I guess it depends on the subscribers? Most of the time people just subscribe to communities because they want that kind of content. Look at stuff like the HistoryMemes community. It’s got hundreds of subscribers based on the amount of upvotes posts get, but the only realy person contributing is PugJesus.
There are more contributions now than there used to be, but if no one has posted in a day, I try to make a post.
… I still post most days.
It takes a large userbase. I remember on The Old Place a community might need 2 or 3 thousand subscribers before it became truly self-sustaining. The more esoteric and obscure the knowledge or material needed to post, the more subscribers you need - meme communities can hit it at 2-3 thousand, while others, like history communities, can reach 5k and still be reliant on a small number of contributors.
I guess it depends on the subscribers? Most of the time people just subscribe to communities because they want that kind of content. Look at stuff like the HistoryMemes community. It’s got hundreds of subscribers based on the amount of upvotes posts get, but the only realy person contributing is PugJesus.
There are more contributions now than there used to be, but if no one has posted in a day, I try to make a post.
… I still post most days.
It takes a large userbase. I remember on The Old Place a community might need 2 or 3 thousand subscribers before it became truly self-sustaining. The more esoteric and obscure the knowledge or material needed to post, the more subscribers you need - meme communities can hit it at 2-3 thousand, while others, like history communities, can reach 5k and still be reliant on a small number of contributors.