All of this sounds great to me!

> On May 14, 2018, at 5:54 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just had a discussion with Molly Peeples here at the Enzo workshop. She pointed out to me that the yt slack is currently very noisy and active and that there are a number of ways we could try to make Slack a more useful resource for both the user and developer community. This is informed by her experience in several very busy slack organizations. I've summarized her suggestions below.
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> 1. Make the general channel less noisy
>
> Currently there are lots of discussions that go on in general. This is ok for a smaller slack, but for a slack community of our size this just encourages people to silence all activity from the yt slack and then never participate again. Making #general quieter will encourage people to check the yt slack when there's a major update and then perhaps more infrequently check in on other channels.
>
> Another thing we can do immediately to make #general less noisy is make our github integration publish new pull requests and issues to a new #development or #github channel.
>
> 2. Point people asking for help to the #help channel.
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> Since people join #general automatically when they first join, there will inevitably be questions getting asked in #general. We should point people, both in the #general channel topic, and actively via social interactions on Slack to the #help channel.
>
> 3. Use threads more often
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> This way an ongoing conversation does not generate tons of notifications. This also means that if someone responds to your question in a thread, you should use that thread to reply.
>
> 4. Create new channels often
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> If there seems to be a topic that is generating lots of discussion, we should feel less inhibited to mention that this is happening and try to move discussion about that topic to a new channel. This way people who are interested in that topic get notifications about that topic and everyone else can ignore it.
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> Ultimately my hope here is that more people will participate in our slack community and eventually in the yt community as a whole.
>
> Please don't take this e-mail as a dictate from me about how we should use slack but instead as the beginning of a discussion about this. I'd especially like to hear from people who currently don't use much slack because it's too noisy and from people who think my above suggestions are annoying or overbearing. Do you think you'd use Slack more if it were less noisy? Are there other ways we can improve the hygiene of our Slack community?
>
> Thanks for your time and attention,
>
> Nathan Goldbaum

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