Company
Date Published
Author
Perry Eising
Word count
1358
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Creating high-value content for a community forum is crucial for engaging users, but it requires careful planning and execution. The author emphasizes that simply posting tips and solutions to common questions may not be enough, as it lacks engagement and discussion potential. Instead, they focus on transforming existing support threads into valuable community posts by making them concise, clear, and humanized. To achieve this, the team created a "before/after" guide showcasing rewritten answers with annotations, which helped standardize the process and improve content quality. By doing so, they were able to quickly create engaging community content using existing material, saving time and effort.