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Sharing information about invasive species is an important issue.  I started my town's Invasive Species Committee, and have seen some of these challenges first hand.  Lots of people are doing their own thing, with much duplicated learning and discovery out there.

I was hoping to get a site going to address the problem.  However, I couldn't get anyone on our own committee very interested in it.  It seems most people aren't used to computer forums, and even less Q&A sites.

If we (our town committee) had started using this site, I think we would have been able to get other committees involved too, and it would have spread.

I thought trying to get the site going by spreading the word otherwise beyond our committee was just too hard.  I could have mentioned it at a few conferences, but think about how you would explain to someone who doesn't know anything about Codidact how to post a question:

<blockquote>Go to this URL, read the site description, then go to the Q&A category and post a question, but you first have to apply this special "tag" thing, and your post will be in the same pile as questions about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, what a 13th level troll eats for breakfast, what would happen if the sun magically vanished, etc.  You have to use this "filter" thing...</blockquote>

That ain't gonna work.

Basically, our incubator system is broken.  It makes it nearly impossible to point outside people to a new proposed site and have them use it without a large amount of Codidact knowledge.  Effectively, our proposed sites can only grow from within, so any specialized "new" topic that people aren't already here for is never going to work.

After our own committee showed little interest when I described the site, I gave up.  It was hard to explain, and I could easily show them.  Until our incubator system is fixed so that I can hand out just a URL at conferences and the like, I'm not going to pursue this.