Coming up with good examples strikes me as the sort of thing that is a better fit for crowdsourcing than for an individual to try to think up themself.
In practice, I understand there is a bit of a catch-22 though: a published post is the time when such crowdsourcing is most practical to occur, but you’d probably want have the good examples be included in that published post. I’m not sure what to do about this.
One idea is to post something like “I’m working on a post for X and am looking for good examples of Y.” But that’s hard because it very well might be hard to explain X without having really written up X (depending on the X). A second idea that I like more is publishing rough drafts, or even more early stage writeups, and getting help with examples there. That’s an idea I am a fan of anyway though, forgetting about the benefit of it helping with the generation of examples.
Coming up with good examples strikes me as the sort of thing that is a better fit for crowdsourcing than for an individual to try to think up themself.
In practice, I understand there is a bit of a catch-22 though: a published post is the time when such crowdsourcing is most practical to occur, but you’d probably want have the good examples be included in that published post. I’m not sure what to do about this.
One idea is to post something like “I’m working on a post for X and am looking for good examples of Y.” But that’s hard because it very well might be hard to explain X without having really written up X (depending on the X). A second idea that I like more is publishing rough drafts, or even more early stage writeups, and getting help with examples there. That’s an idea I am a fan of anyway though, forgetting about the benefit of it helping with the generation of examples.