Reddit is hard to engage for users; I'd love to hear your stories about helping users start using Reddit and especially joining your sub.

Yeah, I'm giving a talk about converting Lurkers into joining my (or your) subreddit.

Sure *I have some things I do*, some I've done more than once:

* A **new user flair** (and helping the community be gentle with them) * A new user prize (we do occasionally run contests) * Threads on popular topics, where we want to hear newer voices * A 'new to our community' thread

But *the hard part is we all have our own things we try*…and we're all volunteers as it were. **Learning from each other is why I'm posting.**

I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to hear your story either in this thread or via DM.

Or the lesson of *what doesn't work*