Setting up the basics of your new community

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCertification101/comments/p39ig5/setting_up_the_basics_of_your_new_community/

created by ModCertification on 12/08/2021 at 21:37 UTC*

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Goal: Setting up your community so people can easily find it and participate

Your community exists. That’s why you’re here! But let’s talk about what you need to do after you create it.

Getting to the community you created.

We sometimes see new mods wondering how to access the community they created. There are a few different ways to do this:

Moderating Subreddits List

1: https://reddit.com/r/communityname

2: https://reddit.com/

Basic community set up

3: https://reddit.com/u/username

4: https://reddit.com/

First, if you want people to find your community, it helps to set up a primary topic and some subtopics. You can do this directly from your subreddit through the community widget.

You'll see a button labeled 'Add a Primary Topic'-- click on it to begin adding relevant topics. It will be located near the pencil icon in the topics box.

This can be done directly within your community widget by clicking on the pencil icon (under "About Community" in the image above.)

This description will be displayed in search results, in social media links, in the description under your community’s name on mobile, and in Reddit search results for your community, even if it’s set to private. Setting a clear description will also help set the culture of your community. As with topics, this can help people discover your community and determine whether or not they'd like to participate.

There are a few settings to review as you’re getting started. Click on the “mod tools” button within your community widget. Once on the tools hub, scroll down and select “Community Settings.”

You’ll notice that there are a lot of sections and tools here, but you’re going to focus on the “Community” section of your “Community Settings” tools.

If you want your community to be discovered locally, you can set up a location here. You should also select the type of community you’d like to have. Public is the most common type of community, but you may have reasons to have a restricted or private community.

Lastly, if your community is adult in nature, you must toggle the 18+ setting to on. Failure to correctly mark a Not Safe For Work community can lead to the community being shut down for failure to follow Reddit's content policy[5]. If your community has occasional NSFW content but is generally suitable for most ages, you can choose to leave this box unchecked and instead ensure that any NSFW posts are marked as such individually. We'll discuss how to mark items NSFW in a later section.

5: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy

Continue on to our Your Powers as a Moderator[6] post when you're ready.

6: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCertification101/comments/p39lcp/your_powers_as_a_moderator/

Comments

Comment by ModCertification at 03/09/2021 at 16:07 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

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