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Originally Posted by flymolo
i imagine being a group leader very much like most leadership positions. you have to make decisions, and organise almost everything, and dog the people who are holding things up.
Most importantly, you have to be nice and funny, and understanding that people often do things outside of anime, like visit their loved ones.
i won't even consider joining a group if i don't like the people in it. especially the leader. (thus the convenience of a recruit chan XD)
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Not really, especially today. The leader, if one exists at all, is really just a figurehead. Unless the leader has skills of his own or is in some way fundemental to the group, he's typically just there and doesn't really have any actual power. More often than not groups are decentralized and people just do whatever they like. When a project is done, it's b'cos of the people working on the project care to work on it. If you have ever tried to lead a volunteer-type organization, that's closer to what it's like today.
With this type of organization, you don't necessarily have to like the people working on project A if your only interest is project B. You don't have to be worried, it's perfectly normal that not everyone likes everyone else.
Groups today are much less political and typically more laid back than in the old days. Things like BT have made distro easy and then you have stable IRC networks free of the 'channel wars' that used to exist. Most of the naughty people have left or moved on, and these days it's very difficult to force anyone to do something that wouldn't want to otherwise do themselves (like the example below, perhaps one of the more dramatic cases).
http://web.archive.org/web/200310031.../Editorial.htm