Community topics at meta

Question

{note that meta was posted here since not able to post (steady error) in eta area, may the moderators pardon the additional work arising from it and may it be of benefit anyway for all your welfare}

Of course, although generously invited, it's all your community here and some will ever be just "itching" guests, so it should be seen just as a "good encouragement", not at all a demand.

It would be good if the community tries to create areas for devotion to the tripple Gems and for instructions, greeting, welcome...

My person thought that you would be able to dedicate possible one topic here as "Welcome and introduction" topic, where user could introduce themselves to the community and welcomes could be posted in the comments.

And another topic, good to introduce, would be either a devotion topic or a Uposatha-Observance topic. Given that it is fulmoon Uposatha, even a perfect day today. If wished, of course, my person would help in situating and instructing to such which should not limit anyones possibilities to do merits and give all a very proper touch here.

To make things different as used to, better and a good sample for good for many, if wished so, is of course your choice.

(Note that this is not given for trade, exchange, stacks or entertainment but as means toward release and encouragement to give the causes for such.)

Answer 1

Perhaps you are able to post on the Meta site, now that you're using a registered account.

Another place, which SE has provided for this type of conversation, is the site's main Chat room.

The help topic says,

What is chat?

All sites have a real time web chat component, or as we like to call it, the "third place".

The third place is a term used in the concept of community building to refer to social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace. In his influential book The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg argues that third places are important for civil society, democracy, civic engagement, and establishing feelings of a sense of place.

Most needed are those ‘third places’ which lend a public balance to the increased privatization of home life. Third places are nothing more than informal public gathering places. The phrase ‘third places’ derives from considering our homes to be the ‘first’ places in our lives, and our work places the ‘second.’

On this site the chat room has been rarely used until now -- but users on other SE sites use their chat rooms daily, e.g. for greetings and personal conversations -- as well as topics of mutual interest e.g. related to the main site.

It can help, to get to know other users as people -- a sense of "community" just as you said.

Meta is slightly formal e.g. each page as a "topic" defined by the original post.

Chat is more informal, with posts just displayed chronologically.

Those aren't available to completely-new users though -- people need a small minimum of "reputation" to post on Chat or Meta (I assume that acts partly a measure to help avoid new/anonymous users making unwanted or inappropriate posts).