I was away a long time, maybe 4 or 6 months, not sure.
One thing that without any doubt, is now important and could be pathbreaking:
Its obvious to everybody, an expected consequence and generally positive development: our community grows and
has evolved from a small group of hardcore supporters and idealists, to a medium-sized project with its own eco-system & active community,- that with its track record and presence in the crypto currency scene - interesting and worth to follow for the the general public.
And beside this organic (and once again welcomed) growth, the price increase multiplied the effect. A lot of new people show up in our community.
This leeds to a big challenge: We need a concept and ideas, to integrate and manage these new people joining our project now. (because: of the current price uptrend (& possible investment chances) or our good public image)
We get a big problem, if we don't face and manage this situation.
These people need something useful to do or at least some written community guide lines, how to communicate & participate and what behaviour is not tolerated.
We get a big problem, when 90% of our communication on all channels will be like:
"When will Monero be 100$?", "Can I be a billionaire with Monero next week?", "Why only 3% price increase last week?", "Please buy my stupid domain names.", "I am only involved because of my personal greed and don't care about the project and the community"?, "I am so cool, I painted all the pictures in Mr. Moneros first powerpoint presentation."
We need to educate them, so they can integrate in the (older) core-community (that build the project) and so they will learn the culture and basics of the project/community, so they understand what to do and what not to do and how they can really support the project.
[Related aspect: If they receive no tasks or ideas to help the project, they feel worthless and unwanted after some time, if they cant a help in a project they would like to support. So there personal involvement declines, they find no friends or don't build a network of (business/tech) contacts, if they have no deeper point of contact with active community. If this happens - and it happened in many other projects - once a new community members willing to support, learn and full of energy and motivation loose interest in the project and won't support the project.]
If they wont be integrated, they have nothing to do, besides price-related postings, complaints, off-topic postings and self-portrayal for ego reasons, maybe personal conflicts (against the boredom) or setting up disputable projects, that harm the project.
We get a bad atmosphere & vibe in the community and bad image outside.
The better and stronger a community is (in terms of activity, quality, involvement, good vibe and constructive interaction) the more successful the project, it evolves around, will be. That's a proven fact and the reason this is (from my POV) really important.
Rest of the project still looks great, esp. the consistency in leadership and public faces of the community, the general development and positive, nice atmosphere. Thank you to everybody. Keep up the good work.
I can understand your concern. You don't get it that way by telling people what to do. You lead by example. If enough of the main-contributors to community building/development have the above approach that's the best way - and why it's done so well so far. It's also cool that most people involved are genuinely interested in the project for differing reasons not only relating to 'make like a bandit'. But I'm all ears too.
