Automatically add the #firstpost tag to make it easy to welcome first post writers

[jmfayard]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I want to make it more likely that new writers receive early positive feedback.

Describe the solution you'd like

If the user click on write a post
and has never published a post before,
then automatically add the #firstpost tag.

This would make it easy for people wanting give early positive feedback to firstposters.
Just follow {% tag firstpost %}
and give a nice comment when you see the tag #firstpost.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Write a post to encourage people to write their first post and tag it with #firstpost (I will also do it!)

Have a special view where we can see users who write their first post (but I find better to leverage existing features).

Additional context

Starting blogging is hard. When you write that first post, you fear to have nothing interesting to say, you are unsure about your writing skills, smarter people than you have written on the same topic as you before, ...

If you have nevertheless published that first post but the world didn't care, it's hard to continue.

If on the other hand you have received positive early feedback, that can be enough to make you want to continue, and who knows which awesome things you will write later?

[jmfayard]

Hello @michael-tharrington
Have you talked again about this feature?

[michael-tharrington]

Thanks for flagging this! Admittedly, I'd forgotten to bring this up. I will do very soon!

[michael-tharrington]

I know I hit you up in DMs about this but wanted to also mention here that we have a good, alternative way for mods to recognize and respond to first posters now - https://dev.to/mod?state=new-authors ... however, I still think the #firstpost tag is quite cool and allows the community (not just mods) the ability to easily recognize first time posters. But, I also think that it's cool to leave this tag as optional for first time posters.

[jmfayard]

Ah interesting. But the #firstpost tag can be both by default and optional, right? Put it by default when you enter the screen, let the user remove it if she want before she submits

[michael-tharrington]

True! But, I don't think it's a priority at this time because of: https://dev.to/mod?state=new-authors ... we'll let others weigh in here if they want.

[cmgorton]

Hello! Thanks for your contributions here. 
I am going to close this issue. 
We have a new process moving forward to address feature requests and especially those that have been in our repo for 1+ years without much traction. 

TLDR: we have new internal RFC process for feature requests. Any features that are more substantial and require more thought and detail will need to be discussed in forem.dev.

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