In short, our Heralds program is going to be how we manage and reward our volunteers, moderators, affiliates, brand ambassadors, and other helpers within our community or even influencers and content creators externally.  This pilot membership will initially be used to beta test new features and develop systems to make a fun, engaging, and rewarding structure so it is sustainable for all interested parties.  We will be able to assign ranks with different perks, and quests to earn XP, Gems, and even gold (cash) payouts.  There will be bounties on certain tasks and it will all generally be completely voluntary and our heralds can pick and choose their level of involvement to whatever extent makes sense for their interest level and time availability.  Should our business ecosystem reach a higher point, it is likely certain herald roles would become official paid positions, such as community manager, moderator leads, key influencers/content creators, etc. More will be explained over the coming months and we will phase in features and rewards as time and budget permits.

With community support, be it directly through membership dues, or by bringing in affiliate sales, it will naturally afford us the means accelerate development opportunities.  But we are also fine with slow and steady, we’ll get there eventually and it’s not a race.  And it’s not really important if we scale to the stars, or just serve a fun niche of specialized artisans.

Herald membership shall be free to all but there may be a screening process, especially in the early stages, and we may hand select our most prominent most contributing heralds for certain roles.