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.
/u/drunkenninja just posted a comment in the thread I linked which is somewhat relevant.
The problem with this place staying the same and not experiencing the much needed growth is that it will collapse under it's own weight if there isn't a community of members that are willing to support it's hosting, development and general business related needs that can only be viable if the costs are divided amongst the many. The site has been up for years with no advertising, donation buttons, outside investment or any other method to recoup the obviously significant costs of not only the year round development and management but also the costs associated with hosting a service of this size. While it's natural to want to keep something the same for risks of screwing it up, it's important that a platform like this sees the light of day and is given a chance to grow, otherwise I doubt it will be around much longer without the support needed for such a platform to thrive.
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.
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.