I’ve been thinking for a while now about simply starting a thread where people self-identify as helpers, and pledge to leave a couple of encouraging comments or follow someone new every week.
If that gamifying thing ever gets of the ground this would be a really easy way to encourage the community aspect - has anyone used answers.com before? Man, they really pushed this angle! I answered like two questions and then kept getting personal messages/nudges for years 
Anyway I think any kind of step towards some kind of positive ‘team’ feel (absolutely love the classical cleanup, but that has a slightly niche focus) would be nice. Maybe I should make that thread, but still no internet at home…
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