Is having a lot of posts in a community preferable to asking that people expand on their posts a bit more or put more effort then simply adding a title. For some reason i keep asking myself this when looking at certain communities with seemingly only one poster (on a completely separate and totally unrelated topic I’m going to go shred some dairy products)
Quality over quantity
Yesh
I try not to engage with posts that are just links or pictures. When I came to the fediverse I sorta raised my standards and I expect interaction. That includes people saying why they felt the need to post something. Like its something they are very interested in or found funny or whatever. That being said I break my rule about it to often. I want internet interactions to be much more in person and I often compare the dropping a link to a friend shoving a magazine in my face (which I mean could happen usually when they were like at the stage of excitement where they can’t even talk or are talking concurrently) as opposed to be like. Oh you know I read this article and it was really neat and such and such. I have it over hear would you like to read it?
You have a pretty low count of posts and comments and you’ve been here 2 months, best to focus on providing value and asking non-meta actually interesting stuff.
Its super easy to not do what you’ve described and fallen into: post something interesting each day or at least comment something insightful, empathetic, funny, or something of genuine engagement and dont worry about “quality”, often just being a decent, normal, human is resonant and engaging enough
Also, you can literally always do what you mentioned (asking to expand or flesh out more slight content) in a curious, non-judgmental way and people will be crazy to go that extra mile for you or even way more miles than either of you initially bargained for. Try it, its fun. It happens constantly and in the same way almost every time for me. But please do lay off the “tOo MuCh SpAm/CoNtEnT” curator thing tho, nobody has the right to make these kinds of value judgments particularly when the Fedi is still so nascent and its almost always lurkers who finally explode
Nobody should be trying to limit the scope or define people’s “quality” or “value” in that way
It was a tongue in cheek remark. I’m not trying to moderate/police anything. Check my wording I just asked what people prefer. You can actually take this post and frame it to any community. The last comment was a playful way of making it a bit relevant to this subreddit too. I thought by your posts and comments you wouldn’t take this too seriously as your posts and comments didn’t seem too serious. I’m sorry if this hurt or upset you in some way. I also didn’t say “tOo MuCh SpAm/CoNtEnT”. Please give it a reread. I only really asked “quantity or quality”
Genuinely, how are you qualified to talk about either, tho? Do you have a dial that you can toggle your abillity to optimize for quality or quantity and you need to know the exact setting beforehand or you’ll explode?
How am i qualified to ask “Quality vs Quantity”? of posts to a community? I wasn’t aware I needed qualifications to ask (Never mind the literal title of this community 😀 ). as to how do I “toggle” between the two i would assume it is community dependant but simply posting a link or throwing out a title and giving no background or not expanding in the post to post more might be optimizing for quantity vs the opposite of expanding on the topic/link in the post might be quality.
and you need to know the exact setting beforehand or you’ll explode?
I’m not nearly as emotionally tied to this as you seem to be insinuating. It was an ask on preferences but once again depending on the community context or “setting” could be important if there is an expected response (say an answer to a place you pose questions, or a review of a product if there was something wrong with it, etc.)
I’ll repeat again that I’m sorry if this hurt or upset you in some way. It was not my intention to cause any strife with this post.
Its something people genuinely shouldnt worry about, how about just post normal stuff and engage with your responders and have some fun? No defensiveness or meta treatises needed
Lets start…now
this is actually an answer i can see as an option. might be hard for me to not analyze posts as quality vs quantity but maybe not all people do.
There you go, thats the spirit!
Im not donvoting this btw. But yeah, if i’m being a bit more sassy its like a baby asking if they should focus on thw quality or quantity of attempted first steps towards learning to walk.
Its like, dont even worry about it, just do what you can and if you’re genuine + with some gentle guidance, you will be fine. It can be scary sometimes in a banal way but worst case scenario you can just delete it (a post or unfortunate comment, thread) and never address it again haha. I
I have shitty ideas or questions or takes all the time but they often lead to better or more interesring twists and turns and addressing genuinely random and variably interesting shit that would have never surfaced if I didnt go along with that particular day’s or moments inquiries. Often a single unusual word that came out of me in the text can spur an entire extended new line of questions or experiments so you never really know what you can uncover
Its oddly helpful to consider posts and replies as experiments where you get to try out different ideas and positions and dynamics and see how that resonates with different Lemmings and communication styles. You learn when to be playful, serious, how to really dig into something that elicits your curiousity or incredulity, etc. Its been fantastic, I love being able to reasonably crowd-source ideas and discussions like that
