So there's a couple ways to sub organize a community.
- Let the community detail (community settings... aka metadata) which TAGS they'd like to use to subdivide posts.
Not sure how well hivemind handles this but i'm guessing it will be just fine.
This provides pretty much ONLY a subdivisions of content but also does kind of let users know which kinds of content is popular and expected. - Have multiple hive communities tied together and Let a community state which community is a PARENT community.
They would be legit communities each one of them ... this allows different moderators, labels, descriptions and allows people to SUBSCRIBE to different sections of a large community structure. The interfaces would be expected to list the child-communities and the child community the parent one. However the issue is letting people know they may not have child-community content show up in their feed unless they specifically subscribe. - I suppose a mix of the two could be good.
Meaning only tie multiple hive communities together if there is a reason to have varient leadership moderators and maybe subscribers. For example a POSTING community and a FORUM type community maybe a 3rd option could be a community that is for OFFICIAL POSTS and is more of a locked community that only the organization/business can post to. People can subscribe to that one as more of an Important feeds sort of thing.
Otherwise divide by topic/keyword.
Thoughts on that?
I think what I would prefer this as a basic option. This is basically what I was suggesting above, but I forgot to add that part, that the community owner dictates what sub-communities exist. I imagine it being an organic thing that once a certain portion of the community gets big enough, they can break off and form their own -sub-community.
I think that with the option to be able to have community mergers which sounds like what you were talking about in option two could be an advanced option that I could see being useful if two communities independently grow but have large intersections in their communities they could merge under a parent community, but also maintain their independence. THAT sounds really powerful especially combining that with smt's and the monetization of communities.
So sub-dividion of content and yet also have sub-communities?
I thought we were talking about the same thing with those. What do you mean when you say sub-division of content?
I like the idea of a FORUM type community and an official posts locked section, or a search by keyword to find the thread you want to find out about. For example, say two weeks ago we had a conversation about 'sage' on Natural Medicine, and someone wants to know about it - they can easily search for that post/conversation. Or you could get alerts for new comments for that thread (too much?). Separating out the various types of posts within the communities would be awesome.