Stewardship: responsibilities, benefits, and how to earn it.
Starting a community is not first-come, first-served. Members earn the opportunity to propose what is missing, then prove they can protect a fair and useful public community.
Current policy: earned trust and a stewardship trial
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.
Serve the community
Keep questions useful, explain decisions, address harm, and recuse from conflicts.
Build something valuable
Guide the community, earn visible trust, use steward tools, and share in FidiFox revenue after beta based on community quality.
No promotional exemption
Stewards earn credits like everyone else and cannot block useful competition or approve their own promotions.
The earned path
One hundred standing points within a parent community and its sub-communities 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 community, while no more than 30 may roll up from its sub-communities.
Help the parent community
Share useful answers, thoughtful comments, corrections, and complete guides. Helpful work can build standing when different established members support it and it passes the weekly review.
Earn 100 standing in the community family
At least 70 points must be earned directly in the parent community. Up to 30 points may roll up from its sub-communities.
Build a 12-week record
You can earn up to nine standing points per week, and at least 12 weekly reviews must be completed. The earliest possible stewardship approval is at the end of week 12.
Prepare the proposal at 75 standing
At 75 standing, you can begin drafting a proposal and gathering support. Explain who the community serves, what is missing, and how legitimate competition will remain welcome.
Demonstrate genuine demand
During the early public launch, a proposal needs support from five established members. FidiFox may raise this to ten as the parent community grows. Supporting a proposal creates no ownership or special authority.
Enter a stewardship trial
Reaching the threshold lets you submit the proposal for review. Approval begins a trial period, not ownership. Continued stewardship depends on serving the community well.
How helpful work earns 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.
FidiFox reviews helpful feedback each week. Support counts toward standing only when it comes from different established members and passes safeguards against manipulation. Repeated support from the same people, vote trading, coordinated accounts, or removed content may not count and can be reversed.
Why the earliest path is 12 weeks
A member can earn no more than nine standing points in one week and needs 100 points to apply. Eleven perfect weeks can produce no more than 99 points. This makes the end of week 12 the earliest possible approval without asking strong early 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 support from different established members 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, support from different established 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 new community proposal 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 completed weeks.
Post-beta stewardship revenue share
After beta, FidiFox will fund a stewardship revenue share from platform revenue left after operating costs and reserves. Qualified stewards will participate once the necessary fraud, tax, payment, and conflict controls are ready. Each share will depend on how useful and well-run the community is, 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.
Read the tip eligibility and safeguards guideThe short version
Help the parent community, earn 100 standing points across at least 12 completed weeks, and show that a focused community is genuinely wanted. When approved, steward it without owning it or receiving exceptions from its rules. Qualified stewards will share in post-beta revenue according to current community quality.
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