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Participation in meta is always difficult to encourage when it is low. Typically, I find that the more controversial sites, the ones where people get religious about the topic (that includes the religious sites) have very active metas, and naturally so. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is not terribly controversial. Actually, it is closer to intriguing for the ...

I would say often times people are scared to participate in Meta discussion, or really any sort of discussion on SE, especially beta sites. I'll explain why. I made an account awhile ago, but even before that I lurked on the site for quite a bit before I decided to create an account. Why? Because SE in general can seem a little pretentious at times. I ...

I'm going to continue to monitor meta activity, and it is improving. Remember, you have the 'featured' tag you can apply which causes questions to appear in the community bulletin, and that does attract a bit of attention. When we get close to a tipping point where discussions here typically get at least two or three answers, I'll throw a fun mini-contest ...