So, I want to participate in this community more. I have lots of experience shooing USPSA matches and did a lot of teaching dry-fire training for my local SRA before leaving the org, but the problem is this community is just constantly being flooded by pictures of guns. Is there some way we can maybe have less "here's a picture of a gun" content? Especially with the political climate, I think it would be beneficial to focus on skills (dry fire, stop the bleed).
That's the purpose of these stickies, since the comm isn't active enough to keep a discussion thread on the front page longer than a few minutes. If you would like to make an effortpost, let me know and we can link to it and/or sticky it. If we want to organize regular study or learning threads that could be a good idea too.
To be honest, I don't think the community is really active enough to warrant restricting picture posts. There are usually only 4-6 of them per day, and the default sorting is "active" so threads with comments should be higher anyway. But blocking image posts in the community is within our capabilities, if they prove to be taking the spotlight from regular discussion or effortposts. That just hasn't seemed to be the case so far.
I think the reason you haven't seen this is because anyone looking at this community is going to see that a new post is created every two hours, looks to be automated in some way and will drown out any non-automated posts, so they decide to not join the community and not post. (This was my experience).
So, I want to participate in this community more. I have lots of experience shooing USPSA matches and did a lot of teaching dry-fire training for my local SRA before leaving the org, but the problem is this community is just constantly being flooded by pictures of guns. Is there some way we can maybe have less "here's a picture of a gun" content? Especially with the political climate, I think it would be beneficial to focus on skills (dry fire, stop the bleed).
Anyway that's my two cents.
Sorry, been busy and didn't see this until now.
That's the purpose of these stickies, since the comm isn't active enough to keep a discussion thread on the front page longer than a few minutes. If you would like to make an effortpost, let me know and we can link to it and/or sticky it. If we want to organize regular study or learning threads that could be a good idea too.
To be honest, I don't think the community is really active enough to warrant restricting picture posts. There are usually only 4-6 of them per day, and the default sorting is "active" so threads with comments should be higher anyway. But blocking image posts in the community is within our capabilities, if they prove to be taking the spotlight from regular discussion or effortposts. That just hasn't seemed to be the case so far.
I think the reason you haven't seen this is because anyone looking at this community is going to see that a new post is created every two hours, looks to be automated in some way and will drown out any non-automated posts, so they decide to not join the community and not post. (This was my experience).