There has been heaps of debate in several communities and on calls to go straight to paid or start with with a free community. I feel it is hard to get an accurate guage when you are starting fresh. From my POV I am an owner in 5 paid communities that all started from paid. I know people like @Goose Dunlavey laid out a plan to start from free the other day. I want to see how you all feel about free. If a magic genie turned up and offered you either a paid group with members in it OR a free group with 20X more members, which one would you take? (for reference, the marshmallow test was performed on kids so that they could have one marshmallow now or wait and get two later.)