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The viability of a community doesn't depend on votes; it depends on activity. If a proposal attracts a body of Q&A (and other posts) from enough people, those are signs of a solid community. If...
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#1: Initial revision
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Monica Cellio
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2024-09-04T02:10:26Z (3 months ago)
The viability of a community doesn't depend on votes; it depends on activity. If a proposal attracts a body of Q&A (and other posts) from enough people, those are signs of a solid community. If a proposal has little activity and it's mostly from just a few people, it doesn't much matter if bunches of people said they were interested. Communities need people who ask and answer. This was a problem with the old way of doing proposals -- several times we thought we had critical mass to sustain a community, and after launching it turned out we didn't. Launching prematurely harms the new community. We don't want to hold communities back but we want to do enough prep work here to help them succeed. And that prep is largely Q&A in the incubator, not votes on descriptions.