Maybe it would also be a good idea to let the participants know that the level of online engagement on their posts is probably greatly lowered compared to if they did a post normally (without so many other posts competing for attention), so that they don’t get too discouraged from making future posts.
Also the quality of the comments may be reduced because the situation is so “out of distribution” for the forum regulars. (I keep switching back and forth between different posts instead of focusing on one and writing down my thoughts about it, in part due to too many posts vying for attention and I guess in part due to anxiety about doing a good job onboarding new participants under time pressure, and kind of have to force myself to actually comment instead of it just happening naturally.)
Maybe it would also be a good idea to let the participants know that the level of online engagement on their posts is probably greatly lowered compared to if they did a post normally (without so many other posts competing for attention), so that they don’t get too discouraged from making future posts.
Also the quality of the comments may be reduced because the situation is so “out of distribution” for the forum regulars. (I keep switching back and forth between different posts instead of focusing on one and writing down my thoughts about it, in part due to too many posts vying for attention and I guess in part due to anxiety about doing a good job onboarding new participants under time pressure, and kind of have to force myself to actually comment instead of it just happening naturally.)