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Q&A Response to Monica Cellio's cross posts — "How can we grow this community"?

I'm sorry if I didn't make the purpose of these posts clear enough. We are asking each individual community to talk about those communities. We're not looking for general suggestions like "use Re...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2021-12-02T15:29:46Z (almost 3 years ago)
I'm sorry if I didn't make the purpose of these posts clear enough.  We are asking *each individual community* to talk about *those communities*.  We're not looking for general suggestions like "use Reddit"; that's not actionable.  But if, say, there's a particular subreddit that is well-aligned with one of our communities, a member of that community might share that information.  Similarly, different communities have different challenges in what I'm calling "making a good first impression", and so the community-specific remedies will be different.  (Of course, some problems, like activity level, span many communities; I'm not saying there won't be overlap.  But different communities might choose to address that in different ways.)

I actually had a draft post for Meta explaining this and linking to the individual community posts, but I was concerned about outside voices drowning out the members of the individual communities and so didn't post it.  The posts aren't a secret, obviously (I featured them locally on each community), but the focus is on specific communities, not Codidact as a whole.

If you want to support specific community proposals, please review those proposals to see what is needed.

If you want to suggest other promotional activities, particularly ones that cost money, please include some explanation for why it would be effective.  How does Codidact spending money to print and mail you a t-shirt translate into new community members here?  (If you want to buy your own t-shirt, we can point you to a vendor that does one-off printing.  It's the one we used for last year's contest prizes.)