Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
118
questions
0
votes
0
answers
30
views
Looking for local onboarding glossary
Disclaimer: Posted using an alternate account as I want to manage my new questions about community building and other topics separate from my old account.
Besides using this account to ask about ...
- 163
3
votes
0
answers
18
views
2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
33
views
What is the policy on editing old questions?
Are we allowed to make minor edits to old questions?
The edits would bump the question to the top of the home page, and since the site is not that active, these edits would drown out new content.
- 171
5
votes
0
answers
34
views
2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
- 101
1
vote
2
answers
69
views
Will our Beta label be removed?
Since we learned that Matter Modeling is graduating and Quantum Computing is graduating and Freelancing is graduating and Retrocomputing is graduating and Economics is graduating, I'm curious if ...
- 319
5
votes
1
answer
97
views
Could users with enough reputation help review suggested edits and recommended closure flags?
I've been trying to review first posts/late answers as they come in, but suggested edits are going without review for a fair while.
I recognize that this site has fallen in activity, but we do have a ...
- 484
8
votes
0
answers
59
views
2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
- 101
7
votes
0
answers
124
views
2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
- 341
3
votes
1
answer
155
views
What is the [participation] tag meant to describe, and how is it different from [user-engagement] or other tags?
The participation tag has no tag wiki at the moment, but it currently appears on 23 questions. It seems to relate to participation in a community by members of that community in a very broad sense, ...
- 275
4
votes
1
answer
170
views
Is self-promotion on-topic?
I've seen a few questions that don't seem to be about building communities but, rather, are about building readers or customers or are about making a stronger personal presence on social media. I ...
- 10.7k
4
votes
2
answers
285
views
Is this group dead?
There doesn't seem to be much activity in this group.
Not sure what is happening in the background or whether moderators or interested people have left or something.
Just wondering.
- 181
4
votes
1
answer
372
views
Are questions about creators on-topic?
I am a creator of a project and I want to ask a basic question: how to give it free to everyone and still have a sustainable living from it.
I suppose "give it to everyone" can be understood as "...
- 571
9
votes
0
answers
130
views
2019 Community Moderator Election Results
Community Building's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
4
votes
0
answers
82
views
2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
7
votes
0
answers
139
views
Announcing a Pro Tempore election
Summary: Community Building Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 15 to bring in one more moderator.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on ...
8
votes
0
answers
59
views
2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
- 341
4
votes
2
answers
260
views
Is this 'technical' question about syncing on-line content on-topic?
The question Strategies for keeping multiple platforms in sync? is about syncing between social media platforms.
Answers could include not just technical solutions, but also workflows (it is asking ...
user732
4
votes
2
answers
403
views
Is there anything in place to attract back past members of *this* community?
It seems this site is down, maybe short of questions. I have a few question to ask here. I've started with one question at first.
But how people could be notified of that question, if noone anymore ...
- 151
1
vote
1
answer
134
views
Are questions about managing virtual personae on-topic here?
In this question on Meta SuperUser the OP wonders if his SuperUser question on Best Practices for managing virtual personae is in the right place.
I was wondering: would the question be on topic on ...
user732
4
votes
1
answer
71
views
Can I ask about how to advertise for a community event?
I've been asked to help with advertising a food festival at a community religious institution on social media. I've got a question about ways we can approach that optimally, but wasn't sure whether ...
- 161
6
votes
2
answers
159
views
Do you want to cover your head with festive headwear?
It's almost winter time (for those in the Northern hemisphere) and with that comes festive head wear.
Winter Bash 2016 will run from 19 December 2016 up to and including 08 January 2017.
Leader ...
AndyMod
- 6,961
4
votes
2
answers
171
views
Can i post a helpful tip for other Communitys?
I want to ask something, I posted a question which a answered myself. The question was "What Online-Community Roles can I have/will be essential/needed?"(just my expression)
So I answered it myself ...
- 299
18
votes
2
answers
375
views
How do we build the Community Building community?
Our small community here on Stack Exchange has some excellent content and some knowledgable, helpful users. But we're not thriving, and have been struggling for a while. I really, really don't want ...
- 10.7k
5
votes
1
answer
257
views
Are "physical communities" different from "local communities"? Do we need disambiguation of terms perhaps?
I like this question: How to organize a solution to a problem in my local community?
I'd love to see us talk more about local community and neighborhood organizing.
In this case the questioner is ...
- 1,800
4
votes
1
answer
70
views
What causes "-1" to reputation score in questions that are trending in downvotes?
I've noticed a few times that I'm getting -1 to my reputation score particularly related to questions and answers that are trending negatively in down votes. In these cases, I have commented on the ...
- 1,800
6
votes
1
answer
163
views
How can we get more questions like the one about villages monitoring well water levels?
How to motivate villagers to monitor well water levels of their wells?
Really super interesting question, and a way I think we might want to figure out how to increase our community's scope and ...
- 1,800
3
votes
1
answer
99
views
Tags: negative-attention, backlash, and mistakes
I just created negative-attention for the two Streisand-effect questions (1, 2). I looked at our tags first and saw mistakes and backlash. Neither has a wiki, and the questions on each seemed ...
- 10.7k
7
votes
3
answers
193
views
What can we do to increase questions and traffic? (6 days since last question)
It's been almost a week now since someone has asked a question. I think this site is a good concept and I've enjoyed the questions. I'm not sure what we all should be doing to help.
