so i just saw this post in the new all feed … was deleted the moment i wanted to open it for being “off topic”.
pls, everyone, be nice to new users. don’t just remove their first post for being “off topic”. we’re already having a problem of not getting enough new users (link)
Many people complain that there isn’t enough content on here, yet many people also expect all new users to not only share their beliefs, but know how the Threadiverse works before joining.
If the Threadiverse is to grow, people need to be patient with new users, ensuring they are well-informed with an informational DM at the very least if their post must be taken down. People also can’t expect all new users to fit squarely within the relatively niche set of interests the Threadiverse currently caters best to.
I try to average a post a day, spread around a loose collection of maybe a dozen communities. In the past month I’ve goofed twice, and posted something that didn’t quite fit the theme, or contained AI content that I didn’t notice at the time (it was a really good, topical comic, but was also an AI copy of the original, oof). Both times the posts were deleted, which was fine, but no mod note was given, not even to gruffly say “watch it, bub.”
Good, communicative, active mods are hard to find anywhere, but I reckon the relative lack(?) of such across the FV probably has an unfortunate knock-on effect in that it can discourage new-ish users, even just by accident. This was an easy example above, but as I see it, few communities around here have the actual luxury of not being welcoming and supportive where possible. OTOH, a quality mod to my mind requires a combination of experience, personality and skillset. Plus the ability (or imperviousness) to wade through shite, sometimes. Where are they coming from? Because along with more users, the FV could also use more mods, if only at this point to fill in positions for mods who’ve vamoosed and are now inactive.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
I’ve been trying to fill the void left by dubvee.org being taken down with periodic posts to !westvirginia@lemmy.world, but in the long run there’s far too many communities on here that rely on one or two users for content.
A related, significant issue, yes.
Sometime back I had the idea that perhaps a group of us could pledge posting to a smallish set of communities that were great /c’s in themselves, but needed a bit of help with content. My idea is that we’d each rotate between a group of communities, taking turns posting there so that no one person needed to be responsible for any certain place. Frequency of posting would simply be on some kind of regular basis, maybe anywhere from one post a week from each of us, to posting every day.
Things haven’t been great for me lately, so I’m lagging in that project, but at some point I’d like to git 'er going. If that sounds interesting to you, keep your eye on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip, yeah?