So there really is just a careful balance between salesperson role and community participant role (for good salespeople who understand the balance, disregarding the salespeople who just sell and push). And as long as the community/employer ecosystem doesn't start to test those roles too hard, everyone is happy. Sigh that sort of depresses me, that this sort or relationship tends towards instability as time -> infinity. At least we have finite lifespans
> As you say, you _can_ be an authentic community member if you happen to have something to sell to the community - but if your _reason_ for joining the community is to try to sell to them, that is highly unlikely.
Yeah, this feels like the problem to me. The unlikeliness of it is why there is such a distaste societally for salespeople, causing the blindness to the least evil type of sales person.
I sorta figured this out in another comment too. Thinking about the corporate mechanisms, sales hiring managers would need to weed people out properly based on them recognizing this balance. And on top of that, you would need a pool of applicants who actually have the personal investment in the community in the first place, or the potential to become personally invested. Very unlikely! Or so it feels across most sales hiring interactions.
> As you say, you _can_ be an authentic community member if you happen to have something to sell to the community - but if your _reason_ for joining the community is to try to sell to them, that is highly unlikely.
Yeah, this feels like the problem to me. The unlikeliness of it is why there is such a distaste societally for salespeople, causing the blindness to the least evil type of sales person.
I sorta figured this out in another comment too. Thinking about the corporate mechanisms, sales hiring managers would need to weed people out properly based on them recognizing this balance. And on top of that, you would need a pool of applicants who actually have the personal investment in the community in the first place, or the potential to become personally invested. Very unlikely! Or so it feels across most sales hiring interactions.
> FALGSC
Haha, aaahh, if only