@asklemmy What is up with people creating Communities and then not even posting a single post in them?
Like wouldn’t you want to be able to grow a community by doing a post here and there, even just a welcome post to say why you created the community would make sense wouldn’t it?
I’m guessing it’s like my book collection: mostly aspirational. I do love to read, but there’s no way I’m finishing all these impulse purchases before I die.
IOW, they are hoping someday there will be users.
Some communities (like a sports one I recently saw) have bots posting game threads or whatevet almost every day. I guess it’s sort of like reddit’s original fake it 'til you make it thing.
A bunch were created when a lot of people left Reddit seemingly in an attempt to snatch up popular community titles they thought might get some attention and are basically no better than domain name squatters.
The user I snagged !eldenring@lemmy.world from has a ton more popular communities under his control that are all taken from Reddit and also empty as hell. But the instance admins are pretty good about transferring them over if you spot 'em.
Couldn’t be me
I created two comms and I’m fairly sure I’m the only one who posts to them at all.
I dislike this sort of flotsam, so in my instance I routinely purge empty and inactive communities after a few months.
I don’t get a lot of behaviour here. I think that should be cleaned up automatically. Just grabbing a community name and blocking it without doing anything with it is just bad for the platform.
Another thing I don’t get is people posting questions and then never engaging with the comments. Not answering follow-up questions or up-/downvoting answers. Always seems to me like speaking to a wall. And you can never sure when replying, if it’s a genuine question or you’re just going to waste your time by typing a reply.
Another thing I don’t get is people posting questions and then never engaging with the comments. Not answering follow-up questions or up-/downvoting answers.
On Reddit those were often bots attempting to establish an account with fake posts and karma before using it for spam. Not sure about Lemmy.
Yeah sadly I can’t easily take over these platforms that I’d love to keep alive without using an alt account.
Also I love answering the comments, it get’s hard to answer all of them if there’s 100+ comments and some ask the same 2 questions I’ve answered a few times previously.
You’re doing a good job in my opinion. I also try to reply to people. Because having a discussion was the reason why I posted in the first place. But I think it’s not necessary to reply to everyone. I just upvote comments that I don’t have a meaningful reply to, and that way people can see that I (or someone) appreciated them typing it out. I think that’s enough. And I don’t judge an OP by replying specifically to me. I just look if they at least added one or two comments to their discussion themselves. And if there’s votes to some of the comments. If that’s the case I think everything is fine.
(Though, I at least demand one vote for my comment if I give a correct answer or give a lengthy reply. Sadly that doesn’t always happen.)
