Maybe on AG3, there could be exclusive benefits for frequent users. There could be groups only the top members had access to, or threads that only they could see. They could have more voting power, etc.
Agreed. We've already said that groups will be added at a later point after AG3 launches, and someone else brought up an idea discussed several weeks ago about letting high-score users have access to a hidden forum, which we said we'd consider.
[quote=Cormyn]about letting high-score users have access to a hidden forum, which we said we'd consider.[/quote] That's actually what I meant in a nutshell. That might have even been me that made that thread :P
Well, since this topic is back up (lol), can there possibly be a way in which you can toggle out members' activity streams in the groups or have separate areas just for a group's AS? If you pair this up with regular followers/friends, it can be near impossible to read them all without them being hidden. When the feature of groups actually comes into play, of course :P
I was just thinking that it would be cool if you were able to join exclusive groups once you were on the site for so long.
Joe96, I hear what you're saying. We've had a lot of dormant users on the site, though, so automatically adding users based on length of membership could get messy. We'd almost have to track how many days you've been "active" on AG3, like playing games, leaving comments, etc. But that might get a little hard for us to program into the site because we'd be writing TONS of tracking information.
That'd be cool if you could join certain groups made specifically for certain things(programming, gaming tips, etc.)
I agree, but some of those kinds of groups may need an "official AG ____ group" for things like programmers, game developers, etc, so we don't end up with 10,000 groups about Flash development, and another 10,000 groups about some political point of view, etc. It would get too difficult for users to find groups, etc. It's one of the most frustrating things I find about Facebook -- anyone can create a "group" about any topic and start inviting people to it, but that allows for a million "Justin Beiber" groups, etc. Bleh.
All of that aside, I'm confused what you wrote, Frank:
be a way in which you can toggle out members' activity streams in the groups or have separate areas just for a group's AS? If you pair this up with regular followers/friends, it can be near impossible to read them all without them being hidden.
Well if a guy looks on his dashboard and sees the activity stream of his followees, his friends, AND his group members, it can get chaotic, especially if the group has a high count. So I was thinking you could make a separate section for group AS's or toggle the activity stream on/off.
