Day to day-the community account can be used to engage with each member posting into the community. By using Ecency for votes and comments you will accumulate more POINTS for the community account. I think Engagement is key to helping the community grow.
As far as I am aware subscribe and join, both add you onto the list community members and follow is the same as when someone follows your personal profile. Your community account profile can be followed.
Mods can pin posts into the community but cannot use the community account to create posts unless you give them the posting key. They need the active key to use the acoiunt to vote on posts. Of course keys should only be given to your most trusted mods.
I can't help with curation trails. All of my personal and community curation is done manually. I curate community posts from my personal account and trusted mods curate and comment from the community account.
I think running a successful contest depends on promotion. People will join in if they are aware that the contest is happening! I see contests as more of a curation effort to return community earnings back to the members and we try to spread the winnings around to different community members. .
Everyone runs their communities differently. This is just my way.....
Thank you! That answered my biggest questions. I';m really gonna but a major effort into this community. And I hope it goes gang busters. Thank you for the help and answering my questions!
Another major question that I cant find a clear answer on.:
What is the difference between a tribe and a community? I heard rumblings that devs were removing tribes and just calling them communities.
I understood that a tribe has a hive-engine token and a community doesnt.If they get rid of tribes and switch to just communities will that require a community to have it's own token?
Can a community have points similar to Ecency?
My communities are all supported by ARCHON. You must have 500 Archon tokens and then every comment on a post within the community receives a portion of staked ARCHON to encourage Engagement. Tribes often have their own tokens and sometime their own frontends and I think are pretty expensive to create. Some communities have tokens, I have been happy using and giving away POINTS!