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I'm kinda surprised that a hyper-local forum has enough posts to encourage engagement. I'm subscribed to many city specific subreddits over the years and most
by hasbot 2y ago
I'm kinda surprised that a hyper-local forum has enough posts to encourage engagement. I'm subscribed to many city specific subreddits over the years and most have few posts (except for /r/Portland but that's a different beast) beyond "Who has the best hamburgers?" and "Thinking of moving here."
- oglop 2y agoReddit overall selects for a certain population to use it. I would not use it as a comparison for something like this.
- mplanchard 2y agoAs an example of what you’re saying, the Vermont subreddit skews wildly snarky and mean-spirited relative to either front porch forum or actual people in real life
- arresin 2y agoYou’re describing every subreddit
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoMy small city's Reddit sub is fairly well managed and has a variety of tame posts on local interests, events, and Q&A. You need to have enough people who aren't stuck on a monomaniacal groupthink to keep things civil.
- beezle 2y agoFPF isn't about "encouraging engagement" in the back and forth discussion type. It is more about giving/getting very localized information/resources. Think "did you get my package" "I need someone to put a new culvert in" "lost dog" "hens for sale" "town hall closed today"
- hasbot 2y agoIn your neighborhood, how many posts per day (or week) are typical? Are there notifications or is manually checking the forum required?
- mplanchard 2y agoGenerally 3-5 posts per day in downtown-ish Burlington. They come out in a digest once per day, which the app notifies you about or you can get via email
- beezle 2y agosry delay - my area is typically 2 email digests a day, each with about 15 posts. Varies a bit by day of week and season.