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The automated bot threads are suppressing participation (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/nba@lemmy.world
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There seems to be an annoying assumption in Lemmy communities that the best way to grow is to duplicate how it worked on Reddit.

Reddit’s r/nba has hundreds of thousands or millions of readers. Their system can support lots of game-day threads because they have the numbers.

I log onto this community and I’m turned off. There are too many bot threads and not enough critical mass of discussion. Before the bots, it was better because there were only a few threads so at least people felt there was something worth participating in.

I guess I could block the bot, but this doesn’t fix the issue for the community. I suggest that these game threads can be merged into groupings. Perhaps just one thread for all the day’s games.

The point is to grow the community with the current audience in mind, not to assume that what works for Reddit is going to immediately work for Lemmy.

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[–] [S] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Hi, it’s late and just a quick response.

First off, I’m sorry for the tone in my original OP. I think I, too, forget that Lemmy more than Reddit is run my volunteers. So on Reddit it’s fine to go off on a rant about nameless people. But it’s different here. We appreciate all your work.

Second, in terms of a future format that would work, is it possible to have a daily pinned thread with the content? On r/nba what happened for post game threads was that there was a single post but with the bot establishing comments corresponding to each item. Then people can comment within each sub comment.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Thanks for the reply. I really like that option - it's a good balance between having a place to discuss every single game and not creating a post for each. It should also be pretty straight forward to port from the existing implementation :) I'll play with it in the next months and see how it goes.

    Thanks again for the feedback.

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