Let's promote the site

Question

Confession time: I've wasted a lot of time on other things this past week and didn't really participate the challenge. It seems like the site was a bit dead all week long as well, so we really didn't get many questions about silence. (Thank you for participating if you did, however!)

I've also been thinking all week long that the internet is full of people who would to have their questions about the Bible answered. Meanwhile, our site is barely scratching up 2 questions a day. That's a massive disconnect and a problem I'd like to correct.

Currently we have a great core of users and that core is slowly growing. But we are a long way from any sort of tipping point of new questions fueling more growth.

So here is my challenge: find question on the internet that are high quality and ask them here. Bonus points if you link back to where you found the question and double bonus points for posting a link somewhere else that points here. The idea is to find the people who are already asking interesting questions somewhere else and get them to try us on for size.

A word of warning: Please be respectful of whatever community you might interact with.

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N. B.: all "points" are hypothetical, metaphorical, imaginary, illusional, and awarded on the basis of the honor system. Even so, you want lots of them. ;-)

Answer 1

I would encourage you to adopt something similar to Judaism's weekly topic challenge before reposting a large quantity of questions from elsewhere on the internet. Asking questions is hard (in my opinion, the hardest form of participation on the site), yet is vital to the site's success. You can post questions you encounter from other people elsewhere online or in real life, but generally, you should only post questions that you have a vested interest in. If you find a question that makes you say, "Oh! That's a really good question! I've always wondered that, too, but haven't been able to articulate it!" then sure, go ahead and post it. And it's always good etiquette to link to the original source if you're posting on behalf of someone else.

Please do not just go around to other sites and scrape questions. We are not a content farm, and while 2 questions a day is low, this is still a new site and organic growth takes time.

I love your chat idea about posting notes in Bible apps. While I don't think CHAOS has any bandwidth to take on promotion of Biblical Hermeneutics right now, there's nothing to stop you from doing a bit of promotion on your own. If you're so inclined, feel free to contact that service and see if you can have a conversation about their policy of editing notes that link to external sites. See if you can convince them of the value of linking here. And keep throwing ideas out there; maybe someone else will wind up having a connection to some company/blog/site you'd like to partner with.

If you have a specific idea you'd like feedback on, definitely keep using meta to garner that feedback from your fellow community members and likely the input of the community team and/or CHAOS.