# Educating the community

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/educating-the-community/131591
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [October 21, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/educating-the-community/131591 "2019-10-21T21:23:27Z")
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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/educating-the-community/131591/5 "2019-10-23T04:21:44Z")

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> [@Heather\_Dudley](#):
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> I want to empower them to do more through education, since they have been unable to do so until now.

So much this. Empowering the community to dictate the culture is a fundamental part of the philosophy of Discourse.

The main thing to remember here is that the key to selling (or teaching) any behaviour change is to get the motivator right. Focus your messaging on the one thing that they want the most – in this case, probably control of the culture.

Interesting reading along these lines: [Changing Member Behaviour In A Community | FeverBee](https://www.feverbee.com/changingmemberbehaviour/)

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