I am new here and very excited to have discovered this community, as I rarely encounter anyone else who strongly embodies the qualities and values that I share with you. I am eager to engage, and expect that it will be mutually beneficial.
At the same time, I have great admiration and respect for the people here and the community you have created, so I would like to ensure the impact of the ways I am engaging match my intent. Ideally I would love to fully absorb all the perspectives offered here already, before attempting to offer bits of my own. However, that’s just not practical, so I will do my best to engage in ways that are mindful of the limits of my knowledge and contribute positively to discussions and to the community. If (and when) I fall short of those goals, I would really appreciate and welcome your feedback.
To that end, I have several questions already, which may or may not require a little back and forth. Is this the best place to ask those, or should I use intercom instead, or perhaps even discord? (I really appreciate the very helpful welcome guide and for this thread, and will try to avoid asking questions that it already answers. There’s an awful lot to process though.)
Thanks so much for your assistance, and your dedication to maintaining this community.
What questions go ultimately goes down to personal opinions, so here are my personal opinions:
General questions you’re comfortable with the public seeing can go here. Questions usually don’t require much back-and-forth. If yours do, then you can make a note of that to set expectations properly.
Intercom should be used for questions that must be answered by a moderator. Moderator bandwidth is limited relative to user bandwidth, so err on the side of asking the community instead of asking moderators. (The moderators here are super helpful and friendly, and I try hard not to abuse their time.)
Discord (which I don’t personally use) is for private-ish conversations you don’t want the Internet seeing.
I am new here and very excited to have discovered this community, as I rarely encounter anyone else who strongly embodies the qualities and values that I share with you. I am eager to engage, and expect that it will be mutually beneficial.
At the same time, I have great admiration and respect for the people here and the community you have created, so I would like to ensure the impact of the ways I am engaging match my intent. Ideally I would love to fully absorb all the perspectives offered here already, before attempting to offer bits of my own. However, that’s just not practical, so I will do my best to engage in ways that are mindful of the limits of my knowledge and contribute positively to discussions and to the community. If (and when) I fall short of those goals, I would really appreciate and welcome your feedback.
To that end, I have several questions already, which may or may not require a little back and forth. Is this the best place to ask those, or should I use intercom instead, or perhaps even discord? (I really appreciate the very helpful welcome guide and for this thread, and will try to avoid asking questions that it already answers. There’s an awful lot to process though.)
Thanks so much for your assistance, and your dedication to maintaining this community.
First of all, welcome.
What questions go ultimately goes down to personal opinions, so here are my personal opinions:
General questions you’re comfortable with the public seeing can go here. Questions usually don’t require much back-and-forth. If yours do, then you can make a note of that to set expectations properly.
Intercom should be used for questions that must be answered by a moderator. Moderator bandwidth is limited relative to user bandwidth, so err on the side of asking the community instead of asking moderators. (The moderators here are super helpful and friendly, and I try hard not to abuse their time.)
Discord (which I don’t personally use) is for private-ish conversations you don’t want the Internet seeing.