And the amount of work that will need to be put into running things for so many people, to be totally unpaid! Like, this circles back around to the monetizing-fandom discussion: I feel pretty strongly that it's better to pay a few people for full-time labor than to expect many many people to contribute a lot of unpaid labor in their spare time, on top of whatever the hell else they're doing, and to run the behind-the-scenes work of my entire social network on top of that.
I say this as someone who has put substantial amounts of my own money in to running my own offline community, as someone who has volunteered to moderate in her spare time before and probably will again, and also as someone who is strung out and tired and perpetually broke, too.
More on that this week, probably; I got to make some tough financial calls with the spouse this weekend, and that is going to be a thing I spend some time thinking about.
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Date: 2019-02-03 11:35 pm (UTC)I say this as someone who has put substantial amounts of my own money in to running my own offline community, as someone who has volunteered to moderate in her spare time before and probably will again, and also as someone who is strung out and tired and perpetually broke, too.
More on that this week, probably; I got to make some tough financial calls with the spouse this weekend, and that is going to be a thing I spend some time thinking about.