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DoctorWhom
DoctorWhom
12:00 AM
1. Reshaping the site will certainly result in a decrease in overall users - at first. But the majority of those that we lose are the one-time-users and off-topic-users. Most already active users will remain. Then the users we ATTRACT, then those we RETAIN, will be more in scope. As quality rises, quantity will follow.
@Narusan said "The site won't be huge, but the active user base should be larger than the current one by a lot. I can see that it might be a problem getting enough new questions per day. But in the end, I can just spam the site with the multitude of things I want to learn about medical sciences :P"
I agree wholeheartedly.
I too will write more questions. I haven't done that much because the active user base has been so low. I've started collecting a list from what I remember wanting to know as a student, what I want to know now, and what students ask me. I'll even answer some of the ones I post.
@LangLangC said "High rep users tend to not ask that many questions I found in my superficial analysis. "
This is true. The site has not fostered much a culture of learning between colleagues. When high caliber questions are diluted by scores of low quality questions, they don't receive the attention they deserve. If the experts don't feel they have anything to learn here, the benefit of participation wanes, and that is part of why they leave.
This culture of learning is what we aim to foster, and that will attract/retain more engaged users.
 
DoctorWhom
DoctorWhom
12:39 AM
@Mike-DHSc I understand what you are saying about people needing answers about their own health. That's why I do what I do. But we can't solve that by giving wrong advice. Super important meta:
https://health.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/747/how-long-can-this-site-be-popular-if-everybody-is-asked-to-see-a-doctor

It is a tragedy that there are not enough health professionals. This massive shortage is a failing of our education and healthcare systems - which should be top priority for people when voting, but historically has not been, so we're living the consequences. You will see it…
 
 
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Narusan
Narusan
6:09 AM
@DoctorWhom no worries
 
 
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Narusan
Narusan
6:01 PM
@DoctorWhom Regarding scope: Alternative Medicine should be off-topic as well. It isn't really a great fit for any SE site, and it clashes with this site's new title. Furthermore, I don't want that to have arguments regarding whether AM works or not, how the medical industry is just a big bunch of a*holes trying to make everyone poor etc. going on. It would just ease all our lives.
Plus, it never played a big role on Health.SE (Apart from really weird questions like whether limestone and tumeric paste could heal possible muscle tears or ruptured achilles tendons etc.)
 

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