@Dibstar Hi @Dibstar, that's awesome. Take a look at the resources I posted above for enderland and let us know if you have any questions.

Hey @bethlakshmi, tI have two questions for you. (1) Is there anything you need from me in terms of getting you setup as blog caretaker (other than of course the actual Wordpress in February)? (2) I was thinking you might coordinate with @Dibstar and @enderland in terms of what is being written and what articles to focus on in terms of posting or editing.

What do you think?

Also, I was thinking of putting on our Tello board "How I got two gold badges on the Workplace SE on my first day", in response to this user:

Would it be in bad taste to do an article on this topic or something along the lines of what made this question such a hit?

@jmort253 I like the idea of highlighting that question, but I would say the comments discussion around closing and opening it would be more worthwhile, as the reason it was a hit was off-topic (whilst the question core was, I believe, on-topic) and that might be considered a little insensitive given the subject matter

@Dibstar your reasoning makes perfect sense to me (I think you'd be an invaluable contributor to blog team). On thing you didn't address though is this shift would make a potential "hit" into less er publicity-friendly article (which however may potentially have a solid positive longer term impact)...

...what's your take on this?

@gnat - I think that is part of a wider discussion into whether or not sensationalising questions for views / publicity is necessary. Personally I think it demeans the value of contributions across the site, and yet I see from the area 51 stats we're not doing the volumes of traffic I would expect (and hope for). I would hope that by drawing attention to this question for the right reasons we would get people to come back.

@Dibstar I think I understand. There seem to be a tricky matter of finding the right balance. Blog article how divorce made me a Stak Exchange star could gather a lot of views but that'd be ethically questionable and could lead to inorganic growth (like it was to Programmers in times of NPR). On the other hand...

...How to make it so that readers interest would be relevant? "Oh this looks like a good place to learn about workplace matters" - as opposed to "wow they talk about sex in the office here, c00l".

@jmort253 I honestly don't think questions like that are GOOD for the long term viability of this site... I don't think we want to really focus on that.

Focusing on how much we care about maintaining good questions however is definitely something worth writing about though :-)

@enderland Good point. Questions like that tend to create a lot of work for everyone, and in the end we really aren't 100% sure the work leads to the results we want. :)

@Dibstar I lean more towards not using that one as an example. I'm beginning to suspect it's an example of a popular question, which doesn't make it necessarily a good question.

@enderland I guess I just needed someone to tell me it's a bad idea :)