I'm the creator of kbin.social/m/bestof. I have been 'advertising' the subreddit of it to start getting traction. Despite all my efforts, I'm still the only contributor to my community. How do communi
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I'm the creator of kbin.social/m/bestof. I have been 'advertising' the subreddit of it to start getting traction. Despite all my efforts, I'm still the only contributor to my community. How do communities entice their subscribers to post content?
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You don't. You merely keep the community from dying by posting your own content periodically and you wait. You can't control them though, and trying will piss them off.
Like hearding cats.
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This is bad advice.
What makes you think so?
Because that's already what everyone does. And just posting every once in a while and hoping it catches on, that doesn't work for anyone, does it? That's how a community dies, as a community with a single poster isn't a community. They should keep posting to relevant spaces and look for people who might support them. Takes two to make three. Maybe grab some top posts to try to hit the front page. Post it in New Communities with catchy titles. etc. etc. There's lots of things they could still be doing if they really want it to take off, haha. I didn't make a single post on YSK besides the welcome post and some meta posts as needed, and was always clear from the start that I will let these spaces die if our first few members stopped posting.
So, be aware, you did happen to pick up two of the most critical infrastructure-related subs that can exist on a place like this, they were absolutely vital to get set up. It's just a necessary service. You should remember though, pretty much nobody else gets that lucky with their communities.
You are extremely atypical.