Groups - so many old, out of date groups. What to do?

I realize I am probably going to open a group can o' worms but when I look at the groups, I noticed so many are very old - not touched in over a year. So I want to put this out there to all of you. I would love to have Groups be a more meaningful space that helps people connect, plan, or do what they need by using Groups.

So to do this, should I delete old groups? Any criteria I should consider? Should I keep them out there and just close them, marking each closed group with an "Archive"? 

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Permalink Reply by yaj 7.4 on February 13, 2015 at 1:19pm

Howard makes good suggestions. And I think 14 months is a good cut off, that allows for an event that aspires to be an annual event but gets a little behind the schedule to revive itself.

Permalink Reply by Haddon on February 13, 2015 at 1:27pm

Everything h' says is eminently reasonable

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 14, 2015 at 1:13am

I agree with Howard's suggestions.

Permalink Reply by Joe Guzzardo on February 14, 2015 at 1:58am

We may participate in the forums, but your average bicyclist is not a groupie. We're independent minded. Kind of like trying to herd cats, I guess. As long as the entries are still there and searchable, what's the harm? 

Permalink Reply by Irvin Steinert on February 14, 2015 at 8:17am

I think that closing them is probably counter to you goal of making them more relevant. Just make the default sorting by most used in the last 30 days. If you are just simply running out of hard drive space then "delete away".

Permalink Reply by Ken Gray on February 15, 2015 at 1:42am

The group RIDE FOR SHELTER could be deleted. It was based on training for a single event and it would be easy enough to re-group if we ever come together for a like event. Thanks, Ken

Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on February 15, 2015 at 4:20am

Yeah. I wonder if the purpose of the groups could be replaced by functionality of the site redesign. I only use the Chainlink for the forums, and, thanks to the nightmare that is Ning, they are hands down the worst forums I've ever had the agony of using. The redesigned site could perhaps include a greater number of sub-forums, negating the need for the group feature entirely?

EDIT: This is assuming that the functionality of the current groups could be handled by a subform.

Joe Guzzardo said:

We may participate in the forums, but your average bicyclist is not a groupie. We're independent minded. Kind of like trying to herd cats, I guess. As long as the entries are still there and searchable, what's the harm? 

Permalink Reply by Sol on February 15, 2015 at 6:03am
Purge, baby purge. I think 14 months is a good cutoff.
Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on February 15, 2015 at 6:19am

Purge them with fire.

Viking funeral style.

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on February 15, 2015 at 6:27am
"It's time to say goodbye!". . . A group should continue to exist only if it is active with some sort of time limit attached. There are a lot of long time inactive/dead groups by long time inactive/gone members.

"It's time to say goodbye!" . . . (Delete) . . . "Goodbye!".
Permalink Reply by Fran Kondorf on February 15, 2015 at 7:41am

I'm old and out of date- please don't be rid of me.

Permalink Reply by Irvin Steinert on February 15, 2015 at 7:55am

Bicyclists are so widely varied that it is certainly too vast a group to count as a single unit and gain any clarity of understanding of an individual by labeling them as a member of it. The reality is that Chainlink has morphed into a commuter/utilitarian cyclist community with some members crossing over to other cycling interests.

I have always found it humorous when the "news media" will interview someone driving a car as a "motorist" as if they speak in harmony (if not unity) with all "motorists". The same could be said about "cyclists".

Joe Guzzardo said:

We may participate in the forums, but your average bicyclist is not a groupie. We're independent minded. Kind of like trying to herd cats, I guess. As long as the entries are still there and searchable, what's the harm? 

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