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First time, long time. I’m debating using Reddit to help with building a community with a podcast I’m starting focused on the Champions League. It’d be my first time as a mod and I have no idea what I’m doing, but would love to get some words of wisdom from the grizzled vets here on how to get started, how to build and grow community and how to make sure you’re managing the space and yourself accordingly.
I’ll hang up and listen
Comment by Clover_Jane at 26/06/2024 at 11:07 UTC
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Idrk what your community topic is, but you may want to check to make sure there's not an already established subreddit that's thriving before you start a new one. If there is, maybe reach out to that sub and see if you can be a part of it or do a collab.
Aside from that, my thoughts on moderating are below.
Modding is a team effort. Even while your community is small, bring on mods and try to bring on more than you need. The reason being, you will find mods who agree to mod, and you can take the time to train them, but they'll fade off quickly. There's more chance others will pick up the slack if you bring on more at the same time. Set expectations for what you would like the subreddit to be about with your mods (as well as the community) and delegate tasks if you can. Like the wiki or automod. Sometimes too many people working a task can make a mess of things, so just having set people do those things is better/easier imo.
When you're in the initial community building stage, take time to comment or reply to people as often as you can. Reddit has a lot of lurkers, and you ideally want those people to be comfortable enough to become participants. My subs don't allow any hostility towards others whatsoever. People know my main sub is helpful because even now, I still take time to respond to members with helpful responses and I'm never rude or mean, so the community in turn sees that and are nice to each other Of course, we'll have the occasional person being a jerk, but it's not the norm.