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Hartsman on communities

September 13th, 2007 (Visited 1094 times) Tags:

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.”

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Scott Hartsman - Off the Record » Beta Community Guidelines (circa 2004) wrote on September 13th, 2007 at 11:23 am:

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"Remember what the dormouse said" wrote on September 17th, 2007 at 2:00 pm:

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

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Cuppycake said on September 13th, 2007 at 9:22 am:
Now I’m trying to remember if I said “honesty” in my interview. =P
Moorgard said on September 13th, 2007 at 1:47 pm:
Honawhat? Not sure what you mean.
Jeremy Dalberg said on September 13th, 2007 at 2:16 pm:
Other good options might be “empathy”, “tact”, “professionalism”, and “sincerity”. But “honesty” definitely tops the list
moo said on September 14th, 2007 at 10:39 am:
Don’t forget “patience”.