suggestions

[sharp cedar]

suggest Add a channel where people in Germany, Austria or Switzerland can post pics of their city, neighbourhood etc.. (Doesnt have to be limited to people in DACH)

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

what's wrong with using #archived-media for that ?
also a lot of people might not want to disclose where they live

[sharp cedar]

Who said you have to post where you live? It doesnt have to be your city it could be any picture from Germany austria or switzerland, and Media is full of memes, youtube links and off topic discussions.

And you dont have to post its for people who want to

[wild aurora]

post pics of their city, neighbourhood

well, you did ?

[sharp cedar]

I said " city, neighbourhood etc.."

[wild aurora]

the magic word here is "their" but anyway, I'm still not sure why anyone would like to look at that

[sharp cedar]

I dont know if you use reddit

But

There are subreddits on there like r/germany and r/bavaria where people post pics from germany or bavaria there, thats kinda what I meant with the channel.

[static pulsar]

So just go there. That's a weird thing to ask of other people.

[weary night]

I can see worth in having a photo channel

To post picturesque images of your town or a bird you saw the other day

Or a landscape

Id keep it limited to not selfies and probably focus more on landscapes and animals and stuff like that

[sharp cedar]

How the fuck is it weird? No one has to post Jesus christ

[sharp cedar]

That's what I meant. Thank you

[sharp cedar]

I would rather die a painful death than use reddit so no thank you

[tight hill]

Wouldn't it technically be ok to post pictures you took yourself in #arts-and-crafts ? Since it's art you made yourself :3

[weary night]

We can pop them there, its a somewhat quiet channel

If it ends up with more pictures than art though id probably push for a photo channel

[wild aurora]

Well the thing is that we usually only create new channels (groups) when a certain topic dominates the general chats and personally I don't really think that's the case here
we deviated from that approach with #821441926380388423 as an experiment and you can all see how well it's going

[tight hill]

well I can't since I didn't subscribe hehe That bad?

[wild aurora]

it hasn't been used once

[tight hill]

lmao

[sand bramble]

Oh it has been used. It's just that there have been 0 serious conversations about sports.

[wild aurora]

well you posting a picture of a ball is not "using the channel"

[tight hill]

I'd say using #arts-and-crafts for the time being sounds like a decent compromise?

if I had the balls to post there I'd actually use it too ;_;

[sand bramble]

Excuse me that was bulli. I posted a picture of a football team. 😌 But yeah, use existing channels and if there's enough demand, we can discuss creating a special one.

[limpid lodge]

I'm surprised the Sports channel isn't doing better (not subscribed myself)

[rugged basalt]

suggest add guidelines for content warnings in #rules or #282831147942281216, for things that may not be the best for everyone too see. For example, seeing knives can sometimes make me have some not to happy thoughts, so it'd be nice to be warned about that.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[last zenith]

pretty sure they have phone apps already

i have it on my andriod phone and seems like they published on app store too

[tacit dagger]

Please don't put camera pics in arts and crafts

Arts and crafts is about things you've made with own hands one way or another

One button click isn't that, unless you build that city :p

Media sounds more appropriate for city pics

[tight hill]

where does it say you are only allowed to post stuff you made with your own hands :^)

also I'd argue good photography is totally its own art form

[wild aurora]

Also photography is art

[tacit dagger]

I'm not speaking about what is allowed, but what is there

And honestly what I'm interested in
Actually I joined for crafts part but it's so rare to see someone share something, but I find people's work/sketches also interesting

So if pics would go there, finding that rare crocheted rabbit would be mission impossible

Photos need own channel IMO

Or separate crafts out of digital stuff 😂

I don't want to argue how many posted photos would be really art and how many would be just a random shot
I'm arguing the quantity of it and how it's not comparable with what people are sharing now in a&c where they spend hours working on something in comparison of (what majority would do) just taking a few shots and picking one best looking

[tight hill]

I mean, so far no one has posted a single photo yet so not sure where you get the quantity issue from. As Syro already said, if it would be too overwhelming, then another channel could be made no problemo 🤔

[tacit dagger]

Or better yet - ask folks in a&c channel to vote if they want photos there or not

[tacit dagger]

People will just leave if you overwhelm them with things they didn't subscribe to in the first place

So I'm just saying, don't arbitrarily mix and match, ask folks there before you even risk the overwhelming part

'Until Overwhelming' works for general

But when you have small and somewhat active group around some topic, putting something else to 'their house' isn't the best idea

Just pointing that out

[tight hill]

but since just one person so far mentioned photos that others sould be allowed to post (lol) I don't think this won't even be an issue in the near future

I really don't think many people would even make a big deal out of it?

[wild aurora]

Photography as an art has always been in their house, it just hasn't been used actively

[tacit dagger]

Ha, you can always count how many people left from some group after some change

People usually don't make a fuss, they usually just leave
There's a saying, for each one who makes a fuss, you have 100 who didn't dare to but are thinking the same

So it's all about what you want from the server
If it's about building small subcommunities, then I'd definitely recommend asking them before arbitrarily adding something else there

If it's not, then yeah, it doesn't matter

[tacit dagger]

Which could also mean that people didn't feel at home posting it there
So making new channel for photos might be inspiration, who knows

For those months I'm there I haven't seen any photo-art

And people usually repeat what they see others are doing

But, I just wanted to share my opinion
Over and out :)

[rugged basalt]

suggest make the "date joined" command count between joins and leaves, rather, have it set on the first time they joined the server rather than the most recent.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[uncut zodiac]

suggest add stages for classes, I've encountered them on other language learning discord servers, and they are very effective

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

Discord doesn't provide this information. We could save it on our own but it would be wrong for basically everyone who joined before we implemented the system.

[sand bramble]

We have told our session holders to contact us if they're interested and we're happy to set it up in the future if they wish to use it, but since the release we've only had reading sessions, which are more convenient to hold with screen sharing, so people just chose not to use stage channels.

[rugged basalt]

Oh rip, i Just didn't want my info thing to say i Joined 4weeks ago.

[limpid lodge]

Just don't leave the server 😌

[rugged basalt]

But what if I'm angie

[lunar saffron]

suggest Page 40 in Sätze zum Übersetzen (Antworte).odt Study task about mammals (Säugetiere), sentence 5 in german should be: Eine einsame, mysteriöse Kuh stand oben auf dem Hügel.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

Keep in mind that a suggestion is something that the entire staff team has to discuss and approve/reject. For simple things like this, just ping the responsible person and let them know. @lapis nymph

[lapis nymph]

danke, ich hab es korrigiert

[lunar saffron]

danke

[dull horizon]

@lunar saffron, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Page 40 in Sätze zum Übersetzen (Antworte).odt Study task about mammals (Säugetiere), sentence 5 in german should be: Eine einsame, mysteriöse Kuh stand oben auf dem Hügel.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Fixed. As already mentioned, for small typos and other issues where you know who the author is, feel free to just ping the author. Every suggestion is reviewed and discussed by the entire staff team, so minor issues don't really fit the scope of a suggestion.

[dull horizon]

@weary night, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

have the bot delete old sessions so the number can be reused. E.g. instead of saving every session thats ever been run (resulting in large session numbers) would the bot be able to delete completed sessions so that all the numbers remain small (1-10ish)
I as a session holder find it almost impossible to remember what numbers i used on previous sessions, therefore i cant reuse them or edit them and must make a new one

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Solved by implementing a template system for sessions.

@rugged basalt, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

pronoun roles. I think they're nice :)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The upcoming >profile command will allow you to state your preferred pronouns.

@raw marsh, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 181 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 132.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Make a text channel for Level A, B, and C so that each level can chat and discuss with eachother and be able to have like their level of discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

text and voice channels that can only be accessed based on someone's level, for example specific rooms for level A, B, C

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Dedicated channels for beginners (or just one specific group of people) are usually just echo chambers for mistakes. As such, we'd like to avoid creating channels that can only be accessed with a certain CEFR level.

@limpid lodge, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add an #emote-lobbying (or other suitable names) channel to keep emote suggestions separate from #community-discussion , since they tend to get buried by other community discussions. Hopefully this could encourage more emote voting and suggestions

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Requires further discussion. Will be brought up in #community-discussion at a later point.

@sharp cedar, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Add a channel where people in Germany, Austria or Switzerland can post pics of their city, neighbourhood etc.. (Doesnt have to be limited to people in DACH)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Sadly there's not enough demand to justify a dedicated channel for this. Feel free to use the appropriate existing channels #archived-media and #arts-and-crafts.

@rugged basalt, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add guidelines for content warnings in #rules or #282831147942281216, for things that may not be the best for everyone too see. For example, seeing knives can sometimes make me have some not to happy thoughts, so it'd be nice to be warned about that.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

It's impossible to incorporate everything that might make others feel uncomfortable, the last part of rule 2) already covers a lot though. Keep in mind that you can always ask others to use spoilers or remind them to move the conversation to #archived-sensitive-topics.

@rugged basalt, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

make the date joinedcommand count between joins and leaves, rather, have it set on the first time they joined the server rather than the most recent.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Not feasible without significant effort which is ulitmately not worth it.

@uncut zodiac, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add stages for classes, I've encountered them on other language learning discord servers, and they are very effective

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Session Holders have already been informed about the feature and it's up to them if they'd like to use Stage Channels or keep using the Lessons VC.

