[#SVC-2817] Communication-Only Groups ('Announcement Groups')

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Communication-Only Groups ('Announcement Groups')

Created: 16/Dec/07 03:16 PM Updated: 21/Oct/08 12:43 PM

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Groups

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Duplicate

This issue duplicates:

SVC-2816 to have simplified groups to raise the limit of 25 groups

Relates

This issue Relates to:

SVC-2833 More than 25 groups!

This issue is related to by:

SVC-3278 Group Chat Moderation - Announce Only

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Please add communications-only groups, leaving the current group system unchanged (for build permissions, etc). The communications-only groups would be much more lightweight, not requiring permissions queries per sim or region, thus reducing bandwidth use. This new type of group would allow only Notices and IMs, and would perhaps also allow related events to be set Notify per group.

Users would be able to subscribe to an absurdly large number of communications-only groups, because these groups wouldn't have the network demands of the current group system.

They could be called Announcement Groups, to clarify their purpose.

Many businesses and other groups use two different groups anyway: One for announcements and one for build/manage/admin permissions. So allow this split to be more fundamentally supported by SL itself, aiding those businesses by removing the headache of the 25 group limitation.

Note that this feature request started life as a comment on another feature request: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-208#action_38430

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Mercia Mcmahon added a comment - 16/Dec/07 03:58 PM

Looks like a duplicate of MISC-767, but slight differences so I have not resolved it as a duplicate, just linked it.

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TonyEMS Heying added a comment - 19/Feb/08 01:47 PM

[Let group owners choose if group members can send messages to the group]
Group IM is the most common form of spamming and griefing in SL. I agree that there needs to be a choice (a check box) to disallow group members from sending messages to the whole group. This is a terrible situation and causes many people to leave groups because of the nuisance of receiving irrelevant and unwanted messages. I manage a large group of over 1,500 members and I constantly experience this sort of abuse routinely. It should be given top priority and should be very easy to implement. by: TonyEMS Heying at the Alpine Executive Center

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Hydra Charron added a comment - 13/Apr/08 11:08 AM

I agree that it should be possible to control whether group members can post. This is a big problem, and has caused me to leave otherwise useful groups.