Third chat cast - Site promotion - 2013-02-09 – Conversation in Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

Conversation started Feb 9, 2013 at 19:05.

Krazer

Feb 9, 2013 19:05

We have setup a Facebook community page and a G+ community page. Both needs some work and content.

Mysticial

I think we should probably wait until the outage is over.

Because you can't get into this room during read-only mode unless you already have a chat window open.

Krazer

I'd like to also discuss whether or not we should temporarily take control of our Anime.SE Twitter account and use that as part our site promotion.

Deidara-senpai

What kind of content?

Mysticial

@Krazer We can do that?

Krazer

@Mysticial We can suggest this to the community mods, but maintaining it is alot of work

Deidara-senpai

Feb 9, 2013 19:07

I believe you can get in to this room. I just opened this window few minutes back.

Mysticial

@Deidara-senpai If you're not logged in already, you can't log in.

Krazer

Gaming.se has done it before

Deidara-senpai

oh ok

Logan M

@Krazer I don't think twitter is the kind of platform that will bring in a lot of new people. We're better off letting the SE bot do whatever it wants and focusing on other things.

SE twitter account just posted to say that they'll be back in a few minutes: twitter.com/StackStatus

Krazer

@LoganM We are getting a bit of referrer traffic from twitter, it's number 2 since the 30th of Jan

Logan M

Feb 9, 2013 19:10

Main site is back online.

Mysticial

@Krazer Where's the rest of them coming from?

Deidara-senpai

On Twitter, RT helps. We should do that more often.

Krazer

I feel that we're not really taking advantage of the the #anime and #manga hash tags

Mysticial

hash tags?

Deidara-senpai

and cross posting from Twitter to Facebook also helps. Word spreads around faster on Twitter than Facebook.

Yes, that's the other thing. Use #hashtags well.

Krazer

Feb 9, 2013 19:13

@Mysticial support.twitter.com/articles/49309-what-are-hashtags-symbols

Mysticial

@Krazer ah

Krazer

If we can either follow or generate followers, it can help increase site traffic

Deidara-senpai

I would go with using the #anime hashtag more often.

By default, Twitter shows what it calls the "Top" tweets.

A secret algorithm decides the top tweets, but I am sure plenty of RTs put the tweet higher.

Krazer

I plan on spending some time this weekend to make community banners for the FB and G+ pages I'll post them in meta when I'm done

Are we going to move on with out plans for Reddit?

Mysticial

Yes

It's kinda all on you right now.

You pick the time tomorrow.

Madara Uchiha

Feb 9, 2013 19:17

A few things

Mysticial

We'll try to be around to help you out.

Madara Uchiha

I've already asked about the Twitter account, and the community team said it won't happen.

Krazer

@MadaraUchiha That's a shame

Mysticial

I created a Reddit account so I can stick in if necessary. (I created for a different purpose. But I can stick in.)

Deidara-senpai

so the Twitter account just posts a newsfeed? Is there some way it could post more stuff? (I am not sure yet what that would be.)

Mysticial

Feb 9, 2013 19:19

@MadaraUchiha Would we get in trouble if we make our own?

(I'm guessing yes)

Madara Uchiha

Just make sure it doesn't claim to be affiliated with Stack Exchange in any way

It should also make clear that it's unofficial.

Mysticial

@MadaraUchiha That's kinda hypocritical since we are users and you guys are mods selected by SE...

Deidara-senpai

Take a look at https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23naruto.
We should get more of our stuff on the front page here. (and this is not the filtered "Top Tweets" page).
Again, using naruto as an example.

Madara Uchiha

@Mysticial It doesn't matter, that's the answer I've got from them

Mysticial

I know. I'm just saying.

Madara Uchiha

Feb 9, 2013 19:21

It doesn't matter who starts it, because it isn't Stack Exchange official.

Logan M

@Mysticial It's mostly for legal reasons. SE doesn't want to accept any liability for what we are doing.

