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Official Geographic communities
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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
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The potential for wank is way too great with this suggestion. I believe LJ should pass.
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The opt in thing was a typo. But probably I would present the option to opt in rather than making it mandatory.
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I do feel LJ does need a center though. It lacks the prebuilt "social network" of facebook, the celeb cool of "twitter", etc. If you join where do you find friends or communities?
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I don't really know what proportion of people use their journal for what purpose. It would be an interesting piece of research. I suspect there are far more day-in-the-life bloggers with 20 odd friends than anything else, but who knows?
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While most people are sticking to the fact that it's odd phrasing- "auto-subscribe" and "opt-in," I think my biggest problem is the part about making it an official LJ community. First off, some of the maintainers/moderators of smaller communities (for instance, the st_louis community that I'm in) wouldn't be able to handle a large group of people, some would get power trips, and it would just in general be a bad idea and probably isolate and anger a lot of the users you were hoping to bring into the fold, so to speak.
The only other option would be to seek out and essentially "hire" maintainers that could handle the load. LJ Staff doesn't exactly have the time to prospect for new maintainers of each of these communities. And somehow I doubt LJ Support volunteers would really want to get behind it. I know I wouldn't.
I think I garbled that a bit, but I'm barely awake so that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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I DISCLAIMED THE FACT THAT I WAS BARELY AWAKE!
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