We definitely don’t want the community to be overcome with memes and while we don’t want to disallow memes all together, we actively monitor the communities for proper content. We want these communities to be about actually discussing food/cooking and helping eachother out mostly but having fun and laughing is very much a part of enjoying food, IMO. So memes will be allowed, but if it gets out of hand, we will make sure to let everyone know and discuss where to go from there.
This is definitely the plan for sure. Whether we lock or leave open the niche communities, we don’t want them gone forever. This merge is just something we’re looking at to help encourage more posts and content in general, which hopefully will give people more reason to sub, and then once the userbase is enough to support, those niche communities can thrive. Locking those communities, if we go that route, is always meant to be temporary.
This is true, but what we’re seeing is lack of content which doesn’t entice people to sub and slows down growth. The idea is that if we can get more people posting and more content, more people will want to sub and then hopefully more people will post and we can get to a point where all the communities can serve their own niches and thrive.
We're thinking about merging some of the cooking/food communities, want to get your input
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