Joel R

I never stated that IPS include this request - which by the way, that's all it was - immediately into their release. I would appreciate it if you never put words into my mouth again. (Fun Joel would like to remind everyone that he can make up plenty of words for himself juuuust fine ).
With that said, getting the job done is different than getting a great job done better.  I'm not satisfied with complacency, which is why I always encourage IPS to aspire to better and greater things.  If some clients are happy with what IPS offers, then great! There are other clients, however, who would like to continue to  encourage IPS to innovate and push out new features and to consider new possibilities and that as clients we should continue to provide feedback so they can iterate and improve.  
 
 

I never stated that IPS include this request - which by the way, that's all it was - immediately into their release. I would appreciate it if you never put words into my mouth again. (Fun Joel would like to remind everyone that he can make up plenty of words for himself juuuust fine ).
With that said, getting the job done is different than getting a great job done better.  I'm not satisfied with complacency, which is why I always encourage IPS to aspire to better and greater things.  If some clients are happy with what IPS offers, then great! There are other clients, however, who would like to continue to  encourage IPS to innovate and push out new features and to consider new possibilities and that as clients we should continue to provide feedback so they can iterate and improve.  
 
 

I still don't understand why you think that concern is important - whether you individually curate or auto post, bad content is bad content is bad content.  More importantly, we shouldn't be asking IPS to build tools for the lowest common denominator and worry about unsuccessful community managers who misuse ANY tool that's provided. If IPS stopped building their features because they were worried about a user misusing, that would be a knee jerk reaction.  We should instead be asking for tools that help successful and effective community managers proactively aspire to higher and better uses of their time, effectiveness, and reach.  

So what do you think your members will use Clubs for? Some of my members like to discuss favourite TV shows in a single long running topic, so I think they may like to set up say a Walking Dead Club. I could then move all of the existing Walking Dead topics into it, to get things started.
I can see how some might be confused with the concept. I always imagined social groups would be used on my main community for say a group of members who work on special projects like writing Virtual Seasons or or other creative projects like putting on some community event like at Halloween. Without a 'wall' as such, it makes me think Clubs are a bit like a group Blog (but with topics and Gallery images if you have those modules) or possibly a dedicated hidden team forum for specific members to view it, but Clubs seem a much better implementation.  

It doesn't encourage or discourage anything. It's a tool that makes it more efficient to cross-promote News post.  For example instead of Charles individually queueing each of these news article they can be auto-queued.  You obviously wouldn't apply this to every category or every user (although all of my posts are amazing and should always be shared).  I'm pretty sure Facebook pages with auto-fed zombie content are already penalized through low engagement and no visitors.  

1.  We can promote any content including those where guests don't have permissions, correct?  
2.  Photo of the block?  Both main content area and sidebar.
3.  I second the suggestion by @Real Hal9000 but with a more detailed suggestion: a setting in a category to automatically turn ON promotions for all new content.  (The author of the content item can still manually disable the promotion; and admins can still delete the promotion from the ACP.  All this does is automatically queue the promotions).  This automates the process even more for busy community managers like @Charles.  Keepin' it real for you Charles.
4.  Is Matt our new SEO Guru?? I can see him doing bicep curls as he draws nonsensical SEO diagrams:

Teach us this Matt.  
5.  "Our Picks" index page - any way to remove the titles and subtitle?  This can be a very compelling and dynamic homepage a la Pinterest once you add some blocks.   
6.  Safe to assume that content items on Our Picks index will follow permissions?  For example, members-only content items won't show to visitors?  
7.  Suggestion: allow Community Moderators / Admins to promote directly from the Activity Stream.  This will help speed up the promotion process 
8.  Suggestion: When re-promoting content (thank you Rikki for confirming), I think it would be beneficial to keep a history of prior promotions.  
9.  How many content items do we show on Our Picks index?  When do they fall off?  

