# Onboarding “normies” to forums!

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/onboarding-normies-to-forums/230602>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [June 21, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onboarding-normies-to-forums/230602 "2022-06-21T12:54:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 8

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Architect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/architect/32/520575_2.png) [@Architect](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Architect)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onboarding-normies-to-forums/230602/8 "2024-07-09T12:25:16Z")

</div>

> [@jamesbrooks](#):
>
> the CONCEPT of a forum and get people to start contributing and feeling confident to do so.
> 
> Grateful for any advice, examples of forums that do this well, or generally any ideas to throw into the mix.

Great questions, this can be a major challenge how to do onboarding for the normies.

The primary concept for Discourse seems to be “Community,” so for someone to join means they have opportunity to contribute + participate in the community.

One strategy I’m considering going with is to use discourse as a requirement for potential clients to create an account with for screening process to evaluate if it will be possible to work together or not. Policy would be: if people aren’t willing to create account, then I can’t work with them.

Not sure if anyone else has tried that strategy or would recommend other strategies.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onboarding-normies-to-forums/230602)._