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Is having a lot of engagement with a community preferable to asking for more effort in posts? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
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Is having a lot of posts in a community preferable to asking that people expand on their posts a bit more or put more effort then simply adding a title. For some reason i keep asking myself this when looking at certain communities with seemingly only one poster (on a completely separate and totally unrelated topic I'm going to go shred some dairy products)

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[โ€“] -1 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

Genuinely, how are you qualified to talk about either, tho? Do you have a dial that you can toggle your abillity to optimize for quality or quantity and you need to know the exact setting beforehand or you'll explode?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    How am i qualified to ask "Quality vs Quantity"? of posts to a community? I wasn't aware I needed qualifications to ask (Never mind the literal title of this community ๐Ÿ˜€ ). as to how do I "toggle" between the two i would assume it is community dependant but simply posting a link or throwing out a title and giving no background or not expanding in the post to post more might be optimizing for quantity vs the opposite of expanding on the topic/link in the post might be quality.

    and you need to know the exact setting beforehand or youโ€™ll explode?

    I'm not nearly as emotionally tied to this as you seem to be insinuating. It was an ask on preferences but once again depending on the community context or "setting" could be important if there is an expected response (say an answer to a place you pose questions, or a review of a product if there was something wrong with it, etc.)

    I'll repeat again that Iโ€™m sorry if this hurt or upset you in some way. It was not my intention to cause any strife with this post.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Its something people genuinely shouldnt worry about, how about just post normal stuff and engage with your responders and have some fun? No defensiveness or meta treatises needed

    Lets start...now

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    this is actually an answer i can see as an option. might be hard for me to not analyze posts as quality vs quantity but maybe not all people do.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    There you go, thats the spirit!

    Im not donvoting this btw. But yeah, if i'm being a bit more sassy its like a baby asking if they should focus on thw quality or quantity of attempted first steps towards learning to walk.

    Its like, dont even worry about it, just do what you can and if you're genuine + with some gentle guidance, you will be fine. It can be scary sometimes in a banal way but worst case scenario you can just delete it (a post or unfortunate comment, thread) and never address it again haha. I

    I have shitty ideas or questions or takes all the time but they often lead to better or more interesring twists and turns and addressing genuinely random and variably interesting shit that would have never surfaced if I didnt go along with that particular day's or moments inquiries. Often a single unusual word that came out of me in the text can spur an entire extended new line of questions or experiments so you never really know what you can uncover

    Its oddly helpful to consider posts and replies as experiments where you get to try out different ideas and positions and dynamics and see how that resonates with different Lemmings and communication styles. You learn when to be playful, serious, how to really dig into something that elicits your curiousity or incredulity, etc. Its been fantastic, I love being able to reasonably crowd-source ideas and discussions like that

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