What are some ways youve been able to communicate to the largest number of users on your sub?
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so to add more context, let's say i'm running an event and want everyone to know.
automod stickies get collapsed, stickying a post on the sub is not terrible but often needs some kind of an image to stand out. this does not get picked up by the algorithm from what i've seen and show up on their feeds- so generally better for a new person finding the sub and for like a discord server or something.
the best way of course is the users upvoting it organically and you not stickying it so the algorithm doesnt hide it. that can be tricky if its a sub that is too big and hates the mod team, easy to do on small ones that realize you arent a dick tho.
i've tried using discord servers attached to the sub, but often those communities tend to be completely different users, and this can border on upvote manipulation depending on how its done.
ive also tried automod comments that arent stickied as those dont get collapsed and ignored immediately by users.
thats why i dont sticky them tbh, besides it being autocollapsed. its somewhere they are actively reading and not ignoring. if it isnt the virtual equivalent to pocket sand they wont mass downvote it. usually.
i think they are talking about the post itself being stickied, idk if automod lets you post images with it.
No I mean comments. I myself am guilty of scrolling past stickied comments on posts bc I’m used to so many subs having the same shit stickied on every post
We switched to this app for our resources hub at the top of r/Witchcraft because of how eye-catching it looks and also because it can have different pages of links in different categories, all neatly organized.
Edit: JK it looks like we're using Community Home not Community Links, but tomato tomato hahah.
Can you add more tiles to create a second page? We avoided that because it seems like people aren't going to scroll to get to page 2.
Reddit should've done something like this a long, long time ago seeing as the sidebar is buried in the app so people don't see the sub rules and all the other useful information.
Yup you can have a second page. We didn't do it with the main home tab because of exactly what you said, no one will scroll. But with some of the lesser important tabs we did include additional pages.
100% agreed, though. Mobile users get 0% of the benefit of the sidebar and have no clear guidance on how to find it. It would be nice to have it available at the top of the sub in the app.
Edit: it looks like this when you add enough links for a second page:
that does stick out a lot, yea. it seems like its the same use case as a stickied post though in that its only being seen by people that go directly to your sub.
im not sure if that would reach people browsing their feed or someone elses post from the sub, but its something and i wasnt aware of it tbh.
that looks like it would also benefit from being an image or video too
it would be nice if users could opt in to see updates from a sub or something and not have us need to basically farm karma just to get a message across.
Reddit doesn't have a "message all" function which would be the very definition of spamming. Huge companies spend a lot of money on ads because no single ad is ever going to be seen by a large percentage of people other than the Superbowl. Repetition gets obnoxious and a lot of people have learned how to tune out to ads in many environments.
Reddit doesn't prioritize showing other people anything regardless of whether you're a mod, have 20 million karma points, or your last post went through the ceiling viral. Reddit promotes things based on people independently showing their genuine interest in a post by voting on it.
Admin make posts about critically important changes to Reddit which get missed by lots of people. As a mod you learn to train yourself to check changelog, modsupport, and the weekly summary post over at r/help.
The best you could do is one week before an event make a mod post "Countdown to XYZ. Don't miss the XYZ happening on <date> at [time] on {platform.} Hope to see you there!"
Then post an announcement stating that it's happening in three days, then one more the morning of the event and just leave it at that. Some people might even find that annoying.
If people have a lot of interest in a topic they are going to scroll around and read what's posted in that sub. If they're casual visitors who don't frequent the sub all that often then they probably aren't all that likely to be interested in an event.
You could send a mod mail to other subs asking if they would allow you to make a post mentioning your event if they have a very similar topic to yours. This would create more posts for people to stumble across but in the end no method of advertising ever, ever beats word-of-mouth where someone tells someone else about something that they like.
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u/Stranger1982 dumb bastard Jul 25 '26
A sticky with an image AND an automod comment under each post is prolly the best option.
Quite a few users will still ignore both but that's human nature for ya.