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What is this community for exactly?
(lemmynsfw.com)
A community to post about photography:
We allow a wide range of topics here including; your own images, technical questions, gear talk, photography blogs etc. Please be respectful and don't spam.
I guess it should be for photography more serious than "i took a picture" but I'm not gatekeeping content right now, let's just share images and build a community. Posts about photography, including photography blogs are welcome as long as you don't spam. I'm open to community suggestions.
I think that's a wise approach, it's too early with people adopting new platforms. I do like @Melon 's idea of suggesting photo-only posts come with some context, or insight into the post. Especially if folks happen to be sharing other work that isn't their own, but that's another topic altogether. I doubt we'll hit spam levels of posts soon, but it would at least guide the community in some regard.
I think a lot of communities start out as a single group for a wide range of content related to a topic like photography, including gear talk, photos, industry news, howtos, etc.... When they get to a certain size, discussions start getting lost in the flood of content and it makes sense to fork more specialized sub-communities.
Forking too early leads to a bunch of dead communities with a handful of posts.