Thinking about this… it seems likely to me that if we could manage it, encouraging newbies to start their own threads in the discussion section (or in open threads) rather than launch active discussions in the introduction thread itself would be an even more effective means of getting them involved/introduced.
Like you, I’m not sure how effective we’d be at actually doing that.
All that said, I don’t think it’s a big deal. I think we’re seeing an exceptional blip at the moment, but it will die down once the people willing to update do, and the people unwilling to update exhaust the patience of everyone else.
Thinking about this… it seems likely to me that if we could manage it, encouraging newbies to start their own threads in the discussion section (or in open threads) rather than launch active discussions in the introduction thread itself would be an even more effective means of getting them involved/introduced.
Like you, I’m not sure how effective we’d be at actually doing that.
All that said, I don’t think it’s a big deal. I think we’re seeing an exceptional blip at the moment, but it will die down once the people willing to update do, and the people unwilling to update exhaust the patience of everyone else.