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Title: Social Group categories
Post by: Wayne on May 18, 2009, 03:44:37 PM

I'm sure being new to vBulletin, a lot of you haven't yet discovered the Social Groups under the Community tab.

Social Groups are -- in essence -- the virtual collective equivalent to the old "User Groups" or "SIGs" where people with specific interests can get together and share conversations about their favorite subjects, without the need to create a wide-open public "non-Amiga related" forum on an Amiga site.

Any registered user can create and manage any group they want within reason.  Common courtesy and "safe-for-work" rules apply though.

As of right now, I've segmented the few groups that have been created into the following categories;
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Hobbies
Groups that pertain to hobbies like music, podcasting, video, mp3's, racing, sock collecting, etc.

Miscellaneous
Groups that don't fit anywhere else

People
Social groups which relate to specific groups of people (alcoholics, Australians, sock wearers, etc)

Technology
Social groups pertaining to devices, their software, and stuff like that.

This is a living list, so if I've missed any categories, please let me know.
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Otherwise, if you have a live User Group that needs a place to hang out and discuss things online without having to set up your own site and forums, this would be a GREAT opportunity for you guys.

Wayne

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: Karlos on May 18, 2009, 03:47:18 PM

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Miscellaneous
Groups that don't fit anywhere else

I can think of one ;)

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: Karlos on May 19, 2009, 12:07:21 AM

Looks to me like this is proving to be a popular feature :)

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: motorollin on May 19, 2009, 03:51:59 PM

Can the social group postings be added to the post counts? We didn't get where we are today by talking about Amigas :p

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: Wayne on May 19, 2009, 03:59:30 PM

Quote from: motorollin;455110

Can the social group postings be added to the post counts? We didn't get where we are today by talking about Amigas :p

Unfortunately, no.  Different part of the program.

Besides, we all know post counts don't count.

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: motorollin on May 19, 2009, 04:04:51 PM

Bah, you're only saying that 'cause you've got a measly 3000-odd :p

Edit - perhaps that taunt was unwise considering you can probably reset me to 0 :nervous:

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: Karlos on May 19, 2009, 04:05:42 PM

Quote from: motorollin;455114

Bah, you're only saying that 'cause you've got a measly 3000-odd :p

So says the guy with the measly sub 10K :p ;)

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: motorollin on May 19, 2009, 04:14:08 PM

You've been here for three years longer than I have. So I think you'll find I'm catching you up :p

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: Karlos on May 19, 2009, 04:16:48 PM

To be fair, I barely posted for the last 2 years.

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: motorollin on May 19, 2009, 04:19:30 PM

Oh... er... yeah, me too!

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: Karlos on May 19, 2009, 04:26:11 PM

No, really. Before your time here I guess, but I used to post like a maniac.

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: motorollin on May 19, 2009, 04:28:52 PM

Yeah I know, I'm just trying to make myself feel a little less inadequate ;)

Title: Social Group categories
Post by: Karlos on May 19, 2009, 04:30:53 PM

Well, the new site is bringing out my slightly nutty side again. Let the good times roll!