Stewardship: responsibilities, benefits, and how to earn it.

Stewardship is responsibility, not ownership

A steward helps shape culture, organize knowledge, welcome members, and enforce the community compact. The community remains part of FidiFox. Steward authority is accountable, reviewable, and removable when the community is no longer being served.

The earned path

One hundred parent-family standing points unlock the right to submit a proposal. They do not automatically create a community or guarantee a steward role. At least 70 points must come directly from the parent Independent Common, while no more than 30 may roll up from its sub-communities.

How community validation becomes standing

A member does not need to publish a new standalone post to earn standing. Helpful answers, substantive comments, useful corrections, and complete noncommercial guides may qualify. Asking a question, posting frequently, or collecting raw likes does not create standing by itself.

Helpful feedback is visible social recognition first. It can enter standing settlement only when the validation comes from distinct eligible members, survives the closed review period, and passes FidiFox's manipulation safeguards. Repeated support from the same relationship, reciprocal voting, coordinated accounts, or removed content can receive reduced or zero weight and may be reversed.

Why the earliest path is 12 weeks

A member can settle no more than nine standing points in one closed weekly period and must have at least 12 closed weekly periods in the qualifying record. Eleven perfect weeks can produce no more than 99 points. This makes the end of week 12 the earliest possible point for provisional stewardship without asking strong launch contributors to wait indefinitely.

Most members will take longer. The 12-week path is possible only when a member provides consistently useful help that receives broad, eligible validation while maintaining a sound conduct and disclosure record.

Established means more than active

Raw activity cannot establish stewardship. FidiFox looks for helpful contribution over time, validation from distinct trusted members, sound disclosure practices, and conduct that strengthens the topic. A single popular post, imported audience, business following, or early arrival is not enough.

Members may pursue only one provisional community at a time during the public launch. Reaching 75 standing opens proposal drafting and founding-support collection, but the proposal cannot enter final review before the member reaches 100 standing and completes the required 12 closed weekly periods.

Post-beta stewardship revenue share

After beta, FidiFox will fund a quality-weighted stewardship revenue share from distributable platform revenue. Qualified stewards will participate once the necessary fraud, tax, reserve, payment, and conflict controls are ready. Eligibility depends on current community health and verified member value, not founder status, audience size, first arrival, or permanent ownership.

Cash stewardship distributions are not active during beta, and no specific payout amount is guaranteed. Stewardship never creates ownership, exclusive promotional rights, or a right to suppress competitors.

Tip eligibility has its own earned path

Receiving tips should require less trust than stewarding a community, but it should not be available to a brand-new or unproven account. It remains separate from standing, promotion credits, ranking, stewardship eligibility, and governance authority.