https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/mmwdrh/new_community_creator_onboarding_tool/
created by singmethesong on 08/04/2021 at 17:07 UTC*
189 upvotes, 17 top-level comments (showing 17)
Hey, what’s up, hello
Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our New Community Progress tool, a helpful guide and educational resource aimed at simplifying the community creation process for new moderators.
This tool will provide new community creators with a series of tangible steps to follow as they grow and govern their community. These steps are represented as progress cards that encourage new moderators to achieve certain accomplishments such as creating a sticky post or adding a description to the community. You could think of these almost like goal posts to help kick off the foundation of building a community.
These progress cards are not requirements or expectations to have a successful community. The idea is to help ease the process and better inform new mods who are creating a community for the first time. The cards are live today on the redesign and will be launched in the coming weeks on both iOS and Android.
Please check out below for what some of these cards look like:
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Any questions? Did we miss anything? Do you have any tips that you utilized to create your subreddit? We’d love to hear them and are hanging out in the comments below to chat about everything.
Comment by MyUserName-exe at 08/04/2021 at 17:10 UTC
18 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I saw those yesterday. Is it cause i am in reddit beta?
Comment by TheNewPoetLawyerette at 08/04/2021 at 20:21 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
For a moment I was grumbly about another new feature not being implemented on old reddit, but then I realized that pretty much none of the mods who use old reddit will need this feature lol
I love the new style of snoo art. It's adorable. Props to your art department
Comment by Alespren at 08/04/2021 at 17:16 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Neat
Comment by HistorianCM at 08/04/2021 at 17:38 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is great. Anything to help guide those new to community building is a good thing.
Comment by BikerJedi at 08/04/2021 at 21:55 UTC
20 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Tips to new mods: ENGAGE with your community often. It shows humanity. Don't distinguish your comments unless you are speaking officially as a mod doing mod stuff. That way the community sees "you" as well as "mod you" and they learn to distinguish between the two naturally. Finally, PROTECT your community. When you see users being harassed or whatever, crack down hard on that shit.
Doing all that has really helped /r/MilitaryStories grow. The mod team is fairly popular with our readers, and we don't have a lot of drama at all. (Excepting our one action in September in support of BLM that pissed off a lot of people.)
Good luck to all the new mods out there.
Comment by tangus at 08/04/2021 at 18:09 UTC
6 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Sorry, maybe OT. What does "onboarding" mean?
Comment by SolariaHues at 08/04/2021 at 19:32 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Do the cards link to the relevant help centre articles or some guidance on how to achieve them?
Will they show to every new sub creator eventually or just brand new mods who have created a community / can experienced mods opt out of seeing them?
Other topics could be to add rules and community topics if not already covered.
Comment by didgerdiojejsjfkw at 08/04/2021 at 17:10 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Hello new admin 👋
Comment by clemenslucas at 08/04/2021 at 17:24 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
what are the 600845 other frames?
Comment by RunDNA at 09/04/2021 at 00:21 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Great work. This sounds very useful.
Comment by [deleted] at 09/04/2021 at 05:14 UTC*
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I would love to have had something like this when I first became a mod.
Comment by calvarez at 09/04/2021 at 19:27 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I’ve been a mod for a while, but only recently created my first new sub. I thought the guidance cards were normal. Love them, and been following most suggestions.
Comment by mookler at 08/04/2021 at 21:32 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Have you thought about tying a (small) amount of community coins to each card?
Perhaps enough to give out a few community awards (and maybe can have some cards tied to creating/giving community awards)
Probably a halfway decent incentive with low-abuse risk with a good way to expose folks to how community awards work.
Comment by Xenc at 08/04/2021 at 19:36 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Cool change. The Snoo tapping away on keyboard is so funny. 😅
What happens if you accidentally dismiss these cards? Can you bring them back?
Comment by MindlessElectrons at 08/04/2021 at 23:22 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You still need to fix the account creation process lol. It's been hugely broken since the redesign got launched
Comment by gooddoggogood44 at 09/04/2021 at 14:46 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Hi! I'm a mod of a community (with one member-me) and I need help attracting users. Any tips?
Comment by Eros-69 at 13/04/2021 at 23:21 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Help make the wiki easier plz!!! 🙏���🙏
I've never been able to get it to work!!
