# Sponsoring new members is a powerful community builder The Royal Society of Arts had a model where each new member needed to be sponsored by one or more existing members and then was voted on. While this was supposedly a formality, maybe there was more to it. The sponsor becomes [[Robin Hanson Palladium Seminar on insurance]] /[[Robin Hanson]] points out that this is how some ancient societies worked - someone needed to be your sponsor and bore responsibility for anything you do. ### Related * [[Online communities could enable designed serendipity]] * [[An online community that works -scene]] * [[Creating an internet-first community that’s not just a bunch of bullshit in a channel]] <!-- #stub --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Sponsoring+new+members+is+a+powerful+community+builder) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Sponsoring+new+members+is+a+powerful+community+builder)