[uncut zodiac]

suggest Set up a penpal system so German lerners can connect with Native Speakers in their dms, similar to the one on the French Server

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Does it have to be with native speakers?

[uncut zodiac]

Not really

I guess anybody who is fairly fluent

[fathom fulcrum]

My concern with something like that is that the number of learners to fluent/native speakers would be pretty disproportionate.

[uncut zodiac]

Ah, that makes sense

[severe panther]

suggest "book-club" where we choose a book preferable of a German author, we read it in our own time (according to guidelines, for example 3 chapters per week) and once a week we meet up to discuss about these chapters in German

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

@severe panther, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

book-clubwhere we choose a book preferable of a German author, we read it in our own time (according to guidelines, for example 3 chapters per week) and once a week we meet up to discuss about these chapters in German

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This isn't really a server suggestion and more suitable for #community-discussion, so we encourage you to bring it up there.
If there's a reasonable amount of interested people and you would like to hold the sessions, just ping any moderator to walk you through it.

[gritty geyser]

suggest I would appreciate it if @dull horizon wouldn't mute someone if they're using the same command in #botchannel, especially >star random can be very fun to use a lot of times to just laugh a bit.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wise moon]

suggest it would be a fun addition to learning german if we had a dedicated german memes channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 191 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 170.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

it would be a fun addition to learning german if we had a dedicated german memes channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

this

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The reason why we don't have a meme channel is because it only encourages spam, which was also made clear by your attempt to draw attention to the suggestion.
There are tons of places all over the internet where you can share and discuss memes and we believe that content would only get recycled here (especially posts from r/ich_iel for instance). Also keep in mind that there's nothing wrong with using #archived-media for occasional memes.

[raw marsh]

That was fast

[tacit dagger]

I suggest automatic rejection by bot to all suggestions that want meme or cefr level based groups/channels 😂

Why people don't bother to scroll 10 lines up and see their idea was already rejected and reason was given?
I'm not mod and it's annoying to me, can't imagine how annoying is to you mods... I feel for you

[hard hollow]

I suggest a rule along the lines: "Don't ask for help cheating in your exams". I have no problem helping with preparations, but I had multiple people basically sending me their exams and asking me to send the answers for it...

[buoyant glacier]

that's already a rule...

[wild aurora]

yeah and apart from that a lot of these people don't even read the rules to begin with it's easier to just report them to us and/or close your DMs for the server

[hard hollow]

@buoyant glacier do you mean this part?

Do not ask others to do your homework for you. We’re happy to help you out and check your work, but you shouldn’t be asking us to solve, write or translate anything for you.
tbf. that's kinda buried, rules > full rules (if in german again > detailed version) and then only on page 6

[quaint cipher]

Yeah maybe make it stand out a bit better

[wild aurora]

well like I said, we could do that but people who just come here to get their homework done for them or ask someone to help them cheat on an exam won't ever read it because they simply don't care, no matter where you put it

[quaint cipher]

Ok but it doesn't cost muc h to just copy paste it in the general #rules

[wild aurora]

sure, I'm just trying to provide an actual solution to their issue because I know that this won't do 😅

[fathom fulcrum]

@hard hollow It's in #getting-started at the top in bold.

[hard hollow]

Ahh ok, I was looking at the rules

[tacit dagger]

suggest Maybe to reconsider putting a few forms/obstacles for new accounts?

Like, they have to interact with bot on their private channel, where they'll be shown things like

• do you promise that you won't send direct messages without previously interacting with person in public chats? (yes/no)
  Then they have to type the answer
• do you agree with not expecting people here to solve your exams and homeworks? (yes/no)
• well you be polite member? (yes/ no)
• set up your cefr level
  And a few more if we have burning issues

To no one is access to the server so urgent that they couldn't spend a few minutes on that process, learning how bot works or something

I have recently joined a bunch of fb groups, and all of them had 2-3 questions like that, and it wasn't an obstacle at all

And when something is in front of your nose and doesn't allow you to go further, you are forced to read it
When you have to write, you are paying a bit more attention and put a bit more responsibility then when you just click

Ok, I have no clue what is possible to do with mod, or if there's another way to do it, like you need to fill some form which generate some code and your need to enter that code on the server to unlock your membership (code should be unique but access rule could be stupid, like if it ends with zero/divisible by x, don't allow access, point is just that it isn't fixed password that could be shared)

Something along the line how profile works, and even filling profile could be put there :)
Or rules (short version)

[dull horizon]

Sorry but this suggestion is too long (1528/1000 characters).You can always add more explanations to your suggestion after the initial post.

[tacit dagger]

suggest this above, about some obstacle for new members
sorry c/p on phone is hard

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

No problem.

[sand bramble]

We considered something like this but discord is in the process of making it a platform feature, but it's not quite there yet, so I think we're waiting for them to deliver before we code something that's unreliable (because people can just turn off DMs and then what would the bot do) and will be obsolete anyway.

[tacit dagger]

fingers crossed that they do it this year 😄 I think that would help with several things that people often complain here

[grave glade]

lol i feel like i have to make it clear that that suggestion response was a response to a different suggester who kept spamming meme channel requests all over the place, i read that response at first and got confused

[wise moon]

🥺 oki

[wise moon]

suggest how about a german media only channel then

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wise moon]

gern geschehen mein schatz

[rugged basalt]

I ship it

Chickfried

[wise moon]

where have i seen that before

was that jfc

lfc

mfc

hmmm

[dire cypress]

😆

[gritty geyser]

suggest Remove "or use languages other than English and German" from the description of #languages , because there is already #other-languages for such thing

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

@gritty geyser Other languages are allowed in both of those channels. Can you explain more about why you don't think that should be allowed?

[gilded swan]

#languages seems to be used like #other-languages 2.0 is the issue. It isn't supposed to be that right?

[fathom fulcrum]

It's a place where people can talk about languages but if #other-languages is full they can also just chat there.

No one really talks about languages there anyway, so it's not like there's any problem with people chatting there.

[gilded swan]

Stimmt auch wieder

[fathom fulcrum]

That being said, if it does ever become a channel with a lot of on-topic discussion where casual chatting distracts from it, we'll definitely consider discouraging/disallowing off-topic stuff from there. But until that time comes, there's not really a reason to do so. Because then it would just be a dead, empty channel, lol.

[buoyant glacier]

talking about languages in that language is big brain

[dull horizon]

@limpid lodge, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add an #emote-lobbying (or other suitable names) channel to keep emote suggestions separate from #community-discussion , since they tend to get buried by other community discussions. Hopefully this could encourage more emote voting and suggestions

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We will be trying this approach out and seeing how it goes, but may switch to a bot-based approach in the future.

@uncut zodiac, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Set up a penpal system so German lerners can connect with Native Speakers in their dms, similar to the one on the French Server

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

There are many points that need to be discussed before such a system can be implemented. In particular, we are most concerned about the imbalance between the number of natives and the number of people wishing to talk to a native. Therefore, we will discuss this idea in #community-discussion and try to gauge the community's interest. Feel free to also give us some more details or your own thoughts there too.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I would appreciate it if @dull horizon wouldn't mute someone if they're using the same command in #botchannel, especially >star random can be very fun to use a lot of times to just laugh a bit.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We don't want to make the bot ignore commands, since it does happen that members spam CPU or network-intensive commands, and them getting muted is our only way of knowing at the moment. However, some of the filters are more relaxed for members who have been on the server for more than 6 months, and we will experiment with doing the same for command invocations.

@tacit dagger, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

this above, about some obstacle for new members
sorry c/p on phone is hard

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As discussed, Discord is currently working on making something like this a built-in feature. Therefore, we are rejecting the suggestion for the time being, but once that system is in place, we will be discussing it and seeing what can be done.

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

how about a german media only channel then

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

At the moment, it doesn't seem like there's much need for a third channel, given that #resources and #archived-media already exist.

[wise moon]

suggest a study partner program where people seek out study partners to do stuff together or at least partly simulate a peer environment which can help so many people study better and faster

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[lucid ledge]

@wise moon a quick glance through this channel should give you oversight on the mod teams attitude and plans regarding this idea

[wise moon]

ohh okay thank u!

[gritty geyser]

suggest How about a music filter blocking most of the songs that are from the ns time. Ik it's hard as they're many versions of the songs uploaded but I think at least the most viewed versions of those songs would be a good idea.

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[gritty geyser]

suggest How about a music filter blocking most of the songs that are from the ns time. Ik it's hard as they're many versions of the songs uploaded but I think at least the most viewed versions of those songs would be a good idea to block.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gilded swan]

Censoring music played by the bot might seem to help keeping such things out of our lovely community at first glance.
However I don't think it's actually practical (geeignet) as it isn't going to solve the issues proposed as you have hinted at.
Furthermore playing music from the NS time seems to me like a much less graver issue in the exhaustive scope of intolerance and discriminatory behaviour in general. I am in favour of applying active german law in this space.
However as ns time music itself is mostly not directly endorsing the contemporary fascist regime, but a mere reflection of the people's culture and way of life, even though idealistic cultural aspects like the Heimatidylle were in fact utilised by the propaganda for they wrong doing. In a modern context especially in such a context like this, where we entertain cultural exchange based on openness and unprejudicedness, I strongly contempt censorship, if you measure everything with the same yardstick and disregard the cultural and historic importance of an entire time period. Me as a german am of course not proud of what some of our grandparent did, but we have the responsibility to keep the heritage and remember history for us and all coming generation.

