Salon post: March 9

[jenett]

I mentioned in a lock post, there was no post last week because I was still getting over being miserably sick.

Welcome to this week's salon post!

Topic of the week
Getting conversations going is something that I think about a lot, between online spaces like this, being staff on a Pagan forum, and just generally.

I've mentioned in a locked post that I've noticed a significant drop off in comments on the salon posts, and I'm wondering if there are things I (or other people who were interested) could do to help.

Is it timing? Starting discussions a bit differently? Something else?

What I've been up to:
Having finished the Classic Doctor Who rewatch, I am now a season into New Who. (With a bit of skipping episodes, since I've seen the first couple of seasons several times in the not too distant past.)


House rules:
This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.

* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.

* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)

* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.

Comments

[theora]

One thing that brings me back to conversations on Facebook are the notifications. With so much content coming at me from all sides (not to mention real-life commitments), realistically I will not remember to revisit an interesting post to make a comment I couldn't initially make or check for new comments unless there's something to remind me. So I use the Turn On Notifications function on FB a lot. I know a similar function is available on DW, but it was never part of my DW/LJ flow. I'm now trying to use it more (after a period away from DW). You could perhaps highlight the feature in the Salon intros so anyone who's interested can turn it on and get those little remindery pings to come back and read new comments or add forgotten ones.

[jenett]

Oh, that's a good idea, thank you!

My own practice is to hit notification on anything I want to keep an eye out for comments. I discovered when I hit the notification limit a few months back (I have a paid premium account for Reasons, which include liking feeding D's cats) that it's very easy to disable them or delete them en masse, unlike the LJ version last time I looked at it. I'd put off cleaning them up for ages because of that, so it was a pleasant surprise.

[alexseanchai]

:)

[alexseanchai]

+1