I think much of this comes down to User eXperience design. I guess less than 5% of forum users will read this post in its entirety. It’s a good thing to discuss norms, but most people will behave in the way the space leads them to and mirror other people.
So my questions are: - Getting downvoted sucks and it makes me not want to post and I’m pretty thick skinned. How can it suck less? - The forum is intimidating because there isn’t fun chat—how can this be worked on? - We want other people in EA to think we are clever, but posting imperfect posts can often make me feel dumb. How can people be encouraged that even a bad but written post is better than a perfect one that never gets published.
I think you know this, but I’ll say it anyway.
I think much of this comes down to User eXperience design. I guess less than 5% of forum users will read this post in its entirety. It’s a good thing to discuss norms, but most people will behave in the way the space leads them to and mirror other people.
So my questions are:
- Getting downvoted sucks and it makes me not want to post and I’m pretty thick skinned. How can it suck less?
- The forum is intimidating because there isn’t fun chat—how can this be worked on?
- We want other people in EA to think we are clever, but posting imperfect posts can often make me feel dumb. How can people be encouraged that even a bad but written post is better than a perfect one that never gets published.
Thanks for all the work you do.
I agree that a lot of this is baked into the UX, and really appreciate the feedback!