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humanodon · 4185 days ago · link · · parent · post: I have noticed that the majority of posts come from a very small number of people. How can we, as a community, encourage more people to contribute?
One difference between communicating via hubski and face to face, is awareness. If users do not share articles or follow people, there's no way to know that they exist. By contrast, in a flesh and blood situation, if a person is quiet, they might be gently invited to contribute or encouraged to espouse an opinion. We do have the shoutout feature where if we surround a username with @'s the target user will then be alerted, but again, you can't do that to users you are unaware of.
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Hmm. I don't know. It seems like that might make people feel singled out, or placed in a certain "class" of user. It strikes me that the situation is a little like being in a group. There are introverts and extroverts and many degrees of both and in-between.