Secret Private Groups
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That totally makes sense. Today so many postings, or just information itself does not seem to fit within a small little box of hierarchy so I can definitely see how this could help.
Does the user have to choose to tag these key words, or are they picked up automatically? If it's a manual process, how did you get physician buy-in to choose the needed tags?
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@Dashrender on ML, you can add tags at topic creation (or edit)
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@Dashrender said:
Does the user have to choose to tag these key words, or are they picked up automatically? If it's a manual process, how did you get physician buy-in to choose the needed tags?
Hopefully with practice people tag well, just by spending time thinking about it and watching other people and attempting to use tags themselves. But, in reality, the mods do a lot of manual tag additions and modifications.
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Can someone TL;DR this all for me?
How does one join a secret private group plotting to take over the world?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Does the user have to choose to tag these key words, or are they picked up automatically? If it's a manual process, how did you get physician buy-in to choose the needed tags?
Hopefully with practice people tag well, just by spending time thinking about it and watching other people and attempting to use tags themselves. But, in reality, the mods do a lot of manual tag additions and modifications.
Mods tagging work well in a paid forum, and might even work well in a free one where the mods really enjoy that sort of thing.. and there is constant turn over in the mod (because I have to think that would get old pretty quickly).
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@MattSpeller said:
Can someone TL;DR this all for me?
How does one join a secret private group plotting to take over the world?
They start by changing their name to The Brain.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Does the user have to choose to tag these key words, or are they picked up automatically? If it's a manual process, how did you get physician buy-in to choose the needed tags?
Hopefully with practice people tag well, just by spending time thinking about it and watching other people and attempting to use tags themselves. But, in reality, the mods do a lot of manual tag additions and modifications.
Mods tagging work well in a paid forum, and might even work well in a free one where the mods really enjoy that sort of thing.. and there is constant turn over in the mod (because I have to think that would get old pretty quickly).
In theory the mods only need to clean up a little. In practical terms, though, I have the bandwidth to do this for a site far, far busier than ML and have in the past. Doing tag updates is a fraction of the work of catching all missed, unanswered threads in SW which I used to do alone for a long time before giving up mod powers there. That process was far slower and more intensive. So for a long time, we don't really have an issue with throughput for it.
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Well we have concluded the experiment with the secret, private groups on ML and we really appreciate everyone's feedback and consideration on this. The result is that we feel that this could have worked but the opinions of people who were using the private groups was that they were not useful or would be useful but the overwhelming volume of public ML traffic made them less than useful. So the idea wasn't necessarily bad, but it just isn't what people were going to want it to be.
So at this time, the private groups are being disabled and shut down. There has been no traffic on them for at least a month anyway, they just ended up not being used (partially because we had already moved to another platform for testing at that point.)
So anyone who had concerns that this was not a good use of the ML platform, have no fear, the private groups are no more
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For those following along, all of the private groups are gone. Nothing left of that experiment. Everything is quite public again.
