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digitalmars.D.announce - Andrei on the new D Foundation Scholarships

reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
After a two-week hiatus, the latest post at the blog takes the 
form of an interview with Andrei regarding the new scholarships 
he announced a couple weeks back. He talks about how the program 
came into existence, how it works, and some of what he hopes to 
see come out of it. The relevant links, as always follow. Given 
the nature of this particular post, I opted to post it to 
/r/d_language rather than /r/programming.

Blog: 
https://dlang.org/blog/2016/12/05/the-d-language-foundations-scholarship-program/

Reddit: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/5glwes/the_d_language_foundations_scholarship_program/
Dec 05 2016
next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 12/05/2016 08:36 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

 After a two-week hiatus, the latest post at the blog takes the form of
 an interview with Andrei regarding the new scholarships he announced a
 couple weeks back. He talks about how the program came into existence,
 how it works, and some of what he hopes to see come out of it. The
 relevant links, as always follow. Given the nature of this particular
 post, I opted to post it to /r/d_language rather than /r/programming.

 Blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2016/12/05/the-d-language-foundations-scholarship-program/


 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/5glwes/the_d_language_foundations_scholarship_program/


Thanks for the great writeup, Mike! -- Andrei
Dec 05 2016
prev sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 12/5/2016 5:36 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

 After a two-week hiatus, the latest post at the blog takes the form of an
 interview with Andrei regarding the new scholarships he announced a couple
weeks
 back. He talks about how the program came into existence, how it works, and
some
 of what he hopes to see come out of it.


I took the liberty of posting the above to the reddit topic.

As always, postings on reddit will get less than half of the potential traction 
unless there's a comment explaining why the user should bother to click on the 
associated link.

Your excellent work is wasted unless this is done :-(
Dec 05 2016
parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 6 December 2016 at 01:08:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 12/5/2016 5:36 AM, Mike Parker wrote:



 I took the liberty of posting the above to the reddit topic.

 As always, postings on reddit will get less than half of the 
 potential traction unless there's a comment explaining why the 
 user should bother to click on the associated link.

 Your excellent work is wasted unless this is done :-(


Thanks. I've noticed that when I leave such comments they 
initially get a number of upvotes, but in some cases they get 
downvoted over time. So now I've taken to only leaving them on 
posts where I can't come up with an obvious title for the reddit 
link. I have no way to say what sort of impact it has on traffic 
from reddit, though. Certain types of posts get more than others 
and I can't see any correlation with explanatory comments.
Dec 05 2016
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 12/5/2016 8:16 PM, Mike Parker wrote:

 Thanks. I've noticed that when I leave such comments they initially get a
number
 of upvotes, but in some cases they get downvoted over time. So now I've taken
to
 only leaving them on posts where I can't come up with an obvious title for the
 reddit link. I have no way to say what sort of impact it has on traffic from
 reddit, though. Certain types of posts get more than others and I can't see any
 correlation with explanatory comments.


My unscientific, anecdotal experience with reddit is that the first post, 
written well, will spark positive interest and discussion. It's really the same 
thing you already did when you posted the link to the n.g.

A negative first post will frame everything negatively afterwards. We shouldn't 
leave this possibility to chance. First impressions matter here as much as
anywhere.

No first post often results in nobody ever commenting on it. If I see a topic 
with no posts, I think "why waste my time commenting here, nobody cares about 
this and nobody is looking at it."

If a title alone is good enough, movies would not be marketed with trailers,
and 
books would not have a back cover.

If you're writing first posts that get downvoted, I suspect that concluding
that 
first posts are a bad idea may not be correct. Maybe it just needs to be a 
better first post :-) Next time this happens, please ping me or Andrei and
maybe 
we can help.
Dec 05 2016