Consistency. The power of user-created subreddits took years to really gain momentum. For the first year or so I was spending a lot of my time raising awareness

Consistency. The power of user-created subreddits took years to really gain momentum. For the first year or so I was spending a lot of my time raising awareness for communities we'd created that seemed like obvious fits (like /r/gaming) doing things like running house ads and being a good moderator of the subreddit -- things that our awesome mods are now doing themselves. I encourage you to subscribe to subreddits like http://truereddit.reddit.com/ http://truereddit.reddit.com/ if you're missing the old days. There's a wealth of great, smaller subreddits that maintain the intellectual roots. http://philosophy.reddit.com/ http://philosophy.reddit.com/ too!