Topic: Organization. Background: In all group activities, there's always a pecking order, an order of permissions and control. Some of these are inherent to personalities and interpersonal dynamics; some are imposed structures. Please make sure you enter reference as "Organization / specific topic" in e-mail sent to [email protected]. CLUB ORGANIZATION FOUNDERS PRIVILEGIES: Anyway, I have a suggestion. Actually a couple, first of all my first concerns the whole co-founder thing. I'm sure you've heard of it. I don't think giving the co-founder equal power and immunity to deletion is a good idea. Don't worry, we'll soon allow you to decide what the cofounder can and cannot do. So if you don't want to give them power to delete your club, you won't have to. MEMBERSHIP LEVELS: We need a new user level... CO-FOUNDER for subsequent added "Founders".  All the same functionality, EXCEPT they could NOT delete the clubs they are CO-founders in AND they COULD be reset to a NORMAL member status without quiting and re-joining the club.  If a FOUNDER quits the club, the FIRST and most SENIOR CO-FOUNDER would move up to FOUNDER status.  Do some of you remember the old BBS days when you had a SYSOP and many CO-SYSOP? It'd work much like that.      All part of the plan. The second part is something we'll remedy.  The fact that there's only two levels of membership forces fouders to make tough decisions about who to give Admin control to.  We will create more tiers of permissions, so it's not an all or nothing gamble when you promote people to have admin privileges. LEVEL OF PERMISSIONS: There should a facility for only the originating Founder to be able to delete the club with the co-founders being given all the other powers except that one. I live in fear that someone might do the dirty sometime or be hacked. A system whereby it needs the original founder and another founder to delete a member and ban him may also be worthwhile.     There will be a better level of permissions, so you can let someone edit and delete items in the club without letting them delete the entire club itself. Read here Valerie's proposal for a new membership structure. CLUBS MERGE: This is going to sound strange, but the possibility of merging 2 clubs, so that they share the same amount of members, links, and pictures.     This is a pretty difficult undertaking technically, and the outcome wouldn't be that useful for 90% of Clubs users. I think we can skip this one and use our resources for more far reaching feature development.   TOC Review Topics Introduction to TOC Visit Yahoo! Club Founders' Club CFC Main Page You are visitor to this page. This page and its graphics were created by exclusively for The Club Founders' Yahoo! Chat Club. It is best viewed on a 800x600 screen set for True Color with or and is hosted by . Get them NOW!