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’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”.
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…
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.
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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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.
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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)
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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.
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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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Whenever you have a relevant post to make. There’s no algorithm to game, just make it a nice place and people will come :)
As much as you can.
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.
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.
Once per twelve hours would be ok. It isn’t enough to take over a feed, yet is enough to provide content.
It’s unavoidable, but if you veer into spamming All to promote it, 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.
