Community Guide: Activating Lurkers

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@simon

I wonder if more icebreaker types of topics could be created on Meta?

I think this one could be, to a certain extent, considered as one:

Do you use the reaction? What does it convey to you, and what does it mean when you use it?

Just being curious. Nothing serious here is part of the available reactions on meta. While most emojis conveys obvious feelings or sentiments, or sometimes a few different but close ones, or that can easily be interpreted depending on the context, what does means to you, as a reaction?

#lounge (which doesn’t exist anymore by default in new Discourse installation) was/is also a proper category for this, with more relaxed and casual conversations, but reserved to trust level 3.

There are few TL3 on meta if we remove the staff.

I think it was discussed at some point to decrease the TL3 thresholds on meta…

@simon

When I was working for Discourse I loved the icebreaker topics on our internal forum. They gave me a chance to say “I am here!” at times when I didn’t have much to contribute to the more technical conversations.

Same here
It’s also a good context to disagree more easily with people if we’re shy.
Like, saying, “I don’t like the TV show you recommended” instead of “I don’t like the design you created”