[fathom fulcrum]

@gilded swan I get what you're saying but this is a language learning server. Putting some limitations on what people can post improves the quality of the server as a language learning space. It's not a music/political history server, after all. It's a server for learning the German language.

In that sense, we allow people to ask genuine questions related to learning German about such topics. But to simply play that music for fun, when it's so politically charged and makes a lot of people uncomfortable, is not really appropriate. It's actually against the rules already, and should be reported, if you notice something like that.

There's plenty of non-political content people can play and they should stick to that.

[gilded swan]

Learning languages is always also learning cultures and getting to know different aspects of culture. You can't really separate that.
If we take for example Erika, a famous song from that time. I sometimes hear people play that in the voice channel, because it's a fun marching song that's a reflection of traditional german culture.
As there is nothing directly linking it to the ns of other political topics other than the time period is comes from, the only people that would see a direct link between that song and a less comfortable learning space are those that go against the principles of proportionality and are frankly a bit over sensitive in that regard. Since four years, every time marching music was played it was actually quite a joyful atmosphere and the only people uncomfortable where those trying to protect those that either don't exist or don't need that kind of protection.
I rather have right-leaning people playing joyful marching music here than chant Nazi paroles. As you will never be able to completely keep any sensitive political topic or discriminatory mind set out of this space as it's so open for everyone I am not for this type of shotgun measure that doesn't do any better solving the real issue at hand.

But on the other hand I am once again saying that I am fully in favour of banning specific songs that are also banned under german law because of their direct political message.

Also the more people nowadays listen to such music in this comfortable open tolerant space the less politically charged it will be, since the only thing making it political is the fact that people told us so.

We the germans already carry such a strong historical burden. Let us at least still enjoy our Volkmusik to keep the cultural heritage.

[fathom fulcrum]

Sorry but it's against the rules.

I rather have right-leaning people playing joyful marching music here than chant Nazi paroles.
And this is not a matter of "either A or B". Neither of those things are allowed and allowing marching music won't magically prevent people from saying inappropriate things. The only thing that will solve the issue of people being inappropriate is reporting them to the mods and the mods banning them from the server.

[gilded swan]

Since Erika is neither war related (other than it happened to get published in that time period in germany) nor discriminatory violent or rascist, It's not against the rules as far as I can tell.

[fathom fulcrum]

It is war-related - it's a military marching song created and popularized with the specific intention of being used for soldiers during war - and it is associated with nazis and neo-nazis. It is against the rules, and we explicitly ask that people don't play or post marching songs that have those associations, or any other songs with similarly contentious associations.

But as to your point about sharing culture, there is plenty of culture out there that people can learn with without constantly trying to argue for WWII culture. There is already so much WWII culture that is spread all over the internet and elsewhere. It's the most studied part of German history.

Why not try promoting something else instead for once? Because I can promise you, most people are sick of constantly having WWII history forced on them when all they want to do is learn German or help others learn German.

And like I already stated, the point of this server is not to serve as a history server. It's for learning the language, particularly in a present-day context. There is no reason to include WWII or war culture as a topic, when there are millions of other things that are much less contentious that people can learn with.

[gilded swan]

If however the pure intention of the creation of a work in it's periodic context suffices to ban the work itself, you creaty a very easy ground for slippery slopes to disregard actual content matter for mere historical context.
Marching music has existed for well longer than 100 years and it still exists today in military and non-military contexts. Even Erika.
And sure I might be ok with banning Erika, but I have an issue with the actual phrasing of the proposal which stated the ban of all music purely because of the time of their creation.

[fathom fulcrum]

We're talking about the context of this server only... I'm not talking about making it illegal irl.

We're just a small community on the internet, with a specific purpose, and we carefully build our rules around that purpose and the issues we, as a mod team, have to deal with regularly. There's not going to be any slippery slope issue just because we don't let people play marching songs in VC.

The mods are real people. We're a small team. We take everything on a case-by-case basis. The rules - in particular, the generalization of them in terms of phrasing and so on - is mostly there for regular members to understand the general issues they should keep in mind. We can't individually list each specific song or scenario and the exact response the mod team will have to it - it's simply not feasible. It would be a million pages long. But that doesn't mean the mods are going to ignore nuance when assessing an individual scenario.

[gilded swan]

Marching music as it's played at a Schützenumzug has been and still is an important cultural heritage and of my and many other germans national identity as I have been part of it in some occassions.
As this is a central hub for german cultural exchange not only for me but for many other people, I am against Holzhammer-measures that aren't nuanced like the one proposed. Instead in the case of music being played I would go on as we currently do and rely on our wonderful moderation team, since they as you perfectly stated don't ignore nuance like the ban proposed.

[fathom fulcrum]

Are you talking about the suggestion by Danis?

[gilded swan]

Yes, that's the thing I'm actually only arguing against.

[fathom fulcrum]

I believe all Danis meant was blocking specific songs by name or something like that.

Like specifically blocking Erika, rather than us having to ask people not to play it.

I don't know if it would be feasible, so I can't really say anything on whether we would consider it or not yet.

[gilded swan]

I mean on the other hand if people are playing Erika and no one is bothered and everyone aware of it's historic burden, why not allow it since it's still very famous and joyful.
I think that's where nuance becomes important.
Feuerzangenbowle for example has been made during the time and had to be approved by the Nazi regime, but it itself is still a very important, famous and fun to watch piece of german culture.

Nuance is important is what I'm saying. If someone is playing it, a righteous mod should only intervene, if he sees the actual need to, while still of course going against intolerance itself if it's spotted. Taking part in the conversation and checking if the discussion isn't sliding into sensitive or otherwise bad directions of course can be good. Rather than proactively preventing a reasonable talk about such cultural aspects among adults for the sake of learning a language through cultural exchange.

[fathom fulcrum]

I think there may be some confusion here. The ban against military marching songs has been in places for quite a while already. It's not a proposal.

Things like Erika and so on should not be played in the VC.

[gilded swan]

Marching songs are not explicitly stated in the rules. So which places do you talk about?
And if it is a current rule on this server to ban all military marching music period, I would argue that it might miss the point....
On second thought if someone needs to break the rules to be edgy, it is always good to have such rules that if they have to break the rules they at least aren't doing something actually bad.

So nevermind

[lucid ledge]

[buoyant glacier]

wtf André

[static pulsar]

[rugged basalt]

suggest i think it would be neat if bottfreid had a mod mail thing, where you send a message to mods to report stuff or ask questions and stuff. It would probably müüüake solving issued faster, because a member could contact all available mods. On top of that, moderators could choose to take over some issue, so that two mods don't work on the same issues

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[rugged basalt]

Sorta like how this suggestion thing works but for the stuff I mentioned above

Make* Not määäuke wtf

[limpid lodge]

can't you do that in #community-discussion ? 👀

or DM

[rugged basalt]

Well, technically, but that's not really what the channel is used for. It seems to be more of a forum for changes. A mod mail could allow for private issues to be handled too

Like ban appeals, or angry people or the victims of those two type of people

[fathom fulcrum]

We used to have that but literally no one used it, and I think we had it for months, so we ended up removing it.

[rugged basalt]

Rip

Sounds like a good Idea on papier

[fathom fulcrum]

Yeah, a lot of servers have them, and it seems like a cool idea. But idk if it's worth recoding it if it won't be used. We've discussed remaking it but I'm not sure yet if we will. It's on our "things to consider in the future" list, basically.

[rugged basalt]

Niceeee

[limpid lodge]

ah makes sense, i think Mikey was looking for something like that a while ago

[rugged basalt]

Mikey is great

[limpid lodge]

it does sound good on papier, but i guess it doesn't get used super often

[lucid ledge]

The problem is that there is a real disconnect between features this server has/had and how long people are willing to spend to find out about them, leading to a lot of frankly fantastic work being wasted

And to address your point directly: we had and still have so many users complaining 'man glad used to be better, #general sucks, some users run rampant, things aren't being modded fairly' etc. without ever sharing these thoughts directly with mods or helpers who could actively make a change. An anonymous inbox definitely sounds like a great consequence-free solution but as well as putting in effort to code it, a collective effort must also be made by the moderation team to build up trust and awareness in the community on a longer scale, and for users to individually take the time to report issues as they see them. As it stands, communication and collective effort is lacking on both sides. @rugged basalt

[grave glade]

papier? is this polpetta embracing french?

[wise moon]

papier is german-

[grave glade]

not if you don't capitalize it

[wise moon]

touche

[grave glade]

>suggest add all of chickie's custom emojis to the server

[limpid lodge]

oh no i mean PAPIER

[sand bramble]

Yeah, as Base said, in the few months we had it, it was used once. It's pretty hard to make a feature like that visible atm. However, there's currently a buttons feature which is in private beta.

So, once they roll that out, I'd be interested in adding a ticket-like feature to #282831147942281216. Say, somewhere under this paragraph (right at the top), there's a button that says create a ticket.

Then when you click it, it opens up a private channel where it's just you and the mods and you can share whatever you want, a mod takes a look at it and the channel is closed when it's no longer needed.

That was the idea I had even before this suggestion at least. Though hecke also brings up an anonymous inbox, which this wouldn't provide. So idk, Off the bat, I don't really see an obvious solution there that's both helpful and easy to see.

[fathom fulcrum]

I think hecke means more like a feedback/complaints system, rather than the normal use of a modmail where you're interacting with mods about an issue.

