Reply To: The Evolution Begins: Why LinkedMusicians 2.0 is the Future + THE LATEST UPDATES

[swijaya]

On LinkedMusicians said

Yesterday I took the same post I made in our subreddit and reposted it to r/nativeinstruments. While the original post in our subreddit only had a single comment and one up vote in two days, within a half hour, the repost in NI’s subreddit had 11 comments. Before anyone sees that and thinks to themselves — “wow, that’s depressing” — consider this. That lack of reaction to the original post is very similar to what would happen if I posted that thread on LinkedMusicians — actually, I did post it here, and the response was non-existent. And if you delved into the site stats, you would see that A LOT of people viewed that thread here — but none of them commented. That is the reality of our situation, lots of visitors and extremely low interaction.

So why is it better to have that problem on our subreddit than this site? Because Reddit is one of the ten most popular sites on the web. Reddit users can search and join other communities of interest in a single click. Even more, our presence there means that I can repost r/LinkedMusicians post in other relevant communities where those posts will be of value and grow our community in a way that is not possible with a standalone social media platform like LinkedMusicians.com. Our subreddit gives us an incredible opportunity to reach and grow our community that is perfect for LinkedMusicians.

This gave me a new understanding on why you move, and with it, I can now give my 100% consent (not that you need it anyway).

I genuinely am not chatty (you won’t see me chat away on other places either), but I like to read what others (who most of the time are more experienced/informed) say about a particular deal/topic that interests me. And I can see that, many times, it’s not happening here. Especially for deals: it’s important for me to be able to read what others say about it, whether it’s a good enough deal, what practical uses it has, etc. And sometimes, not always but sometimes, the same deal posting elsewhere has people discussing it, which is more informative for me personally. Well, maybe those chatty (but knowledgeable) ones aren’t here yet.

 

So hopefully it would be more lively in the new place.

 

On LinkedMusicians said

The reason toxicity is profitable is that controversy interests people. That drives up activity and things like time spent on sites, increases page views, leads to more clicks, etc — all of which is how these businesses make money.

I concur!

 

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