This morning I got to play around with the new Community feature.

I recorded the session.

Impressed with:

#1. Anyone can make a community for 3 STEEM. Longterm communities will love this but I can also see the use case for short term communities (to organize an event for instance).

#2. Communities can be moderated.

#3. Whatever you post in a community is not posted on your blog. (very handy).

#4. Content Discovery is a lot easier.

Questions:

#1 What is this?

#2. When a mod mutes a post in a community it's not visible to anyone in that community. Is it possible to mute users for the entire community?

#3. When a post is downvoted (outside the community) it's still visible within the community. Can only mods mute a post?

I downvoted this post on steemit.com. It's grayed out.

On the community site the same post lost rep. But the post is still visible.

#4 Can an SMT be used inside a community when they come out?

#5 I can post in a community without joining the community? is that normal? (it's called guest account).

#6 When I mute a post I have to give a reason. Where can I find these reasons?

#7 Can I make a community where I have to approve members first before they can post in my community?