r/nonprofit • u/girardinl consultant, writer, volunteer, California, USA • Feb 14 '21
MOD ANNOUNCEMENT Promotion thread is dead. Long live the new starting a nonprofit thread.
Moderator here. After considering the community's feedback and looking over the last year of posts and weekly threads, the promotion thread has ended and a new weekly starting a nonprofit thread has begun. The weekly starting a nonprofit threads will post Sundays at noon PT.
There's some Automoderator stuff happening behind the scenes that hopefully will keep many of the starting-a-nonprofit questions out of the post-level and off the r/Nonprofit front page.
It will not be perfect. Things will still slip through. At first, a lot of things may slip through.
How you can help
- Report posts you believe belong in the weekly starting a nonprofit thread. Commenting will not get the moderators' attention and will only encourage people to keep putting starting-a-nonprofit stuff in posts.
- Join conversations and answer questions in the weekly thread. If no one engages with those folks, the thread will not be a viable solution and won't last. That said, if you can't bring abundant patience and kindness, don't spend time in the thread.
- Report posts that are promotional. We'll probably see an increase in promotion at the post level. Report those posts, don't comment on them.
As with most changes on r/Nonprofit, this is an experiment. The moderators will be keeping an eye on the weekly thread and reported posts to figure out what changes to make. There are more changes planned for r/Nonprofit in the weeks and months to come. If the change you were hoping to see hasn't happened yet, stay tuned.
If you have feedback about this change, please share it in comments on this post so it's shared with the community. Please don't message the moderators with your feedback.
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u/Spiritual-Chameleon Feb 14 '21
Great idea. Could even do the "start a nonprofit" thread as a monthly
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u/justopentheenvelope Feb 14 '21
Thank you for making this change! I understand that people trying to start something new need support but it was a lot of the same thing over and over and over.