Last year at SteemFest, @ned and @sneak announced an exciting new Feature that is coming soon to Steemit.COMMUNITIES!At a technical level, a community will start out as a 'regular user' account and will be converted into a community. The reason for this is so that communities can eventually share in the revenue from the posts that are created within them.
When a user creates a post within a community, it will still be posted under their own account on the blockchain, but it will have JSON that designates it as part of a community.
Communities will eventually support payment splitting, where a portion of the posts reward is shared with the community account. Community admins will be able to set this amount as a percentage (from 0-100). When enforced, a post will only be allowed within the community if the author shares the required percentage of the rewards with the community account.
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