Timeline for How can we recruit and retain more talent?
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| Jun 25, 2014 at 20:03 | comment | added | ssl | Yes, Sobrique, this has been true for me as well. Obviously I did not word my response in the optimum way. I was trying to share my experience in marketing a new venture. In that role I was responsible for customer marketing research, IE surveying customers on planned features for the new venture. I found that if I was as accepting as possible when conducting surveys I got more useful insight. My comment was in the context of collecting usability input from new site users. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 10:50 | comment | added | Sobrique | I've come onto the site recently, and found it not to be a 'smackdown zone'. But then, I took the time to read some of the expectations for the site, regarding how to ask good questions and what would be 'on topic'. So have really found it quite helpful, because in taking the time to ask well, I got constructive and helpful answers. | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 22:30 | comment | added | ssl | see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research for an overview of qualitative research. and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_qualitative_research for the types of methods. It also might be useful to look at what Wikipedia has been doing, since they encountered similar issues - declining numbers of editors en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Editor_Retention | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 22:14 | comment | added | ssl | I was not saying that there was a "smackdown zone" anywhere. I was just saying, that IF you were to set up a "zone" IE chat room, specialized discussion, on this topic (IE a chat for people new to the site who wished to make a meaningful contribution, and possibly had encountered obstacles), then this chat area would be explicitly "non-smackdown". Because people are more likely to give honest information in a setting they perceive as safe. | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 0:46 | comment | added | pauska | I'm not sure I get this. When you're reffering to "smackdown zone" - is it this meta site? Or serverfault in general? Or the entire stackexchange network? | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 23:14 | comment | added | ssl | Sigh. Not my point at all. My point was that if you want to recruit NEW PEOPLE, then you should in general set up a method to do a survey or focus group of those types of people. IE people who have recently started to contribute useful answers. Customer research. I actually have not been smacked down until this instance. Mostly because I have not yet asked questions, but have entertained myself by helping people. Lots of fun. Until now. | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 21:52 | comment | added | Andrew B | Putting it more politely, you're a little overeager to assume that you're the audience we need to be trying hard to please. People who walk in with that assumption are a dime a dozen and rarely contribute to the site long enough to have constructive advice to offer on how we can solve this particular problem. If you're not concerned at all about the (demonstrated) quality of the people we lose regularly, and have no feel for the reasons why, you really have no context for the problem at all. | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 17:05 | comment | added | ssl | quod erat demonstratum | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 2:24 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | This is satire, right? This is EXACTLY the sort of off-topic forum-like response that drives so many people away. No only are you winging about the situation unnecessarily, but you took the time to write it all up in a post without lending a single thought toward the actual topic of discussion. | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 10:52 | comment | added | Sven | This part of the site is exlusively for discussion of the site, actual questions about system administration are completely wrong here. As for the "smack down", it's so simple. Write good, topical, well researched questions and answers and you won't experience a smack-down. If you just post crap and don't read the informations presented to you, it's your own problem. | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 7:07 | history | answered | ssl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |