Encouraging discussion about building and managing communities

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

I’d like to dig a bit deeper into these questions together:

• what kinds of discussions about community building and community management we want to encourage here on meta?
• what kind of structure and/or shifts in behavior from our most engaged users might better encourage that?

As part of our recent shuffling around of categories, we made the following changes to our “community” category:

• Renamed #community to #community-building
• Moved the following categories underneath it as subcategories
  • #data-reporting → #community-building:data-reporting
  • #praise → #community-building:praise
  • #praise:comparison → #community-building:comparison

Some of the initial feedback was that it’s not feeling quite right though:

@mcwumbly

@stephtara

I am sorry to say I’m definitely not liking the fact that the topic listing for Community Building is now filled with all sorts of stuff that to me have nothing to do with the “community management” area that this category covered for me previously

I’m not loving it either.

I’m hoping to first take what we learn here to inform some additional tweaks to make to category organization, but I think it’s also fine if other ideas come out of this that we might want to try now or in the future.