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What's up with the post/reply ratio?

I'm new here. there's a lot of really great content but there are so many people posting their milestones and asking for help, and so few people replying!

Something like 70% of the milestones have no comment and no upvote. Is that normal here?

I did my part by adding 1 post and 1 milestone today but replying to 8 others.

Now you go do your part!

on April 29, 2020
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    The reality is that many of the milestones posts need to improve to get people reading them, hopefully this will come in time as we all learn what makes better content.

    In addition to this the milestone posts reset everyday, so timing matters and I guess it doesn't quite have the same scrolling flow as the main forum/discussion area. Alongside this improvements to the website will help in time too.

    I always recommend people look at the popular milestones to see what kind of posts work well.

    Of course, all kind of feedback is encouraged and welcome. To us, and also upvoting/commenting on more milestones posts would be great too. We're trying to find the fine balance of promoting the milestones and the forum discussion posts, right now it is weighted towards the main discussions.

    I would also add that we've had a lot of growth recently and outside of my personal ability to keep up, growth brings new challenges. Which is exciting, but challenging too!

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      Thanks for the thoughtful response!

      Definitely hard to get a good mix of highlighting great content over lower quality content and also creating what feels like a responsive community.

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    I'm trying to become better at this. I used to be in a "read-only" and "post-only" mode. My problem was that every time I found a post I could add something to, my answer was already there submitted by other members. But browsing the newest posts instead of the top ones helped to overcome this.

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      I feel you! And I think many others do too (writing in anticipation of said effect)! ;)

      Nem hiszek a szememnek! Another person from Budapest in here!? How unexpected!

      David

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      👌 nice tip

      I feel like it's easy to get sucked into the top posts, because they're probably the most interesting ones, and they only get more interesting with the discussion going on.

      But the new posts are probably in more need of response

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    Great idea! I usually upload 1 post every couple days. I’ll try to reply more too. 👍🏻

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      Thanks for your contributions 🤜🤛

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      Brayden, you’re everywhere I go mate! Next thing I run into you at the store downstairs of the office! 😂

      David

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        Haha! Well I just signed up on IH a week ago so I’m trying to boost my reputation on here.

        Have a great day! 👍

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          Hahaha I get you! :) and you’re doing better than me then!

          Cheers,

          David

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            Hey David, could you check out this new post I made to help my friend to make the world cleaner. Thanks! 👍

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              I'm checking, I'm checking, I'm checking!!! :)

              David