Reinvigorating the r/ZEC subreddit

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Reddit’s still a huge platform for cybercoin communities, and r/ZEC has over 16k subscribers.

But few seem to actively post on it. When I do, I usually get a good response, but not having an active userbase means that misinfo often spreads and trolls seep in. And big news that we share all over Twitter may never get a mention on r/ZEC.

Believe it or not, not everyone’s on cryptotwitter, or these fora for that matter! 16k potential eyeballs is a lot to lose out on.

I’d like to encourage everyone here to get a little more active on r/ZEC and share the news there that excites you on Twitter or these fora. Signup takes 9 seconds and doesn’t require an email address (just click ‘Next’ when prompted for an address – it’s a dark pattern.)

Apart from my encouragement, is there something else we can do to develop a more active presence on Reddit?

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I am not a redditor, I don’t use it at all, but I am happy to join in the zec subreddit - maybe we can somehow bridge the forum/reddit gap.

Feel free to PM me with ideas if you think I can help.

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@ChileBob mentioned that there is an API that we could potentially cross post from Reddit to the forums and vis versa. But the owner of that Reddit (netshrek) has a lot fewer rules than this forums code of conduct so I’m sure they would mesh well together.

Personally I think Reddit should be Reddit and the forums should be the forums, both fostering different types of communication. Reddit being more of a wild-west whereas the forums are more long-form thoughtful/technical discussion.

However if the community feels that it’s worth doing I can look into how to make it happen.

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I agree! For starters, I think getting the weekly forum updates on the thread is a good way to go. When I remember to, I put it on reddit.

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I agree with you that they ought to stay separate, though setting up a bot to automatically post the ECC’s and ZFND’s RSS feeds could be helpful.

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A good point was made on Twitter that r/Zcash currently links only to these forums, not directing anyone to r/ZEC instead.

But redditors are on Reddit because they want to participate there, not yet another forum that requires signup.

@zooko, would you consider updating the text on r/Zcash to something like:

The Zcash community has moved. Join us on the Zcash Community Forum or here on r/ZEC!

Thanks. :slight_smile:

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I was thinking of this as a one-way thing - forum posts going to Reddit but not in reverse.

We’re all well behaved, nice to each other and polite, but reddit is errmm…struggling to find an appropriate adjective… not?

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Great idea. Also there is a ZEC community on HIVE and I just joined it. Didn’t realize someone had already claimed it!..was going to create one. If yall post over there will show my support! I have a decent chunk of Hive Power and have started to curate the Twitch community. Plan is to also curate Zcash posts with it now as well.

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Leave a private key on reddit to a memo holding further instructions and a little Zcash.

Lot of “propaganda” games can be played… especially building off of @ChileBob’s Gateway XYZ…

All while educating redditors on, say, how to use a private key to recover money and memos

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