# Suggestions for improvement to the community forum **URL:** \ **Category:** Feedback\ **Tags:** idea, collaborate, discourse\ **Created:** [February 5, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/suggestions-for-improvement-to-the-community-forum/145 "2018-02-05T15:13:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ALFREDO](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/alfredo/32/1385_2.png) [@ALFREDO](https://community.humanetech.com/u/ALFREDO)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/suggestions-for-improvement-to-the-community-forum/145/46 "2018-12-07T18:59:59Z")
Hi Arnold , I will be shorter than in the emails. 1-The closer in time , is that I will be in San Francisco, in a Union Square Hotel , from December 21 th to January 4 th . I will share Christmas with friends of mine in El Cerrito, in the SF Bay Area. So I would like to kwow people of the CHT Team, only to share some words , to know the place , to know the faces of people that create this great movement in which we are involved. Participating from February ir would be great for me to know them . Surely, it will motivate me a lot 2- The second point is how to interest people here in my country , where I am the only man in CHT I have some ideas , and I am talking with people . But next year I will take this like a goal , and I will report you results. ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/suggestions-for-improvement-to-the-community-forum/145/47 "2018-12-07T19:39:01Z")
Hi Alfredo, Unfortunately I’m not living in SF, but in The Netherlands. Technically also not part of CHT, but HTC. My contact is mostly digital as well 🙂 Why don’t you invite your friends and other interested people to become members of our community? ---
**Author:** ![Blumsday](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/blumsday/32/108_2.png) [@Blumsday](https://community.humanetech.com/u/Blumsday)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/suggestions-for-improvement-to-the-community-forum/145/48 "2019-01-11T10:09:01Z")
Soooo, strictly speaking having spent a lot of time stuydying on “Vanity Stats” which is the polite term for social media based on not transparent and destructive principles, is there a way to apply some of those ideas in how this forum is being developed. Already, we seem to be bringing in several less-than-transparent ideas here. - What is a “heart” mean? - Why are we rewarding that? - What do the badges stand for? - Why does “most responded” mean more than those that are less responded. Maybe how we develop our own community could be an example. Take a look at this network for those with long term conditions. [https://www.mycounterpane.com/](https://www.mycounterpane.com/) It’s social tags are based on fungible qualitative terms like Stable, Aware and Frustrated. They can be tested, disclosed and studied by society. Is there a way we can wrap that kind of rigor into this organization? I am super happy to do that work. And share my research. Sorry if I am trashing somebody’s work. The overall experience is so awesome. –jb ---
**Author:** ![healthyswimmer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/healthyswimmer/32/229_2.png) [@healthyswimmer](https://community.humanetech.com/u/healthyswimmer)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 7:45am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/suggestions-for-improvement-to-the-community-forum/145/49 "2019-01-12T07:45:07Z")
> [@patm](#): > > There is too great a gap between a heart and no response at all; some sort of intermediary is needed, I think. I see what you are saying @patm. What about an icon that says “I’m thinking about this”. The icon can be a Michelangelo deep thinker statue. Shows interest, but not necessarily agreeing with what is said at that time. What do you think @aschrijver, @patm? ---
**Author:** ![patm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/patm/32/3125_2.png) [@patm](https://community.humanetech.com/u/patm)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/suggestions-for-improvement-to-the-community-forum/145/50 "2019-01-12T08:06:01Z")
I like the idea, healthyswimmer! ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 9:18am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/suggestions-for-improvement-to-the-community-forum/145/51 "2019-01-12T09:18:09Z")
I replied this elsewhere on the forum several times. There is no such facility in the Discourse software to do that. I think the only thing possible is change the heart with e.g. a thumbsup. But then I like a heart better 🙂 Note that Github does have this functionality. ---
**Author:** ![healthyswimmer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/healthyswimmer/32/229_2.png) [@healthyswimmer](https://community.humanetech.com/u/healthyswimmer)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/suggestions-for-improvement-to-the-community-forum/145/52 "2019-01-12T19:29:26Z")
@aschrijver we may explain this in our statement of our forum. “A reminder, we are grassroots and don’t have control over every little detail”. My daughter is a swimmer- and at some swim meets we get slightly annoyed over the facilities- small locker room- no pool deck view space not enough competition lanes etc. the fact of the matter always comes to this- some communities lose their breaking down pool due to funding issues- so the moral is- we are grateful to have a pool to compete in and we’ll make the best of it. We are grateful for this forum is the mantra. We need to be strong, and remind people our goal- we are grassroots and are grateful for their engagement- and welcome them to let go of the little things we can’t control;) ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/suggestions-for-improvement-to-the-community-forum/145/53 "2019-01-12T19:31:54Z")
Yes, a Q&A entry in our FAQ will serve this well i.e. here: [Help draft our Community FAQ (Editable Wiki Post)](http://community.humanetech.com/t/help-draft-our-community-faq-editable-wiki-post/3211/4) [Previous page](https://community.humanetech.com/t/suggestions-for-improvement-to-the-community-forum/145.md?page=2)