Although the main issue with an anonymous system is that if the person doesn't provide enough info, we have no way to contact them about it.

So someone might report something and expect us to follow it up. They don't provide enough info or there's something wrong with their entry so we can't understand or act on it. Then they're just left with the impression that we didn't bother to answer it. I feel like there's a perfect situation for misunderstandings with that kind of system.

There are options like making it so we can reply through the bot or something. But that still requires the bot to store the person's ID, so then it wouldn't really be anonymous.

[lucid ledge]

modmail that we had interacted solely with the bot iirc

[fathom fulcrum]

Yes, but it's like, you convey the info to the mods, then they can DM you for more info and stuff like that.

[lucid ledge]

ahh alright I get it

[fathom fulcrum]

The modmail in the normal sense is mostly like, being able to convey a DM to all mods at once, when you don't want to ping in the server.

Whereas what you described, if we implemented it, would probably have to be a whole different system - like an anonymous complaints/feedback form where we specifically have a disclaimer "mods won't respond to these messages" or something along those lines.

Just to clarify what I mean about the two being different.

[lucid ledge]

and a system with optional anonymity would probably be bothersome

not to mention the points you brought up about the problem with anonymity

[fathom fulcrum]

Yeah, I don't think we have the tools to do something like that.

[severe panther]

suggest is it possible to add the voice channels inside the voice channel category? I would like to be able to minimize them and only the voice-chat is in this category

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

I don't get it. 🤔

[lapis nymph]

@severe panther ?

du kannst sie schon minimieren

[severe panther]

Oh :(

Some thing's wrong with mine then :(

[lapis nymph]

was passiert, wenn du auf "VOICE CHANNELS" klickst?

[severe panther]

In this screenshot is closed.
If I open it it looks like this. :

So it is like I have only the voice-chat in there. I don't understand if I am doing something wrong

[lapis nymph]

du hast wohl irgendwo eine Einstellung gesetzt, dass Kanäle noch angezeigt werden, wenn sie ungelesene Nachrichten haben oder aktiv sind

[severe panther]

Hmm.. Ok, thank you. it seems that it is my problem, so I will find a way to solve it

[desert yacht]

suggest many people here seem to use Anki, how about a dedicated channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

What do you mean?

[desert yacht]

Anki is a flashcard program, that many people utilize for language learning. Exchanging decks and usage tips would be helpful (as none of the channels under learning fit specifically)

[fathom fulcrum]

The place where people would generally share stuff like that is #resources

[tacit dagger]

If you find a way, please share
I looked into it and cannot see it.

It would be nice if we could ignore voice channels, but I can't see that option either

If there's a bunch of folks in some voice channel, list will just show them all, no way to minimise it

[severe panther]

Yes, it seems that this is my problem as well.
When the chat is unread cannot be minimized. This is solved by just muting it I think.
But I didn't find yet a way to minimize the voice channels when people are in it.
If I find it I will let you know :)

[tacit dagger]

Do you maybe recall where is this setting? I cannot find it

I like that it shows me only unread channels
But why we cannot mute voice ones? :/

On mobile app, if you know?

[lapis nymph]

ich habe kurz danach gesucht und konnte leider keine passende Einstellung finden. Vielleicht gibt es einen Server, wo man dafür Hilfe kriegen kann?

[tacit dagger]

It seems to me that it's default behaviour - when you minimze group, that it still shows where are new posts, unless you muted the channel
However, voice channels we cannot mute, or I don't see the option?

[lapis nymph]

vielleicht Discord neu installieren? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[radiant minnow]

country roles?

Also, why does everyone have the 'streamer' role?

[obtuse stone]

It allows you to stream. It makes it easy for us to take streaming permissions away, in case someone streams something they shouldn't

Country roles have been suggested a few times already and we probably won't add them, since we'd have to add a looot of roles for that

There is going to be a command that will let you add a little info about yourself, however, and I think it would fit there well~
You can read a bit about it here #community-discussion message
It does not work yet, but there is a link where you can see a preview

[wise moon]

continent roles

[buoyant glacier]

planet roles

[runic solar]

Star system roles

[wise moon]

galaxy roles

[karmic seal]

Ok I think I finally found a grammar resource that's great for individual learners without instruction

I've just started reading it but it's already better than what I've found before, hoping that continues as I progress

suggest https://mercaba.org/SANLUIS/IDIOMAS/Alemán/Basic german.pdf. Grammar resource for lonely learners

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[karmic seal]

Oh no the link got garbled by encoding

suggest https://mercaba.org/SANLUIS/IDIOMAS/Alemán/Basic german.pdf

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fossil jetty]

hallo, Bottfried

er ist ein Bot 😒

[visual perch]

Nur Bott kann dich richten....

[gritty geyser]

suggest Ein Andere-Sprachen Voice Channel wäre vielleicht was

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gritty geyser]

I have submitted

Ze sugestyon

Or wait no

That's moderation hell

[sand bramble]

It was proposed in the past, but moderating it would be hell. Text chat is still okay because we can sorta use google when problems arise (though there have been cases in the past where that hasn't been too helpful), but an anderesprachen VC would be terrible to moderate when issues arise.
As such, the current official stance is that only English and German are allowed in the general channels (apart from the ones explicitly marked as german only), and if you want to speak a different language with a friend, you're free to do it in a closed study group, but we may very well ask you to stop and just leave if you're using it to fight with someone and then complaining to us about it.

[buoyant glacier]

so using other languages is fine until one person even feels slightly unwell about it? sounds good

[gritty geyser]

I'm surprised by how fast Arrem can type

[sand bramble]

In closed study groups with friends. Other languages should still be avoided in public channels where other people might come and feel weird about a bunch of people speaking a language that they don't understand. @buoyant glacier

[wind zephyr]

suggest Can we have a Google Calendar link ( or any other calendar format) which will auto-update with the sessions? I have seen it work with the motorsport calendars maybe we can try it here

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[lapis nymph]

suggest Könnte der Bot in #writing bekanntmachen, dass lange Texte lieber als Google Docs geteilt werden sollten und Korrekturen in #corrections gegeben werden sollten, wenn jemand einen langen Text (>500 char) in #writing sendet?

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[buoyant glacier]

suggest ich suggeste dass wir one #denglisch channel maken, da it sehr fun to speaken ist

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Remove or use languages other than English and Germanfrom the description of #languages , because there is already #other-languages for such thing

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

#languages is purposely designed to act as an overflow channel for #other-languages. Without this aspect, #languages wouldn't see much usage and would probably be obsolete.

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 195 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 188.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a study partner program where people seek out study partners to do stuff together or at least partly simulate a peer environment which can help so many people study better and faster

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

Set up a penpal system so German lerners can connect with Native Speakers in their dms, similar to the one on the French Server

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

There are many points that need to be discussed before such a system can be implemented. In particular, we are most concerned about the imbalance between the number of natives and the number of people wishing to talk to a native. Therefore, we will discuss this idea in #community-discussion and try to gauge the community's interest. Feel free to also give us some more details or your own thoughts there too.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

How about a music filter blocking most of the songs that are from the ns time. Ik it's hard as they're many versions of the songs uploaded but I think at least the most viewed versions of those songs would be a good idea to block.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Sadly this isn't really feasible as there are thousands of different videos/songs with different URLs, and banning certain words in the search query could lead to a lot of false positives.

@rugged basalt, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

i think it would be neat if bottfreid had a mod mail thing, where you send a message to mods to report stuff or ask questions and stuff. It would probably müüüake solving issued faster, because a member could contact all available mods. On top of that, moderators could choose to take over some issue, so that two mods don't work on the same issues

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Seeing that a previous Modmail feature didn't get used at all, we're rejecting this suggestion for now. It will be reconsidered once Discord updates their API, which will hopefully provide some cool new features to make a system like this more accessible. In the meantime you can simply ping the Moderator role to reach all Moderators simultaneously.

@severe panther, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

is it possible to add the voice channels inside the voice channel category? I would like to be able to minimize them and only the voice-chat is in this category

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Retracted.

@desert yacht, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

many people here seem to use Anki, how about a dedicated channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

While Anki certainly is somewhat popular, a dedicated channel is not needed. Feel free to use #resources to talk about it.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Ein Andere-Sprachen Voice Channel wäre vielleicht was

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Unfortunately this would be too hard to moderate and cannot be implemented. You can find more info here: <#suggestions message>

@wind zephyr, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Can we have a Google Calendar link ( or any other calendar format) which will auto-update with the sessions? I have seen it work with the motorsport calendars maybe we can try it here

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Will be brought up in #community-discussion to see if there's enough interest for such a feature.

@lapis nymph, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Könnte der Bot in #writing bekanntmachen, dass lange Texte lieber als Google Docs geteilt werden sollten und Korrekturen in #corrections gegeben werden sollten, wenn jemand einen langen Text (>500 char) in #writing sendet?

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Requires further discussion and will be brought up again at a later point.

@buoyant glacier, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

ich suggeste dass wir one #denglisch channel maken, da it sehr fun to speaken ist

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We bitten you darum, no meme Vorschläge zu maken.

[wise moon]

oh man i am sorry but i do not mean a penpal system at all

i mean two or more learners together

not a native

[wild aurora]

The suggestion has been marked as a duplicate because they're very similar in their nature, in both scenarios you're looking for somebody to study with/talk to. It wouldn't make much sense to create two separate systems for this instead of providing you with the option to state what kind of partner you're looking for.
In either case this is something that requires community involvement, which is why we'll bring it up in #community-discussion.

