How often should moderators post to grow a community?

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• Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d say, post as often as you can be bothered and make interesting content. I rarely pay attention to the username beside a post, so I’m unlikely to judge that it’s the same person who posts 99% of posts in a less popular community. But if I see lots of examples of posts on a topic, it’s easier for me to remember about it and think “I’ll post there”.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some clients go out of their way to mark posts by a moderator in some way, though. Alexandrite makes their username bright green an bold, for instance.

    I wonder what portion of users are turned off by stepping into a community and discovering that basically every post is from its only moderator, and thus feel that whatever-it-is is probably just that individual’s personal hobby horse.

    Not that I’d know, or anything…

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    • Sergio@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      lel I declined to be a mod on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world for exactly that reason. I hope it helps people see it’s not just mods.

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• Sergio@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Subscribed!

  First off all, take a look at !fedigrow@lemmy.zip, it’s a place where people who do this kind of thing talk about it.

  Second of all, that’s a great question and something that we ask ourselves a lot. There are a couple different approaches.

  • just ask people to join in on posting. Sure, make a “meta” post, but also dm people who reply or ask them in comments (so others can see as well)

  • have “events”. Like there’s one now on !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social related to Halloween movies, where anyone else is welcome to join in. On !sumo@lemmy.world , which will probably always be niche, I just make a post at the beginning of the bimonthly tourneys telling people how to follow the tourney, and I say I’ll only be posting 3 more times over 15 days and they’re welcome to also post if they want.

  • queue up several posts at once and schedule them to be posted later. You can do this in piefed or there was some other service for lemmy I think, or just write them out in a text file. On !juggalos@lemmy.world I have weekly posts queued up for the next month. Say something like “here’s my weekly post! feel free to make your own!”

  Hope that helps!

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• Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are psychological-thresholds that have to be met, or that when-crossed, are tipping-points…

  3x / week is the minimum-threshold to sustain a yt-channel, or social-site community, as existing,

  4x / week is the minimum-threshold to grow it.

  It’s actually identical to our fitness-workout-threshold: 3x / week sustains our health, 4x / week brings us closer to our optimal health.

  Going significantly above that doesn’t make much ( if any ) positive difference, it seems…

  ( there are other thresholds, like keep just-connecting videos to 3-mins, which I learned on the ProVideoCoalition forum, a decade or 2 ago…

  Also, one has to avoid becoming a 1-trumpet “band”, right? )

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  Please consider that there are differen sub-populations of humanity, & some think visually ( which I never would have imagined ), some think kinesthetically, some auditorially, some in abstract-shapes.

  The book “Collaborative Intelligence” … can’t remember the authors’ names, sorry, is on 3 of those, & how to accomplish stuff, for one’s own cognition-type…

  But remap that basic-concept … onto the posts:

  IF all your posts are appealing-to, or geared-to, the same subset-population ( whether in cognition-type or in any other way of dividing-populations-up ), … then that’s overtaxing that 1 subset, and not tapping the others, see?

  So, find what dimensions of diversity that you care about, & intentionally make the posts more diverse in those dimensions, so as to include more potential-people!

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  The book “Command Attention” … by a former USMC officer, sorry, don’t remember the guy’s name, is also pertinent…

  He pointed-out that if he wasn’t reading “Ebony” magazine, etc, then his office’s stuff would be too white.

  The producer-of-content needs to be consuming-diversity-in-their-content-diet, too, see?

  ( that book contains that as 1 single little point, in the whole thing:

  it’s an awesome basic-training course for marketing, if you want such competence : )

  Please consider the book by Dib, or Dibb, “The 1-Page Marketing Plan”, as it’s sooo to-the-point, for growing a product or service…

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  Could you make ( I’ve never been in that community, so if I’m botching how it works, sorry in advance ) a weekly poll about what the most-interesting new polls would be?

  Harvesting new ideas, you know?

  or semi-monthly, at the very least ( don’t go monthly: that’s institutional-inertia’s pace )

  Use the input to spark ideas?

  & possibly, have a weekly silliest-poll item, & the funniest poll from that gets done as a proper poll ( Silly Saturday? )?

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  I hope something in this helps, whether directly or indirectly,

  People who’re actually doing contributing to community deserve support, see?

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Whenever you have a relevant post to make. There’s no algorithm to game, just make it a nice place and people will come :)

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As much as you can.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mod the !cocktails@lemmy.world and usually will put something once a week or so. It sees slow and steady growth but not sure if I have much to do with that.

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• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It depends. I mod !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world and don’t feel like I should try to steer the community in any way. I want it to grow it’s own culture naturally. I’m just there to tend the garden, but I rarely have to take any actions due to the nature of the community.

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Once per twelve hours would be ok. It isn’t enough to take over a feed, yet is enough to provide content.

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• mistermodal@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s unavoidable, but if you veer into spamming All to promote your sub, I am likely to block you or your entire community. Don’t just try to make something happen so you can be a mod of something. Start a conversation. So many comms on the wider instances are worthless clones of typical reddit categories like Wacky Memes. Nobody needs that.

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