Bringing newly-installed users into the community (Re: Should XChat default to freenode and #ubuntu?)

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Mary Gardiner">

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > The problem is ensuring there are people *with clue* to staff it. Look
> > at the forums some time - hardly any of the developers like using
> > forums, so there's an entire culture of confusion and myth generation
> > there.
> 
> There's two choices here: either don't do it; or figure out what
> incentives there are for people with clue to hang out there.

(There's a third choice: Use forums that both sets of users frequent, but
continue using the techniques you described to keep the level of discussion
polite and relevant.)

- Jeff

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