I wish r/polls equivalent on Lemmy was more popular. As a moderator, how often should I post or engage to help increase its activity and attract more users?
I wish r/polls equivalent on Lemmy was more popular. As a moderator, how often should I post or engage to help increase its activity and attract more users?
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? )
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!
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…
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? )?
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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