[wise moon]

ah ok thanks syronoid

[cyan sun]

Can we have chat room for beginners? It would be great ,i think.

suggest Can we have chat room for beginners? It would be great ,i think.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[bitter knot]

suggest Selfie channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[tight hill]

#suggestions message

[wise moon]

why not label it beginner freindly and have it accessible to everyone so that they know hte level of german and can help out too

[subtle cobalt]

like 80% of the 5 message conversations that happen in german only are A1-A2 'wie geht's' lol

[fathom fulcrum]

We already have two channels for that: #beginner-german and #general-2

And for VC there's Practice Rooms and Study Groups.

[wise moon]

o ye right

[limpid lodge]

selfie channel?

[buoyant glacier]

kids and their selfies smh

[tribal briar]

suggest Einen Kanal wo man halt Deutsche worte von einem Song schreiben könnte ähnlich wie ein Spam-chat.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[lucid ledge]

@tribal briar #thing-of-the-day ?

[tribal briar]

Man kann doch nicht immer Wörter spammen

[wild aurora]

well spam shouldn't happen in any channel on the server whatsoever

[tribal briar]

Certainly, my suggestion was just directing to make a channel dedicated for people to write random things there like "letting out their inner spammy demon"

[grave glade]

@dire cypress @sick epoch >suggest stop

[grave glade]

hope this helps

[dire cypress]

but but but..

I like to sing..

[grave glade]

i think i'll quote syro if i see #general flood with lyrics again

[leaden orbit]

suggest a pepegazing channel. Sometimes stars are too pure for messages that require recognition. Therefore I propose as a second react, to do what a star is too pure to do

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[obtuse stone]

Too pure?

[leaden orbit]

Yes. Stars are shining, and bright. Sometimes the only appropriate reaction is . But the message still requires recognition y'know

[obtuse stone]

Uhm, I see!

[grave glade]

lemme help

1. they're technically peepos, and some peepos are pure too
2. let's think about the context of this suggestion where one person got muted after a train of inappropriate jokes

[obtuse stone]

Thanks

[loud pivot]

suggestion group the practice channel with the general-discussion channels since it's basically just people having conversations as far as I can tell. It would make conversations happening there easier to find.

suggest group the practice channel with the general-discussion channels since it's basically just people having conversations as far as I can tell. It would make conversations happening there easier to find.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[weary night]

suggest can the >session start command have “begin“ as an alias

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[tender cliff]

suggest We should have a thank command just like bonk command

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wise moon]

thank you @tender cliff

[rugged basalt]

suggest get the plurakit bot so people with DID can use the server more easily. Idk how many people here have DID, or if it will be used a lot, but it's just something that can make people's lives a bit easier who do have DID :)

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wise moon]

suggest you all drink water a lot or else i'll hate crime your ass

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[wise moon]

stfu @dull horizon

[unique tiger]

that looks like bottfried hated the suggestion so much that he's trying to abort u post birth

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[vagrant birch]

suggest can we get groovy

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[obtuse stone]

What features of groovy are you missing? @vagrant birch

[vagrant birch]

at first I didn't know bottfried could also play music, but also groovy can play music/videos without needing a link (like you can just type "Moskau Dschinghis Khan" and get the song instead of needing to find the youtube video first and slap it into the bot)

das ist alles :)

[obtuse stone]

Verstehe ^^

[sand bramble]

>play is technically meant to support searches too, but every now and then youtube will make some slight change to their system that will break that feature. We'll fix that eventually, but long term, Discord is currently beta testing a feature where watching YT videos together is built in into the client, so when that becomes a thing, we'll likely just disable the music features altogether and just let people use that.

[buoyant glacier]

weren't there also plans for voice messages? would be exciting to no longer have to use vocaroo

[gritty geyser]

suggest quotes

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

what do you mean ?

[gritty geyser]

Quotes in german channel

[wild aurora]

I'm not sure I'm following, what kind of quotes ?

[limpid lodge]

maybe they mean this kind of quote

[dull horizon]

polpetta

Quoted by polpetta

[Jump to message](#suggestions message)
maybe they mean this kind of quote

Jun 6, 2021, 11:17 AM

[wild aurora]

@gritty geyser could you elaborate what you mean ?

[gritty geyser]

Any types of quotes translated in german

[wild aurora]

like famous quotes ? what benefit does that provide ?

[gritty geyser]

For learning purposes

Not especially famous ones but yea

[static pulsar]

here is one: "could you elaborate on what you mean?" -syro, a german, 2021

[lilac urchin]

suggest ban broob

I am

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

@lilac urchin, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

ban broob

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Please do not abuse the >suggest command.

[lilac urchin]

Okay😔

[static pulsar]

LOL

[unique tiger]

suggest ban oily for abusing the suggest command

[gritty geyser]

suggest maybe the >faq resources command should be changed to just resources especially considering it's just resources and not really a faq

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[gritty geyser]

suggest maybe the >faq resources command should be changed to just >resources especially considering it's just resources and not really a faq

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

it's a bit tricky because >resource is already a command (module)

help resource

[dull horizon]

resource

Makes a new resource suggestion with the specified resource text. The moderators will review your suggestion and you will be notified when there is a response.
Note that the length of the resource text cannot exceed 1000 characters. If you need to provide more details or an attachment, do so after your initial post.

:small_blue_diamond: **resource answer** <id> <response>

Gives the specified response as an answer to the resource suggestion with the given id. You will be prompted to specify whether the suggestion is being accepted, open for discussion, or rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **resource list**

Lists all active resource suggestions.

:small_blue_diamond: **resource** <resource>

Makes a new resource suggestion with the specified resource text. The moderators will review your suggestion and you will be notified when there is a response.
Note that the length of the resource text cannot exceed 1000 characters. If you need to provide more details or an attachment, do so after your initial post.

Module: Resource Suggestions

[gritty geyser]

resource

≠

[sand bramble]

And we don't actually make a command for every one of those entries. The faq command just pulls text from a database. :^)

[gritty geyser]

[wise moon]

suggest birthday role for the birthday babies with the role order at top so its visible

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wise moon]

ok walmart newton

[dull horizon]

@cyan sun, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 205 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 132.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Can we have chat room for beginners? It would be great ,i think.

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

text and voice channels that can only be accessed based on someone's level, for example specific rooms for level A, B, C

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Dedicated channels for beginners (or just one specific group of people) are usually just echo chambers for mistakes. As such, we'd like to avoid creating channels that can only be accessed with a certain CEFR level.

@bitter knot, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Selfie channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Feel free to use #archived-media to share selfies if you absolutely must. Generally we try to avoid encouraging sharing personal info on a public server.

@tribal briar, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Einen Kanal wo man halt Deutsche worte von einem Song schreiben könnte ähnlich wie ein Spam-chat.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

You can share song lyrics in #archived-media. Please try to do so within limits, the bot doesn't like spam.

@leaden orbit, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a pepegazing channel. Sometimes stars are too pure for messages that require recognition. Therefore I propose as a second react, to do what a star is too pure to do

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

#stargazing is meant to display the best and most memorable moments of the server. Anything you wouldn't want to see in the channel probably doesn't belong on the server in the first place.

@loud pivot, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

group the practice channel with the general-discussion channels since it's basically just people having conversations as far as I can tell. It would make conversations happening there easier to find.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The #beginner-german channel will receive an overhaul in the near future so we'll come back to this suggestion in due time and bring it up in #community-discussion.

@weary night, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

can the >session start command have “begin“ as an alias

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Done.

@tender cliff, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

We should have a thank command just like bonk command

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Due to the excessive use of the >bonk command we would like to look into alternatives, such as a thanks emote for example. The suggestion will be brought up in #community-discussion at a later point.

@rugged basalt, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

get the plurakit bot so people with DID can use the server more easily. Idk how many people here have DID, or if it will be used a lot, but it's just something that can make people's lives a bit easier who do have DID :)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Bots like PluralKit heavily abuse the Discord API and would integrate terribly with our existing system. Other than that we generally don't allow third party bots on the server.

@blissful bough, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Hi, I have an idea, maybe a server got Server got talentsor something like that. I think it would be a very good idea, would it be possible to organize this event?

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Withdrawn.

@vagrant birch, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

can we get groovy

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Withdrawn. In other news, the search feature of @Leibniz should be working as intended again.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

quotes

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Unfortunately this doesn't seem feasible. If you're looking for translation tasks you can check out #study-tasks.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

maybe the >faq resources command should be changed to just >resources especially considering it's just resources and not really a faq

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As already pointed out before, the FAQ commands simply fetch the text for the given search term from the database of the bot and the command cannot be changed for one specific entry. In addition to that and seeing that >resources is already a command module, creating a new command called >resources would probably result in confusion.

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

birthday role for the birthday babies with the role order at top so its visible

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

No.

[unique tiger]

rekt

[static pulsar]

LMAO

[dire cypress]

poor Chickie..

[leaden merlin]

suggest modal particle text for the faq bot

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[lucid ledge]

@leaden merlin this can go into community meta or curators

For faqs especially being a curator i think you have free reign

[azure slate]

make the invite go to rules/getting-started and make a rules pop up

[fathom fulcrum]

To formally make a suggestion, you need to use the command >suggest.

