Maria

Attention span of internet users is very small. That's why tiktok started growing and that's why Facebook, Instagram and Youtube had to start short video feature. You need to grab attention of your audience in 5-10 seconds, if you cannot do that your audience will leave and you will have a high bounce rate.

Not everyone will like your opinion, everyone is free to pick up sides and you need to understand not everyone can agree on the same thing. You can of course take sides but you need to be fully aware that people will oppose you and take other sides. If you are respectful to others, other people will also respect your opinion. It is really difficult to balance the controversial issues in a community

Creating topics on trends and latest events can obviously encourage people to participate. For instance, recently Iranian President died in a helicopter crash, if you open a topic on this, you might have a lot of user participation. However, you must also be aware that if you open topics on current event, you will end up having stale content pretty soon

One of the easiest ways to tackle extreme content is clearly mentioning in the guidelines what kind of content is allowed what is not allowed. Some topis can easily get extreme content, for instance political and religious debate, so if you avoid these topics, there is a less chance that you will get extreme content

It will grab immediate attention that's for sure. However, if the title is not good people might not click it. So your title still matters. I don't use emojis in the title but I don't mind when some does it.

If you have created boards for different categories, and divided categories into sub categories, it is easy to organize your content. You can ask your users to post on appropriate category. If they post on wrong category, you can move them to the right category.

I believe in the coming days community owners will start adding a clause on guidelines that strictly mention that use of AI in content generation will be strictly prohibited. They will also discourage people to use content rewritten through an AI tool

Perplexity is Good but I really doubt that it will outshine Google and Bing. Actually Google has Gemini and Bing as Copilot, I doubt that Perplexity has any chance to outgrow these Generative AI tools.

I see a lot of communities using shoutout box for light chit chat. Some communities also have forum games and general chat section where people talk about things that can lift their moods. I think it is nice to have a section for jokes and entertainment but just make sure your users do not end up using these sections more than your main forums.

Users in the communities come form different cultures and countries, the users come form different educational backgrounds and language. For a lot of users, the language used in the community might even be the second or even third language and not everyone can be very good with second or third language. Therefore, community managers should not only be aware about the linguist styles but also respect people even when they are using poor language

A community exist when people join together to create a platform for exploring certain topics or subject. A community thrives when a lot of users actively post. If you do not a culture of communication, if you do not have a culture of tolerance, if you do not have a culture of mutual trust, your community will not survive. A community is a place where people form different cultures and countries come together, therefore, respecting culture is very important.

The leaves, in fact the entire tree, depends on the roots. If the root system is good, leaves are healthy, and the entire plant is health. If the roots are not working perfectly, the leaves begin to show the signs of problems. They turn yellow or brown they wither, they fall. Therefore, as a community admin and community manager, you need to work hard on building healthy root system.

One of the major issues I have with users in my community as well as on most communities is that most of them pretend to be an expert. These people try to impart knowledge on almost all topics. It feels very bad to see when someone who has never owned a website starts giving advice on building website. I do not know why most users pretend to be someone they are not. I have trust issues with the users.

I do not see a need to anonymous login or anonymous posting in communities. You can always create a screen name and no one would ever know who you are.

When I was new to blogging, I had a content calendar, but as the blog gradually started receiving traffic, I stopped creating a content calendar and instead published whenever I wanted. When I created an online community, I created a content calendar but since community is basically a collective work and you cannot go on creating topic or replying to your own topic, it was not possible to stay withing the calendar.