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Mr Miagi

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Hi William, Members and Fellow Mods.

I want to put an idea out there.

Certain user groups are allowed access to some specific forums, hidden from view to others, or read only etc. Take for example the Newsletter Group. I dont know if they do, but they might have a specific forum in which to discuss there newsletter, without the input from other plain members, only accessable to their specific user group.

Id like to see a TFF Fraggers Club, for Marine reefers who propagate their coral, to discuss and talk about their steps, issues, methods etc. This forum would be small, and wouldnt be a good viewable forum to the many Quests, but hidden, accesable to those who join the group, would be sufficient.

A good example is TAZ, or TheAdminZone.com. Once your a member, certain Usergroups are free to enter....

Here is a screen shot:

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As you can see, im a member of "The Launch Team". Its a free club to join, and above, you can see many others.

William, do you know if this software/hack is available for InvisionPower Boards?

Whats the general consensus? Cool, useful, and beneficial, or just plain not a good idea? :blush:
 
I think groups would be a good idea as long as they didn't become "elite clubs", which is always the difficulty for these kind of things. I'd be very itnerested in a club for the UK midlands.
 
I'd be interested to see what William responds to this. The Newsletter team has a benefit in being invisible in that they are producing a project that will be introduced, fresh and new. They need a forum in which to communicate and work together to launch this on the community.

Fragging is a great hobby (especially since I am into it to). What are the benefits of being 'invisible' or members only?

SH
 
Fragging is a great hobby (especially since I am into it to). What are the benefits of being 'invisible' or members only?

There is no benefit to hiding forums like a Fragging Group to the individual members of the specific group, but the only benefit of it being invisible is to the boards appearanceto quests. A forum with low posts/threads doesnt look appealing, but to us involved, it wouldnt matter.

I just thought it might be another way to make TFF branch out, encourage more unique/varied topics, provide more interaction and grow. :good:
 
I think its a great idea, and i think some other groups could be intoduced to the more specialised areas that members have asked for before (a killifish sub-forum and a bichir sub-forum being two examples).
Theres one, small problem though (that i can see), and that is that if the members of these groups talk on there the majority of the time, then the focus of the other forums, (the coral forum in this case) is taken away, and questions will be answered less ferquently, or later than usual. (maybe that isnt a problem...?)

Good idea though :good:

Mike
 
Too much subdivision can cause problems as Catfish Are Cool mentions above. Since the livebearers have been divided into the "commons" and the "rares", I know I've had to make a real effort to stop by the common livebearers section because otherwise there isn't much there I care about. If too many people stay in the elite groups only, then the newbies in the original group lose out in terms of being able to speak with experienced aquarists.

So you have to be careful how you do this. I can see the logic to groups for things like talking about fish shops. There really isn't much point for someone in London, say, reading posts about fish shops in New York. So like Fella says, groups focused on what people have seen in specific localities could be very useful. But if there are too many groups for the specialities, and not enough people in the basics, then things get cliquey and the value of the forum declines.

Cheers, Neale
 
I like the idea! We need a Michigan group! I'll be clan leader :ninja:
 
Too much subdivision can cause problems as Catfish Are Cool mentions above. Since the livebearers have been divided into the "commons" and the "rares", I know I've had to make a real effort to stop by the common livebearers section because otherwise there isn't much there I care about. If too many people stay in the elite groups only, then the newbies in the original group lose out in terms of being able to speak with experienced aquarists.

yeah agreed

I'm by no means as experienced as Neale but I like to help where I can, and as such make a conscious effort to visit the beginners forum as much as possible to help out newbies. There's few enough experienced members who visit and post there regularly as it is. The creating of more 'elite' (don't like that term but as it's been used already on this post it'll do!) specialist areas means more experienced members will be more likely to be posting there than in the general forums where the most people who need help are.

Things like the newsletter team is different, they need to work in private, i'm sure there are forum's for the mods only too which is also to be expected and needed. I'm struggling to think of a reason why it would be needed for any of the general or species related chat on here. :/
 

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