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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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That's not really what OP is suggesting we do. They're not suggesting that posts should be upvoted for visibility, but that communities should be posted to for discoverability. The former would only be a transient bump in the stats, but the growth that comes from the latter, that being subscribers and new contributors, is not. Every sub, every new poster, will engage because they want to. The point isn't to "fake" activity with a lot of posts, the point is to be found by real, but simply more casual, users.
A community can live by one avid poster, or ten less active ones. But to get the latter, you need a jumpstart by the former.