I have an observation but may be noise; it is something like “you have to be known to the community somehow, to get more interactions from the community, unless it is negative interactions (debates of some sort)”. I am slightly critical but not very critical about this.
I think it does help to have a username that people recognize, but IMO it’s not too hard to get to that point. There’s not a ton of activity on the EA Forum and it’s not that hard to read most comments, so if you write a few good comments people will probably start to recognize your username.
This seems right to me—personally I am more likely to read a post if it is by someone I know (in person or by reputation). I think selfishly this is the right choice as those posts are more likely to be interesting/valuable to me. But it is also perhaps a bad norm as we want new writers to have an easy route in, even if no-one recognises their name. So I try to not index too heavily on whether I know the person.
I have an observation but may be noise; it is something like “you have to be known to the community somehow, to get more interactions from the community, unless it is negative interactions (debates of some sort)”. I am slightly critical but not very critical about this.
I think it does help to have a username that people recognize, but IMO it’s not too hard to get to that point. There’s not a ton of activity on the EA Forum and it’s not that hard to read most comments, so if you write a few good comments people will probably start to recognize your username.
This seems right to me—personally I am more likely to read a post if it is by someone I know (in person or by reputation). I think selfishly this is the right choice as those posts are more likely to be interesting/valuable to me. But it is also perhaps a bad norm as we want new writers to have an easy route in, even if no-one recognises their name. So I try to not index too heavily on whether I know the person.