131–140 of 154 posts
My colleague posted a socially awkward penguin meme ridiculing his failure as a mobile game developer. The post itself was funny and relatable, but didn't have any self-promotion. People asked about the game in the comments and he got his biggest download day as a result.
Isn't this problematic due to the 1:10 self-promotion rule on reddit? "For every 1 time you post self-promotional content, 9 other posts (submissions or comments) should not contain self-promotional content."
The rule only Applies to small businesses. Big companies buy accounts that have been used for years.
Getting Reddit hobbyists onboard is a kind of trial by fire. I have seen this work many times for YT channels on cooking, comedy and car subreddits, but make one mistake and they will eat you alive. The likes of RCR, Babish, Kenji, Gus Johnson,etc. only got popular because their offerings were incredibly high quality. Additionally they all brought something fresh to a relative stale scene. Additionally, if you come o…
Kenji as in J Kenji López the chef? Did he not get popular LONG before reddit as an author and consultant in the culinary world in general ?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think people are cool with self promotion if you do it in a tasteful manner. They may not even think of it as self promotion. People resent stuff like: "Special offer just today buy 2 pens and get 11% off!!" But they do like stuff like: "How we designed the Fountilator"
It doesn't even have to be tasteful, just a generic feel-good story, some giveaway, or if you're already famous just post on /r/IamA. > /r/Subreddit helped me achieve my life long dream of [...]. > You guys helped me in my though times and I am giving away [...] in return. > My name is [Famous Celebrity] and you should buy my new [...]. Btw, I might answer some generic questions. Alternatively, you can buy upvotes, c…
If everything/everyone adopted a no-self-promotion policy no product could get any popularity. I think the rule is often instated for reasons really involving low-quality content and spam (but with more exterior objectivity), but it hurts the already-disadvantaged in the process. The only good thing that may come from it is having to focus on features and benefits of the product more since you can't just dump the link to the product, but again already-famous people/companies don't have to deal with that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm the sole active moderator of r/electricvehicles, and you wouldn't believe the amount of self-promotion spam that I have to deal with on that sub. It's gotten to the point that I've written a custom Python app to use the Reddit API to pull all of the analytics on any new post and present it to me in a digested form: How old is the account? How much organic-looking activity has the user done across other subreddits…
Many years ago I got banned by a moderator on a sub for answering someone's question. I did have a product but didn't pitch it directly except in paid ads on the sub. My username was the website. I emailed the mod for clarification as to what line I crossed because it seemed arbitrary. She never replied. So be careful with your metrics. What happened to me was definitely not cool. And, I quit my paid advertising ther…
So every post you made WAS an ad.
> I quit my paid advertising there to boot
Note that operator of subreddid and moderators receives no benefit whatsoever from that.
The article can be summarised to: "Use the subreddit where your target audience hangs out" Nothing wrong with the advice, but most subreddits have a no self-promotion policy (and reddit has a "no promotion over 10% of account activity" policy). There are things like self promotion threads but its only visited by people looking to promote their products and not by other people. Users who don't cease the promotion on b…
I'm the sole active moderator of r/electricvehicles, and you wouldn't believe the amount of self-promotion spam that I have to deal with on that sub. It's gotten to the point that I've written a custom Python app to use the Reddit API to pull all of the analytics on any new post and present it to me in a digested form: How old is the account? How much organic-looking activity has the user done across other subreddits…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
r/mtb eh? My experience with forums is from running 300 cycling forums :) None of them mountain biking though.
Which 300?
I used to run phpBB, then vBulletin, then Vanilla, before finally working with others to write our own. I always ended up running a few forums from the hosting/technical perspective, and then ending up admin/moderator on them... I wanted a way to host many forums multi-tenant in a dirt cheap way, with simpler tooling, a better UX, and with things like events built-in (not in a separate and bad calendar).
As I knew cycling the thing I did was reach out to cycle clubs and groups and just say "I have this thing, if you want to use it you can". I stopped promoting it when I got to 10 forums, but still get a new one apply every month or so. They take a long time to grow, but nearly all of them do grow because they're led by people who really care, and I give basic advice on how to make communities work.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I lurked for weeks, did not try to sell anything and definitely learned how the community typically communicated before I made my first comment. Reddit is definitely not Hacker News which can be harsh but mostly fair.
Lurking for weeks is not being part of community.
Roughly 10 years ago I had a startup idea and had the thought to reach out to "enthusiasts" within the market niche on Reddit and elsewhere. My requests for feedback were met with extreme cynicism, criticism and just outright rudeness. Maybe 5% of the responses were constructive.\ My takeaways: Asking users what they want isn't always useful. Enthusiasts communities can be very negative to new ideas or members.
Some subreddits are super hard yes (like /r/roastmystartup), but that doesn't mean that all of them are! In fact, I've been roasted in a few subs and get some really good feedback from others. If you want to validate an idea, just get as much feedback as possible. The negative ones are the better most of the time. You learn a lot from them!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't even have to be tasteful, just a generic feel-good story, some giveaway, or if you're already famous just post on /r/IamA. > /r/Subreddit helped me achieve my life long dream of [...]. > You guys helped me in my though times and I am giving away [...] in return. > My name is [Famous Celebrity] and you should buy my new [...]. Btw, I might answer some generic questions. Alternatively, you can buy upvotes, c…
I strongly believe "if you're already famous" part is the most disgusting part of self-promotion policies (in general, not with these examples), because popular creators get at least 10+ people that will post their content as a link for karma, and then people starting out get none of that benefit, and starting out is the most difficult phase. If everything/everyone adopted a no-self-promotion policy no product could…
I started reddit a year ago, I now have 3k karma and didn't notice any difference...