of questions. However, …
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Make Codidact a helpful place. The most basic reason why people use a QA site is because they want help. Specifically …
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See my other suggestions. Here's one more. Galvanize, hearten, spur and goad questions that quote from popular books! …
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Start Marketing?
As I said earlier, I am not a marketer and I don't have relation in huge community. So I don't have any idea how to invite people to X.
I didn't have much more idea of internet when SE launched so I don't have any idea how SE took the marketplace. I believe some will come to correct me after writing the post.
I think SE was launched for educational purpose. But while CD was launched for educational purpose but the main part of CD was "no rude behaviour (behavior)" which SE's people had done to our staff Monica. Wonderfully our staffs will never do the mistake as SE's staffs. But the main fact here is, we aren't welcoming new users the SE's people does. I remember the day, when I created second account and posted a question in Linux CD someone was telling me "I am not accusing for your bad English". While SE's people says, "Welcome to X, Did you mean 'blah blah blah' by 'this'?" But our people is doing something else. I don't think any new user was welcomed in the community. Even when new user in MSE don't write equations using MathJax, then that post gets only 1 downvote and write a comment something just like this : "Welcome to Mathematics StackExchange, please write your equations using MathJax". Who welcome our new user? Why new user will feel free in our community? A bad poster is ongoing bad posting, who is stopping them? Why no one is teaching them the correct thing rather everyone is behaving rude (I can link some questions(Unfortunately, I can't find other posts))?
Lundin had raised a post in Software CD (Questions easily answered by studying a beginner-level book), in that post Olin Lathrop said that "Downvote them for now" (whichever can be answered easily by reading first few paragraph of beginner-level books). You know what when SE first launched they needed more people and "good post" that's what we are looking for. But if you take a look at 10 years old questions than you will see that some answers were written in a line or twice line cause that was just solving the OP's question they(mod) wasn't requesting for explanation of answerers code which they are doing now. They got people and it won't affect much more if they lose 10 people per month cause they are getting new users every whole day. They were encouraging new coders that time while they are encouraging intermediate coders now. As I wrote in PCD, students have question rather than physicists in Physics fields. So we should encourage learner. When we get enough professionals in Site Proposal we start new community, but who will ask question? A professional/Professor/Physicist? Of course not! Go and find for students.
When I learned Android Application development, my teacher had told me to use SO for any kind of help but not CD. I suspect he may not have idea of CD also. So starts marketing in IT sector for Software CD, Physicsforums and facebook for Physics CD and so on.
Can we market in a place for the whole network?
Of course we can. The best place is Quora. It's too hard to invite people without advertisement. Sorry to say, the banner which is Codidact using and newly created banner is good but not creative.
If you write in a blue background that, Welcome to Codidact. Then no one will enjoy it. But if you make that banner creatively than people will be interested to visit that. It's something like telling someone to a blue chocolate or gradient chocolate. Everyone thinks colorful things. And I remember correctly, a boss in a company had invited his colleagues after few moments he told his worker to bring tea and biscuit, his worker brought some biscuit which cost 5৳ per piece. The boss could tell him to buy some expensive things rather than cheap one. But everyone liked it cause it was packed beautifully. No one cares what's inside but outside design. I personally like UI/UX of Codidact but advertisement in some SE's Meta wasn't good at all cause the design was too "cheap".
Oops! I was talking about advertisement in Quora, if you want to advertise the whole network than Quora will be the best for it. Cause if you search in internet than you can find programming, physics, cooking and others post in Quora. They don't describe their question too much but we do. So maybe we could introduce them to that also.
Lack of Voting isn't really a problem. I had seen some Mithrandir's post in Scientific Speculation, they are good enough. But most of them got no vote. When I first seen it I thought it's really bad. But latter my mind said, "it's really not". If you look at SE's highest upvote then you will see that some questions/answers got over than 1k upvotes. While in the whole network, highest upvote is 52 in current site highest answer 53 in Code Golf, while in the related post of Code golf SE has more than 150 answers. So my opinion is don't compare Codidact to Stackexchange now.
I will just repeat the same thing what I said in PCD, "peoples are just writing their answers in comment, and some are just keep showing link if you understood what that webpage said than why you didn't write an answer? What is stopping you? If you didn't understand then why did you comment? I had seen both links before he posted but when that wasn't giving me some useful answers I came to Codidact while user is doing "this" :|. Meaningless!!!!!!!!! I don't care whoever downvotes the answers cause I had mentioned them directly rather hiding them. A professional must be mentioned everywhere while professional are just ....................
I wonder average related answers got downvote around the network, maybe there's someone who is thinking we are just ongoing harming them (all answers in the question and here)
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