RE: In's and Outs Of Communities. What’s changed!? What the least you need to know!?
If you are posting using the normal CREATE A POST button outside of a community, then you must add their HIVE tag as the first tag. For example to post to the ecoTrain community you would use the tag hive-123046 first. See image:
You really shouldn't do this to be honest... just use the interface to choose your community they'll put in the proper info and no one will make mistakes like we've been seeing.
Not just for that reason but too many people think communities is just a tag. They think of tribes... It's not like tribes at all we are not summoning a community with a tag. You are making a decision to put your post in that community and only in that community.
What you've said about cross-posting is right on and what I'd add is that cross-posting has a different set of comments by design because the post may appeal to this NEW audience differently and they may have different conversations.
ive removed all mention of manually adding hive tags.. it was confusing and is totally not needed now.. wastes a tag if anything it looks like! SO its simple, just use the interface to assign a community whilst you post..
totally agree,, its almost not worth mentioning using the hive tag manually as ite SO easy using the system.. couldnt help mentioning it thoguh as so many people have been doing it during beta testing.,.
thanks for fact checking, very important! and clarifying on the thinking behind having separate comments.
im very curious what your thoughts are about having the option to post to maybe 2 or even three communities? My thoughts are it would help other small communities grow.. as choosing just one to post to is (already) so hard to do sometimes.. it can get tricky!?
You can give it a shot right now if you want manually (actually posting it several times). We aren't going to develop a UI for that unless there is a lot of people doing it and it's being received well.
But let us know how it goes for you.
well, im trying to figure out how best to use these parameters.. preferably without having to double / triple post..
after some thought, and testing i think community curators can also do some cross-posting to bring in content that they want to see.. so we dont rely on the author so much to do that work or have to double post.. I've already made a new cross-posting account for the SpiritWeb Community and used it to bring in a few posts.. Seems to work and solve the issue..