User Engagement Do you find it difficult to encourage your community members to provide high-quality engagement?

[Shortie]

High-quality engagement is important as a community leader and owner. As many of us always say, content is Queen/King when it comes to a website of any kind.

With a forum, we not only rely on our own content but we also rely on the content from our community members too and sometimes, that content is not always as high-quality as you want it to be.

As a community leader, do you find it difficult to get your community members to post high-quality content? What methods do you choose to use to try and encourage higher-quality content?

 

[Nomad]

You see social media users have some sort of loyalty towards the platform they are active on. This is not evident on forums. Forums users never stay too long in the same community, they are not too active for a long time. Forum users hop from one site to other sites. This is why it is really difficulty to build engagements on forums.

 

[Tracy]

This is why it is really difficulty to build engagements on forums

I would beg to disagree. On a few niche forums I am active on there are users still there from 4-5 years ago posting regularly and decent content.
Again, it will depend on the niche involved and the participants interest in the niche. If they can make connections on a site, they will tend to stay there unless something major goes on that drives users away.
Heck, I run an astrophotography/astronomy site.. but I'm still fairly active on my another site in the same niche.

Now, if we are talking about general life discussion sites (generally referred to as chit-chat sites) then I can see that happening.

 

[Dismal_Bliss]

As a community leader, do you find it difficult to get your community members to post high-quality content?

Not really. My active members are there because they want to be there and want to contribute something of value. My inactive members are there just to read content that they can't see publicly.

My lowest quality content usually comes from bundles or exchanges with someone who really isn't interested in my niche(s), and it's especially bad when they use A.I. - it' sticks out like a sore thumb, lol

 

[Tracy]

and it's especially bad when they use A.I. - it' sticks out like a sore thumb, lol

Yeah, it's fairly easy to figure out posts/content that has used AI and did a cut/paste.
AI can be used successfully for content generation.
What you basically have to do is obtain the AI provided text, then go through and reword it in your way of "speaking" instead of the way an AI engine gives it to you. Frequently that will be changing up sentence structure and word content while keeping the "meat" of the information present. It's more work, and frequently you have pretty much re-written the entire content, but it's more "realistic human" than using the AI generated text itself. For many, it is more work than they want to do.