Community Building on Arkadii Yakovetshttps://arkid15r.dev/categories/community-building/Recent content in Community Building on Arkadii Yakovetsen© Arkadii YakovetsMon, 28 Sep 2026 13:15:00 -0700Attention tax: your Slack habits are other people's unread counthttps://arkid15r.dev/slack-community-etiquette/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0700https://arkid15r.dev/slack-community-etiquette/Communities get the Slack they tolerate. Large communities drown less often in obvious scam posts or clear code of conduct violations than in everyday attention tax. Wrong channel posts, top-level replies that should have been threads, and the `Also send to #channel` checkbox quietly multiply unread counts for people who never asked for the ping. This post is a practitioner etiquette essay from Slack-lived experience: pick the right room, consolidate before you hit Enter, trim link previews, prefer reactions over thanks-noise, and remember that deleted messages still leave footprints. It ends with a short checklist you can pin.