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✴️💬 Creating your own Groups on SW 📥

Poll - Total Votes: 358

User-Group Creation is Important to have

User-Group Creation is Not Important to have

I'm Neutral on the idea of User-Group Creation

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Hello all!
We would like to receive feedback on your ideas and preferences for SimilarWorlds offering users the ability to create their own Groups. (Sub-Groups)

Please submit suggestions / ideas for:

• The General Process for users to create their own Groups on SW.

• The Minimum Requirements for users to have the privilege of creating their own Groups (and how many groups per user).

• What Abilities should a Group owner/creator have? Should they have certain "Moderation Power" within their created group (and what exactly?)

• How Necessary is it for SW users to be able to create their own groups (especially since we already have "Post Collections").

On-Topic comments here will be taken as Feedback for user-created/owned Groups, but doesn't guarantee that every or most ideas will be integrated.

SW Staff do already have some ideas in mind for how this could and should be done, but we would still like to hear feedback from users, to better shape our ideas to best serve our user-base.

Off-Topic comments will be ignored (as usual). Kindly do not post off-topic comments on any posts (Admin or otherwise).
One can eventually lose the ability to interact on certain posts/groups, if they continuously break Code of Conduct.

Kind regards!
-The SW Team

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Classified · M

This is surprising. You went through all the trouble to clean up and aggregate so many groups. 🤔 Give us a week and we've undone that. 😌

But you asked for ideas. So I'm thinking that when someone tries to create a group, they should get suggestions of existing groups and also a spelling check.

It would be nice if stuff like this was prevented:
I like cats
I love cats
I Am a cat lover
I Cats are my favourite animals
I I think cats are great
etc.

That annoyed me. 😅

Honestly I don't believe it is necessary to be able to do this, but for a lot of users it will be welcome, so in that regard it is a nice to have.

Andrew · Admin

@Classified
Group Consolidation was an important step, which now makes User Created "Sub-Groups" more possible.

You went through all the trouble to clean up and aggregate so many groups. 🤔 Give us a week and we've undone that. 😌

Topics > Categories > Groups > Sub-Groups (User-created)

User-created Groups would need to be Sub-Categorized under Existing Parent Groups.

It won't complicate the structure and organization we have worked to build.

Thanks still for your feedback!

Classified · M

@Andrew It is something I really liked about the group consolidation is that there weren't 30+ groups for more or less the same thing anymore (that's a compliment). You're investigating sub-groups now. At least that would have people be more inclined to put it into the proper group, still I hope you have measures to prevent chaos under the parent group and at the same time let people be creative in a constructive way. I think that would make it a great feature.

Your idea of moderation rights feels a bit off to me. Then two people could make the same sub-group (maybe just add a number behind it), just to have those moderation rights. Also it feels like it could become a competition to get your sub-group to be the blooming one where many people posts. If that is the case I'm calling dibs on "I wish more people would post in my group"-sub-group. 😋

Anyway just thinking out loud. Maybe such a thing wouldn't happen at all.

No problem giving a little feedback.