[azure slate]

suggest make the invite go to rules/getting-started and make a rules pop up

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[versed flame]

suggest I know this is kinda catering but make a channel based on when germany reopens it's borders to countries across the world and link that said government page so people know what they need to enter incase they're interested into traveling to germany. I know it's a lot of work doing this but would help a lot. Thank you!

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[loud pivot]

suggest All the server information and announcements should be in both English and German if possible so people can first try reading the German and then look at the English if they don't understand it.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

so people can first try reading the German and then look at the English if they don't understand it. just ignore it in two languages instead of just one and continue DMing mods to ask about why they can't use VC.
FTFY.

[buoyant glacier]

suggest channel for people to share dating advice or just life advice in general

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limpid lodge]

doesn't that fall under #archived-culture-study-visa

[fathom fulcrum]

How so?

[fathom fulcrum]

Can you explain more about your idea and why you think it would be a good addition?

[limpid lodge]

doesn't leben unterm dach encompass life and cultural aspects? i guess they are only under the dach countries

[fathom fulcrum]

Yes, it's about things related to living/working/studying in Germany.

Not life advice.

Basically it's like... if it's something like "Can someone help me understand the legal marriage requirements in Germany? I found this website but I don't totally understand it.", that would be fine for #archived-culture-study-visa . But not if it's like... "This person I like sent me this message, does it mean they like be back?" or "I had a fight with my friend and I don't know if I should be friends with them anymore, help!" or something, lol.

Hopefully that gives a clearer picture.

[limpid lodge]

lol yeah i guess the latter isn't necessarily covered by leben

[limpid lodge]

but yeah i'll also be interested in hearing why that would be a good addition lol

[fathom fulcrum]

Yeah. The main thing I'm looking to clarify is the motivation for it. Because I could see both of these being possible: "I want a place to talk about this stuff because I like talking about it" as well as "I hate seeing other people talk about this stuff, I want to just get it out of #general ".

And those are two very different suggestions.

[limpid lodge]

that's a good point

[buoyant glacier]

a mix between the two, I like other people talking about it but a discussion like that takes time to start, someone might be asking for something about life but most people in #general or #german-only don't know how to respond so the message just gets swallowed by chat

[fathom fulcrum]

Sure, but that goes for any topic.

[versed flame]

When do suggestions get responded to?

[fathom fulcrum]

Once every 2 weeks.

We collect them all and then do a discussion about them at a scheduled time.

[versed flame]

So punctual

[sour forge]

A german only Streaming channel???

suggest channel for steaming speaking only in German

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[buoyant glacier]

German only exists already lol

[gleaming wolf]

#german-only <

[gritty geyser]

Yeah but he ment a voicechannel for streaming in german

[gleaming wolf]

ooohhh

[gritty geyser]

suggest Einen Lederhosen Emoji, um das Klischee auch abzudecken

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

We generally only accept emoji suggestions if someone provides the emoji/image they want. Emoji suggestions should be submitted to #community-discussion .

[woven osprey]

@fathom fulcrum hellooo, i had a question, would you be kind enough to help me out?

[fathom fulcrum]

Sure, what's up?

[woven osprey]

i find the self assign roles channel very cool and would love to have it in my server too, could you please help me and advice on how you made the roles channel and which bot you used for the self assign/ reaction role feature ? thanksss☺️

@fathom fulcrum

[fathom fulcrum]

Basically we write our bot ourselves, so it's all custom made for our server. But feel free to ask @sand bramble about the roles channel since he coded that part.

[woven osprey]

oh okay, thanks a lot:)

[hazy pebble]

Hello I have an idea why we are not starting a discovery stage then we can practise our speaking in deutsch , even those who are an expert in this language can teach us in there

[fathom fulcrum]

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean.

[hazy pebble]

I mean we can start a new mode which is available in discord new version which is far similar to big free discussion

[fathom fulcrum]

What's wrong with using the voice channels?

Nvm, I see you continued in #community-discussion so feel free to answer my question there instead.

[dull horizon]

@leaden merlin, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

modal particle text for the faq bot

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

FAQ entries are a community project that anyone can contribute to. If you feel like writing an explanation about modal particles, feel free to get in touch with a moderator and we will happily help you out.

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

make the invite go to rules/getting-started and make a rules pop up

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Membership Screening has been activated.

@versed flame, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I know this is kinda catering but make a channel based on when germany reopens it's borders to countries across the world and link that said government page so people know what they need to enter incase they're interested into traveling to germany. I know it's a lot of work doing this but would help a lot. Thank you!

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Unfortunately this isn't feasible. There are too many sources and too much information that often changes within a very short amount of time, sadly it's impossible to keep up with it. Generally it's best to check the relevant official sources yourself.

@loud pivot, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

All the server information and announcements should be in both English and German if possible so people can first try reading the German and then look at the English if they don't understand it.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

With the upcoming overhaul of #282831147942281216 we will also introduce a German translation for it. Announcements however will probably decided on a case by case basis.

@buoyant glacier, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

channel for people to share dating advice or just life advice in general

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Apart from the fact that this is very much outside of the scope of the server, channels like these often do more harm than good, especially when people who are not professionals give advice on delicate topics like mental health or relationships, which is why we would like to abstain from such content.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Einen Lederhosen Emoji, um das Klischee auch abzudecken

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Emoji suggestions should go to #community-discussion. Please make sure to include an actual emoji or picture in a somewhat decent quality and label your message appropriately.

[azure radish]

suggest of topic channel for sports

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

@azure radish, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

of topic channel for sports

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Just two months ago we deleted a sports channel due to inactivity.

[gritty geyser]

suggest make Movie night,Movie should be for all ages(13+),and in German language,so that help to us improve our German skills

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[lucid ledge]

@gritty geyser we should be announcing a schedule with lessons, movie + game nights very soon

This is only for the summer but if youre interested in holding these yourself youre always welcome in #community-discussion or #session-holders

[dull horizon]

Sorry but this suggestion is too long (1036/1000 characters).You can always add more explanations to your suggestion after the initial post.

[gritty geyser]

Uhh

Fine

suggest i actually made this suggestion alrdy last year . And now i would like to suggest it one last time, hoping that this time it's possiböe to make it come true, that is, the mudae bot game.
So there's this discord bot named mudae with many game features, say $blacktea, $greentea, and etc. For ex with $blacktea, players have to type word that consist of the three letters, which the bot randomly generates.
With $greentea, the player who types the longest word from the given 3 letters wins the game.
I find these games very helpful when it comes to improving and expanding vocab. Itms very fun as well. Simply said a great way to waste time while learning some new words along the way.
The reason for rejection last year was apparently let's say bc it's too much work. But well who knows, maybe this year, the lovely bot programmers of Glad have the time skill and mind for it?

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gritty geyser]

As reference https://mudae.fandom.com/wiki/Tea_(multiplayer_games)

[zenith lava]

suggest put some emojis next to the name of the channel so it’s easier to see it

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gusty belfry]

Please no! It can look terrible, depending on the device, and generally makes the server look like a childrens book.

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[shy mulch]

suggest can the #getting-started channel gets updated so that it has description for each category/channel
I have been here for a while and still can't navigate the server yet

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

#282831147942281216 has that.

[shy mulch]

okay sorry about that

[shy mulch]

how can i withdraw the suggestion?

[fathom fulcrum]

Don't worry about it. We'll just reply to it when we reply to the other ones later. 🤗

[leaden orbit]

suggest a >hug command pls. We need something wholesome. All we have is bonking and dog shooting

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[tacit fjord]

my suggestion

[tacit dagger]

suggest adding new 'leben im DACH' which would cover all non uni/student/visa stuff

I think there's huge need for student stuff, and having that as a separate channel is definitely worth it
However, I think having general living under DACH as well would be helpful for having those two streams of thoughts and information not bothering each other
And those of us who are interested in non student stuff don't have to dig to find non student/visa stuff :)

So, I'd remove 'culture' from current one and make a new one 'live and culture in DACH region' or whatever title you think is best

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gilded swan]

There's #archived-culture-study-visa for that sort of thing afaik

[tacit dagger]

@gilded swan I know, my proposal is to split that channel in two

[copper sky]

suggest having a Swiss-german voice channel as well as a Austrian voice channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

make Movie night,Movie should be for all ages(13+),and in German language,so that help to us improve our German skills

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

There will be a few movie nights during our sessions marathon. You can find more info here.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

i actually made this suggestion alrdy last year . And now i would like to suggest it one last time, hoping that this time it's possiböe to make it come true, that is, the mudae bot game.
So there's this discord bot named mudae with many game features, say $blacktea, $greentea, and etc. For ex with $blacktea, players have to type word that consist of the three letters, which the bot randomly generates.
With $greentea, the player who types the longest word from the given 3 letters wins the game.
I find these games very helpful when it comes to improving and expanding vocab. Itms very fun as well. Simply said a great way to waste time while learning some new words along the way.
The reason for rejection last year was apparently let's say bc it's too much work. But well who knows, maybe this year, the lovely bot programmers of Glad have the time skill and mind for it?

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Since we don't allow foreign bots on the server, we can't use the bot you suggested. However, we will add this feature to @dull horizon in the future.

@zenith lava, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

put some emojis next to the name of the channel so it’s easier to see it

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Unfortunately we usually receive quite a few complaints about emojis in channel names when they're added for certain holidays. Permanently making them a part of the name would probably upset a lot of people.

