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Promote the existing fun

I'll miss Winter Bash (or "Winter/Summer Bash" if you prefer). Let's do something else to keep up the spirit and also drive traffic to our sites that need it.

Many sites have existing "fun"Many sites have existing "fun" which is organized on their meta sites: Topic challenges. Picture competitions. Favorite posts lists. Many of these posts can be enjoyed by a wider audience, and promoting them could be very simple in terms of staff involvement. The most basic option would be to feature a post about one (or several?) of these events here on Meta Stack Exchange when there's a lull in other announcements, like is the case in December/January.

This is of course motivated in part by my own series of topic challenges, which has been usually failing to get any participants other than myself, hosted on a site where activity (and even traffic) is very low despite having a pretty universal topic — we are all here writing, after all.

Promote the existing fun

I'll miss Winter Bash (or "Winter/Summer Bash" if you prefer). Let's do something else to keep up the spirit and also drive traffic to our sites that need it.

Many sites have existing "fun" which is organized on their meta sites: Topic challenges. Picture competitions. Favorite posts lists. Many of these posts can be enjoyed by a wider audience, and promoting them could be very simple in terms of staff involvement. The most basic option would be to feature a post about one (or several?) of these events here on Meta Stack Exchange when there's a lull in other announcements, like is the case in December/January.

This is of course motivated in part by my own series of topic challenges, which has been usually failing to get any participants other than myself, hosted on a site where activity (and even traffic) is very low despite having a pretty universal topic — we are all here writing, after all.

Promote the existing fun

I'll miss Winter Bash (or "Winter/Summer Bash" if you prefer). Let's do something else to keep up the spirit and also drive traffic to our sites that need it.

Many sites have existing "fun" which is organized on their meta sites: Topic challenges. Picture competitions. Favorite posts lists. Many of these posts can be enjoyed by a wider audience, and promoting them could be very simple in terms of staff involvement. The most basic option would be to feature a post about one (or several?) of these events here on Meta Stack Exchange when there's a lull in other announcements, like is the case in December/January.

This is of course motivated in part by my own series of topic challenges, which has been usually failing to get any participants other than myself, hosted on a site where activity (and even traffic) is very low despite having a pretty universal topic — we are all here writing, after all.

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Laurel
Laurel
  • 53.7k
  • 11
  • 95
  • 213

Promote the existing fun

I'll miss Winter Bash (or "Winter/Summer Bash" if you prefer). Let's do something else to keep up the spirit and also drive traffic to our sites that need it.

Many sites have existing "fun" which is organized on their meta sites: Topic challenges. Picture competitions. Favorite posts lists. Many of these posts can be enjoyed by a wider audience, and promoting them could be very simple in terms of staff involvement. The most basic option would be to feature a post about one (or several?) of these events here on Meta Stack Exchange when there's a lull in other announcements, like is the case in December/January.

This is of course motivated in part by my own series of topic challenges, which has been usually failing to get any participants other than myself, hosted on a site where activity (and even traffic) is very low despite having a pretty universal topic — we are all here writing, after all.