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First, checking the site stats on Area51, we are good in the following areas:

  • Answers per question
  • 98% of questions are answered

We need to work on getting more active users and visitors (voting, asking questions, providing answers, editing, etc) around to keep it sustained. We are averaging just under 1 new question a day, which definitely needs some work.

I'm personally impressed at how many questions are being answered, just not so many that are being marked as answered. Checking out how many are unansweredare unanswered is great (only 7, but 5 don't have any answers), and it seems people come, get their question answered, and leave.

Would a contest help? Would a blog help? Perhaps. But I also see lots of low quality answers that don't give much detail, and rely on the person to either look elsewhere, or Google further for their answer. I think if we can improve some of the lower quality (i.e. 1 or 2 sentence) answers, that we can show we are all professionals, and know what we're talking about. Maybe having the people who answer lots, also ask some questions that they already know the answer to, just to keep the community growing.

With all that said, let's remember that this is my first Beta that I started from scratch in, and I have seen it grow nicely in the beginning. My main site after this is Superuser, which has many, many, many more users, so this may be inaccurate, but it's what I see.

First, checking the site stats on Area51, we are good in the following areas:

  • Answers per question
  • 98% of questions are answered

We need to work on getting more active users and visitors (voting, asking questions, providing answers, editing, etc) around to keep it sustained. We are averaging just under 1 new question a day, which definitely needs some work.

I'm personally impressed at how many questions are being answered, just not so many that are being marked as answered. Checking out how many are unanswered is great (only 7, but 5 don't have any answers), and it seems people come, get their question answered, and leave.

Would a contest help? Would a blog help? Perhaps. But I also see lots of low quality answers that don't give much detail, and rely on the person to either look elsewhere, or Google further for their answer. I think if we can improve some of the lower quality (i.e. 1 or 2 sentence) answers, that we can show we are all professionals, and know what we're talking about. Maybe having the people who answer lots, also ask some questions that they already know the answer to, just to keep the community growing.

With all that said, let's remember that this is my first Beta that I started from scratch in, and I have seen it grow nicely in the beginning. My main site after this is Superuser, which has many, many, many more users, so this may be inaccurate, but it's what I see.

First, checking the site stats on Area51, we are good in the following areas:

  • Answers per question
  • 98% of questions are answered

We need to work on getting more active users and visitors (voting, asking questions, providing answers, editing, etc) around to keep it sustained. We are averaging just under 1 new question a day, which definitely needs some work.

I'm personally impressed at how many questions are being answered, just not so many that are being marked as answered. Checking out how many are unanswered is great (only 7, but 5 don't have any answers), and it seems people come, get their question answered, and leave.

Would a contest help? Would a blog help? Perhaps. But I also see lots of low quality answers that don't give much detail, and rely on the person to either look elsewhere, or Google further for their answer. I think if we can improve some of the lower quality (i.e. 1 or 2 sentence) answers, that we can show we are all professionals, and know what we're talking about. Maybe having the people who answer lots, also ask some questions that they already know the answer to, just to keep the community growing.

With all that said, let's remember that this is my first Beta that I started from scratch in, and I have seen it grow nicely in the beginning. My main site after this is Superuser, which has many, many, many more users, so this may be inaccurate, but it's what I see.

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First, checking the site stats on Area51, we are good in the following areas:

  • Answers per question
  • 98% of questions are answered

We need to work on getting more active users and visitors (voting, asking questions, providing answers, editing, etc) around to keep it sustained. We are averaging just under 1 new question a day, which definitely needs some work.

I'm personally impressed at how many questions are being answered, just not so many that are being marked as answered. Checking out how many are unanswered is great (only 7, but 5 don't have any answers), and it seems people come, get their question answered, and leave.

Would a contest help? Would a blog help? Perhaps. But I also see lots of low quality answers that don't give much detail, and rely on the person to either look elsewhere, or Google further for their answer. I think if we can improve some of the lower quality (i.e. 1 or 2 sentence) answers, that we can show we are all professionals, and know what we're talking about. Maybe having the people who answer lots, also ask some questions that they already know the answer to, just to keep the community growing.

With all that said, let's remember that this is my first Beta that I started from scratch in, and I have seen it grow nicely in the beginning. My main site after this is Superuser, which has many, many, many more users, so this may be inaccurate, but it's what I see.