A crux for me at the moment is whether we can shape debate weeks in a way which leads to deep rather than shallow engagement. If we were to run debate weeks more often, I’d (currently) want to see them causing people to change their mind, have useful conversations, etc… It’s something I’ll be looking closely at when we do a post-mortem on this debate week experiment.
Also, every other week seems prima facie a bit burdensome for un-interested users. Additionally, I want top-down content to only be a part of the Forum. I wouldn’t want to over-shepherd discussion and end up with less wide-ranging and good quality posts.
Happy to explore other ways to integrate polls etc if people like them and they lead to good discussions though.
A crux for me at the moment is whether we can shape debate weeks in a way which leads to deep rather than shallow engagement. If we were to run debate weeks more often, I’d (currently) want to see them causing people to change their mind, have useful conversations, etc… It’s something I’ll be looking closely at when we do a post-mortem on this debate week experiment.
Also, every other week seems prima facie a bit burdensome for un-interested users.
Additionally, I want top-down content to only be a part of the Forum. I wouldn’t want to over-shepherd discussion and end up with less wide-ranging and good quality posts.
Happy to explore other ways to integrate polls etc if people like them and they lead to good discussions though.