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Most proposals here were just made by 1 single inactive person who had no intention to push the proposal further at all, they just liked to propose something and then log off. Well... thanks, off y...
#2: Post edited
by
Lundin
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2026-08-18T13:00:42Z (about 1 month ago)
- Most proposals here were just made by 1 single inactive person who had no intention to push the proposal further at all, they just liked to propose something and then log off. Well... thanks, off you go then...
- The second-most common proposal is the one with 1 single active person, who are doing the necessary work but need similar users to back them up. Usually they give up after a while and then the proposal ends up in the freezer.
So I think the minimum criteria needs to be that there is _a handful of active domain experts_ who can push the site forward. People who can finish setting the site scope, who can post a lot of Q&A to get the site going, and who are also potential moderator material. Without those the site will quickly die off. Some rough metric would be ~5 active domain experts where some of them can also be the first moderators.
- Most proposals here were just made by 1 single inactive person who had no intention to push the proposal further at all, they just liked to propose something and then log off. Well... thanks, off you go then...
- The second-most common proposal is the one with 1 single active person, who are doing the necessary work but need similar users to back them up. Usually they give up after a while and then the proposal ends up in the freezer.
- So I think the minimum criteria needs to be that there is _a handful of active domain experts_ who can push the site forward. People who can finish setting the site scope, who can post a lot of Q&A to get the site going, and who are also potential moderator material. Without those the site will quickly die off. Some rough metric would be ~5 active domain experts where some of them can also be the first moderators.
- Adding casual users on top of that is less of a problem - personally I've been casually active on lots of communities just to help with activity, even if I'm not really interested in that community myself. Anyone can ask questions, if nothing else.
#1: Initial revision
by
Lundin
·
2026-08-18T12:58:55Z (about 1 month ago)
Most proposals here were just made by 1 single inactive person who had no intention to push the proposal further at all, they just liked to propose something and then log off. Well... thanks, off you go then... The second-most common proposal is the one with 1 single active person, who are doing the necessary work but need similar users to back them up. Usually they give up after a while and then the proposal ends up in the freezer. So I think the minimum criteria needs to be that there is _a handful of active domain experts_ who can push the site forward. People who can finish setting the site scope, who can post a lot of Q&A to get the site going, and who are also potential moderator material. Without those the site will quickly die off. Some rough metric would be ~5 active domain experts where some of them can also be the first moderators.