# How to inspire visitors to make the first post?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-inspire-visitors-to-make-the-first-post/112336
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-inspire-visitors-to-make-the-first-post/112336 "2019-03-22T15:06:44Z")
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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-inspire-visitors-to-make-the-first-post/112336/2 "2019-03-22T15:24:40Z")

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What benefit is there to your users in using your community? Have you created starter topics to encourage participation?

Starting communities is rarely a case of “if you build it, they will come”, you need to give people a genuine incentive to post or reply. It’s a lot of work and requires constant nurturing in the early weeks and months.

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