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Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
8:35 AM
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Q: Do we want a blog?

Matt ЭлленAs many of you know, we have a blog. For those of you who didn't know, that's no surprise as we haven't added new content since July last year. Last time we tried to get contributors for the blog, we came up with a list of topic ideas, enough for fortnightly content for a few months. It started ...

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Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
3:07 PM
hello!
 
meer2kat
meer2kat
No
Yes
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
oh
 
meer2kat
meer2kat
Maybe
 
MrHen
MrHen
Hello
 
meer2kat
meer2kat
hola
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
3:08 PM
Hello
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
Who has thoughts on the meta question?
 
MrHen
MrHen
I think the more appropriate question is: Do we want to write a blog? And the answer seems to be no, we don't, since we really haven't. — MrHen 2 mins ago
Me being my cynical self.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
yes. I equate wanting a blog with wanting to write a blog in the post. we don't seem to have one at the moment.
well, not an active one
 
MrHen
MrHen
Right
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
I don't know what the powers who are would do with an inactive blog. Maybe wait for people who want to make it active again?
 
MrHen
MrHen
3:15 PM
Not sure. At this point, I think the only real path forward is just letting anyone who wants to post something when they feel like it.
What I can do is proofread/edit because it doesn't take me that long
But that isn't the bottleneck
 
KitFox
KitFox
Hi!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@MrHen that would go against the idea of having a target audience. I don't think that will change a thing
people can already do that
we advertise on the main site that you can do that
 
MrHen
MrHen
@MattЭллен I agree. But I don't see better options. :P
 
KitFox
KitFox
I could make it my personal blog for EL&U modding.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
if you like :D
 
MrHen
MrHen
3:16 PM
@MattЭллен I don't think people actually read the sidebar. :P
 
KitFox
KitFox
We have a sidebar?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@KitFox yes but it can't sell alcohol until after 8pm
 
KitFox
KitFox
grumbles, hides flask
I don't think I'd stay as moderator for long.
 
MrHen
MrHen
@KitFox Actually, having a mod-blog wouldn't be terrible. Communities tend to respond better when mods communicate publicly
 
KitFox
KitFox
Too much griping about how dumb some certain users are.
 
MrHen
MrHen
3:18 PM
Not that I have any idea what you'd post about
 
KitFox
KitFox
How dumb certain users are.
How much I hate people.
 
MrHen
MrHen
Haha
 
KitFox
KitFox
How annoying the new enthusiasts can be.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
constructive criticism can be good
 
MrHen
MrHen
The only relevant topics I'd feel like posting about are (a) tutorials on how to use Data.SE (b) how to find work to do on ELU (c) opinions on how to answer questions more effectively
 
KitFox
KitFox
3:21 PM
Yes. Great. Perfect.
 
MrHen
MrHen
Or, in other words, I'm more interested in talking about ELU than about English
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
that's cool, if we define the blog in those terms
maybe you could have the odd guest article about English, but focus on EL&U
 
MrHen
MrHen
@MattЭллен I think that's worth a shot if you can get people to actually write something
The good news is that most of the people who post massive Meta posts are already talking about ELU so it shouldn't be hard to filter some of those conversations into OpEd blog posts
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
I wouldn't subscribe to a blog that only discusses how to use ELU.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
aye
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 it wouldn't necessarily be "how to use" but news about the site
 
MrHen
MrHen
3:26 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I'm not really thinking it needs to be just about ELU. I'm just noting that I'm more willing to write about ELU.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Fair enough.
 
MrHen
MrHen
So an ideal content spread would probably be 50% "Heavy" English; 25% ELU topics; 25% "Intermediate" English?
It's hard to guess
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
That'd work for me.
 
MrHen
MrHen
@MattЭллен Do you have a list of the hit counts for the existing blog posts?
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
But I'm hardly typical.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
3:29 PM
I would say if there aren't any contributers who want to write about English and two contributors who want to write about the site, well, there's not going to be any posts about English.
 
MrHen
MrHen
@MattЭллен Well, yeah :P
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@MrHen yes. Prescritivism vs Descriptivism is the most popular post
 
MrHen
MrHen
@MattЭллен What are the others?
Are we just getting hits from search engines?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
it's difficult to see, exactly.
oh, I've found a table...
I'm trying to see all time
that's for this week
anyway. I'ma commute.
 
KitFox
KitFox
Bye!
 

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