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Simply limiting size, throttling invites, and ejecting troublemakers, goes a long ways to civility.

I'd cultivated a surprisingly good, small (~40-50) member community on G+ at one point, largely on that basis.

Mutual anonymity (myself as founder and moderator) worked. It wasn't conflict-free, but conflict resolved, quickly. Most often problems removed themselves, rarely (2-3x?) they had to be removed. That was done as quietly and civily as possibly.




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