Chat-only vs Group Income roles

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Problem

We don't want Group Income to be just about doing Group Income. We want to make it a full blown community management software.

Right now we are limited in how many people we can invite to groups because the assumption is that everyone who is invited is also invited to participate in the monetary and non-monetary value sharing.

However, we want it to be possible to grow groups beyond dunbar's number for purposes of supporting larger groups when it comes to building online communities.

Solution

In order to facilitate building large online communities with potentially thousands of members, we need to conceptually distinguish between different types of members: those who are participating in Group Income (the "inner circle") and those who are interested in merely interacting with this inner circle through chat.

This will allow the inner circle itself to grow as new members from the outer circle can be considered and approved to join those participating in monetary and non-monetary value sharing.

To do this we need to create two roles: group income and chat.

In total, I see there being the following standard roles:

• admin
• moderator
• groupincome
• chat

To implement this issue, we first need to implement the roles & permissions system: #202

People without the groupincome role, for example, might not even see the Group Income dashboard, but only see the chat.