Mysticial

makes sense

And they can purge all of us for whatever reason they want.

Krazer

I like to get them to use the #anime hash tag at least

Madara Uchiha

We'll try that.

Outage lifted, by the way

Alright then, I'll try to talk with the community team regarding the #anime tag.

Have you guys decided anything regarding reddit?

Krazer

I'm fine with posting to Reddit at any time this weekend

Mysticial

Feb 9, 2013 19:25

@MadaraUchiha Yeah good thing for that. The timing of that outage was pretty terrible (for me at least).

Deidara-senpai

Can we have a hashtag to represent our site? Like #stackoverflow.

Mysticial

@Krazer Then pick a time tomorrow.

Madara Uchiha

@Deidara-senpai Even if we do, it can't be affiliated with Stack Exchange

So #anime.se is out, for example.

Krazer

@Mysticial What time would be optimal?

Madara Uchiha

Oh, on the official Twitter, I'll try @Deidara-senpai

Deidara-senpai

Feb 9, 2013 19:27

Mysticial

@Krazer I'm actually not sure. Definitely after the west coast wakes up.

But you don't have to make it too late. It's safe to assume the majority of Anime fans don't go to church. So we won't lose that traffic.

Krazer

lets try 10 or 11 am EST

Mysticial

@Krazer which timezone?

Madara Uchiha

So that's, what, 15:00 UTC?

Mysticial

I probably won't be awake until 11-12pm EST. But that's fine. I don't think I need to be there at the start.

Krazer

Feb 9, 2013 19:29

@MadaraUchiha Yeah

Mysticial

Or depending on how screwed up my sleep schedule is, I might be up early.

Madara Uchiha

Alright

Deidara-senpai

I wonder about the hashtag thing. I mean what can anyone possibly do if someone uses #animese hashtag? or maybe #amse. People use #stackoverflow all over the place.

Logan M

10-11 EST is pretty early for me, but I'll do my best to make it.

Madara Uchiha

@Deidara-senpai I'll ask them about their policies, I'll probably post a featured post on Anime and Manga Meta.

Deidara-senpai

Feb 9, 2013 19:31

Mysticial

The optimal times to post something on Reddit and Hacker News for professional stuff is close to 6am EST Mon-Thur. But this is recreational. So it's different.

Krazer

@Deidara-senpai We can use it but this site is not as heavily trafficked as SO so using our own has tage might not be of much use when filtering right now

Madara Uchiha

Alright

Deidara-senpai

@Krazer hmm, That's a good point.

Madara Uchiha

Let's wrap up

I'll ask the community team about the Twitter bot.

See how much degree of control we can get over it, and see if at the very least we can add some hashtags like #anime and #manga

Regarding Reddit, Krazer will add links tomorrow at ~15:00 UTC

Have we decided on which questions?

Krazer

Feb 9, 2013 19:35

I'll post tomorrow morning on Reddit, but have we decided on the content of the post? will it be a self or will it be link submissions?

Logan M

I think it's just a general link to the main site, not any specific questions.

Madara Uchiha

What do you think @Mysticial?

Mysticial

@MadaraUchiha The individual question reddits will come later.

Madara Uchiha

Alright then

Mysticial

For now we should re-flood the homepage with fansub/Type B genre stuff.

Logan M

Feb 9, 2013 19:38

@Mysticial I think it's a pretty good balance at the moment.

Madara Uchiha

Alright

So a link to the site, plus preparing some questions

Mysticial

We have 3 Bleach in the row. That'll probably get knocked further down by tomorrow.

How about we retag that Railgun question to bump it?

The vote is 6-2 in favor of Japanese tag names.

Madara Uchiha

I'll review the retagging questions in a bit, and will do the necessary retags to all questions.

Mysticial

Just remember that mod-renaming won't bump the questions.

Madara Uchiha

I know

So that settles it for promotion for now

Conversation ended Feb 9, 2013 at 19:41.

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