I'm in the midst of trying to get a group I moderate "back on focus" in the main group, and to direct folks who are posting off-topic material on that main group to use a chat subgroup instead.
I know that at the moment there is no mechanism on Groups.io that would allow a topic to be moved from main group to subgroup or vice versa, and if one were to be created it would have to automatically subscribe a user to the subgroup were a message going main to sub and they weren't already a subscriber to the subgroup.
Someone on the group just said this, and as an old Usenet user it does make me think that such a mechanism might exist, but that I don't know about it:
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n the old usenet group scene we had a followups-to heading that could be generated and seen so people knew the topic had drifted from suitable for one group to more in keeping with another. Does the groups.io system have something similar?"
It would be so much more handy to be able to force followups to a subgroup as opposed to locking a topic and PMing the original poster asking them to start the topic again in the subgroup.
I love the concept of subgroups, but the way that Groups.io implements them makes them largely invisible to main group users and there is no easy mechanism that I know of to redirect topics between group and subgroups in a given group structure.
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