Community Management: What to Automate and What to Never Automate

Kumakshi Verma 3 min readJune 6, 2024

Automate: triage and first response

Bots route incoming DMs to the right queue and send first-response acknowledgments. Humans handle actual replies.

Pinned auto-replies for shipping questions, pricing, and common product asks. Frees the community manager for real conversation.

Angry customer messages need human response within an hour. An auto-reply makes a bad situation worse.

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