Fostering Authentic Connections in the Contra Community

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Mads McCausland

• Apr 1

I sincerely hope that the Contra community doesn't devolve into a place where all we do is post salesy content to our fellow community members.

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Kyle Humber

• Apr 1

@Mads McCausland so true! and I don't want LinkedIn 2.0 vibes either

Mads McCausland

• Apr 1

@Kyle Humber Please dear God, no 😭 It's my aim to try to help make this community into what I'm missing on other platforms - it being small, personal and genuinely helpful is a big one.

Morten Korshavn

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• Apr 1

@Mads McCausland Agreed! This shouldn't be another LinkedIn but a place where users can learn and inspire each other. We need front runners though, and that's what I'm trying to do. So no salesy posts on my end. Only good advice, freelance stories and featured projects.

Mads McCausland

• Apr 1

@Morten Korshavn Appreciate you! 👊 Glad to hear I'm not the only one! I'm really here to find "my crew" and learn from everyone in a pressure-free, inspiring environment.

Madi 💫

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• Apr 1

@Mads McCausland right there with you! this is part of the reason it has been in beta so long too, so we can get the right mix of creators ❤️ if you ever see something that feels off, you can always send it to me or downvote it!

Morten Korshavn

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• Apr 1

@Madi 💫 @Mads McCausland Madi is right.. if something feels too spammy, tab the 3 dots on a post 👉 "not interested"

Mads McCausland

• Apr 1

@Morten Korshavn @Madi 💫 I'm really glad that "not interested" is both OK and an option. And it might not even be that things are spammy, sometimes I come across content that simply isn't relevant or interesting to me, so as long as "downvoting" isn't public I'm happy to do so in order to improve the algorithm, haha

Morten Korshavn

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• Apr 2

@Mads McCausland @Madi 💫 This is something we discussed when I helped shape the first iteration of the community feature. In the first version we had a similar feature as stack overflow where up/downvotes where visible (although not identifiable per person), but we decided to downplay it a lot....