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People together

Communities around a node

Join the people building around a shared node and understand membership, posting tiers and chat permissions.

A community forms around a shared node: people read what is there, talk in its room, and add work when its permissions allow. The node's group is the set of people admitted to it. Joining a group, pinning a node and starting a private group chat are separate actions.

For example, you might pin a drawing workshop so you can return to it, chat with the people there, then ask to join before adding your own work. A pin gives you a way back; it does not make you a member.

Ask to join

Open the shared node and its Current room in Chat. Where the room offers Ask to join, select it to open the request form.

  1. Choose Why do you want to join? The choices are To study, To teach, I love this work and I was invited.
  2. Add A note (optional, 140 characters) if you want to explain what brings you there.
  3. Choose Send request.
  4. Check the response beneath the form. Your request has been sent. confirms that the request was accepted.

A request does not open a private conversation with the owner. It carries your reason and note for a decision. A request awaiting an answer expires after 14 days.

The group can accept requests automatically when its settings allow. Otherwise someone authorised to approve members must decide. You cannot send a second pending request to the same group.

Membership and your tier

A group can require a minimum tier. The form can show a sentence such as This group asks for Member; you're Newcomer. The available tier names are Newcomer, Member, Regular, Trusted, Veteran and Luminary.

Check the displayed requirement before sending. A request below the group's requirement is refused. Being able to read a node does not mean you can join or add work to it.

The owner and the group's administrators have different permissions from ordinary members. Administrators help admit people and participate; appointing one does not make them an owner. See Managing a node's group.

Talking and building have separate controls

The room's chat can be:

Chat setting Who can talk
On, anyone can chat Signed-in people admitted to the room.
Group only People allowed by the group's membership and posting rules.
Off The room has no active message composer.

An open conversation does not automatically give everyone permission to place nodes. The owner separately chooses who can join and post, and the lowest tier that can post.

Use Node options… → Members to see the node's people where that view is available to you. It distinguishes the owner, members, approvers and administrators. A list that cannot be loaded is not an empty group: the panel shows an error instead.

For ongoing discussion use the wall. For a small private conversation use messages or a group chat. If conduct is a problem, report it; group membership does not replace the community rules.