12:41 PM
Contribution is a broad word. Asking questions and answering questions is contribution. Editing posts in AU, posting comments in AU, flagging posts/comments (properly) in AU, reviewing posts of AU review queues is also contribution.
Participating in Ask Ubuntu Meta is also contribution.
Chat is optional IMO. It's just a place to talk to people. But, chat can also be used in a productive manner to contribute to Ask Ubuntu. Example:
All types of contribution are equally important IMO.
But unfortunately, not everyone can contribute in every possible way. Some ask questions, some answer questions, some comment, some flag, some edit (or suggest edit), some review, some participate in meta.
Some can contribute in multiple ways, some can only contribute in one way.
As I am not using Ubuntu much nowadays (as my PC is not working), I am not able to ask much questions. I don't answer much questions because I don't have much knowledge about Ubuntu.
I spend much time on Ask Ubuntu Meta and that's my way of contributing :)
Also, when I was a new member of the Ask Ubuntu community, I noticed that Ask Ubuntu Meta was not much active. Also, AUGR was not much active. I was saddened by this.
So I tried my best to make them (both AU meta and AUGR) active. But I am not sure if I was successful.
I also used to spend time reviewing posts in First posts review queue. It was my way of contributing :)
But the new review queues (First questions and First answers review queues) had lots of bugs. So I didn't review much in these new review queues.
So I didn't spend much time in reviewing posts after those consequences.
And lots of stuff are happening in real life.. so I couldn't focus much on reviewing posts/contributing to Ask Ubuntu.
Just asking questions, providing answers and helping people with Ubuntu in Ask Ubuntu is more than enough to be considered part of the Ask Ubuntu community.
All types of contribution are equally important.
C.S.Cameron, I reiterate. You are a part of the Ask Ubuntu community. I thank you for your contribution.
Thanks to all the AU contributors <3