There's a bit of a disagreement on whether we should have all 50 states in a single category (it'd be named state discussions) or whether to have them in different regional categories. To decide, we'll put this up to a vote. If you want to have a single state categories, hit (A), if you want multiple regional state categories like we do now, hit (B).

B

(B)

it's cleaner

having a geographic basis makes things clearer

for instance, Mississippi and Massachusetts are VERY different

I have a suggestion for roles

so it makes sense to group Missisippi with Louisiana and Alabama

and Massachusetts with Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, etc

I'm putting the reactions up and seeing how it'll work out, I didn't vote A

let's add roles that displays each user's state

yeah

it's hard to keep track of things

it's a nuisance to have to ask "who lives in X state" so often

I'm thinking of adding a dynobot to the server, we'll get to that when we get to that

Right now let's focus on the states

Okay, lemme put the vote up in bulletin board instead so people don't have to scroll up

gimme a sec

i've got the state roles covered

Alright, what did you have in mind

I am all for smaller states being lumpes together, makes people in local areas be aware to help other states that need it

I personally prefer a single alphabetical category for all the states for convenience, but we'll leave it up to votes

the thing is, Wyoming and Vermont are both small states, but I don't think they should be grouped together

small in population

if I want to look for Pennsylvania, I can just go to the rust belt section, and it's right there

instead of having to scroll all the way down to it

it makes sense to have regional categories

because states within a certain region have common issues

Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania have similar problems

New York, New Jersey, etc are similar

The issue I have with it is I don't want to clutter the discord a ton of different categories purely for states, and also, there's a lot of overlap between categories.

The downside to that would be stuff get cleared easily and you can lose conversation if you have everyone together. That is where I am against multi grouping of states

For example, ohio

It's filed under midwest, I think you could argue to put that in the rust belt, etc

@Linkueigman the state channels are for dumping info and discussing the issues for that state, I don't see the problem

@FLanon true, but it doesn't really matter

I just think i'ts better than having them all grouped under the same category

it's much easier to just navigate the 5 channels in the "rust belt" category than to look for each one in a group of 50 different channels

I could see it more as too many states group together and having them all the active you have to scroll up for any news someone might have missed unless you pin everything every single thing for news

it matters because I want the discord to be easier to use, and for people to find their state easy, alphabetics can't go wrong

I am for something like how do you see the Rust Belt I'm for that because it makes it look a lot cleaner with less channels