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✴️💬 Creating your own Groups on SW 📥

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User-Group Creation is Important to have
User-Group Creation is Not Important to have
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Hello all!
[b]We would like to receive feedback on your ideas and preferences for SimilarWorlds offering users the ability to [u]create their own Groups[/u]. (Sub-Groups)[/b]


[u]Please submit suggestions / ideas for[/u]:

• The [b]General Process[/b] for users to create their own Groups on SW.

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

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

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


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[u]On-Topic comments[/u] here will be taken as [u]Feedback[/u] 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!
[i]-The SW Team[/i]
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twiigss · M
@Andrew I have a few ideas for group creation below:

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

So the general process for users to create their own groups on SW would be, say a user makes a post, but there's no group that user feels that their content fits in. Have an option such as, "If your content doesn't closely match a group listed, you can create your own group here" And have a button they can click, "Create Group"

Then the user can type in the name of the group they want to create, and then once the group is created, they can submit their post they want to make.

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

I think the user should be, maybe a month old at least to have the privilege of creating a group, but it has to be monitored if people just want to abuse it. How many groups per user? I'm gonna say 100, VIP members get 500 groups they can create. (my OCD goes through the roof when I make a post and it doesn't exactly match the group, and I soooo wish I had the ability to make a group, specifically for that post.)

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

A user who creates a group should be allowed to delete that group any time they want to. If the user is seeing content in their group they don't feel is relevant to the group, or if they just don't want any content other than theirs in the group they create, users should have free will to remove any content from their group at any time.

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

I feel that it is a huge necessity for SW users to be able to create their own groups. As I mentioned above, I have real bad OCD. Sometimes when I make a post, I wish that I could have an option to create a group just for that one post. Or if I have multiple posts that are just random, I would make a random group, or if I'm at work just making random posts, I'd make a 'Random At Work' group. Or have a Computer group, but maybe things a bit more specific, Computers>Software>DOS Games or Computers>Hardware>GPU's, I just like having that ability to do post specific groups, vs. having groups already made. I feel like I'm so restricted sometimes when I go to post because at work I don't have the time to search for a closest match group.

Thanks for hearing the feedback.
@twiigss very well thought out.
Andrew · Admin
@twiigss
Thanks for the well structured feedback! 👍
It seems silly to me that the group creator should be able to control who posts in the group and or what.🤔@twiigss
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@twiigss 50 groups is far too many. 10 groups at best can be easily moderated. Reddit has that problem currently. Too many groups under one moderator.

VIP it really shouldn't be more than ten either. The reasoning still applies. You can't moderate more than ten groups and be of any good at moderation.

FYI Legally a moderator doesn't moderate more than two cases at a time! Conflict of interest are often the reason.

Imagine what a moderator of both Atheist group and the Christian group would be like.