languajix

I'm thinking hard about what a TMNT community on Dreamwidth could look like. I've found a really helpful masterpost here that I've been reading through which has given me a lot to consider. Some of my main takeaways at the moment are that fostering an active community takes work, and requires frequent posts of a couple of certain varieties to grow engagement.

My biggest concern for a TMNT comm right now is that I don't have a guarantee of many, or any, people coming out of the woodwork to join - although it's absolutely possible, I can't bank on it. I don't want to flood a small number of people's reading pages with tons of posts that no one is replying to and that aren't relevant to their specific interests within the wider TMNT media sphere. Despite that, I do want to be clear that I understand that in the process of building momentum in a community, there may be periods where no one has time or interest in conversing and I might be talking to myself, and I'm *totally* okay with that - I won't take it personally and I don't want anyone to feel pressured to respond to everything.

I'm thinking of starting slow and building up steam over time. Here are some ideas I've had for potential regular, somewhat scheduled posts:

( Scheduled/Regular Post Ideas )



Beyond that, I have some ideas for potential one-off or yearly events given enough membership and interest, and an idea of what sort of posts I'd really like to prompt and encourage members to post, as a start.

( Ideas for events and kinds of posts that would be great to see on the comm )

I've been staring at this list for days now, so I'm putting it out in the world. I'd love to hear if I'm heading anywhere near the right direction towards making something engaging and fun or if I should change direction, or if there's anything I'm missing, or if I need to scale it all down...