[RugnirViking]

Hi there. I left a comment on the site, but I'm not sure if it got through because it went down again before I could check to see. The main problem I have found so far trying to use the site is that you've made a huge variety of communities and posts using a reddit scraper. I understand the urge to have content, but starting small will allow users to actually find places where other living users are rather than an endless wasteland of bot posts with no comments.

In addition, having user-driven content from the start will (hopefully) lead to a community and a unique style forming - with people sticking around because they enjoy the content and discussion already there, and posting more of the same themselves. If you want to shape the community, the best way would be to make one or two posts yourself, and try hard to comment and engage with other user's posts in the way you hope future users will.

Also, the personality of the first few active users will have a large effect on how the site's culture will evolve. If you're interested in left-wing politics, perhaps try to publicise the site in the kinds of places people already talk about left-wing politics - specific subreddits or discord servers. Of course a lot of places won't like straight-up advertisement, but if you pitch it as an ongoing project and ask for ideas, people will likely be happier to accept it.

[mickdaisy]

It went through and I responded! I apologize for the performance headache. I'm in uncharted territory over here.

https://www.karma.fm/p/SGXFV/once-upon-a-time-i-accidentally...

My response:

Thanks so much @Rugnir. This is absolutely a problem; I'll quote you over on the most recent retrospective.

I have a question: when you visit the homepage, all posts are human (filtered for "non robot posts"). You can then include bot posts by manually disabling this filter. On Tribe pages, the filter is "off" by default. Would you like to see the filter controls on the Tribe pages, with it "off" by default?

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In addition, having user-driven content from the start will (hopefully) lead to a community and a unique style forming - with people sticking around because they enjoy the content and discussion already there, and posting more of the same themselves. If you want to shape the community, the best way would be to make one or two posts yourself, and try hard to comment and engage with other user's posts in the way you hope future users will.

Also, the personality of the first few active users will have a large effect on how the site's culture will evolve. If you're interested in left-wing politics, perhaps try to publicise the site in the kinds of places people already talk about left-wing politics - specific subreddits or discord servers. Of course a lot of places won't like straight-up advertisement, but if you pitch it as an ongoing project and ask for ideas, people will likely be happier to accept it.

^ YES! This is all gold. Thank you.