The community is still young and growing, which is great! but real member-driven engagement is still low. Most posts are coming from me and another mod, despite consistent effort to keep the content high-quality, practical, and relevant.

From your experience.....What actually works to move people from consuming content to creating it?

Would really appreciate practical insights from what you’ve seen work in your communities. Thanks friends

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  • One of my subreddits has 800 members, and only 3 or 4 post, plus me and the other mod, so...

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  • Will take time

    My subreddit is a bit smaller than you , but I've started to see change.

    It will start gradually, but once it does , it won't Stop.

    Best of luck 🤞🏻

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    How did you do it? Any tips?

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    Consistency

    And fast replies

    I reply to almost every comment I get .( Almost 400 comments daily and I reply to almost 350 )

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    I'm trying but it's just hard to spread the word without being spam. And it's hard to get people to naturally post. I mean my sub is about 6 days old now is it still too new?

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    mean my sub is about 6 days old now is it still too new?

    I was at 3 members for 2 months 🙂

    It was in November end when I got serious in growing the subreddit and I managed to reach 30 members by December 1 .

    For 10 days it only grew up to 41 members

    6 days later it's almost 800 members.

    Reddit is random.

    So I'd say be consistent

    Also , is this your 2nd subreddit cuz I remembered we have talked like around 20 days back and you created a new subreddit that time too.

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    I abandoned that first one cuz it never grew. So I thought of a better idea for the second one and it's now at like 60 members and it's day 6 now, however the ratio of activity is still low which doesn't make up for it.

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    cuz it never grew

    You lack patience dude. It won't grow overnight.

    Calm down and chill. Let it expand by itself.

    Your focus should only be on content creation during the initial phase.

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    Meh my newer one has a way better growth rate anyways so I felt it was reasonable to abandon the old one and focus all my effort into the new one. I'll keep trying though and yes patience is key, you're right even if it's tough sometimes.

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    👍🏻

    Good luck ✌🏻

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  • I say engage engage engage them, Form collaborations with other subs maybe a discord channel. I post on my own sub almost every day. I formed a collaboration with a FB group which was cool because I never thought about doing that. It takes time also it won't happen overnight as well.

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  • Congratulations. How to get so many members join the community in such a short time?

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  • It always starts that way with you and the mod team posting content. You can try posting some kind of prompt where users comment to that post. You can also post a prompt for users to create their own post based on whatever your sub’s theme is.

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  • My subreddit now has 300 members and I'm also still the one who actively post once a day, though now a lot of people engage with the post. I guess as long as they leave a comment or upvote, you're good...

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  • One thing that helped me was realizing that people don’t become contributors just because they join, they contribute when the first action feels easy and safe.

    A few things that consistently move the needle:

    Seed the behavior you want. Early on, mods posting comments, answering questions, and sharing short personal takes makes it clear what “good participation” looks like.

    Lower the bar to participate. Open-ended prompts, simple questions, polls, and “share your experience” posts outperform anything that feels like work.

    Acknowledge contributors publicly. Even a quick reply or thank-you from a mod dramatically increases the chance someone comments again.

    Create repeatable rituals. Weekly check-ins, themed threads, or recurring posts train members when and how to engage.

    Make posting about them, not the community. People engage more when the post helps them solve a problem, vent, or reflect.

    High visits with lower contribution usually means people are interested but unsure how to jump in. Once the first interaction feels normal, participation tends to compound quickly.

    Curious what tactics others have seen work long-term, especially past the first few thousand members.

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