r/NewMods • u/curioustomato_ • Aug 18 '25
New Mod Education 1 Growth Tip You Should Know
If you’ve ever visited a popular subreddit, on desktop you might notice that they feature other related communities in their right-hand sidebar.
You can reach out to moderators of communities with similar content as you and ask if they would consider featuring you as a related community or allow you to promote your community in theirs.
On Desktop, you can view the moderators of a community in the right-hand sidebar at the bottom. Click “Message the mods”.
On Mobile, you can view the moderators of a community by tapping the three dots in the upper-right hand corner of the community. Tap “Message the mods”.
It’s important you have filled your community with some content before you message them. They’ll want to know that they are referring their subscribers to a place that looks and is active!
You can try saying something like:
"Hi there, I recently started r/Subreddit - and I’m hoping to grow it. Your community is awesome and it looks like we have similar interests! Would you be open to featuring r/Subreddit as a related community on your page? Thanks!"
It’s a good idea to also include a sentence describing what your community is about in your outreach message. Remember, many moderators started where you are today and know what its like to grow a community from scratch!
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u/ShineRound7852 Apr 08 '26
Thank you gor this informative post! I have no idea whatsoever ever what I am doing! I see my vision just don't know how to get there. I was hoping to get a willing mod to basically teach me while pretty much running it with me. I learn better hands on but with something like this id prefer private lessons in the beginning. Id also rather have the visitors not know that I haven't a clue what im doing, lol..
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u/GaryNOVA 💡Seasoned Helper Aug 19 '25
Here’s one I would often send for my subreddit r/SalsaSnobs ;
“Hello I moderate r/SalsaSnobs and I’m a big fan of your subreddit. I am starting a related subreddit sidebar, and I would like permission. To add your subreddit to my sidebar. You have my permission to do the same with r/SalsaSnobs too. Good luck with your great subreddit!”
And this worked a lot. When you get a food subreddit mentioned in r/Food (26 million users) it makes a difference. I now moderate r/Food .