The teams system is honestly super confusing and the article on it wasn't the most comprehensive.
I have a few things which I believe would be useful and make more sense (personally).
I'd love to hear other people's opinions on this. Do you feel as though the conflation of personal identity and business identity strips the professionalism aspect?
I have a few things which I believe would be useful and make more sense (personally).
- Allow users to set a defaults for individual resources and team resources for: PayPal, Terms of Service, Linked Thread, Discord Support URL. That means people don't have to manually input it for each of them every time they make a new resource (it can be super tedious when you need to copy and paste other things and constantly have to go back for the links). This would allow users to avoid filling out each of the categories every time and if they wanted the default one to be overwritten, they could manually input it into the resource creation menu. This is already the case for the PayPal box so having the ability to do it for the other details would be incredibly useful.
- Have options to display the resources under the teams alias (whilst including the team members in the authors too). This would just make it more professional and then you can also maintain a business identity whilst still acknowledging contributors. In my opinion, having a "team" should allow people to post their content under said alias rather than under their main one with collaborators listed. You should be able to click on the team to look at the teams resources (similar to the old system where you could use the right side column, click on the username and be taken to their resource list. This has been removed and I think it should be brought back).
- Contributors should be able to bump threads.
- I, personally, am not too sure what the "confusion" was which lead to them being removed but I think it has really removed the essence of "teams" in general as now it's all conflated under the usernames we choose rather than the business names we identify with. I don't like how it combines a professional entity with my personal username as I think it makes it lose the element of professionalism I would like to maintain when advertising my "team."
- It also then starts to combine the personal stuff with the business stuff i.e. my signature is nothing to do with my business, I don't want to remove it but now it feels disconnected.
- It removes the ability for your team to be identified essentially in general e.g. there's no use for having a logo as my profile picture if you're unable to identify the team name and search for the team etc. Again, this is conflating my personal identity with my business identity and I preferred having them separate.
I'd love to hear other people's opinions on this. Do you feel as though the conflation of personal identity and business identity strips the professionalism aspect?
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