Topic: New Section Suggestion - Groups (Read 1202 times)

You do realize you can make more then one type of group right? A group can be made to fulfill a role that someone sees fit, so stop making unfounded accusations.

The OP has just recently indicated a desire to found a "Bitcoin High Rollers Club" on this thread. According to him/her, this "club" would converse amongst themselves of ways to further increase their Bitcoin holdings. However, the prevailing sentiment among those who have read that thread is that the OP is looking for a way to identify high value targets to scam. It really does seem dubious when you consider the idea and the OP's post history. This suggested feature is just the OP's way of trying to legitimize his/her already ridiculed ideas. Don't buy into it -- it has no merit.

I still don't see how it's any different. You can do all that stuff in the existing subforums. Can you provide links of sites that do this?

I outlined various points in the OP, it would greatly benefit the forum.

I don't get the point? We have all these subforums already, so what would be the difference between them? Seems unnecessary to me.

On forums I have been on there is usually a section titled groups. In the groups section is were members and staff/admin can create groups that they would like. For example someone that likes to mine would create a miner guild/group and that group would be about mining. Someone else could create a guild/group for development, graphics, media etc. you get the point. There can be both official and non official groups, requirments can be made by group leaders and reqiests can be made from people on the forum to join the groups. The addition of this section doesn't require any additional featurues that the forum doesn't already have so you wouldn't need to wait for the new forum software to roll this new section out.

Groups are great way for the community members to work closer together and be a part of something they are interested in while at the same time furthering the Crypto community as a whole. Group events can be held and groups can sell there own products. Groups can also be a new source of income in some forums you can pay membership fees to be a part of certain groups for the value they hold and groups can also be sold. On one forum I sometimes frequent a group is currently being auctioned for about $20,000.

I very much like the idea of groups and I feel it gives forums a feel of identity and distinguishes certain aspects of the forum. What are your thoughts?