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Q&A Observations about the Incubator "emergence-effect" and deadlocking

You seem to be interpreting the incubator as the home for all questions that don't fit anywhere else, and also as a primary entry point for people new to Codidact. That's not the goal. The incuba...

posted 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2024-09-05T22:12:41Z (4 months ago)
You seem to be interpreting the incubator as the home for all questions that don't fit anywhere else, and also as a primary entry point for people new to Codidact.  That's not the goal.

The incubator is a place for people interested in *specific new communities* to ask and answer questions that would fit those new communities.  Just as a question can be a good fit or a poor fit on an established community, it can also be a good fit or a poor fit on a proposed community.  Because proposals are *proposals*, where the scope hasn't been fleshed out yet, "off topic" is not generally a factor.  But questions can still get valid downvotes for other reasons.  There's broad agreement that opinion polls don't work in this format, for example.  Or if a question is unclear or missing essential information, people might downvote for that reason.

The Proposals site is not the best place for new users to dive in, *unless* they are there for a specific proposal.  If, for example, you're interested in the Worldbuilding proposal and you invite your fellow worldbuilders to go there to help build it, that's great!  But it's not meant to be a "come ask your questions about anything here!" magnet.  A lot of sausage gets made as a new community is built -- meta discussions, and testing scope edge cases with actual questions, and drafting and often re-drafting community norms... this is primarily for the people who want to build a thing, not the people who want to consume an already-existing thing.