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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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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

I am ambivalent about this. Yet here are some concerns and suggestions.

1. You have a hierarchy. The problem will arise where a group will not fit any hierarchy. How do you resolve this? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Must note I already have some qualms about the current hierarchy. Beliefs does not belong under Spirituality & Religion. Spirituality & Religion belongs under Beliefs.

The Religion group should actually have various religions in them. Not certain aspects of one type of religion. Like there is no categories on religions themselves.

Just like the Abrahamic beliefs have categories, so do the Hindu and Pagan beliefs have categories.

2. If the above is somehow resolved, there needs be some kind of limits and penalties. Not just on the number of groups created. Yet within any given category as well.

I remember well the mess Usenet became. Haaaaa designing ASCII art out of the group hierarchy!

3. Like in 2 I mentioned penalties. There should be many penalties for different actions. Like if you create a group and don't post in it that's basically trolling. More than just a"reputation" penalty should be given.

Then there's the moderation you briefly touched on. Not everyone should be allowed to moderate. Nor should they be miniature dictators like on Reddit.

4. speaking of which, moderators on Reddit are allowed to create their own moderation bots.

Please don't allow this. I beg you to don't allow moderation bots. Reddit is a good example of why bots shouldn't be allowed. It's easy to become a miniature dictator using bots.

5. A different suggestion. Let people create temporary groups. Groups that exist under their own hierarchy and will disappear after non use. The posts can remain in the main hierarchy yet the group itself will disappear after say six months of non use.

If a temporary group should remain active after a year then you the admin can place that group in a proper category related posts and all.