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Has Anybody Created a Discord Community?
What instruments have you used to gain your first 500 Discord members?
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I created one recently for my community but have no idea how it works yet. I still gotta figure it all out, so I am interested in this post.
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I think this is an great question. I would also be interested to know more about this. I haven’t had many touchpoints with discord yet. Have you already created a Discord Community? How is it going? How many members have you currently got?
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I created one a while ago for my gaming page and so far it’s averaging about 65/70 members. Been that way for a while though. I’d love to know some more tips for growth if anyone has some! Also, something that bugs me is having a number of members in there but only about 7 or 8 active chatters.
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It really depends on what you’re offering. For example an NFT project is quite easy to grow their community, especially with giveaways and stuff like that. So if you’d like to grow your community, why not organize an invite contest or something like that? Make sure you post that on socials (Twitter, IG, YT) .
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Yes, and it went poorly so I’d like to share about Internet stranger danger.
I wanted to create a writing critique group and didn’t have anywhere to post invites other than other writing groups and figured I could weed out any problematic characters if they arose.
I did not think about the fact that I had invited through my main social media account, which I had invested a lot of time and energy into.
It went wrong and one person began making the place hostile to me and several others so I offered them one chance to change their behavior, remove themselves, or be kicked.
They threw a massive pity party and then removed themselves.
Less than one day later I received countless comments on so many of my unrelated threads attacking me, my writing, my viewpoints, my methods, my goals, my person, etc.
I felt miserable, but most of all because these messages came from not only three separate accounts and lasted roughly a week before I managed to block and report them all (and I can’t confirm if any of them were the original person I had to kick because discord and Reddit names don’t match) but I had given so much personal information about my story and methods to this group (as we all had) that the harassment just felt like a huge betrayal and violation.
I haven’t been back to the discord server since after nearly a year, although I can tell it’s thankful still active and being useful to those still in it. But if I ever try something like that again, I now know I can’t risk fearing having to delete my own social media I’ve worked so hard for to stop the harassment that can happen when things go horribly wrong. All I did was set a fair boundary as an admin and that was too much for one person to abide by.
I would, in the future, start slow with a throwaway account. Stay safe, everyone.
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Yes, we have a community Discord. If anyone is interested in metrics, happy to share.
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It is something I have been looking at. My main issues is how to measure conversation and sentiment within the server, as well as moderation (since it would be more professional in nature). I have looked for Discord social tools but have not found anything. I have been wondering though if maybe there are any discord bots that could do some social analysis.
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I just share the link to the server elsewhere on social media where relevant people hang out and built it up from there… Oh, and also list the server on the various server directories that are around – users still somehow manage to find it and join it anyway.
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