NOTES ON HOSTING A GOOD CONVERSATION ONLINE

• Don't be a douche or else everyone will be a douche
• monkey see Monkey do
• Modesty is the best policy 
• Don't feed the troll
• Be nice to the haters, but don't give them all your attention
• Enforce your rules
• Welcome and praise newcomers for coming
• Communities are work not instant
• Clear rules, but not too many rules
• Positivity
• Slowly recruit more hosts other than yourself so that the community can be a part of what you created
• get to know people and let them know you, but don't tell them everything about your life.
• Let people converse with each other
• keep your website or something of the like tidy and not crowded and messy; retiring old things if they are not important while also consulting the public about the things you wish to discard.