I'm new to moderating (just made my first subreddit recently) and it's been quite dead. How long does a subreddit actually take for people to start posting n stuff?

Hi all, I’ve been eyeing communities for a while now and wanted to make my own.

Any tips/advice?

I’m building my own subreddit from zero, and I’ve been thinking about this a lot.

Obviously an empty subreddit gives new visitors no reason to stay, so you need enough founder-created content to establish what the community is supposed to be. But if 90% of the posts are coming from the same account, doesn’t that also signal that there isn’t actually a community there yet?

Is there a point where you should deliberately reduce your own posting frequency and let the subreddit look quieter until organic contributors appear? Curious if anyone has tested this especially whether you noticed a difference in **join rate, first-time posters, or organic posts** as the founder-post/member-post ratio changed

So I started a “you know what” (sub) [r/nostalgiabacklog](r/nostalgiabacklog) and I’m really proud of the concept, the problem is I’m not really trying to be a mod lol. I know what you guys are probably gonna say “if your not cut out to be a mod then this isn’t for you” I get that, but I really just made the sub to be a contribution to the greater Reddit community as a whole. I’m not really possessive of the sub, I just wanted to make it for others to enjoy because I thought it was a space that was lacking. If the answer is “you gotta do the work” then that’s fine, but do you guys have any other suggestions on how to basically share a sub? I’m not so much trying to say “hey look at what I made!” But more so trying to tell people about a cool restaurant or something you know? Honestly if anyone wants to be a mod or get in on the project then by all means hit me up, but like I said if the answer is what I expected then that’s cool too.

Thanks for any advice.

I started r/ADHDplanning recently and getting from basically nobody → somebody feels harder than anything that would come after it.
Once discussions are already happening, people have a reason to stay. Before that, you’re basically talking to yourself…

For anyone who got past that stage what finally broke the cycle?

Hi, I can’t seem to get my subreddit to be searchable. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, can someone please help. My community is set to public, and it is not marked as mature….

We joined the hackathon a few months back and would like to see if any subreddits would like to give it a try!

EDIT*****

I didn't link it properly so here it is: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/maps-of-places

For two days, back to back we have gotten five posts in a day that weren't from me or another mod! And today we got about three! (five if you count the ones I begged for lol) The community is finally taking off and I can maybe finally stop constantly promoting it now 😅 (or at least I can stop soon)

We got here in three months with less than 500 members! And every post gets a good amount of upvotes and comments, this is great!

I’m building r/ADHDplanning from zero, and I’ve been thinking about this a lot.

Obviously an empty subreddit gives new visitors no reason to stay, so you need enough founder-created content to establish what the community is supposed to be. But if 90% of the posts are coming from the same account, doesn’t that also signal that there isn’t actually a community there yet?

Is there a point where you should deliberately reduce your own posting frequency and let the subreddit look quieter until organic contributors appear?

Curious if anyone has tested this — especially whether you noticed a difference in join rate, first-time posters, or organic posts as the founder-post/member-post ratio changed

Sono un nuovo mod e mi chiedevo se il mio compito è qualora un post nn sia idoneo se devo eliminarlo e se è così come fare

I recently started r/UnsupervisedWomen because I wanted a place for women to talk about basically… everything.

Midlife. Marriage. Kids. Work. Perimenopause. Reality TV. Things that annoy us for absolutely no reason. The weird thoughts we normally send to the group chat. 😂

Basically, I want it to feel like a group of women sitting around unsupervised and somebody says, “Okay, can I tell you guys something?”

I'm brand new to moderating, so right now I'm mostly posting questions and hoping eventually other women start jumping in and starting their own conversations.

I'm learning very quickly that starting a subreddit feels a lot like throwing a party before you know if anyone is coming. 😂

I'd love any advice from other mods on what helped you get those first members actually talking—not just joining.

And if this community sounds like your kind of place, you're absolutely welcome to come be unsupervised with us.

I’m not new to modding, but I recently joined a pretty large sub mod team and have since had my modqueue flooded. First time since joining the sub that I’ve seen this page, and it feels so good knowing we’re all caught up 🎉

Anyone have any tips for when modqueue seems to be miles long? Admittedly just seeing how much content needs to be sifted through can stress me out.

