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@Velocio
I've added a new feature, it's to help people make the forum what they want and to give you the keys to moderate some areas of the forum.
So... what is new?
Well, if you are a regular user (been posting for more than a few days) and you have started a Social Group... and if that Social Group has more than 5 members... then you can now create your own forum for that social group.
Further, the owner of the social group becomes a moderator of the forum and can also set privacy options for the forum (i.e. trixie chics could choose to have a 100% private forum only viewable by other trixie chic social group members).
The benefit of this is that as long as there is a demand for a new area, you can just create it. Not just that, but you get to police it too. You can create forums for any social group with more than 5 people... so the power to create a forum for Brighton is in your hands, as is a forum for Stolen Bikes, or Bike Polo.
Why bother? Well if you have forums you can start setting forum subscriptions so you get email updates when posts are made to your forum. So if there are a whole load of threads specific to brighton, and new ones will always be made... put them all in a Brighton Social Group Forum and you just subscribe to the forum for updates.
Then there's the control. How about a forum for the hardcore bike polo members? And then only those who you permit to join the social group get access to the forum... and only those who can post in the forum can vote on polls that affect you (why let people vote when they don't turn up all the time?).
The purpose of this isn't to dilute the main forums, and I don't think it will. It's to give you control of the forum so that you can adapt it to fit needs that are currently unfulfilled or that I perhaps wouldn't choose to accomodate at the global level.
Let me know what you think.