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why don't the admin[s] just create a community for each subject that Stack launched a site for? Because content doesn't create a community. Engaged users do. If sites here are just clones of els...
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#1: Initial revision
by
Olin Lathrop
·
2020-11-12T15:21:21Z (about 4 years ago)
<blockquote>why don't the admin[s] just create a community for each subject that Stack launched a site for?</blockquote> <b>Because content doesn't create a community. Engaged users do.</b> If sites here are just clones of elsewhere, then there is no point for a core group of users to be here. In fact, having content here be largely copies from elsewhere will actually drive those necessary core users away. Even if new people happen to stumble on this site, all those attribution links will surely cause them to at least check out the other site. Once that happens, they are unlikely to come back. Why should they? All the activity and original copies of the content are Over There. In case there is still any doubt, look at our experience here. We have 10 non-meta sites today. Of those, the three that heavily imported content from elsewhere (Writing, Outdoors, Scientific Speculation) are in the bottom 4 of activity and nearly dead. The folks over at Writing are actually <a href="https://writing.codidact.com/questions/278810">discussing</a> deleting some of the imported content.