Agree with most of it and said it before I think it's awesome what you're doing. However we don't have to just LOOK like an active, helpful and healthy community we have to BE (or become) that. Now I've not been around long enough to judge if it already is or is well on its way to becoming that. But I can definitely say the community has been helpful and filled with a lot of people with good intentions trying hard. In the end if the user base grows there will automatically be more comments, even with a lower comment per person rate.
I guess it's that organic explosive growth that will eventually take over and make something really gain traction. But for now I don't see anything wrong with incentives here and there to get people started with some more extrinsic motivation. Don't neglect your own stack though ;-)
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That's basically what I'm going for. I want people to step up their game and put in some time and effort to make a lot of comments. Others are likely to join in on the fun and make comments if they see a bunch of people already doing that. With time, we will have changed the entire standard for how to "engage" on this platform.
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I'm sure they will, that's how Facebook started, friend invites you --> make an account --> not much happening --> o he/she's on here too? let's have another look..
And before you know it everyone's doing it :-)
Only thing is, right now you need some technical knowledge, quite a bit more than just a username, email and password
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That is very true, which is why I want people to share their success-stories. Those stories are awesome for marketing purposes. Especially as it's word-of-mouth marketing.
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