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How can we improve traffic to the site?
One idea would be cross-posting top questions and answers on the Buddhism Reddit site, which is very active with a huge community and excellent engagement stats.
I have cross posted one, and it was ...
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How can we encourage more good quality questions?
Glad to see this question here. :)
Our stats on Area 51 are good with the exception of questions received.
Needs Work – 10 questions per day on average is a healthy beta, 5 questions or fewer per ...
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How can we encourage more good quality questions?
Could established users ask more questions?
Please note this answer:
Personally, I find 'seeded' questions irksome; it's generally easy to see that the asker isn't really looking for an answer, so ...
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How can we improve traffic to the site?
The page which you linked to says,
Eventually, 90% of a site's traffic should come from search engines.
I suppose we have at least two jobs, i.e. to try to ensure that:
Past and current questions ...
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Sharing the reputation
I think the only other thing that could be done is for (higher) rep users to put bounties on certain questions to encourage answering and spread the reputation around a bit.
I personally think that's ...
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Moderator created Chat opportunities
Even without/before creating a new chat room, there's a chat room here which anyone almost any user of this site can use any time for almost anything.
What you can't easily do is tell other people to ...
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What can we do to attract experts?
Some thoughts on this:
Experts in Buddhism (at least Pali Buddhism) would be experts in the language of the texts (Pali) and may other forums questions and discussion on Buddhism goes hand in hand ...
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What can we do to attract experts?
Thank you for everyone's interest in this. I've not read everything written here, but scanning through gave me a better sense why Bud.SE has been having trouble taking off.
What can we do to attract ...
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What can we do to attract experts?
I assume it must be important to improve the quality of questions, in any way possible.
I recommend for example this description of 'a good question' -- perhaps a question which "shows research ...
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What can we do to attract experts?
The interest to encourage new participants with knowledgeability re Buddhism at this site is a reasonable, and people with knowledgeability/ expertness re Buddhism would be expected to be ordinarily ...
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What can we do to attract experts?
As well as "being attractive" there's "not being off-putting".
I always imagined that seeing people arguing on the main site, or being argued with, would be off-putting to experts, ...
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Sharing the reputation
@CrabBucket
If someone decided to give away a big chunk of their rep it would undermine this a bit.
The real world works like that though: if I trust someone and they trust someone else then I ...
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