Suggestion: Norm Pledges and Badges. Optional pledges that users can take to profess our commitment to good discourse and behavior, ideally with badges we can display on our profiles or attach to our username.
Effect:Reducepeople’s anxiety about using the forum and even about engaging with the EA community as a whole.[1] Seeing these around the forum can increase trust and welcomingness and affirm to those who are nervous that engagement is usually low-cost.
Examples: Please see my profile Bio! The implementation I’ve done is way more clunky than what the Forum Team can implement, but you’ll get it. I’ve made pledges to: 🤝 Fresh Slate After Disagreement, 👨👩👧👦 No Gatekeeping, 🤔Rationalist Discourse, 🦸Preferring My Primary Account, and 🙇♂️ Humility in Pledging.
Suggestion: Norm Pledges and Badges. Optional pledges that users can take to profess our commitment to good discourse and behavior, ideally with badges we can display on our profiles or attach to our username.
Effect: Reduce people’s anxiety about using the forum and even about engaging with the EA community as a whole.[1] Seeing these around the forum can increase trust and welcomingness and affirm to those who are nervous that engagement is usually low-cost.
Examples: Please see my profile Bio! The implementation I’ve done is way more clunky than what the Forum Team can implement, but you’ll get it. I’ve made pledges to: 🤝 Fresh Slate After Disagreement, 👨👩👧👦 No Gatekeeping, 🤔Rationalist Discourse, 🦸Preferring My Primary Account, and 🙇♂️ Humility in Pledging.
that this is a problem is evidenced by increase in new alt/anon accounts, and much discussion that it’s scary to post on the forum