Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20190130223012/@comment-20644-20190209200710

Fandyllic, relax. This conversation is ultimately about how staff should interact with a community. Your first post, in fact, was in part premised on the fact that one staff member you interacted with on one wiki isn't here anymore. That's not too different from what S3r0-Ph1i is talking about in asking for me to make the first post.

S3r0-Ph1i, I don't agree that me posting is the best foundation for your Discussions community. It's better coming from you. One post from a staff member isn't going to show that there's activity; if anything just having a staff member post and then disappear will have the opposite effect. You posting, on the other hand, will be an encouragement to your community that this is a feature that you're ready and eager for them to use, rather than making it look like a feature that staff are swooping in, one time, o tell them that they should use.

Anything that can be be driven by the community, rather than top down from staff, is ultimately a good thing and 99 times out of 100 creates a better experience for everyone involved. That's a big part of what we want to do as part of the revamp to our approach here.