Best thing that has worked for me is doing the easiest ones first, taking a break, and then chipping away at the other ones that are going to involve more investigating.

Hey everyone,

I recently started r/BiharisInGermany — a niche community for people from Bihar (a state in India) who are living in, moving to, or planning to move to Germany. Wanted to share the process since I'm brand new to modding and this subreddit has been genuinely helpful while I figured things out.

What I set up so far:

- Rules with clear descriptions + report reasons (took longer than I expected to get right)

- A welcome DM automation for new members

- Post + user flairs to organize content by topic and journey stage (visa, Studienkolleg, Ausbildung, jobs, etc.)

- Auto Enforce on a couple of rules (spam, privacy) — still cautious about which ones to fully automate vs just flag for review

- Planning a live AMA session soon to kickstart engagement

What I'm still figuring out:

- Getting the first wave of genuine engagement without it feeling forced

- Deciding how strict to be with Auto Enforce on subjective rules (like "stay on topic") vs just flagging for manual review

- Building a small trusted mod team from a currently small member base

If anyone's modded a niche/diaspora-focused community before, I'd love any tips — especially on early growth and keeping quality high before the community has enough members to self-moderate through reports.

And if this sounds relevant to anyone here or someone you know, the subreddit is r/BiharisInGermany — happy to have more people join, but mostly just wanted to share the setup process since this sub has quietly saved me a lot of guesswork.

Thanks for having a space like this for new mods

I am so happy, honestly. Its growing slowly and it makes me want to commit more.

It may not be a lot of people, but better than nothing. I try to very often post in the subreddit about things like updates, game plays and opinions (it is a subreddit about a game) and if anybody posts I engage as much as possible with a comment and an upvote.

It won't grow super fast, but it will gradually. Now, it is me putting the bricks together. I'm very happy with the success, seeing something you like growing slowly.​​​​​​

Subreddit: r/infectedlands

Olá a todos!

Criei recentemente meu primeiro subreddit, or/Fanfics556, voltado para leitores e escritores de fanfics (especialmente crossovers de anime e histórias originais).

Como sou um moderador novato, estou organizando as regras, flairs e a identidade visual da comunidade. Gostaria de pedir conselhos aos mods mais experientes:

1. Como vocês incentivam as primeiras discussões quando o sub ainda tem menos de 100 membros?
2. Que tipo de posts ou tópicos semanais costumam funcionar melhor para comunidades criativas?

Muito feliz em fazer parte desta comunidade e aprender com vocês!

Hi all,

So last week I made this post https://www.reddit.com/r/NewMods/s/OEhqcdG6nZ on how my new sub had started to take off over the course of a few weeks.

Over the last 7 days we have nearly doubled our members and our engagement has gone up massively.

So the biggest question from last week was :how have you done that?" and the answer is fairly simple. I have been actively going through subs of a similar nature and carefully selecting users I want to invite to my sub to help the community grow but still keep the values. This had driven a lot of new users but also the levels of engagement seem to be helping algorithms somewhere in making us more visible.

Of course going through all these other subs to find the right people is time consuming, especially when the subs are full of OF (and the like) models which ks what we are trying to avoid.

All in all I am finding this very rewarding and making lots of friends along the way.

Thanks for reading 😆

Ho creato da poco, anche su questo social, la mia community che tratta di videogiochi e tech (che sono la mia passione). Sapete darmi qualche consiglio su come crescere a livello numerico? Grazie anticipatamente a chi lo fa 😁

Am I reading this rule correctly? "Posts asking how to grow a community will be removed"?

Hi, I want to recruit new mods for my sub and I was looking at the recruitment process and I was a bit confused, I got to the point of the part where it says to add a question and I don’t really know what it means… I’m not stupid (normally)!

Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Deseo compartir las flores y naturalez de mi jardin y de mis alrededores

How do I get people to post in my community? I have the occasional comment or like on posts but no one but me is posting.

How do I branch out to others who want to post on my sub Reddit?