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Q&A Let's improve how we manage proposals for new communities

I love the idea and hope this new approach gets implemented very soon! Some concerns: I suppose that if a proposal does not take off immediately, most of them can just sit around and wait unt...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar samcarter‭ · 2023-05-25T09:26:10Z (over 1 year ago)
I love the idea and hope this new approach gets implemented very soon!

Some concerns:

- I suppose that if a proposal does not take off immediately, most of them can just sit around and wait until a community forms. However there might be cases where it becomes clear that the type of questions might just not be a good fit for a Q&A site. I think there should be a possibility that proposals can be closed. After a discussion on meta, staff should have the ability to do this.

- I like the idea that successful proposals will be able to take their questions with them to give them a nice starting point. I'm just a bit worried about what will stay behind. I fear that over time a growing number of not well received questions will accumulate. I think one needs to think about a cleanup mechanism.

- How to avoid that the incubator gets flooded by copies of questions from reddit and other Q&A sites? How to avoid many sock accounts by the same user to make a proposal seem more active than it actually is?