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Hartsman on communities

September 13th, 2007

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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  1. "Remember what the dormouse said" wrote on

    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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  1. Cuppycake said on

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

  2. Moorgard said on

    Honawhat? Not sure what you mean.

  3. Jeremy Dalberg said on

    Other good options might be “empathy”, “tact”, “professionalism”, and “sincerity”. But “honesty” definitely tops the list :)

  4. moo said on

    Don’t forget “patience”.

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