How to understand that you have successfully launched an online community?
In order to be able to work on community building initiatives, the community needs to have a foundation in place. The foundation is ready if your community satisfies the following criteria:
- The community has a stable influx of new users with no work from your side.
- All content on the platform gets created by the users themselves. You just moderate it and work on user engagement.
- The community has a group of regular users who know all social norms, help others to adapt to them and participate in meta-discussions.
If your community meets these criteria, congratulations! It was launched successfully! It’s time to move on to grow it.
This is a fragment of a draft of the book “Lessons Learned While Working On Stack Overflow”. Read the full book on kindle or the paperback version.