Quote from: FrogeGod on May 26, 2021, 05:09:19 PM

Hi there fellow CryptoKings and CryptoQueens.

My partner and I are building a project, it is still in the ideation phase, but we've both been in the scene for a while. Our project is serious to us, but it may seem a little gimmicky to those on the outside. I will get more into the details of the project as we continue to finalize our mechanics and build architecture.

What I really want to get at is how to build a community of individuals who would be willing to run our nodes. I have no experience community building, I also do not know how to maintain such a community. If there are any tips, insights and (fingers crossed) individuals who have run nodes for various projects please comment.

I am very grateful for any insight that an open discussion on this topic can generate.

Thank you!

Community members could rank/reward one another based on how honest & often they run their nodes, and also how much useful services their nodes provide to the community. The rewards can be both manual and automated. Members could manually report issues that break list of community rules or give good rewards to those that help the community. Those who provide very important solutions to problems for the community without breaking good community rules/principles get higher rewards
You can check this out for more help:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5298832.msg55796204#msg55796204

You could also create/use a safe Decentralized Identity System your members could use to verify and safely store their encrypted unlque identities. They would use the public keys from Identity System to safely verify that they have real identity on a secure, immutable platform, which is the Decentralized Identity System
This identity system can help the community prevent alot of problems, like spam attacks, impersonation, committing serious crimes under false/hidden identity, etc
A user's public keys from the identity system can be used anonymously, or with acceptable names attached to them. Any reports, rewards etc to a user's public keys are automatically linked to the user's real encrypted identity stored on the decentralized identity system.

Part of the solutions to building a sustainable community is a both automated and manual system for reward very useful evidence-based contributions that do not violate the good rules. Automation checks for contributions. Users with very useful contributions but without rewards could apply for rewards that must be attended to within a specified period , once others members are unable to find fault in application, the user automatically get the due rewards for specific kind of reward he/she applied for. Members that find faults in the application get part of the reward that's meant for the user had he/she passed.

Safe decentralized identity system would help make things like this fraud-proof.