@shy mulch, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

can the #getting-started channel gets updated so that it has description for each category/channel
I have been here for a while and still can't navigate the server yet

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Withdrawn.

@leaden orbit, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a >hug command pls. We need something wholesome. All we have is bonking and dog shooting

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

There are quite a few hug emojis available across Discord and past experience with the bonk command has shown that commands like this will most likely only be used for spam.

@tacit dagger, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

adding new 'leben im DACH' which would cover all non uni/student/visa stuff

I think there's huge need for student stuff, and having that as a separate channel is definitely worth it
However, I think having general living under DACH as well would be helpful for having those two streams of thoughts and information not bothering each other
And those of us who are interested in non student stuff don't have to dig to find non student/visa stuff :)

So, I'd remove 'culture' from current one and make a new one 'live and culture in DACH region' or whatever title you think is best

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

While the channel does cover a wide area of topics, its current usage doesn't warrant splitting it up, as conversations or questions never get drowned or overlooked. In case the situation changes in the future, we will come back to this suggestion.

@copper sky, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

having a Swiss-german voice channel as well as a Austrian voice channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We try to keep the focus on Standard German as it's universally understood in all German speaking countries. In addition to that there's simply not enough demand that would justify such a channel.

[gritty geyser]

add a fart channel

[unique tiger]

@static pulsar is having alts even allowed

[lucid ledge]

No

[gritty geyser]

: (

[dawn dawn]

suggest a guide on immigrating to german speaking countries

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[idle wolf]

suggest an option to opt out of #archived-sensitive-topics

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

@idle wolf What do you mean? You can just leave. It's an opt-in channel already.

[idle wolf]

I didn’t see an option to, I’ll go look again

[fathom fulcrum]

I think you can leave the optional channels by clicking the button in #850404908946423828

[idle wolf]

I don’t know if there’s something wrong with my discord but I’m not seeing any buttons in #850404908946423828

[fathom fulcrum]

Try updating your Discord.

But if you want to use the bot, just use the >unsub command.

[idle wolf]

I’ll leave it for now, it was more so just the option

[fathom fulcrum]

Okay, np.

[dull horizon]

ashy

Quoted by callum

[Jump to message](#general message)
is it ok if i join vc and hear everyone talking?

Jul 8, 2021, 6:34 PM

[crude orbit]

for sessions like the one currently it would make sense to let awbody in surely

just deny them the permission to speak for 10m

super minor but i dont see why they should wait 10m to listen into a lesson

[versed salmon]

Meme channel when?

[buoyant glacier]

no, #archived-media exists

[versed salmon]

Media is a catch all.

[tight hill]

#suggestions message

[versed salmon]

So much meme hate.

[dusky lava]

Flairs for our countries of origin?

[teal horizon]

suggest ist es möglich einen Musik-Chat zu erstellen? :))

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dusky sparrow]

Wenn der Bottfried länger als 3 Minuten unaktiv im V-Chat bleibt, trennt er seiner Verbindung, [sodass Andere ihn rufen können].
Was denkt ihr?

[lucid ledge]

I believe this is already the case?

[sand bramble]

No, only if the channel it is in has less than two people in it.

[lucid ledge]

Ahhh ok

[dusky sparrow]

Wärs machbar?

[wild aurora]

yeah

help skip

[dull horizon]

skip

Votes to skip the currently playing song.
For a skip vote to pass, more than a half of the members in the currently playing voice chat (rounded up) must vote for the skip.

Module: Voice

[wild aurora]

alternatively, you can always ask the user in question to listen to music on their own without using the bot

[dusky sparrow]

Im against it. Bc we would need a ~democratic way to stop the bot. Otherwise a random would so screw up when its me and me crew listening to a song together.

[dusky sparrow]

Supi!

[wild aurora]

well then that's when you should ping the moderator role or use #report-issue, intentionally trying to disrupt conversations is clearly against the rules

[median marsh]

Can we have T-pose non nitro emoji added?

Like this

[tight hill]

#archived-emote-suggestions message

[gritty geyser]

suggest allow users to make only one post in the introduction channel. It is quite annoying to see the same person's introduction spammed daily throughout the week. It makes it difficult to interact with other users.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[ruby dirge]

suggest The permanant invite in #general's pinned messages is expired.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

@ruby dirge, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

The permanant invite in #general's pinned messages is expired.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Thanks for letting us know. The pins have now been updated for #general. You can find the permanent vanity url for our server in #282831147942281216.

[median marsh]

There should be a google drive of saved lectures which are taught on VC. It'd be so handy

[median marsh]

Alsp add a music bot

[wild aurora]

help play

[dull horizon]

play <prompt>

Queues a song to be played by the music bot. This command will only work if you are connected to a voice channel that has at least two members.
The given prompt can be either a YouTube link or a query that will be used to search YouTube and fetch the first result.
Please note that playing any sort of nationalistic, war-related songs, songs that violate our rules or abusing the feature in any way will get you blacklisted.

Module: Voice

[median marsh]

@wild aurora

[limpid lodge]

you can do >suggest to make a formal suggestion

[median marsh]

suggest There should be a google drive of saved lectures which are taught on VC. It'd be so handy

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[leaden orbit]

suggest we need an NA mod, as I and others have noticed that at certain times response times for banning trolls is slower (but still pretty quick, you guys do a great job and I thank you for it!). Doesn't change that a NA mod would help, and I'd like to formally nominate broob. @cursive mauve 😤😤 #Broobformod #BanArrem

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[median marsh]

suggest a channel for football talks.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[unique tiger]

i like the first part of ur suggestion but what the fuck

[lilac urchin]

^

[obtuse sentinel]

suggest Topic generator for #german-only, it could help to spark conversations which can occasionally be difficult.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[weary night]

suggest a channel for pet pics!

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gritty geyser]

suggest revive #sports

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gritty geyser]

suggest a channel for news in German....

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[azure radish]

suggest anime-manga off topic channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[azure radish]

suggest movies-series off topic channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[unkempt path]

suggest pet channel where people can post pictures of their pets etc

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[hidden mist]

isnt that #literally-all-the-channels?

[weary night]

I thought it would be nice to have them all in one spot

[hidden mist]

hmmm idk i like seeing pets everywherr

a lot of the time i see pet pic channels less as a group of pet pictures and more a quarantine zone 😔

[weary night]

I see

[static pulsar]

I think a channel for it would be nice

[atomic creek]

[median marsh]

suggest I suggest #archived-media to have 3 parts: Music, Movies and Memes. These 3 are mixed in one and hence the conversation is not uniform.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

suggest die Lessons in Stage Channels abhalten

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

@limber maple, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 249 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 186.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

die Lessons in Stage Channels abhalten

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

add stages for classes, I've encountered them on other language learning discord servers, and they are very effective

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Session Holders have already been informed about the feature and it's up to them if they'd like to use Stage Channels or keep using the Lessons VC.

[sand bramble]

Most importantly, stage channels don't support screensharing, and that's a dealbreaker for hosts who can't do without it.

[limber maple]

didn't know that

[balmy ledge]

"Correct me"/'Verbessern Sie mich" role?

(if there isn't already)

[fathom fulcrum]

Currently the "default" is to correct people, so if we made a role, it would rather be a "don't correct me" role. But since we find that most people don't read roles, we usually don't like to make roles that convey information like that. It's usually better for the person to put it in their name so it's clearly visible.

However, if you want to formally suggest it, you need to use the >suggest command.

[balmy ledge]

Oh OK

Danke

[dull horizon]

@uncut zodiac, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Set up a penpal system so German lerners can connect with Native Speakers in their dms, similar to the one on the French Server

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Will be implemented in a few weeks.

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a study partner program where people seek out study partners to do stuff together or at least partly simulate a peer environment which can help so many people study better and faster

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Will be implemented in a few weeks.

@wind zephyr, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Can we have a Google Calendar link ( or any other calendar format) which will auto-update with the sessions? I have seen it work with the motorsport calendars maybe we can try it here

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Will be implemented in a few weeks.

@tender cliff, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

We should have a thank command just like bonk command

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

There are quite a few thanks emojis available across Discord and past experience with the bonk command has shown that commands like this will most likely only be used for spam.

@dawn dawn, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a guide on immigrating to german speaking countries

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

While this is not something the moderation team can provide, feel free to write one on your own or turn it into an FAQ entry for the bot. Alternatively you can also ask in #community-discussion if somebody is interested. However, keep in mind that keeping it up-to-date is quite a time consuming task, as you would have to check a lot of different resources on a frequent basis.

@idle wolf, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

an option to opt out of #archived-sensitive-topics

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Withdrawn.

@teal horizon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

ist es möglich einen Musik-Chat zu erstellen? :))

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

You can talk about music in #archived-media, or use #voice-chat and voice-chat-2 when you're in VC. If you're specifically looking for German music, check out #resources and https://bit.ly/gladresources.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

allow users to make only one post in the introduction channel. It is quite annoying to see the same person's introduction spammed daily throughout the week. It makes it difficult to interact with other users.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Unfortunately there is no reasonable bot based approach for this, so we can't guarantee that there won't be any duplicates. If you spot someone making the same introduction over and over again, feel free to use #report-issue or ping the Moderator role.

@median marsh, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

There should be a google drive of saved lectures which are taught on VC. It'd be so handy

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

If Session Holders provide us with their slides or materials, we're more than happy to include them in our resource list. Recordings however will probably not be possible, as we would have to get permission from everyone each time.

