Difficulties

Why is it so hard to figure out how to set up a community?

I guess the major part of this kind of community is that having like-minded people means, to me, having people able to think for themselves. The difficulty really lies in that we all have our own ideas on how the community needs to be set up, but because we are thinking and intelligent people, our ideas don't exactly mesh.

It is working through these coordinations that can be quite taxing. Wouldn't it be better to have a bunch of sheeple who follow someone's lead all the time and not question what may not be right for them? Sure, except now you are in a hierarchy and it allows more people to be lazy and try to leech off the community because there are no consequences of their inaction.

Anyway, finding consensus between intelligent people is a difficulty, as I mentioned, but I wouldn't have it any other way. :)

I would rather have long discussions about the way things should be then to limit my self and follow the "leader". Sometimes, when there is no consensus, resolution of the difficulties could be disastrous or at least lead to not doing anything at all (the easy way out).

So, we must acquiesce to some degree to those who are part of the community as long as they also acquiesce on other issues.

That is what compromise is all about. And as long as, in the long run, it doesn't lead to more difficulties to the self, then it will work out.

Work together when you can, but work alone if you have to, just hope it doesn't have to come to that. :)