Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20190130223012/@comment-36009152-20190209202504

Brandon Rhea wrote:

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. I‘m helping the communities, I’ve showed people how to use blogs, there are people adding to the article pages for the first time in literal years for the Maiden Rose wiki. I know helpful things on some level and I feel it would be worth a try for staff to help in this one instance with their own prized Discussions feature.

One post from staff would help me. People come and go editing and posting all the time it’s the working method of Fandom sites in general. I will be posting as well, just thought it would be good for you to join in showing that Discussions is a feature to be used by explaining what can be done with a single handy post.

I understand everyone’s busy, but should it not be easy to kindly post the first Discussions post – that involves far less then typing out a reply here. I at the very least could walk away impressed, if that counts for anything...