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Subject: Group statuses.

Every member of the Covenant shall walk the path. None will be left behind when our Great Journey begins. That is the Prophets' age-old promise, and it shall be fulfilled!

Groups should be able to have a status.

Private - Mods cannot search their forums and membership requires approval.

Public - Mods can view forums, and membership is free.

Away - Forums have been inactive for nearly two months

Fully Inactive - Group has been inactive for four months

After two more months, it gets deleted.

[Edited on 08.04.2012 4:43 PM PDT]

  • 08.04.2012 4:43 PM PDT

No

  • 08.04.2012 4:44 PM PDT

Why should groups be deleted if inactive?

  • 08.04.2012 4:46 PM PDT

Every member of the Covenant shall walk the path. None will be left behind when our Great Journey begins. That is the Prophets' age-old promise, and it shall be fulfilled!

^ Because it's a waist of space.

Posted by: SPRTN One One 7
No
Yes.

[Edited on 08.04.2012 4:47 PM PDT]

  • 08.04.2012 4:46 PM PDT

What's the point? Can't the founder already set membership for approval or public?

  • 08.04.2012 4:51 PM PDT

Every member of the Covenant shall walk the path. None will be left behind when our Great Journey begins. That is the Prophets' age-old promise, and it shall be fulfilled!


Posted by: SPAR7ANB71
What's the point? Can't the founder already set membership for approval or public?
To add more.

  • 08.04.2012 4:53 PM PDT

“Oh, it’s a little bit of everything, it’s the mountains, it’s the fog, it’s the news at six o’clock, it’s the death of my first dog, it’s the angels up above me, it’s the song that they don’t sing, It’s a little bit of everything.”
- Dawes, A little bit of everything

What's this about mods searching forums?

  • 08.04.2012 4:55 PM PDT

Posted by: DJ Yella
^ Because it's a waist of space.

Posted by: SPRTN One One 7
No
Yes.
How is it a "waste of space"?

  • 08.04.2012 4:55 PM PDT

Every member of the Covenant shall walk the path. None will be left behind when our Great Journey begins. That is the Prophets' age-old promise, and it shall be fulfilled!


Posted by: Kickimanjaro
What's this about mods searching forums?
Super users search forums to make sure everyone's doing what they're told.

  • 08.04.2012 4:56 PM PDT

Because storage in a huge issue in today's age.
Posted by: DJ Yella
^ Because it's a waist of space.

Posted by: SPRTN One One 7
No
Yes.

  • 08.04.2012 4:59 PM PDT

Every member of the Covenant shall walk the path. None will be left behind when our Great Journey begins. That is the Prophets' age-old promise, and it shall be fulfilled!


Posted by: talon2000
Posted by: DJ Yella
^ Because it's a waist of space.

Posted by: SPRTN One One 7
No
Yes.
How is it a "waste of space"?
There's a group limit for people.

They could be in other groups.

  • 08.04.2012 5:00 PM PDT

“Oh, it’s a little bit of everything, it’s the mountains, it’s the fog, it’s the news at six o’clock, it’s the death of my first dog, it’s the angels up above me, it’s the song that they don’t sing, It’s a little bit of everything.”
- Dawes, A little bit of everything

Posted by: DJ Yella
Posted by: Kickimanjaro
What's this about mods searching forums?
Super users search forums to make sure everyone's doing what they're told.
I don't see a problem with this. Is it an issue?

  • 08.04.2012 5:01 PM PDT

Posted by: DJ Yella
Posted by: talon2000
Posted by: DJ Yella
^ Because it's a waist of space.

Posted by: SPRTN One One 7
No
Yes.
How is it a "waste of space"?
There's a group limit for people.

They could be in other groups.
If this is an issue for them, can't they just leave the group? If you're referring to the issue of people becoming stuck in the group queue; I agree there should be a way for people to leave the queue and we can hope the Webteam will fix this issue when the site gets updated. But I don't think deleting the group is the answer.

  • 08.04.2012 5:05 PM PDT
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I'm gonna finish it. Just like Jigga did to the pyramid.


Posted by: DJ Yella
^ Because it's a waist of space.

Posted by: SPRTN One One 7
No
Yes.


It's not like there's a shortage of space is there? What's that Achronos...what?! There isn't. Yeah that's what I thought.

  • 08.04.2012 5:35 PM PDT

Superusers can go into any group they want anyway. And I'm not seeing a point in deleting groups for inactivity, especially at a time of such inactivity in general.

  • 08.04.2012 5:40 PM PDT

"No, Hoobla. No."
~DeeJ



Posted by: DJ Yella
^ Because it's a waist of space.


Posted by: DJ Yella
To add more.

Interesting. Calls something a waist of space then wants to add more things...

  • 08.04.2012 5:49 PM PDT

Key


Posted by: DJ Yella
Groups should be able to have a status.

Private - Mods cannot search their forums and membership requires approval.

Public - Mods can view forums, and membership is free.
What people do in Private Groups is of no concern to Mods unless they themselves are appointed Moderators in that group. They control the main forums, and do nothing with Private Groups.

Away - Forums have been inactive for nearly two monthsWhy would they have a status of a group have a criterion so imprecise as "nearly" two months?

After two more months, it gets deleted. Why? That's stupid.

  • 08.04.2012 10:35 PM PDT

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What are you trying to hide? Hmmmmm?

  • 08.04.2012 10:41 PM PDT

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You have no rights here, play nice.

  • 08.04.2012 10:54 PM PDT

meh...

or you could not worry about it. most of the groups are just like the flood anyway. you could go there instead.

  • 08.05.2012 2:23 PM PDT
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Dead Orbit Is Best Orbit

I want a group with a pretzel theme.

  • 08.05.2012 2:54 PM PDT

@spawn031

"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." John Williams

When I entered this thread, I thought we were going to discuss about how groups could literally have a "Status" posted on their front page, similar to facebook or twitter. Reminds me back in the previous version of bungie.net where private groups had a "most popular thread" feature where the name of the thread appeared on the group's homepage, even if it was private.

As for this thread though, I think some of those could work such as "away", "active" etc. I think the idea would be to help other users finding group that suite their desires when they spend time here. Although, I don't think groups should be deleted after X amount of inactivity.

If you're referring to "mods" as "bungie.net administrators" in your OP, then they should have full access to all groups (as they already do because they're administrators). If you're talking about the public "forum ninjas", they don't have moderating powers in private groups unless they're given them by group administrators.

When you create a group, you agree to follow the rules and regulations of the entire website. If you have to "hide" your group from the moderators/admins, then there is something fishy going on. If you want it so private, don't have it on bungie.net, go somewhere else and just invite your friends with you.

[Edited on 08.05.2012 3:08 PM PDT]

  • 08.05.2012 3:07 PM PDT

Posted by: DJ Yella

Posted by: Kickimanjaro
What's this about mods searching forums?
Super users search forums to make sure everyone's doing what they're told.


There aren't a lot of Superusers, and they definitely aren't the Forum Ninjas. There is never going to be an option that will keep Superusers from doing looking at what they want on the site.

  • 08.05.2012 3:18 PM PDT

Exactly what I was thinking...
Posted by: Kickimanjaro
What's this about mods searching forums?

  • 08.05.2012 4:31 PM PDT