Official Geographic communities

[radiantsoul]

Title
Official Geographic communities

Short, concise description of the idea
All new members are automatically subscribed to an official, moderated community that represents their geographic area.

Full description of the ideaThe idea is that there will be several geographic communites; say UK, France, Germany, Russia, etc. These would be moderated

Comments

[diziara]

Totally unrelated to how to handle existing geographic central communities and how to work out the making official, or the competition of creating an "official" version, but I object to the automagical auto-join of new members into communities based upon location

[danceinacircle]

This I could get behind. I have my own reasons for wanting geographic communities with large numbers of users, and having LJ suggest specific ones would make my job a lot easier. =P

[radiantsoul]

I quite like the auto suggest idea. An LJ newbie community would be interesting too.

Another option I would like would be details of community usage on the community search pages. The problem I have is that as a newbie I join, her about communites, decide I am from the UK and search for UK. I then get 384 communities sorted only by the most recently updated.

[rizzo]

that's not a bad idea at all. you should make your own suggestion. ;)

[charliemc]

Autosuggest good. Autosubscribe bad...

Agreed.

[lassarina]

+1 to suggesting.

I myself spent a long time when I was a wee small thing on the Internets being terrified to even indicate what STATE I lived in (o early days of the Internets, when my parents tried to convince me that everyone online wanted to kidnap me or kill me), and that's something else to consider - people may not be comfortable (especially under-18 folks) admitting what state they live in - or city, for big cities like NYC/LA/Chicago/London/Paris/etc.