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Make Server Meta Meta Group #8

Closed cjcodell1 closed 3 years ago

cjcodell1 commented 3 years ago

Now that there are 12 channels (or 11 after Secret Santa ends) in the Server Meta 💡, I suggest creating a new channel group called Server Meta 💡💡 and move some of the new meta Server Meta 💡 into there.

Or move some of the channels into existing channel groups. typing-tests could go into interests since there is a small subset of users who are very competitive and care about their speed. Both typing-tests and soundtest have no meta conversations about the server, so the Interests group is a better place for them. numbers-and-other-characters very nicely fits into Welcome for all the new users with their first 40% in dire need of help typing numbers.

Server Meta 💡 could also be reordered. announcements, suggestion-box, and showcase are some of the most important channels in this group. They should be at the top.

cjcodell1 commented 3 years ago

Implementing these changes will help cut down on spam from users misclicking channels. This server had a major disagreement in regards to the posting of typing tests. Some users like myself have the typing test channel muted. Accidently posted typing tests can cause extreme trauma when posted in an unmuted channel. In fact, if this typing test had not been sent in the wrong channel, at least 11 off topic messages could have been prevented. This is about 5 inches of screen space in the Cozy message display (or, for our European friends, 3 inches in the Compact message display).

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FrancisUsher commented 3 years ago

Really great idea. Marking with a label of "good first issue" as a simple application of machine learning would solve this problem, which anyone should be able to trivially do.

KnoblesseOblige commented 3 years ago

I think that there are a lot of good suggestions in the original post here.

Or move some of the channels into existing channel groups. typing-tests could go into interests since there is a small subset of users who are very competitive and care about their speed. Both typing-tests and soundtest have no meta conversations about the server, so the Interests group is a better place for them. numbers-and-other-characters very nicely fits into Welcome for all the new users with their first 40% in dire need of help typing numbers.

I would agree that typing-tests deserves to live in interests rather than meta, since it's not a discussion about the server itself. That being said, soundtest is a read-only channel so it is very much a meta channel just like showcase.

I also think that tossing the newly created numbers-and-other-characters in the Welcome channel is a great improvement.

Server Meta 💡 could also be reordered. announcements, suggestion-box, and showcase are some of the most important channels in this group. They should be at the top.

I also think that this is a good improvement. I will look at the other meta channels as well and see if any of those can be ordered more intentionally.

KnoblesseOblige commented 3 years ago

All actionable items have been completed. Closing for now.