"How to be a Great Host."

Gladding emphasizes the importance of active management to make an active community, and this idea actually seems necessary to be a host of community. If we set up a community, we usually let community go on and make little intervention in it due to the common idea that community is for “others” and so we should not control it. However, Gladding claims that no one would even join in a community without active management. In order to invite people, construct membership, make active discussions, and keep safety, we have to manage and control our community intensively.
Gladding’s idea seems useful especially for the security of community because community is often dominated by vicious people such as hackers, spammers, and so on. We should shut out such people by active means, for example, asking partners to present guidelines, or using up-to-date software to guard the community from hostile posting.