@BobCross mechanics have fun stories. User Experience just went through the motions to get a blog (starting with meta.ux.stackexchange.com/questions/915/…) so you might want to see how we did it. We're working on getting the posts up to publish but everything's falling into place fast

@BobCross engagement definitely seems to be an issue here; good views per day and lots of quality answers, but little engagement; if I had to guess I'd assume there's lots of "drive by" users who post one question and never return, similar to Android Enthusiasts

Was about to make a meta post asking how we can increase engagement...not sure I can be much direct help though, since all I have is questions, not answers. Never cared much about cars until I got my Mercedes, suddenly I'm much more interested (imagine that)

The funny thing is that, if you look at area51, the number where we're "lacking" is in questions per day. I'm a little dry on questions as I'm not doing anything right now - parts on order or the planned task is going to take 5 straight hours (that I haven't budgeted into a weekend yet).

If you look at that data, there numbers indicate that we need more questions.

My current fave idea is that of contests to win free tools - I'm trying to sneakily persuade jmort253 to lead the charge there, though.... We'll see how much luck I have with that.

@BobCross It's easier to know you've replied if you @ me :P I don't have this room fav'd

@BobCross yeah,everything looks good for you guys except questions. I have many more questions than answers so maybe I can help a bit with my cluelessness :P

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@BenBrocka, yep, I forget to respond directly all the time. That's because I'm dumb. sigh

@BobCross heh, it's cool