Hello runners!

/r/RunNYC has grown a ton in the last year! We've doubled since last January, adding 6.7k runners in 12 months. Last year we were averaging 2-3 posts per day, and today it's closer to 10. This past November, over 93,000 unique users visited our sub around the marathon.

As the sub has grown, our normal, albeit laissez-faire, moderation style has become clearly less effective. I added Automod a few months ago to help - it's caught several dozen bib buying posts, helped round up the 9 1 onslaught we get at the beginning of the year, and I'm experimenting with a weekly "conditions" post (pinned to the sub, we'll see how effective it ends up being), but those aren't the only changes this sub needs to help with the growing pains.

There are other changes I'd like to make in the near future - instead of stickying generic FAQs we could benefit from a Wiki. Post flairs have been added and sidebar filters for them would be nice. More community based threads on how races went, or flagship race megathreads as we get near them. Hell, the stupid image on old.reddit.com/r/runnyc is like 4 years old.

To help make changes and keep the community healthy I'm looking to add two moderators. Reddit admins removed our inactive mods -- it's been mostly me for two or three years now anyway -- but I've heard the general complaints about lack of moderation where it's needed. I do not disagree! If you're interested in helping out, I've created an application form. For "qualifications" you should live in the NYC area, have been an active participant in this community for at least 6 months, and obviously, you should be a runner. I'll keep the application open until Jan 28.

For everyone else not interested in moderation, what else do you want to see from our subreddit? What do you think our community does well? What would you like more of?

Thank you all for building this community of runners, providing training advice and race reports, and being a really supportive group of people. When posts about race shirt designs make it to the top of the sub, you can tell we have a group of extremely passionate runners here.

- /u/blood_bender