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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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Andrew · Admin Pinned Comment
Thanks for the useful feedback given towards this feature idea so far! 👍


[i]Q:[/i] [u]When might this feature become available?[/u]

[i]A:[/i] [b]We would like to try to release this by/before the end of this 2022 year, if possible.

Otherwise, if we cannot, highly likely within the month of January 2023.[/b]


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• We are taking note of your suggestions, and will be developing this feature in a way that should be suitable, fair, and useful to most users.

• There will be some minimum requirements for users to be qualified for group creation.
We expect that most very active and long-time users, should have the ability to create groups.

• There will be a limit as to how many groups can be created by a qualifying user.
VIP Membership will likely allow for a higher group creation limit.

• A user can lose the ability to create groups in the future, if they abuse this privilege, by creating inappropriate groups.

• There may likely be some minimum Moderation abilities for Group Owners, to start;
such as, the ability to Remove posts that are Inappropriate or Irrelevant to be placed in that particular group.
These moderation abilities will only extend as far as within the group the user owns.

• User created groups will actually be considered as "Sub-Groups", at least comparatively to the current Admin consolidated Groups.

• We may re-word our entire Categorization Hierarchy structure, in a way that may be more accurate and relevant at this time:

[u]Current[/u] --> [u][b]New (potentially)[/b][/u]
Topic --> [b]Category[/b]
Category --> [b]Topic[/b]
Group --> [b]Forum[/b]
Sub-Group --> [b]Group[/b]
@Andrew this seems fair. But for the moderation: may I suggest the ability to move a post out of a group and directly under the forum rather than deleting the post completely off the site? That should be enough to keep the group "clean" without giving anyone too much power over other people's content simply for being the first to come up with a group name.
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Classified · M
@Andrew Well, I'm curious about what this will look like now. 😃
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Andrew wondering would qualified users be able to moderate current existing groups.

For instance I do consider myself a pagan, would a qualified user be able to moderate the current "Paganism" group? There are other such groups, some are currently considered categories, others are actually smaller subgroups.

This is why I suggested a temporary category for new subgroups. So they can be placed correctly. No demand, not necessary to have a group or even a category with separate subgroups and different moderators.

It becomes hairy at that point because subgroups/categories would be under at least two moderators.
Carissimi · 70-79, F
What about the groups we imported from EP? They are still here in our groups, but there is no ability to post from that group. It’s read only, with no “new post” button. @Andrew
@Carissimi I concur.