@acidyo ASKED: "I hope there'll be a cost to create one (community) against squatters"

THE QUESTIONS TO SOLVE

This is a proposal that works toward solving these following community related issues:

1. How to avoid squatters
2. How to get communities into the hands of those who will actually create action on the blockchain.
3. How to avoid dilution of community action and avoid communities with almost zero interaction.
4. How to stay decentralized?
5. How to allow for un-owned "open communities"

OPTION 1

1. There should be a fee and it shouldn't be small... it helps avoid squatters unless they really believe in the investment. It makes communities created only by those really invested in the idea. The fee can help sustain development of communities together with the nodes needed to maintain the community abilities. Let's say 50 steem fee just argument sake.
2. We should make Open Communities free (no one will pay for them anyway)
   These communities are voted into existence by users. Aka if enough users want an open community then it's created. (Multiple options for that)
3. We should make business owned communities discounted. Meaning if someone has a business they can create a community for it at a discounted price. (Aka they can prove via youtube/facebook/website)
4. Keep in mind we're not saying someone can't make a fan group regarding that business however they'll need to pay the large amount and it won't be verified that way. This will help prevent a lot of fraud activities which could easily exist.
5. Similar to business we should also discount communities of steem users found on other places such as reddit or slack. If there are X number of steem users in a group elsewhere they should have a group on communities.

In all this our objective is not to prevent creation of communities or profit off of them just because. But to prevent spamming of communities which also leads to DILUTION of communities. tons of communities where NOTHING is happening.

How to make this happen?

1. You could give those that help run the community systems (nodes, front ends) the ability to be automatically re-imbursed for those pre-approved community creation activities. (Open communities, business, other steem groups)
2. Stratos, Steempeak and other front ends could easily have that authority to create communities and thus also get the re-imbursement of the community creation fee for those who qualify.
3. All those who have this ability agree on the terms and all have the ability to vote in or out those who qualify for the re-imbursement.
4. Chief among those criteria is that all of steem should know we will never create one for our own personal benefit. Otherwise be voted out of the ability to get those re-imbursements.

• For example steempeak couldn't create an owned community for free. It can get the business discount but we can't just make one for ourselves because we want it.

POSSIBLE RULES FOR DISCOUNTED COMMUNITIES

A - If X amount of steem users want a FREE / OPEN / NON-OWNED community we will create it.
They should be thematic and not include any businesses. (It will be free)
B - If a business can prove ownership of a business name we will create an OWNED community, heavily heavily discount it (like 5 steem / 90% discount) and give them ownership rights. We believe they must prove ownership via website / fb group / instagram / youtube
C - If an already established community existing on discord / reddit / slack wants to create one they need 25 steem users.(number debatable or even scale-able)
And for the name NOT to be the name of a business or they need to qualify under B.

Besides that I guess you could squat ... you just wouldn't have the discount or help of a super-account and would need to pay 50 steem.

Next step is to decide what to do with the steem?

• Give half to the node/front end that registers the community. (the assumption is they helped make the front end or create the node)
• Put the other half into steem proposals system?

This is a brainstorm

Welcome your ideas you may have.