Proposed weekly community goal: 300 new members
As /u/picklefingers pointed out in this thread, we got 650+ new members last week because of the drama over at reddit.
I pulled the numbers from the last 6 newsletter emails I got, here they are:
Jun 14: 662
Jun 7: 57
May 31: 84
May 24: 100
May 17: 90
May 10: 51
May 3: 64
It seems to be an average of 75 per week which is just over 10 per day. It's not bad but I think we can help speed up the process and try and work together for a common goal that will benefit everyone. I think 300 per week (43 per day) is reasonable and I'm almost certain that we will be re-making this thread and raising the bar sometime soon down the road.
What do you all think? I think it can be fun watching that number on a weekly basis. If 300 is too much, we can lower it to 200 or something for next week. For anyone curious, we will get the next results in this Sunday's newsletter email but I will also post the results myself.
Update: 309 new members this week! We did it!
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There is a trade-off to strike between attracting new members and the kind of community you want to see every day. Proposing a rate of new members over a set period like this would seem to ignore the worth of striking that balance.
I'd like to see more users from /r/books flock here, but I'm out of invite codes and too cautious to try promoting there. The book community on Reddit is one of the best that I've seen and is probably one of the few subreddits with any quality.
Perhaps if anyone is brave enough, they could try bringing them in. It would be quality and quantity.
I could give you some codes for this as well if /u/gladsdotter runs out. I have some as a /t/books mod that I'd be happy to give.
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/u/drunkenninja just posted a comment in the thread I linked which is somewhat relevant.
But I do understand your side of concerns.
It's definitely a tricky situation, as I can totally relate to /u/AdelleChattre wanting this place to grow at the right pace even if it means the community would remain smaller for a while longer. I guess the risk here is that new members would come from other platforms in large numbers and wreak havoc by not playing nice, which is obviously a huge concern!
However I am also very confident in the underlaying functionality specifically designed to help the community with handling such influx of users which from what I can see would be coming in waves, and from what I witnessed over the last week we as a community handled the arrival of all these new people exceedingly well, so many people contributed it was beautiful to witness! I don't see how this cannot continue with the invite system serving as an effective system to control the amount of incoming members.
I honestly just want to see this place to get more known and succeed. I figured a common goal can motivate people to contribute in any way they could. Besides it's a fairly small goal.
Do you see what I mean, though? Maybe the rate of growth isn't really the point, or even the challenge.
New members are fine with me,but quality members are what I would rather see.
So maybe it totally depends upon targetted subreddits? Not so much r/conspiracy or r/shitredditsays but more the better, smaller, cult subs like /r/askhistorians or /r/askscience
Voat has been attracting the wrong type of users in my opinion. Some of the first exoduses were from /r/conspiracy and whatever subreddits promote anti-SJW. Now that /r/fatpeoplehate has gone there, too, the community is too much like the mainstream Reddit.
Which I guess is a mostly unintentional side effect from the strikingly similar UI that Voat and reddit each has. It's increasingly harder for Voat to escape the "like reddit except nobody can make us shut up about our opinions" label now.
Very true. When I was looking for a Reddit alternative, most comment mentioned Voat. However when I went there there was no appeal...it looks too much like Reddit, and the type of posts where not very rich. A few days later I heard about Snapzu, got an invite on my own (tweeted it so I got a code a few hours after giving my email) and then browsed her. The quality of this site is so much better, not only the interface but the community as well.
I do hope that other Redditors like myself will find this place and treat it decently.
I subscribe to this. I went to Voat, found the new Reddit, and then I came here and found something with the potential to become greater than what Reddit was. I hope the admins and the community here are as wonderful as they've been so far.
Ughh I checked it out once it finally was back up and it was a complete shit show.
As I've said before, we should be judicious with our invites. I think a number goal is the wrong thing to have. It values quantity of quality. I think we should make a point to seek out the best members instead. People we think we bring us great content.
I'll try and do my part when an opportunity arises. I hope others can too. I am really enjoying the presence of all the new members.
Did my share today.
Update: 309 new members this week! We did it!
Good job guys, does the 9 count as a head start for this week?
Awesome that's good news but a lot of that was probably still aftershocks from last week. I suspect maintaining 300 new members a week will be tough.
297 will be the goal after I'm done handing mine out
TBH I'm kinda curious now.