We need more incentives for curating/posting content
I'm not proposing any specific idea, just wondering what others think. For an example, as of writing, has 49 posts. My comm, has 35. In no sane world should a single team's submission activity be close to the league community's activity.
I mean, I am doing my best to curate content and spread it around. I could do more, but I don't.
It can't be just me, , and doing most of the curation. I can only speak for myself here: I am not trying to be first or be MBM. If anything, I fear becoming that. Are there any ideas to get people more involved? Are you worried if you make a post in say and then see it's been duplicated in a different community? Do we as a community of users believe that cross-posting is okay? Do we feel like the warnings are discouraging that? Do we think it's bad etiquette?
I'm just trying to get a conversation started. I'd like to see submissions in default communities regularly break 100+ diggs and 20+ comments. What would/could incentivise you to submit more content?
totally agree with here, If you're a user who wants to stimulate engagement and conversation, I would consider it acting in good faith to gently cross post or share what you're working on more broadly.
If I were to see something that looks a little spammy, I would check out your user profile and pretty quickly understand that you're a real person who perhaps has some angle occasionally but is also involved and contributing. That's a far cry from seo_optimizer_room101 whose website is prominently posted as seooptimizerroom101.com and who only posts and comments about their new and revolutionary seooptimizerroom101 strategy deck (sign up now because it's only available for a very limited time). You're not doing that, and so I don't go full "block user" on you :)
Imagine if you walked into a party or a bar or a BBQ and you met someone who only talked about one topic or who only was negative, about everything, all the time, forever. I don't know about you, but I have a "real life" technique for "Block User" called, "excuse me, I really need to go to the bathroom".
As for me, I'm trying to call out people who I think are doing good work via my homemade diggdaily recordings at About once a week I post to , and occasionally I reference it elsewhere (as I'm doing here, yes this is getting meta). If you read through site also has some great recommendations for how you can improve your pages and improve readabiltiy/discoverability.
I think calling out the good and interesting people and work you've met and read is also helpful- there are a lot of people who want to do the same thing, so why not help them? It's like a virtual "hey, you should talk to....", speaking of that...
Take a breath, I'm going deep here... "Bridgers and Bonders"...
In social capital theory, there's a guy called Robert Putnam who talks about "Bridgers" vs "Bonders". Bonders cement homogeneous groups (like digg's communities), while Bridgers connect diverse groups through weak ties (crossposting, tagging, referencing). Weak ties and what I think are called "minimal social interactions" are studied by Gillian Sandstrom. You can think of Bridgers and minimal social interactions as the barrista in a coffee shop. They have short conversations with many people but then serve to connect people with- "hey, you should talk to...".
So in short, if you're passionate about creating community consider being both a builder of your own community, and a bridger between other communities. No shame in that :)
if you've read this far and are interested in the research/academic side, you might also want to read about social penetration theory work done by Itwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor in the 60's for the US Navy I believe.
