What are groups

05/15/2009 - 11:08

As a few people have asked:Groups are a way to group people around a common theme. It may be a region of Italy, a little town, a hobby, etc.Groups are also a means to discuss privately. Somethings you want to share with more than one or two other people and you want to do that in a community space. Groups allow that.Finally (me thinks) groups can be a bit of fun... queue David and his Friday Group... --update--Groups are also a way to keep a lot of people informed about some type of content - for example if you want to get to read all about the intricacies of running a business in italy you join that group. Some of the content may also be in the public space under categories such as Business or Legal, whlie other is more specific just Group info. The important thing is that you get to choose what to follow, how to follow it and where to participate or what spaces you want to create.--update

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.......done; not too hard to set up :glasses: Can you offer guidance about the group categories, please? - Open - membership requests are accepted immediately. - Moderated - membership requests must be approved. - Invite only - membership must be created by an administrator. - Closed - membership is exclusively managed by an administrator.

Open = any member of the community (visitor or full member) can join. They just click on joinModerated = any member can ask to join but the group creator must approve themInvite-only = you need to have an invitation from someone who is already in the group (creator or not)Closed = Only the creator can make you a memberHope this makes sense!

it depends what you mean by constraints... administrators needs to approve groups so they need to fall within community usage, etc. however, I can't see situations where we force a group to be open while its creator wants it closed ... so funnies is your own fiefdom then or are you going to open it up ;-)