- 251
3
votes
1
answer
87
views
Is moderation of debates in scope?
Having listened to some debates (if it matters, a specific example would be "Intelligence Squared" podcast in UK or US), I have some question about them, including moderation involved.
However, ...
- 571
7
votes
1
answer
154
views
Let's make some ads for other sites, 2016 edition
Last year we made some community-promotion ads to run on other sites. I don't know how successful they've been in drawing traffic (obviously we still have growth challenges here), but it seems to me ...
- 10.7k
6
votes
1
answer
228
views
Do you hate hats?
It's that time of year again - WinterBash.
This event will run from 14 December 2015 to 3 January 2016. Individual users who don’t want to participate, don’t want to see hats, and/or are generally ...
AndyMod
- 6,961
9
votes
1
answer
554
views
Best of CommunityBuilding
This is a place to collect CommunityBuilding success stories!
Did CommunityBuilding help you solve some real problems you faced in the context of your own online or real-world community? Are there ...
- 1,490
4
votes
1
answer
142
views
How big should audiences be?
Let's take a look at these two questions.
https://communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1254/what-topics-do-academians-tend-to-be-attracted
Is there a better platform for online communities ...
- 3,785
6
votes
1
answer
158
views
Is asking about the audience issue in blogging on-topic?
I want to ask this question: Which donating service should I use for my blog?
Moreover, I want to have an opinion about my claim makes in the proposal of Blogging. I'm sorry that I didn't ask you ...
- 571
23
votes
1
answer
263
views
It's been a year!
Congratulations everyone. We've made it a year!
In that year, we've had over 300 questions and more than double that many answers. We've provided answers to nearly every question on that site. Only a ...
AndyMod
- 6,961
4
votes
1
answer
149
views
Remove the tag [forum-software]?
The help center's list of topics specifically excludes the technical platform/software - it says
If yours is a digital community, please avoid asking questions about a technical feature of your ...
- 2,054
3
votes
1
answer
42
views
Proposal for community curated resource questions
Community Building is an inexact science. There are helpful resources scattered throughout the internet, books and personal experiences. I'm proposing that we allow a few, predefined questions where ...
AndyMod
- 6,961
6
votes
1
answer
52
views
Make [users] into [members]
It was suggested in the chatroom that many of our users tags should be renamed to members. I feel, "members" makes sense, especially as we consider all the areas we cover for community building. ...
AndyMod
- 6,961
6
votes
4
answers
138
views
Drop "users" from some tags
I think there are a subset of tags that we can make easier to use by dropping the "users" portion of the tag. I propose the following:
user-retention be renamed to retention (16 existing questions)
...
AndyMod
- 6,961
6
votes
0
answers
96
views
Let's talk about our tags again
This may turn into a series of Meta posts. This is part 1.
The first round of tag improvements took place back in February. One of the responses from that discussion mentioned that our tagging ...
AndyMod
- 6,961
10
votes
1
answer
90
views
I'm not a fan of [discussion], are there alternatives we could use?
I'm not a huge fan of the discussion tag. There are only three questions tagged with it.
Is the idea of crowd-sourcing moderation duties a reason to prevent automated processes from helping?: This is ...
AndyMod
- 6,961
6
votes
1
answer
96
views
Are questions about how to setup a community considered off-topic?
I have a question about how to setup a community. It's not so much about managing or moderating a community, but rather about the best way to 'create' a community.
Are these kinds of questions ...
- 449
18
votes
3
answers
354
views
Why we're stuck growing
So, I was wandering the site last days, weeks, months. I've seen many questions regarding building or managing communities, I've seen many answers which are helpful, I've seen the same users over and ...
- 3,785
0
votes
3
answers
216
views
Why Hasn't This Site Been Merged or Closed?
The stats for this site don't look very good: after 235 days in beta, this site has .3 questions a day (that's one question every 3.3 days) and 27 visits a day. These numbers may not improve: while we ...
user319
4
votes
4
answers
187
views
Shopping questions on Community Building?
In the context of How to leverage reputation systems of other communities to encourage participation in your own, related to this meta question: Should this site cater to those trying to build ...
- 2,779
6
votes
1
answer
103
views
Topic Challenge: Transitions
It's time for another Community Building Challenge!
After a couple months without a challenge, I think it's time to have another one. This challenge will revolve around transitions.
No community ...
AndyMod
- 6,961
8
votes
0
answers
84
views
Should we change the short introduction of this site?
In the list of all site of SE, there is a one-sentence introduction of this site:
Q&A for community managers, administrators, and moderators
I just have joined this site yesterday, so I don't ...
- 571
5
votes
1
answer
491
views
Is asking about how to get information from a specific site effectively on-topic here?
An example question: Do I need to pay money to attracting people interact with me in language exchange sites?
I'm a trivial user on the internet, who are not a mod or admin in any site except my blog....
- 571
10
votes
2
answers
125
views
Are civics questions on topic? Do we cover government?
Recently a question was asked about law enforcement techniques that could be applied to cities and small nations. Are such questions about civics and government on topic?
AJ HendersonMod
- 5,993
6
votes
1
answer
82
views
What is our tagging philosophy?
Tag taxonomy is hard, and no new site I've been part of has gotten it right on the first try. That's normal.
We've now been in beta for a few months and have started to build up a hodge-podge of ...
- 10.7k