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What is the motivation for accounts that do a ton of posting on Lemmy? Like, many posts per day. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I'll just leave the question at that, because I can't even speculate.

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[–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

A lot of people are making comments like “to boost Lemmy’s popularity/value”, but I wonder if making a lot of posts with relatively few comments is counterproductive?

Like, if I see a community where the top 20 posts have no comments, I’m reluctant to post or comment there because it doesn’t seem to have an engaged community. A community where the top posts all have long comment threads seems more inviting, even if the top posts go back two weeks instead of two hours.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I wonder if making a lot of posts with relatively few comments is counterproductive?

    I think the bot accounts that repost everything from a subreddit or the like are definitely counterproductive and don't encourage participation. It's like walking into a room of robots beeping at each other. They're probably my biggest pet peeve here.

    This is also why I end up posting in communities that aren't necessarily hosted on my own instance. They're more populated and that encourages more participation.

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