Hartsman on communities

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Scott Hartsman has a blog now, and there’s a great post on community guidelines there.

One of the interview questions we had as we looking for a community person was “if you had to pick five words that are key to community relations, what are they?”

There were varied answers, of course, but the one we were looking for was “honesty.”

  7 Responses to “Hartsman on communities”

  1. I really enjoyed reading (viaRaph Koster) Scott Hartsman’s “Beta Community Guidelines”. It was originally written for the Everquest II Beta in 2004 – but I think a lot is relevant now as well. In fact, I don’t think these rules apply just to MMORPGs – I think any online community would be

  2. Now I’m trying to remember if I said “honesty” in my interview. =P

  3. Honawhat? Not sure what you mean.

  4. Other good options might be “empathy”, “tact”, “professionalism”, and “sincerity”. But “honesty” definitely tops the list šŸ™‚

  5. Don’t forget “patience”.

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