lately i've been feeling very hopeful about the web. i haven't felt this way since i was a teenager. i was on vimeo (before it was sold). the supportive nature of that community made me want to make videos and eventually websites. there was this community manager at vimeo whose sole job was to leave supportive, nice comments on people's videos haha. i think about this role often... how it would be so nice if these kinds of roles came back. instead of anonymous mods, a mod who is just another user of the site and makes these 1:1 interactions with users in the comments. maybe they could be called web coaches