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View submission: New Community Creator Onboarding Tool
Sorry, maybe OT. What does "onboarding" mean?
Comment by singmethesong at 08/04/2021 at 18:42 UTC
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You can think of onboarding like training and teaching someone new how to do something. For example, when you get a new job you’ll probably have different trainings and orientations to get you up to speed on your role and the company. On Reddit, there’s a similar experience when you become a new moderator and create a community for the first time -- we’d like to help onboard new moderators to the community creation process by making the steps for building a new subreddit clear and easier for them.
Comment by mershed_perderders at 08/04/2021 at 18:22 UTC
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onboarding is the process of bringing someone onboard (to a company, group, etc.)
Once they are onboard, you need to keep things aboveboard and not go overboard.
Comment by MFA_Nay at 08/04/2021 at 18:25 UTC
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Slight Wikipedia copy and paste: onboarding originally comes from organisational management and refers to the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours in order to become effective organizational members and insiders.
In web and app design it basically refers to a process in teaching new users how to use a feature or set of features. So for this, the new onboarding process is about guiding and educating new moderators on how to get their subreddit community going, in the hope it'll grow and become more active, etc.