T.H.E. Team (trying hard everyday) November '11

:ohwell: What is everyone's feelings about either making T.H.E. a GROUP or staying here? Here is the definition of a GROUP & the new rules IF we become a group, along with my responses.

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My response: This would be the only thing I would like because it would make it easier to see each time someone posts in the T.H.E. group. But looking over the new community guidelines, I don't feel that we are in danger of breaking any of them. So, I don't think it is worth changing T.H.E. from a thread to a group.

Groups can be public or private. If you create a public group, anyone can join and anyone can read the group forum and participate. If you create a private group, people must receive an invitation to the group from one of the existing members to join. Note, though, that any member of a private group can invite additional members to join. My response: I guess T.H.E. would be considered a private group because I do send out an invitation to female members to join us, but they also spread the word to their friends about it. I have always considered T.H.E. for women only. Making it a public group might change things so men can join too & there are some things (sometimes) discussed in the thread that the members might like to keep between us.

Groups are mostly self-moderated. Each group's administrators are responsible for appointing some members of the group as moderators, and those moderators are responsible for ensuring that the group and sitewide rules are followed in the groups forums. If you report a post in a group, that report will be sent to the groups moderators, NOT the sitewide moderators. My response: I have never appointed someone as a moderator, everyone is free to make their own comments & remind me of things that I forgot like Painten did last night.

Groups have some more leeway than the main forums, but still must follow a set of sitewide rules. We've released new community guidelines which explain the difference between the rules for Groups and the rules for the main forums. Each group can then add it's own rules. As long as the group moderators are enforcing the sitewide rules appropriately, we will largely leave them alone. But if you see an instance where the sitewide rules are being broken and the groups' moderators are not dealing with the situation appropriately, let Steven know and we'll investigate promptly. My response: These are the NEW COMMUNITY GUIDELINES so let's be sure that everyone knows the rules that we must follow & hopefully if somone sees another T.H.E. NOT following the rules, they will comment on it & not turn me in to Steven, okay?:noway:

Painten said that it seems a bit more involved than i thought to become a GROUP. I'm happy with it as it is and most others seem fine, we have managed so far so it's up to you and what you think would be easier and better? I reckon though that as the thread hasn't had any problems before then we don't really have much problems with rule breaking.

So I agree with Painten that we should stay a thread & not put us under the GROUP category. What are your thoughts???


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