1.  We can promote any content including those where guests don't have permissions, correct?  
2.  Photo of the block?  Both main content area and sidebar.
3.  I second the suggestion by @Real Hal9000 but with a more detailed suggestion: a setting in a category to automatically turn ON promotions for all new content.  (The author of the content item can still manually disable the promotion; and admins can still delete the promotion from the ACP.  All this does is automatically queue the promotions).  This automates the process even more for busy community managers like @Charles.  Keepin' it real for you Charles.
4.  Is Matt our new SEO Guru?? I can see him doing bicep curls as he draws nonsensical SEO diagrams:

Teach us this Matt.  
5.  "Our Picks" index page - any way to remove the titles and subtitle?  This can be a very compelling and dynamic homepage a la Pinterest once you add some blocks.   
6.  Safe to assume that content items on Our Picks index will follow permissions?  For example, members-only content items won't show to visitors?  
7.  Suggestion: allow Community Moderators / Admins to promote directly from the Activity Stream.  This will help speed up the promotion process 
8.  Suggestion: When re-promoting content (thank you Rikki for confirming), I think it would be beneficial to keep a history of prior promotions.  
9.  How many content items do we show on Our Picks index?  When do they fall off?  

1.  We can promote any content including those where guests don't have permissions, correct?  
2.  Photo of the block?  Both main content area and sidebar.
3.  I second the suggestion by @Real Hal9000 but with a more detailed suggestion: a setting in a category to automatically turn ON promotions for all new content.  (The author of the content item can still manually disable the promotion; and admins can still delete the promotion from the ACP.  All this does is automatically queue the promotions).  This automates the process even more for busy community managers like @Charles.  Keepin' it real for you Charles.
4.  Is Matt our new SEO Guru?? I can see him doing bicep curls as he draws nonsensical SEO diagrams:

Teach us this Matt.  
5.  "Our Picks" index page - any way to remove the titles and subtitle?  This can be a very compelling and dynamic homepage a la Pinterest once you add some blocks.   
6.  Safe to assume that content items on Our Picks index will follow permissions?  For example, members-only content items won't show to visitors?  
7.  Suggestion: allow Community Moderators / Admins to promote directly from the Activity Stream.  This will help speed up the promotion process 
8.  Suggestion: When re-promoting content (thank you Rikki for confirming), I think it would be beneficial to keep a history of prior promotions.  
9.  How many content items do we show on Our Picks index?  When do they fall off?  

Sooo many picture of Matt! 

...interesting. The same concept should be used in all apps too.

I saw that.  But are you ... the Most Special Leader??  
 

How do I get an invite to the Most Special Club?? 

But a user is applying ... based on what?  
There's no approval question or comment box for them to explain why they want to join.  I don't see how leaders can justify approvals in Clubs.

I saw that.  But are you ... the Most Special Leader??  
 

How do I get an invite to the Most Special Club?? 

How do I get an invite to the Most Special Club?? 

Charles is clearly The Glorious Leader.

Anything change in containers from 3rd-party apps is required to make it available?

Very nice feature, but I would like to request the approving/declining part to be made available on the front end as a hook for members awaiting validation. I've wanted that for some years now and it looks great in the screenshot above for clubs.

This increases content item's reputation as well as user's reputation? 
How does this display on a users profile? 
Any blocks to show latest reactions? 

Venues.  Whoa.  That's a whole other type of calendar thing.  I can actually see a compelling use for civic centers, art houses, or social groups. Wish you could define your own venues like "Joel's backyard" or "Lindy's mega car shop" or "Online".
Maps.  What is that?? 

Delayed deletes are, at least to me, a more elegant implementation than the forum trashcan.  
Delayed Delete's ModCP listing contains all of the benefits of a forum trashcan: central location, delete when you want, one spot, easy to find and search.  But it retains the location of the original post, which means you retain context and meaning and discussion flow.  You don't have those benefits in a forum trashcan.  

They show anywhere the 'guest teaser' does, which includes the comments sections of all of the other apps.

Delayed deletes are, at least to me, a more elegant implementation than the forum trashcan.  
Delayed Delete's ModCP listing contains all of the benefits of a forum trashcan: central location, delete when you want, one spot, easy to find and search.  But it retains the location of the original post, which means you retain context and meaning and discussion flow.  You don't have those benefits in a forum trashcan.  

Delayed deletes are, at least to me, a more elegant implementation than the forum trashcan.  
Delayed Delete's ModCP listing contains all of the benefits of a forum trashcan: central location, delete when you want, one spot, easy to find and search.  But it retains the location of the original post, which means you retain context and meaning and discussion flow.  You don't have those benefits in a forum trashcan.