Can anyone clarify what this community is for? The only post here suggests it’s to replace the auslaw subreddit, which is mostly lawyers shit-talking about the legal profession and a lot of fun. However it’s got the same name as the auslegal subreddit, which is a train wreck of non-lawyers asking other non-lawyers legal questions and getting terrible hot takes and badly Googled answers in reply.
I think this comes down to how we use the !australia!australia@aussie.zone community. At the moment it seems to be flooded with news - is that a good thing or a bad thing?
We have a !news!news@aussie.zone community for news but no-one uses it - is it time to shift the conversation of news content over there? With less news content and just discussion content we could people might be more interested in sharing their opinions or asking for advice instead of going to one of these smaller communities where they probably won’t receive much interaction.
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Certainly, news content has been very important here and most discussions here are prompted by news stories. So on the one hand moving most news content to c/news might strip the Australia community of much interaction, but on the other hand since these are still relatively early days, it might be easier to do it sooner rather than later.
But as you said, since their aren’t many people on here posting original content, opinions or questions I would say that opinion pieces or seeking discussion of larger issues would be welcome in the Australia community. For example:
Would all be on-topic for c/australia. But:
would be more on-topic in c/news and/or Australian Politics.
I brought up political content in c/australia in a comment on this post, however the OP was concerned that if we split off into niches the community might not grow as well. I’m thinking of doing a sticky post to invite discussion over there on this topic and perhaps follow it up with a poll to see where everyone else sits.
EDIT: probably should have previewed the formatting first
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Actually looks like a couple:
In both cases discussions are more likely to be focused on the political aspect, however would be of interest to both communities. A solution would be to have it posted to politics, cross-posted to environment and locked with link to politics post. Since you can still upvote/downvote locked posts, it wouldn’t get lost.
To get around these problems there would have to be some ordering like: politics > environment > australia > news. But it would have to become simple and obvious enough that there is very little moderation work.
That’s what I think, though it is preferred if the OP can crosspost it so they get the interaction (replies).
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I respect the hustle sir/mam/per.
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