Timeline for Modernizing curation: A proposal for The Workshop and The Archive
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| Dec 17, 2025 at 21:09 | history | edited | bmargulies | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2025 at 20:56 | comment | added | bmargulies | I don't follow. Money comes from clicks on ads. If a person comes in 20 times to look at 20 answers, and sees 10 ads every time, there's the money with no detectable 'engagement'. Engagement is a ignorant-CFO surrogate for actual revenue. | |
| Dec 17, 2025 at 20:41 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | Engagement is a stupid goal if you want the site to be useful, yes. But it's the only thing they seem to know how to monetize. (Much like every other Internet business nowadays.) | |
| Dec 17, 2025 at 19:56 | comment | added | bmargulies | They will never have enough rep to vote (I hope) if all they ever do is find useful content. | |
| Dec 17, 2025 at 19:24 | history | edited | TylerH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2025 at 13:16 | comment | added | Mo_ | This! If their question is already answered, there's no need for them to engage. Only replace "engage" with "ask again", because we want them to engage: by voting. | |
| Dec 16, 2025 at 23:00 | history | answered | bmargulies | CC BY-SA 4.0 |