Particularly for communities without lots of shared context, you can get unreasonable amounts of leverage on just asserting the norms you want to develop. MicroConf does this by e.g. not scheduling a dinner and then telling people, explicitly, why there is no dinner scheduled.
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("We hope you will find some new friends here who share your interests and arrange dinner with them. If you don't have a dinner group yet, a great way to arrange it is...")
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For similar reasons Japanese train stations which don't have extremely well-understood Schelling points (the place where, in absence of coordination, you decide to meet up) will pick an arbitrary place in a station and put up a sign Designated Meeting Point.
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(And isn't that a great meta-point? Because now that you know they do that, you probably know that if you're ever in Japan at a train station you've never been to before and are trying to meet someone but don't know where they are, you can ask the staff "Where do people meet?")
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Yeah I didn't think extroversion was synonymous with wanting to be around noisy conference calls.
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Agreed. The little jab towards extroverts wasn’t needed for sure. Love the idea though.
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