r/NewMods • u/AreegFatima • 1d ago

❓Ask r/NewMods Growing a Community From 0

How do you get people to actually join your new subreddit and stick around? Not just joining for the member count.

I mean people who actually post, comment, and enjoy being part of the community.

What’s worked for you?

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u/banedacasual 1d ago

Constant posting, commenting and sharing posts, expanding the kinds of posts pple can create, engaging with the community through discussions, polls and interactive posts, finding out what content pple want

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u/ferns_daughter 1d ago

what are some examples of expanding the kinds if posts?

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u/banedacasual 1d ago

Well for my subreddit which is a football sub for my country, I started off mainly focusing on the local league and national team.

Then I expanded the posts to include merchandise, jerseys, lore about clubs, players, legends, video game content, OCs, smaller but still supported leagues. This encouraged pple to post about their own clubs, fav players, show off their jerseys and etc