@Dave Hughes I'm almost the same. I only use AI on this community for visual assets (like our mascot Roasty) and sometimes to bulk sugestions of specific things, like BBQ related puns, that I them select and put together, but never to make a piece of content from start to finish. BUt this specific poll was an exercise on the things that you prioritze the most out of all to the point of never delegating it to a tool. It's funny how some people hype AI to the point giving every role to it and others are completely disgusted by it. I'm more on the second group despite being an IT guy.

@Dave Hughes that's a problem. when you use AI not as a tool but a replacement for competence, everything tends to turn for worse

@Aimee Jardon you just reminded me to upgrade the prices at my manual posts. I just increased from 2 to 3 and never checked all of the posts there to see if it's updated

@Aimee Jardon you know the roast first before getting roasted was my initial plan for this community, because I wanted to build a culture of give first take later. So I would put the power to make a post behind level 2 and eventually 3. But than I thought that the dumber and simpler my community is the more people will be jumping in on it. Adding one more rule to follow up all the things that are already going on would just make it too complicated for some people. I learned first hand after failing for 6 months in my previous community that if people don't get immediately what you're about, like in the first second, you already lost them. So yeah, you can roast and you can get roasted, whatever you like. You can compete too, if you want. You can also check the classroom, there is stuff there too. And if you just lurk you can also get value, it's all cool. But good point, I'm overdue on updating my about page and I might change on the "Roaster" term there when I get to it. Because I don't want people to think they need to roast others. Or even get roasted. There are many ways of engaging here, like you did in the first day only focusing on the promotion parts.

@Dave Hughes my pleasure. I build if for people like you who like to build their businesses by showing up and helping others. I had a similar approach by helping people on reddit and that got me a high ticket client that stayed with me for 6 months. He saw my comments from a google search, thought "this guy knows what he is doing" and DMed me. Sometimes putting yourself out there doens't pay off immediatelly but in the long game can bring a life changing opportunity.

@Aimee Jardon awesome. you're among the top 3 roasters of today (the scores were just reset) even if you were not trying to

@Aimee Jardon I knew you'd like it!

@Elliott Robertson @Matthias Schweiker im thinking about a sci-fi theme for the next month winners Or maybe I'll keep the fantasy theme idk. Depends on my inspiration

@Chrissy Hogue Bartels @Heather Boers I've used the "it's free" hook before and it's great for number's sake. But the best members are the ones who value you enough to pay for it. Some people are even baffled when they see that the roasting part of this community is free (and eventually it won't be, if it blows up enough). Maybe once I reached over a thousand of members I'll put a price at entry for new members.

@Aimee Jardon awesome. @Chrissy Hogue Bartels might like your answer