Forum Subgroups

I sent an email to Jeska to see if we could add subgroups to our forum (no response yet). Due to the volume of posts we have in our forum, I thought the creation of subgroups would facilitate governmental discussions.

If you like the idea of subgroups, how should we implement them?

1. Clear out the root forum and create subgroups like SL with topics such as "government", "general", "feature requests", or "classified".
   
2. Leave the root forum for general discussions and feature requests and create three subgroups, one for each governmental branch.
   
3. Keep things as they are and add only a single "government" subgroup as a place to hash out bills and constitutional issues.

What ideas do you have?

Additionally, I was thinking that it makes sense to add all members of the Philosophic Branch (the Scientific Council) as moderators to the forum, as conflict resolution is their service role within the city government.

~Ulrika~

My vote would be to clear out the root and put everything in the sub-groups. That way anyone looking for a topic would have to go to a subgroup, and the ones that seemed more "boring" would be less likely to be overlooked.

And SC members as Moderators makes perfect sense to me.

Sudane

I just heard back from Jeska. She's asking LL right now if it would be possible to add subgroups to our forum. In her email she wanted to know how many subgroups we wanted. I tend to like your suggestion Sudane, of clearing out the root group and placing everything into subtopic, however it sounded like we might be limited to less rather than more subgroups.

I told her that at a minimum we'd need a single "Government" subtopic, where we could move all of our arcane governmental, political, and economic discussions about constitutions, bills, laws, deeds, and covenants out of the common area. However, I told her we would prefer more than that.

I'll keep you posted.

~Ulrika~

Well, we haven't followed this part of the constitution yet:

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Section 5 - Journal

The SC shall keep and publish a journal of its proceedings. All
individual votes of the members of the SC on any question shall
always be entered in the journal, along with a statement regarding
their personal philosophy on a given vote.
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I am not sure what it means by "publish", but I think a separate area for such things would be very handy.

If there are other things - like minutes for each of the branches' meetings, drafts and final copies of bills - it would nice to have subgroups.