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A community to post about photography:

We allow a wide range of topics here including; your own images, technical questions, gear talk, photography blogs etc. Please be respectful and don't spam.

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What is this community for exactly? (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I guess I'm wondering if this community is intended to be about photography, as in the discussion of photography, or if it's going to be like r/itookapicture was on Reddit. I absolutely don't think that we need to replicate what they did on that other site, but those were two very different places with very different purposes. They're both valuable, but I think that they're valuable in different ways and it might be good to separate them from each other in some fashion.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

let's ask the moderator :
@[email protected]
... OP's question has no answer on the sidebar, should there be something ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why decide on a direction in the first place? I'd just let it run and see what the users make of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is the way!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess it should be for photography more serious than "i took a picture" but I'm not gatekeeping content right now, let's just share images and build a community. Posts about photography, including photography blogs are welcome as long as you don't spam. I'm open to community suggestions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think a lot of communities start out as a single group for a wide range of content related to a topic like photography, including gear talk, photos, industry news, howtos, etc.... When they get to a certain size, discussions start getting lost in the flood of content and it makes sense to fork more specialized sub-communities.

Forking too early leads to a bunch of dead communities with a handful of posts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think setting up walls at this point, like, “You can’t share pictures here— do that over at XYZ”, will only discourage people from joining the community. Maybe as activity picks up and more people want to have a stand-alone, “critique my photo” community, then they can do that.