I am not completely sure on the emphasizing of the community building based on fun part - that might be what fundamentally I view differently on; I believe people should best be united by passion/values and the things to do, the other stuff seems a bit for entertaining/personal/socializing purposes (and harder to be unified on), less for “a community with a goal” type of organizations (which could def happen in smaller subsets/scale) - people who are passionate about the values will stick around anyways is my take/current thought
On being cheerful though- that part I agree. I like posts celebrating progress as well
Thanks both! Yeah I do think ultimately the goals of EA and the Forum are not “fun” per say, but hopefully we can still create a space that has positivity. And I think currently, when people write about good news or progress or celebrating success, they get a relatively large amount of karma.
I also agree that we don’t want the tone to be too grim, both because that’s probably bad for motivation, and because I think that can even skew the topics that get discussed in bad ways (like if discussions were all doomy). I think that the Forum could use more cheerful content on the margin. :)
I am not completely sure on the emphasizing of the community building based on fun part - that might be what fundamentally I view differently on; I believe people should best be united by passion/values and the things to do, the other stuff seems a bit for entertaining/personal/socializing purposes (and harder to be unified on), less for “a community with a goal” type of organizations (which could def happen in smaller subsets/scale) - people who are passionate about the values will stick around anyways is my take/current thought
On being cheerful though- that part I agree. I like posts celebrating progress as well
Thanks both! Yeah I do think ultimately the goals of EA and the Forum are not “fun” per say, but hopefully we can still create a space that has positivity. And I think currently, when people write about good news or progress or celebrating success, they get a relatively large amount of karma.
I also agree that we don’t want the tone to be too grim, both because that’s probably bad for motivation, and because I think that can even skew the topics that get discussed in bad ways (like if discussions were all doomy). I think that the Forum could use more cheerful content on the margin. :)