I have read from Seth Godin's book *Tribes* that creating a community is about setting the right conditions and taking the leadership to stand and say out loud here we do these things.
At least that is what I recall from half-reading his book.
In February this year, we started the idea of creating an online community with the user in our Discord space. In the beginning of time, I was very pessimistic, thinking, why would someone want to spend time answering other's people's questions. Now, I think it was mainly my own view of the world.
I do sometimes want to help and answer other's people's questions but some other times I feel so overwhelmed by the input that I cannot think of a time I would spend answering somebody's else question.
We have been thinking quite a bit about what draws engagement from the users in a commonplace of ours. The online community is in an early stage no doubt. I read in feverbee that at this early stage I have to be the one that pokes folks to participate. In other words, if I disappear the rate at which the community is working would decrease. At some point, there is hope that it will grow into a creature of itself.
I belong to other communities. Even in REPU there are people at the helm still creating the space and holding the flag that shows to everyone if you are in for this journey you are welcomed. A creature by itself sounds now contradictory, will there always be people at the helm?