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The only reason is costs anything is because a new account is created when you create a community. It does seem like a missed opportunity to at least burn some Steem. The only thing I think of is that it's cheap now but what if our wildest dreams come true and Steem hits $20, then it would be $60 to create a community and everyone would say it's ridiculous how much it costs t create a community. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I’d make it $100 worth of STEEM. You wanna start a community? Show some dedication. If it’s too much then write a nice post explaining why you wanna do a community and request some funds from the dao. Of course, burn all STEEM used to create Communities and SMT’s. Is that not what is happening?

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I'm not sure what happens to the 3 Steem you spend to create the Community, but I assume it gets burned.

Hmm, I think I'm in favor of it being pretty cheap. Steem is a global community. I live in the US and $100 is something I could afford no problem, but in other parts of the world that's a LOT of money. Those people could ask the community for help and maybe that would work, but the truth is, I don't personally care about most peoples random communities and I imagine most Steemians wouldn't either. I think the real value add will be getting LOTS of people on the platform and all those people will need RC's to transact. If some random community that I don't care about manages to onboard 10k users that all are doing their own thing that doesn't interest me, it's still good for all of us. I think we should make these first steps as frictionless as possible because once they're here, we can monetize them.

Yeah, I haven’t thought of the RC impact. I’ll have to see it in action. In other words, when I can lease my RC’s out for gain (I never use them much), I’ll get excited about it.

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I agree that 100$ (>500 Steem) would be quite a hurdle, think of small communities like insect keepers or maybe residents of a specific town or area.
The more small communities we attract, the better.

But they’ll just create the community to squat on it and then leave

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This is a common feature of all social media. Also facebook has millions of ghost accounts.

I think the behind the hood name of the community will be a random string, so more than one user could make a community about a specific genre.

Even a burn of 20SBD would be nice to see. It's not much for anybody wanting to start their own project or community on STEEM and a few thousand of them would make a big difference.

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