Make A Free Discord Tier
in progress
Matthias
I want a free tier for the discord server, maintaining the paid tier chats and adding some free chats to better converse with our entire audience.
It would be some effort as we would need many more mods.
I feel like Reddit and comments doesn't solve our need to being in contact with the entirety of Subject 4. In other words since we had to close Spellbound+ to the free tier we don't have a "direct" way to get in contact with subject 4, Reddit and YouTube community features don't ping!
Gary Uppledycktyke
I feel like adding the sos chat might be a nice feature for the people who can’t get 863+
Matthias
in progress
Working on this in this coming week!
Zoe
Matthias: so exciting!!! at some point if we could chat to you about tier things just sorting out roles but only when you have time dude ☺️
Matthias
Zoe: yup! We have an internal roll out plan we will be sharing with mods this coming week.
Phoenix
Matthias: Awesome!
Zoe
Matthias: niceeeeee
Lucarn Anderson
Oh yes I just realized something, whenever this discord server is available for free, you might run into the issue of them accessing stuff that was meant only for premium people. I know in the discord there’s been links to the vlogs and other perks shared around the discord in the past when they were all in the same tier.
Grace Hahn
That’s a great idea and I also totally agree with Zoe. The mods can handle any situations/solutions. Also we are all here to help you out as well Matt.
Matthias
planned
Added this to our backlog!
Emma Turner
Great idea. Usually it is hours before I see any posts you make on Youtube, and, by then, it's too late.
Phoenix
This is absolutely achievable. Discord’s usage of roles, role permissions and categories that channels go into could definitely be utilized. You could definitely open it up with some sort of verification channel still used to determine the roles of a new member, which in turn decided where on the server they are allowed.
In terms of moderators, I don’t know exactly how many you have currently, but I’m sure they would be able to handle a massive opening to the public, even if you had to bring on a couple more to aid in the initial surge. They are all competent and efficient, I’m confident they would do well with it.
I have some potential moderation ideas that could help support the server based on other comments in this thread, but I’m not sure if you’re looking for specific ideas.
Zoe
I love this idea- the mods can handle it it’s just a matter of rearranging the discord a bit and making it stricter in the free tier parts.
I don’t think general chat is really appropriate for free tier and it’s also the matter of making sure people don’t so much go and DM people after the whole SB+ thing. I don’t know if we can look into additional safety settings for this?? This could be a good thing to brainstorm chats etc, appropriate time settings and bots to ensure no spam. Things like less theory chats, more chats being just mods can post etc.
We also do need to look at the premium discord as verification has become a bit of an issue in regards to this and it could be helpful to see what we can improve in the paid tier before incorporating another tier
Phoenix
Zoe: “…and it’s also the matter of making sure people don’t so much go and DM people after the whole SB+ thing.”
Unfortunately, unwanted DMs are going to happen. I don’t want to step into grounds where I’m not wanted, but a good way to avoid that is to create a roles system where people can choose whether they want to accept DMs or not, and to moderate those that send unwanted DMs. With the employees on the Discord there always will be those who try to DM them (sometimes in the case of parasocial relationships), but you can turn off DMs as a setting, set clear boundaries and follow through with moderation. As I’ve never tried to DM someone in the server I don’t know how much of this is already done, but I do know that it is really the best you can do.
Jordan
A good idea for this is making the free tier members have access to the discord server but not being able to type in the discord. I think it good to include them on voting for what thumbnail they like, or what title they like but letting them type in the chats freely could anger people who paid to be in the discord.
Artemis
I think you have the mods, we just have to reorganization and condense the rooms. Maybe look at other servers that have paid tier only, restructure to fit those teirs.
Some perks you can have for the paid is keep the SOS chat, but you can do writing 863 events, or have a stage where the podcast recording is live (kinda like how the subject 4 podcast records, but you can just have where the paid users listen in live to the conversation and hears the podcast before edit.)
Some perks for rhe free teir is live chatting with other fans, art contest, etc.
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