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Re:Show HN: Ballotter, an Online Video Debating Platform for... by jamespitts on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:34PM (#13322266)
The big suggestion I have for your team is to structure live sessions with television-like scheduling. Early-on, a live experience web site does not have enough usage to generate a good time for users. I learned this while running rapt.fm, a live web platform for freestyle rapping.

Have a calendar and use twitter or other means to announce upcoming events to concentrate the attention of users. Create well-promoted "prime time" slots, later add in regular programming, and overall make it clear to the users that all other times are "down times" and not likely to have a lot of debates going on.

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Re:Show HN: Ballotter, an Online Video Debating Platform for... by notheguyouthink on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:30AM (#13327307)
(not OP of course) This is a really excellent idea, thank you. I've never thought of arbitrarily creating scheduling as a way of improving engagement, as previously the thought of old fashioned "tv show scheduling" would make me very uneasy - with that said, low population makes it much harder not to have events/etc.

This seems like a big boon for an active community site. Interesting!

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