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On user-created groups
I read the FAQ when I signed up and was honestly kind of dismayed to see lack of support for user-created groups (UCGs from here on). I understand the reasoning, but wonder if there isn't some way to allow group creation without cluttering.
Some ideas:
- List UCGs in a different section of the site
- Organize under creator's username (UserName.mygroup)
- Limit number of UCGs one user can directly create (not moderate)
- Group creation approval queue
- Allow private groups (UserName.mygroup) to convert into public groups (~mygroup) with admin approval, good behavior from subscribers, meeting milestone goals (e.g. 5000 subscribers), and no conflicting groups
I'm not sure how any of that would work, logistically, so I'm curious what ideas the community here has to offer.
Thanks! And I agree that UCGs are not a huge priority, especially for an alpha site, but I'd personally love to see them on the roadmap!
You may be interested in some of these previous discussions:
Are we going to be able to make our own groups?
Creating new groups?
How to start a new group?
Voting on future GROUPS rather than anyone can create anything at anytime?
Adding new groups
Adding new groups
Users thoughts on groups?
There's also these:
Daily Tildes discussion - new groups added, please subscribe to them if you're interested
Daily Tildes discussion - proposals for "trial groups", round 1
Four new groups added (and everyone subscribed): ~anime, ~enviro, ~humanities, and ~life
Sorry, I searched but didn't find anything. Thanks for the links!
That's a little concerning. All of these topics should come up if you type "groups" in the search box. (Admittedly, you have to go to about the third page of results because they're mostly old topics.)