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The line has been repeated many times that we don't want to suck oxygen out of the main CW thread. Some weeks we barely get a thousand comments, and it hasn't been increasing. Although mainly staying stable.
If we add a BLR do you think it will increase the activity here? Or just pull a lot of people over there and further deplete the CW thread?
Why is there such a great need to crack 1000 comments? I’d much prefer quality over quantity here, and if I got 200 high quality posts and a few high quality responses on a given topic, that’s much more informative than 500 middling posts and another 20-30 inane responses.
To answer the other part of the equation, I’m Not talking about lengthy posts necessarily, but high quality posts that deal in facts, evidence, and use well founded arguments to argue for a position. I’m talking about giving links that directly support the positions taken, logic that follows. If you can do so in a couple of lines, great.
There's a great need because we pretty recently did a move off of Reddit, and many of the communities that move off of Reddit die a slow death of a thousand cuts. Less than six months ago the majority of posts on here were about how the site is doomed and we'll be dead in a year.
I think the mods correctly still see that as a potential problem, and are doing a good job navigating the threats to the long term health of the forum.
Maybe it’s a me thing but I’ve left more communities over stupid content than over a lack of content. Shitposts ruin sites because they prevent useful conversations.
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