The thank you comment rule has been removed, so feel free to post all you want without worrying about spending time mentioning everyone in the screenshot!

Hello everyone!

I’ve been on this sub since is started. I think it’s even fair to say I’m one of the users who has posted the most on this sub. And when this sub started, it was great! There was a nice amount of content slowly flowing in. But that slowly trickled down to the state it’s in now. I made the last actual post around two months ago.

Which brings me to my next few points. I think there are two main reasons for the death of this sub:

• Firstly, I think any sub based off of another is bound to be a bit slow. But that’s fine, and those subs exist.

• Secondly, I think a lot of it stems from trying to moderate a newly formed community.

I don’t mean that with any disrespect to u/LetsStartFlame or any of the moderators. I think they only did what seemed like the right thing to do. And if this were a larger subreddit, I think what they did would have worked. But the fact is we don’t even have 500 members. And when a sub is that small, it’s important to encourage growth wherever we can.

I think that this sub can be fixed pretty easily with just a few tweaks.

1. I think Rule 1 has to go. I understand it was put it to draw new users to the sub, but it makes posting a hassle, and severely limits the number of people who are gonna post here.

2. I think the sub needs an influx of content. Even if it’s reposts or from the top of all time of AskOuija. I’ll personally do my best to search out content for here.

3. I think growth needs to come naturally, rather than being forced. If we respond to AskOuija with our subreddit, people will come and subscribe if they think it’s interesting. Tagging people in comments isn’t going to bring long term members.

I hope you see this, u/LetsStartFlame. I think this sub can be a really great one if we let it grow and bloom into it’s full potential naturally.

And to anyone else who’s seeing this on their feed and thinking “What the hell is r/surrealaskouija, and who does this guy think he is?”, thanks for reading this far and giving me a chance to share my thoughts.

Thanks for reading,

u/PhoenixLord01