Sometimes I can’t tell whether a question here is genuine and the author is interested in the answers, or whether they just copy-paste something to keep people busy. How am I supposed to approach that?
Sometimes I can’t tell whether a question here is genuine and the author is interested in the answers, or whether they just copy-paste something to keep people busy. How am I supposed to approach that?
Thanks for your perspective.
Yes, I think all our internal drama, politics and how it’s handled in the software leaves a lot of room for improvement. We should try to cut down on that. It’d help new users and people who just don’t want to talk and not be bothered with all the quirks.
That’s indeed an issue. I know how it feels and it takes a special type or person to do it to begin with.
I’m sorry, I can’t. I already do this for other communities. I’m also active in other areas, I contribute to PieFed development… And there’s only so much I can do in a day.
Plus as I said I’m opposed to the concept. I think it was necessary in the beginning, but now our focus needs to change. I post 100% genuine questions which come from my heart only. And only articles I read and I think other people want to read specifically that article instead of the 5000 other ones in some feeds on the internet, because we really have enough of a flood of information. I don’t post for engagement. Not even in this case (any more).
That’d be a nice idea. I would have liked the new piefed.social communities to be exactly that. But if it were me, I’d ban people who post and don’t comment. Or once I see they didn’t actually read what they copied. Interesting idea, though, I’ll think about it.
That makes sense. I suggest to put that topic on hold for now, and revisit it once we have more than 2 active posters in this community.
Sure, good luck with that idea!
I changed my approach and wrote a long post about this issue instead. Or at least as a first thing to gather opinions. Here’s the same link for lemmy.zip.