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This repository contains my thoughts, lessons, guidelines and learnings around community management and moderation.

• Not everything deserves a response
• Of the things that do merit a response, virtually none of them need a response right now

• Conversational Aikido - Directing the flow of conversation
• When not to respond - Extinction
• Up with which I shall not put - Taking care of yourself while you take care of the community
• Being humble and gracious - How to be a good host
• Open Source - How it is different from normal customer support
• The X/Y Problem - How to get at the real problem underneath it all
• Setting Expectations - Communicating the difference between desires, hopes, plans and facts
• Voting System Flaws - Why Atom doesn't have an Issue or PR voting system

• The Ministry of Truth - When to edit…