passing on some valuable Dreamwidth meta

I'm really enjoying the responses to my post about the femslash gap, so this in-depth post by melannen about how to make discussion happen on your Dreamwidth posts caught my eye:

...if my specific goal is to host a discussion, I find it very useful to think of myself as a host. And as a host, I have duties - I have to make the space welcoming; I have to make sure people know that they're invited; I have to give people a reason to want to come; I have to remember that I'm in a position of responsibility for the guests who are in my space; I have to be ready to unobtrusively deal with messes...

She then goes on to lay out eleven points to keep in mind if you're trying to get folks talking. It's probably worth reading if you're having a bit of post-tumblr culture shock.

The one I found most interesting was the third one: Make your post broadly accessible, and require minimum context to contribute. The musings there about the difference between Tumblr and Dreamwidth were very insightful. As melannen points out, your posts aren't likely to be tumbled around the site until they reach all the people who can instantly and effortlessly relate; you'll get the best engagement if you pitch your posts to the reference base of your network, because that's as far as your post is going to reach, more or less.

And in the spirit of point number 2, everybody likes to be asked, I'll ask you: what internet haunt do you associate with the most interesting and lively discussion? I have fond memories of the forums attached to the webcomic Megatokyo, of all places...

Thanks very much to implicated2 for the tipoff; check out their post as well for more Dreamwidth advice!