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Why can only leaders schedule posts?
Although I understand that it is insurmountably more important for a leader to be able to schedule a post I do feel it may come in handy for the (very occasional) user as well, especially if they frequent that community a lot. Although I could also see it being rather irreleavent to most people and could potentially give a small amount of extra clutter to someone trying to post. But maybe there's something I don't see with it?




As Dan stated, a lot of this has to do with spam, but in a less direct sense of the word. We're not quite as concerned about people creating literal spam, but maybe 15 people all schedule an almost identical post to do a live reactions discussion as a new episode airs or a game starts, and that creates difficulty. Or if you want to troll the community, you could create posts that would go up every single minute. Or whatever other inconvenient to nefarious things you can think of.
The other part is less about preventing bad behavior and more about preventing good. The whole reason we created Imzy is as a community platform where people interact with each other and discuss. We want you to be around when you post something! It's disappointing for everyone when someone posts, you comment a minute later, and they never come back. It's not the best way to facilitate community interactions.
Of course, we're open to discussing this further if there's enough of a demand for it, but that's why we set it up that way.
that does make sense, I wonder if this could be helped a little bit by showing a small amount of the post was shown under a "planned posts" tab although it would have to be only the title or very little of the post or something else it spoils the whole point of scheduling a post. Also all that is leaning on the idea that everyone would title their post correctly, which, people don't....they just don't.
That's really interesting feedback and TBH I wasn't part of the discussions when this feature was made. Historically at other sites this is generally not available to people for spam reasons, but ... I'm not really sure! I'll talk to the team about it and I'd love to hear others opinions on this! If anyone has opinions, please share!
So for me this actually carries into another post I was creating. I would like to be able to give certain users advanced privileges. Not make them leaders but approved community posters so to speak. This way if I wanted to limit the people who create a post in a community I could set the post requirements to approved posters only without having to make them leaders so to speak.
I don't see anything positive coming from allowing everyone to schedule post though in the community. However if able to select certain individuals as approved posters who could schedule posts that would good. Or if he community wanted to schedule posts I would like all scheduled posts to have to be reviewed and approved by leaders.
Example if I have 20 people and a game developer all scheduling posts for the start of a tournament I can approve the game developer and explain to the other 20 that this post has already been scheduled.
This is a great idea too!
SO MANY GOOD IDEAS!
I also like that. I think another idea along that line especially for larger communities would be if a person meets certain criteria they could be automatically given privileges.
These criteria might be making x number of posts/comments, spending x amount of time interacting, being in the top x% of people in the community, being an x-man (haha, pun) or whatever other criteria.
Not sure I agree with this, as I know if I had bad intentions I could get around this if known. Assuming this information would be public knowledge it could be abused. I would much rather just have full control of who can post.
This is just my opinion though, and if one was able to turn this feature on or off I think I would be fine with others who might want it on themselves for their communities.
true, I have seen this abused in various gaming communities and stuff of that nature as well.