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Q&A Why don't we just make communities for every launched stack?

As @Lundin stated in comments: Because they have 100 or so of them and we don't want to create 100 ghost towns? A community needs people and quality content. Without enough people, there w...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar manassehkatz‭ · 2020-11-11T21:21:32Z (almost 4 years ago)
As @Lundin stated in comments:

> Because they have 100 or so of them and we don't want to create 100 ghost towns?

A community needs people and *quality* content.

* Without enough people, there will never be enough content (except spam, perhaps).
* Quality content requires people who really know a topic well in order to either seed with quality questions (possibly self-answered) or blogs, articles, etc. If you simply open communities without first recruiting the right people, you won't get the experts.
* With a large group of people, the site will be self-starting via Q&A. But that requires a large group of people, which we don't have yet.
* Content needs to be grouped properly. That will depend on choices made by the people running a community, but the choices can easily be different - more specialized or more open than the particular groupings that SomeOther site used.

Could we, legally, create a clone of every site and seed it with a dump of data from SomewhereElse? Yes, we could. And we would have a big link farm. I really don't like link farms.