The present disclosure provides systems and methods for managing a network community. Briefly described in architecture, some embodiments of such a system provide an account database that maintains resident accounts for resident users of the network community and also maintains guest accounts for guests of the resident users. Correspondingly, an account server accesses a guest account to determine a status of the guest account and also updates the resident account of the resident user sponsoring the particular guest account with the status of the guest account. Other systems and methods are also provided.