In my experience, once a community reaches certain size, it grows organically. But reaching that cricial mass is hard.
So I thought that a coordinated “consented white hat brigading” might help. What I mean is for a group of users to focus on one or a few communities for a while trying to get them to that point posting and commenting (quality content).
It should be done asking the moderators for permission first. There may be communities that don’t want to grow this way.
Disclaimer (because I got a comment in a similar post saying “Give it time”): I’m not trying to rush the growth, IMHO people should post as much as they want and not take it as a chore. I’m thiking of focusing the (natural) activity of those users interested in helping small communities (that want to grow).
I think a good place to start is Casual Conversation. There’s no real pressure to force a topic there, and people can, quite literally, have a casual conversation to perhaps lead to organic growth.
Definitely! I have been trying to get some traction there, it seems an open topic enough to bring people to comment here.
FYI, your link doesn’t seem to work, here is another one [email protected]
Hmm weird, works on my end. But thanks for the extra one just in case!
I don’t have a strong opinion on which communities people could focus. If there is enough people that wants it (and their mods agree), I will be happy to help.