Why Power down a Community Account

Greetings from my end, how are we doing today? I will be sharing my opinion on the aspect of communities curating accounts powering down. Communities are one of the best projects on the Steemit platform. Community is an opportunity to bring similar and related content together from different authors.

Well, my main reason for this post is a concern about powering down curation accounts for communities. Steemit's team has been working toward self-sustainable communities by supporting community accounts. It is the reason community accounts have been getting support from the Steemit team, with the aid to support the community members. So far, the community has been doing great for some time now.

For the past couple of months, some of these communities curating accounts have been powering down. The action has put the Steemit team in a questionable position to continue supporting community curation accounts. The question

• Why will a community curating account be powered down

Powering down a community account is nothing different from shouting down the community. So, the question now will be, why will you create a community account to support the community and shout it down? Doing that is just like creating a Non-government organization and seeking funds, and when they are funded. They shut down and disappear without implementing the projects with the funds. I will say it completes a bad habit and not a good image for the other growing communities on the platform.

I don’t see any reason why any community account should be powering down. The account is for community members. Just like an organization that is there to serve, and support its members. Since the community member needs the support, I will beg the community administrator not to always consider powering down these accounts for the sake of the members. It is purely an act of selfishness on their part. If you can manage the resources, I think you can hand them over to some other who is willing to manage rather than powering down.

• Why will the active key be in the hands of just one individual?

One individual holding the active and master key is not a suitable method for a long-term community. I’m sorry to say powering down a community account is an act of greed on the part of the holders of the active and master key. Some people will say, we should have asked the holders who are powering down the account. In my opinion, they do not have any reason to power a community account because you are part of the creation of that account. The account was promised to support the community members, and again these holders of the active and master keys have their accounts. So, it is okay to power down your account, though not encouraged but not a community account.

This act done by my community administrator kills the level of trust that the member of that community gets from the Steemit team. This also does not fall in line with the Steemit team's objective to build a self-sustainable curating account. It is preferable to support a community account, which will eventually support others. Rather than support individuals who will eventually power down, which is their right to power down. Note, I’m not meaning to encourage the act of powering down but it is an option we can deny that is available on the platform.

Why did I decide to make this post? I came across a comment section on the platform. Some authors propose that the Steemit team manage all communities on the platform. I have my reason which I will try to outline for us all to see reasons.

Steemit is not supposed to do everything for us, it is a company and has its operations. Community, as I said above, is to bring similar and related content, which is another means of filtering content too. Most country communities have brought together authors from the same country to support each other with comments and upvotes. I don’t see why we can’t manage and control our community. Calling on the Steemit team is a short sign of irresponsibility on our part.

We can’t continue to think we can’t do it, because others are messing things for others is not a reason for others to keep up and cry for the Steemit team to take over like kids. I know this act will reduce the level of support the community will get, but the pending communities can show examples to others to follow.

I belong to one of the outstanding communities on the platform. Administrations had meetings about the community before the creation to have a good understanding of the sustainability of the community. Every community should have an objective and a mission. Community administrators should learn to work as a team, yeah it is not easy to come to a consensus. They are always a middle point that we can always fulfill and manage community assets while putting the members into consideration.

Again, rather than crying to the Steemit team. It is time for the community to have an organogram that can be a board that can make voting decisions on the day-to-day running of the communities. This way communities will have a strategy in place to follow, and such a decision as powering down can not be taken with an over 50% vote win.

Manage a community like an organization that is out there to serve people and not enslaves the people. Let the community account support its members, and I will emphasize that and not enslave its members. I will encourage us to look at working out a strategy or mortality to have a self-sustained community to support the community.

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