reddit engagement
A few of us had quick chat on irc yesterday about reddit[1] and came to the conclusion that there is some positive buzz there [2] about GNOME these days, maybe we should think more about how to better engage with the reddit community/users. I don't personally have much experience interacting with reddit but know some other team members have. There is an etherpad [3] where we can list our ideas, I can also see this as a potential future meeting agenda item. 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit 2 http://www.reddit.com/r/gnome 3 https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/reddit_engagement -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
Re: reddit engagement
On 2014-10-25 13:22, Oliver Propst wrote: A few of us had quick chat on irc yesterday about reddit[1] and came to the conclusion that there is some positive buzz there [2] about GNOME these days, maybe we should think more about how to better engage with the reddit community/users. I personally find Reddit's lack of response on certain topics and legal manners [1] misaligned with my values and those that I think are values of the wider GNOME community. It's not something I would like to use for outreach myself. I plain don't want anything to do with it. What I would focus on is more proactive instead of reactive outreach. Spreading good stories instead of trying to fire control the bad ones. 1. http://pento.net/2014/09/10/lets-have-a-chat-about-reddit/ - Andreas ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
Re: reddit engagement
On 10/25/2014 10:12 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 2014-10-25 13:22, Oliver Propst wrote: A few of us had quick chat on irc yesterday about reddit[1] and came to the conclusion that there is some positive buzz there [2] about GNOME these days, maybe we should think more about how to better engage with the reddit community/users. I personally find Reddit's lack of response on certain topics and legal manners [1] misaligned with my values and those that I think are values of the wider GNOME community. It's not something I would like to use for outreach myself. I plain don't want anything to do with it. I agree that reddit has terrible management and many spiteful and oppressive users. I'm not sure of many other GNU/Linux-focused community forums though. Slashdot is even more hostile than /r/linux, but I'm not sure about hackernews (I feel like hackernews is more programmer-focused). Regardless, while I've learned useful things from /r/linux and had some decent conversations there, I would strongly avoid encouraging people to go there. As a compromise, there's also https://www.reddit.com/r/srslinux and https://www.reddit.com/r/SRSTechnology/ (and https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/ ?) which are populated by far fewer racists, sexists, etc. What I would focus on is more proactive instead of reactive outreach. Spreading good stories instead of trying to fire control the bad ones. That is what I've already been doing for the past 9 months https://www.reddit.com/user/hnasarat/submitted/ I have focused on making sure that people there see and hear about GNOME, and what GNOME people are working on. There's often a fair deal of support for the things I post, but I don't have the patience (nor think it's a useful endeavor) to engage with detractors that inevitably show up. 1. http://pento.net/2014/09/10/lets-have-a-chat-about-reddit/ - Andreas ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
Re: reddit engagement
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: I personally find Reddit's lack of response on certain topics and legal manners [1] misaligned with my values and those that I think are values of the wider GNOME community. It's not something I would like to use for outreach myself. I plain don't want anything to do with it. I think the context of our discussion was that there was some positive buzz about GNOME there now and we could think about how to leverage it, if I remember correctly we did some engagement there a while back. But yeah totally understand you (don't use reddit myself). What I would focus on is more proactive instead of reactive outreach. Spreading good stories instead of trying to fire control the bad ones. Definitely agree this should be our focus and it was not (or have ever been) my intent to state anything else. 1. http://pento.net/2014/09/10/lets-have-a-chat-about-reddit/ Thanks for sharing this post it had many interesting points. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
Re: reddit engagement
On 2014-10-25 16:29, Hashem Nasarat wrote: That is what I've already been doing for the past 9 months https://www.reddit.com/user/hnasarat/submitted/ I have focused on making sure that people there see and hear about GNOME, and what GNOME people are working on. There's often a fair deal of support for the things I post, but I don't have the patience (nor think it's a useful endeavor) to engage with detractors that inevitably show up. And I think it's all right that you do if you feel comfortable with it. I read Oliver's initial e-mail as Everyone here needs to be on Reddit more, and I wanted to explain why I personally can't do that. - Andreas ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
