@jessicapixie, look at you! So awesome that you have got involved in this. Just what steemit needs! I've got a list of things to write about on steemit and right at the top is community! This couldn't have come at a better time. For me community is about man things, potentially the most important being: contribution. In short, as much as a community needs leaders, and people to look to for guidance, it also needs contribution from as many members of that community as possible in order to not only survive, but thrive. Some people start communities and then want to stand in the lime light and bask in the glory of having founded something. In my eyes that is not the TRUE essence of community. A group of people coming together to contribute towards a common cause, with equal contributions, equal weight to those contributions and equal value. That's what makes a community thrive.