This a wide community, but the participation in discussions is always centered in a few personalities opinions.

In my personal opinion the block is language. Supposse that people know english is a big mistake. I encourage people to write in they native language.
Perhaps it could be good if the PMI opens diferent folders in different languages to promote people participation.

It could be a possible solution. I do not use facebook, I use linkedin and the feature is there too. I do not think is a matter of courage. Is a matter that lot of people do not understand english as do not understad spanish, portuguese and other languages. Diversity must be pushed in this sense to instead of suppose that english language is "the king and the standard" then people has to follow it. When this site started I do not see one intention to maintain diversity in terms of language use.

Alexandre

You did indeed touch on a very important and sensitive subject. I’ve been a very active member, contributing on daily basis since 2015 and I can confirm to you that you’re concern is absolutely legit. I can summarize to you the scenarios that I’ve encountered here:

1- Many professionals who saw my profile here, connected with me on LinkedIn instead because they are not active here. I am talking about a significant number of professionals who are great influencers in the project management world.

2- Many professionals started actively contributing here, and truthfully they added lots of value before they phased out and started being active on other platforms.

There is no doubt that you’re curious to know why ? Having sense of ownership for this community, I took the liberty to reach out to many of those professionals and I can briefly disclose some of their rational but not everything as they spoke to me in complete confidence about certain topics:

1- Many claimed that the community site lacks the very basic elements of any online platform (e.g. Edit or Delete Comments on Blogs and Articles, No tagging, emojis, the list goes on).

2- Many complained that lots of features are completely out of date: Lots of Badges, NODs subjects has been the same since years, PM Challenge Questions, and the list goes on so they felt that PMI has no interest in investing in this community and accordingly directed their efforts elsewhere.

3- Many did strongly feel there is bias (Whether intentional or not) for certain people and no matter how much they contributed, they won’t shine and their contributions goes unnoticed. Can’t disclose further details.

4- Lots of individuals did not find value in the discussions and comments being posed.

5- Many said that community site lacks any sort of motivation and proper engagement.

6- The Influence did Influence some, but unfortunately negatively as they felt the way the algorythim works is not fair.

7- A few felt there are too many unnecessary restrictions.

There are probably 10 more solid reasons why but as I said, I am not in a position to disclose those at all.

Some of the above points were conveyed to the moderators of the community site and as far as we are aware, they will be taken into consideration at some point.

That being said, the issue is much bigger than just a language barrier (Which is of course a legit reason too). In summary, I concluded from everyone I approached that the issue is with the way the overall value this community site offers and the way it is being managed, run and updated.

If we want more engagement, more professionals to join and become active, we have to look outside the box and change the way we look at things so the things we look at can change.

Those are my 2 cents.

RK

Thanks @Rami for your honest opinion. I already had some suspects about some points that you refered. Always seems strange to me that most of the articles of the main page were always from the same authours, valuable articles without any doubt from reputed members but introducing same kind of bias because causes the decreasing of thinking diversity.
What I never was neer to imagine is the quantity of negative points you refered in your contribution, but know that you listed and I reflect on them, I agree with a lot of them.

Alexandre

You did indeed touch on a very important and sensitive subject. I’ve been a very active member, contributing on daily basis since 2015 and I can confirm to you that you’re concern is absolutely legit. I can summarize to you the scenarios that I’ve encountered here:

1- Many professionals who saw my profile here, connected with me on LinkedIn instead because they are not active here. I am talking about a significant number of professionals who are great influencers in the project management world.

2- Many professionals started actively contributing here, and truthfully they added lots of value before they phased out and started being active on other platforms.

There is no doubt that you’re curious to know why ? Having sense of ownership for this community, I took the liberty to reach out to many of those professionals and I can briefly disclose some of their rational but not everything as they spoke to me in complete confidence about certain topics:

1- Many claimed that the community site lacks the very basic elements of any online platform (e.g. Edit or Delete Comments on Blogs and Articles, No tagging, emojis, the list goes on).

2- Many complained that lots of features are completely out of date: Lots of Badges, NODs subjects has been the same since years, PM Challenge Questions, and the list goes on so they felt that PMI has no interest in investing in this community and accordingly directed their efforts elsewhere.

3- Many did strongly feel there is bias (Whether intentional or not) for certain people and no matter how much they contributed, they won’t shine and their contributions goes unnoticed. Can’t disclose further details.

4- Lots of individuals did not find value in the discussions and comments being posed.

5- Many said that community site lacks any sort of motivation and proper engagement.

6- The Influence did Influence some, but unfortunately negatively as they felt the way the algorythim works is not fair.

7- A few felt there are too many unnecessary restrictions.

There are probably 10 more solid reasons why but as I said, I am not in a position to disclose those at all.

Some of the above points were conveyed to the moderators of the community site and as far as we are aware, they will be taken into consideration at some point.

That being said, the issue is much bigger than just a language barrier (Which is of course a legit reason too). In summary, I concluded from everyone I approached that the issue is with the way the overall value this community site offers and the way it is being managed, run and updated.

If we want more engagement, more professionals to join and become active, we have to look outside the box and change the way we look at things so the things we look at can change.

Those are my 2 cents.

RK

Indeed Interesting thread. Just to add my observation, i feel that most of questions are being asked repeatedly and there is no point for many project professional to engage in these and invest their valuable time.

One suggestion is that questions should be moderated to avoid repetition. Another suggestion to attract professional from all over the world, to participate, is to add country flag of individual along with his/her display picture. This can also bring a change and colorful diversity.