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Vridelian ([personal profile] vriddy) wrote in [community profile] getting_started2022-01-08 04:26 pm
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Community about running communities?

I'm meeting more and more people who are finding their way to Dreamwidth and enjoying the pace and atmosphere here better, and are also realising that if they want to see more activity related to their fandoms, they'll have to create the communities themselves.

And so I find myself wondering... Is there a community out there about how to run a dreamwidth community effectively? Where people share their experience and advice, best practices, and possibly support? With topics like how to write a code of conduct or a good profile page, keeping a community active, dealing with trolls, promoting a comm, encouragements...

I found a few posts under the communities tag helpful already, but the kind of questions I'm thinking of may have a broader scope than just getting started 🤔
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Yes ...

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2022-03-28 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
I agree that a post on starting and maintaining Dreamwidth communities would be valuable. I haven't seen one on that topic. I'd be interested in participating if there was one, since I've got two communities -- [community profile] allbingo and [community profile] crowdfunding -- that give me useful background experience. A how-to community would probably improve the number and success of Dreamwidth communities. At least, it'd give us somewhere to point and say, "Try here," when we heard about someone wanting to start a community or having hassles with a current one.