Recommend the #newhere tag to new users

yea!! i,m agree

Wasn't it there before? I remember that I was somehow notified about #newhere during registration. Or at least discovered it pretty early on.

Agreed. I thought it was already auto-populated.

I disagree, that field also populates the profile, I don't think it makes a good profile tag.

I guess I misunderstood the proposal. I thought it's about notifying the user about making a post with #newhere tag. Not about putting it in user's profile.

The former is already done I think. The later is a bad idea.

Recommend the #newhere tag to new users

It's recommended in the new user tutorials, both at the bottom of the first section and in more detail in the section on sharing.

How many new users read the new user tutorials, though? Suggesting #newhere to new users helps them get into the D* community. This is especially important on this social network, where new users likely only know a few other users, or none at all.

By default you shouldn't suggest users whom they have to know or not. I think diaspora* already does a good job by proposing to make a post with #newhere. Following it is something that user can decide to or not. But it shouldn't be a default or suggestion even, since it can be extremely noisy to many and look like spam.

@brentbartlett I agree, I don't think anyone would read a tutorial until after they've signed up and played around with Diaspora for a bit :)

@shmerl Why not? We suggest they follow "#art, #movies, #gif, etc" so it would make natural sense that we suggest they follow a more important tag if indeed they are new here. What's the point in having the tag if you're not going to recommend that new-here people actually use it?

But following #newhere would show you the posts of other people using that tag - it wouldn't alert other community members to you as a new member. The main use of following that tag is so that you can see, welcome and help new people.