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RE: 💬 Expanding the boundaries of community coordination and online discussion
I know with your skills and all the creativity, talent and good people in the WOX, we'll figure out ways to incentivize those spicy discussions! For sure gamification of the engagement is a good way to create interest, relationships, development and economic value. It has always been a difficult task here on Steem, but where there are efforts there will be fruits.
I'll do my best, that's all you can ask 😆
And I think it always will be because of the financial motivation and the way rewards work. I've read a lot of good suggestions since I joined about how the reward algorithm should change but it's clear that there's little appetite from the powers that be for this to happen. So we have to work with what we've got.
Unlike other communities, World of Xpilar has the voting power to support itself and as I've written above, has perhaps been too generous providing votes to people who post their content and then leave. The risk of course is that great authors / photographers / artists move to another community or leave the platform altogether so we need to decide if that's a risk worth accepting. But to do that, we need to decide what we want our community to be.
Is it a stage for people to stand upon and tell you what they want you to hear?
Or is it a round table where everybody shares and interacts?
I currently feel it's more of the former when (in my opinion) it should be the latter.
This could be said also about the diverse community in WOX. I think the question is how we improve the engagement in the community. We need to find ways to invite more than to impose. Find the good commenters first, recognize them/value their work. This group surely will provide confidence to others to join. Recognize the work of great authors, whom provide exemplary skills/treatment of their content, provide them with good commenters to catch their attention on the interactions in the community (those supported by Art-Venture for example).
Promote voting in comments (the most difficult part). Here the blockchain rules don't help as comments produce less curation rewards (as they regularly don't reach high value $) and cannot be voted by curation trails. Many collective strategies could be implemented but need SP support. (I would study the promotion of the use of the @dustsweeper service in the community, so the users can help with those author and curation rewards in the comments).
I find some people tend to gather around nationalities and comment accordingly, maybe we can play a little with that, promoting those interactions and extending the visits to other countries. "The week of Russia", "The week of Nigeria", "The week of Venezuela", and so on... Just an idea.
Of course, we will find those users that just want to abuse, to take and don't to improve their journeys on the community or in the platform.
I think setting steps of a process will help us find the answer for the questions you've asked!
I hope that with the approach that I've proposed that this won't be possible as it will be too much effort - people always find a way though!
I'm sure we'll learn, adapt and experiment with this a lot - we'll be very lucky if this works and we're successful with it straight away.
Yes!! It's trial and error until we know the best ways!
Best vibes for this and all the projects, @The-Gorilla!!