Merges Ahead!
Hi everyone! Thank you for providing feedback on these merges and supporting us in this journey towards a better support system for our members and listeners. We hear your concerns about the Schizophrenia and Bipolar support merge. To ensure that schizophrenia and psychosis support get their visibility, we will soon be renaming the bipolar support sub-community to reflect the merge, the new name will be ‘Bipolar, Schizophrenia & Psychosis Support. Today I am here to announce the next sub-community merges.
The following forum categories/sub-communities will be merged.
❆ Sexual Health will move to Relationship & Friendship Community
❆ OCD will move to Anxiety Support Community (Merge deferred upon feedback from the community)
❆ Current Events & Disaster Support will move to Around the World
❆ ADD/ADHD and Bullying Support will move to Student & Career Support Community. (ADHD/ADD Merge deferred upon feedback from the community)
❆ Parenting & Pregnancy Support Community will move to Family & Caregiver Support Community
*All categories are hyperlinked
Once a merge has been completed, it will be announced in the merged sub-community and you will see it listed under the sub-community announcement hub.
A big thank you to @Tazzie for being so supportive with these merges and to @Monbon @Anomali and @Mel for providing feedback and supporting the process!
(1/9/2020) Hope added the merge deferred note
[1/10/2020] Tazzie added "ADD/ADHD" to the existing merge deferred note.
Idk how comfortable I am with ADHD merging with student struggles. My ADHD doesn't just affect my schoolwork, it messes with my social life and mental wellbeing. There are so many other aspects to ADHD that doesn't relate to career/school.
Also: The "ADD" is redundant, ADD as it was formerly known has now been understood in the medical community to be a subset of ADHD. There's ADHD: Hyperactive, ADHD: Inattentive (previously ADD), and ADHD: Combined.
@laniidae very good points, I would also never think to look in school support if referring someone new to the forums for extra support with ADHD
@laniidae - I share your concerns.
If (you leaders) read our comments, but then do nothing in regards to what (M) and (L) have brought up (concerns, ideas, etc), then why should we comment at all. Again it feels like the leadership had a meeting or few, and you are now deciding to 'bring us in the loop.' I don't know about the others of you (M) and (L), but it doesn't feel very good to me. Do surveys help? I would certainly fill out a survey. I wish 7cups.com as a whole could feel like all of ours' place and that we could have input that is actually looked at and considered. ~ a tiny Platy ... with what I'd like to be a BIG LOUD voice
@laniidae @cyanPlatypus6370 @TaranWanderer
Thank you for providing feedback! We appreciate you taking the time to voice your concerns. We would not want to confuse anyone with the merge or move a forum category where it doesn't fit. The idea behind that merge is to place the forum category under an appropriate sub-community so it can get more support. However, we will reconsider this merge, don't hesitate to reach out to me or Tazzie if you feel like you have more to add to your feedback. Your voice is appreciated!
@Hope
People dont get more support in the merging case. It is just confusing, especially for members.
@Hope ADHD applies to more than students - everyone from children to adults (I know several adults with ADHD).
@Hope always appreciate all the work you and the team do! It's not easy to try to solve the lack of support issue for certain topics, the merging makes sense in general. My only concern would be if new members join, they may not think to look in the student/career category for ADHD support -- unless there was some way to make it easy to find? Other than clicking through all the subcommunities until you find the right subcategory. I'm at a loss for suggestions though :P Like maybe if the forum homepage still had that drop-down menu that listed ADHD, but when clicked it went to the area within the student/career subcom? (Or wherever it ends up being)
@Hope Thanks for the updates, and keep up the fantastic job. :)
@lovelyWhisper66
Thank you for your positive presence in the forums! You are doing great
Thanks for the updates! @Hope
@Hope They look great Hope. Thank you @Tazzie and you.
@ASilentObserver
I am glad you like it!
@Hope
Thanks for this update!
@Hope
Yesss! What a beneficial move for everyone involved. These merges make total sense and I truly respect how much effort it takes to execute a decision like this. Its a very time-consuming task. Thank you all for all you do!
Tbh this is how I imagine @Tazzie and the team strategized this decision lol:
@zaatarHoney
Such kind words! Thank you and yes it was more or less that but more with words
Thanks for the information!
Thanks for the update @Hope! If you don't mind me asking, why are we combining OCD with Anxiety?
@SnailPurple - Good Question!! As I was reading through the list of merges, that one (ocd and anxiety) struck me as rather odd.
also, may I ask @Hope @Tazzie and team, why are we doing all this merging? do we just not have enough volunteers to cover all the sections?
~ Platy
Hi @cyanPlatypus6370, It is to provide better support to some forum categories/sub-communities. The very first post explained it so I am linking it here!
@SnailPurple
The idea behind the merge is that the OCD category has often found it difficult to have consistent support, among our existing sub-communities it fits the best with Anxiety support. This sub-community has a consistent team that will ensure support in the OCD forums. If the community feels strongly against it we are open to reconsidering the merge. These posts are a way to get your feedback before we do any merges. It is your community and your feedback matters to us.
@Hope
I understand now, thank you
@Hope
thanks for updating us hope!
Thank you everyone for sharing all positive and constructive feedback. As updated by Hope, we have decided to take your feedback into consideration and will not move forward with merging ADHD/ADD and OCD forum categories.
