Greetings, Humor, Astrophysics and all that
In order to for PeerPressure to work or for a RoleModel to have an effect, you need an environment where SoftSecurity can work. What is essential? A community feeling. Asking questions and getting answers is not a community. You need emotional attachment and net.friends. You can foster this by engaging in smalltalk: Greet people joining the channel, tell people why you are quitting (going to bed? driving your kids to school? going to a party?), enjoy shared humor, the occasional link to weirdness on the web, indulge in people's obsession about Mars colonization and lunar eclipses.
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