@leaden orbit, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

we need an NA mod, as I and others have noticed that at certain times response times for banning trolls is slower (but still pretty quick, you guys do a great job and I thank you for it!). Doesn't change than an NA mod would help, and I'd like to formally nominate broob. @cursive mauve 😤😤 #Broobformod #BanArrem

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

While we don't take nominations for the role, we are aware of the problem and will try to come up with measures to accommodate this time zone more.

@median marsh, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a channel for football talks.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Seeing as we just deleted a sports channel due to inactivity two months ago, we would like to observe the situation more, especially during the Olympic Games. If sports become a dominant topic in the general chats, we'll reconsider this suggestion.

@obtuse sentinel, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Topic generator for #german-only, it could help to spark conversations which can occasionally be difficult.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Unfortunately it is not feasible to manually create and maintain such a list, and online generators have proven to be be unsuitable due to their tendency to include inappropriate topics. However, if you have an additional idea, feel free to let us know.

@weary night, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a channel for pet pics!

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Usually we only create new groups or channels when a certain topic dominates the general chats, and we don't think that's the case currently. If that changes, we will reconsider this proposal.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 243 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 240.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

revive #sports

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

a channel for football talks.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Seeing as we just deleted a sports channel due to inactivity two months ago, we would like to observe the situation more, especially during the Olympic Games. If sports become a dominant topic in the general chats, we'll reconsider this suggestion.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a channel for news in German....

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Feel free to use our resource list for news sources in German.

@unkempt path, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 247 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 242.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

pet channel where people can post pictures of their pets etc

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

a channel for pet pics!

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Usually we only create new groups or channels when a certain topic dominates the general chats, and we don't think that's the case currently. If that changes, we will reconsider this proposal.

@loud pivot, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

group the practice channel with the general-discussion channels since it's basically just people having conversations as far as I can tell. It would make conversations happening there easier to find.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Done.

[quiet latch]

Hallo!
I think that we should be have a channel for the lowest levels (a1-a2), sometimes the "German only" channel can be a bit overwhelming for begginers. Maybe it can be good having a "German only-A1, A2" Channel.

Thanks for your attention

[limber maple]

You may want to use >suggest

[quiet latch]

oh Thanks!

[fathom fulcrum]

#beginner-german

It doesn't really make sense to have a German only channel for beginners, because beginners need to ask questions and discuss corrections with people as they go.

And most beginners can't do that in German yet.

But #beginner-german is a channel dedicated to any kind of German practice, so you can freely use it for German only practice if you wish.

[quiet latch]

Hmmm I see 😅

Thanks!

[fathom fulcrum]

No problem.

[wise moon]

[chilly violet]

suggest add a word meaning game, words in german, players have to type english meaning, can have levels and words from Goethe Word list. Since tea-word-game is already implemented and is doing great, I think this won't be much harder, just map the answer to English meanings or vice versa, from English to German. Of course finding the word list could be difficult. Ich hoffe sie denken über das, danke!

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

help word

[dull horizon]

No command or module called word found.

[wild aurora]

Eh

What was it

help words

[dull horizon]

words

**Aliases: **wordtrainer, wordgame
A command that helps you train vocabulary using dict.cc.

Module: German

[wild aurora]

There we go, something like this ^ ?

[chilly violet]

Yes I guess, playing with people maybe without options, I tried it out in the bot channel and displaying the answer if time's up and no one answered

@wild aurora

[wise moon]

wordgame

[dull horizon]

**Correct!** What does *receptive* mean?

:regional_indicator_a: urhaft
:regional_indicator_b: paränetisch
:regional_indicator_c: Knochen-
:regional_indicator_d: aufnahmebereit

[fathom fulcrum]

@wise moon #botchannel

[wise moon]

ohh oops

[wise moon]

suggest disable bot commands/redirect them to #botchannel in #resources i have notifications on because of the nice resources people send but when they're just bot commands it clutters it up🥺

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Not including the one for submitting resources, right?

[wise moon]

of course not😩 😩 😩

[wise moon]

thank u base

[fathom fulcrum]

Np. It's a bit tricky because we want to have some commands on to help people do stuff like... for example, answer questions more easily (like if someone asks about duolingo, they can just post the faq). It's hard to find a balance between freedom and restriction for that.

But the mods will discuss it in our next suggestion review session and see what we think.

[wise moon]

maybe it could answer through dm?

or delete after like a min or some time

[wild aurora]

You'd still get a notification for the invocation in both scenarios and the bot message in the second one

[wise moon]

crying is the only solution then

[nimble steppe]

no, not my >faq homework !!!!!

[patent umbra]

suggest when Leibniz is being used for playing music his name should be Vibeniz

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[still grove]

hahaha its funny how it says aborting

[frigid nest]

conjugation scheinen

[dull horizon]

https://www.verbformen.de/konjugation/scheinen.htm

[limpid lodge]

nooo why did you cancel this this is brill

[crude orbit]

what about a quasihaiku mode for ouija? first message has five words; then the second has seven; then third has five again; then the fourth has seven, then the fifth has five; and on and on

this would be change
maybe not for the better
let discussion start 😌

[reef pilot]

Can we make like a gaming vc?

speak german while playing and stuff like this

[wild aurora]

We have one 😅 go to #850404908946423828 and get the Gaming role to get access

[reef pilot]

thank you 😄

[dusty vault]

suggest Ein bot der dir ein zufälliges Thema vorschlägt worüber man reden kann

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[scenic ore]

suggest adding a #meme section

suggest adding a #meme section

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[static pulsar]

suggest role colour overhaul, democracy style

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Can you explain your concerns with the current role colours?

[static pulsar]

I just don't like them, haha. I figured I could ask about a possible change.

[fathom fulcrum]

I think the main issue is that we try to accommodate most types of colour blindness, so our options are limited by that.

But we can discuss it.

[static pulsar]

yeah that makes sense. okay :)

[nimble steppe]

suggest prevent any person to close the ouija session, maybe via limiting it to the creator; Even better, what about some sorta voting like how the tea-word-game starts?

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[static pulsar]

😏

[wild aurora]

Seeing that ouijas often take days to complete, both options are possibly tricky, the creator might not be around for a long time, or in the worst case even leave the server
Voting comes with a similar issue, what would be an appropriate period of time to vote ?

[nimble steppe]

Naja you're right, if they're just passing by it may be an issue. There's also the fact that if you open up the vote, it'll get lost when people keep playing 😔

acknowledging that as a natural problem, what about making it a small amount of time and a goal of hitting half the user count or something? As in, if 4 people are playing, a vote session that lasts 5 minutes(arbitrary number) and ends the session after 2 votes. People can restart the vote if they want?

[wild aurora]

making it dependable on the participant count is also dangerous when people only contribute once and then vanish
what's wrong with the current system ?

[nimble steppe]

anyone can finish it even when they’re the only one who doesn’t like it? 👀

[limpid lodge]

maybe Merb's problem is sometimes the ouija seem to get ended prematurely?

sometimes a session doesn't even last half a day

[keen wren]

hey what's the deal w Ouija here?😂

[obtuse stone]

If you're wondering what is being talked about here, there is a role called 'Oujia' in #850404908946423828 that you can get, in order to access that channel. It let's you participate in some game where you can fill gaps with words and make funny (or whatever) sentences

[azure radish]

suggest a language exchange partner channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[lucid ledge]

heyo, I'm personally very curious as to how you see this implementend or how it should be played, could you give me a brief overview?

[gritty geyser]

suggest a correct me role

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gritty geyser]

suggest A music bot, preferrably Rythm.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gilded swan]

Bottfried can do that
Just type ">play [ytlink/songname]"

[gritty geyser]

ok thx

[dull horizon]

@lapis nymph, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Könnte der Bot in #writing bekanntmachen, dass lange Texte lieber als Google Docs geteilt werden sollten und Korrekturen in #corrections gegeben werden sollten, wenn jemand einen langen Text (>500 char) in #writing sendet?

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

A filter will be implemented for #writing that only allows google doc links in the channel.

@azure radish, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

anime-manga off topic channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Requires further discussion and will be either brought up in #community-discussion at a later point, or answered in this channel.

@azure radish, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

movies-series off topic channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Requires further discussion and will be either brought up in #community-discussion at a later point, or answered in this channel.

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I suggest #archived-media to have 3 parts: Music, Movies and Memes. These 3 are mixed in one and hence the conversation is not uniform.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Requires further discussion and will be either brought up in #community-discussion at a later point, or answered in this channel.

@chilly violet, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add a word meaning game, words in german, players have to type english meaning, can have levels and words from Goethe Word list. Since tea-word-game is already implemented and is doing great, I think this won't be much harder, just map the answer to English meanings or vice versa, from English to German. Of course finding the word list could be difficult. Ich hoffe sie denken über das, danke!

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Will be added to our bot to-do list.

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

disable bot commands/redirect them to #botchannel in #resources i have notifications on because of the nice resources people send but when they're just bot commands it clutters it up🥺

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Withdrawn.

@dusty vault, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 252 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 241.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Ein bot der dir ein zufälliges Thema vorschlägt worüber man reden kann

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

Topic generator for #german-only, it could help to spark conversations which can occasionally be difficult.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Unfortunately it is not feasible to manually create and maintain such a list, and online generators have proven to be be unsuitable due to their tendency to include inappropriate topics. However, if you have an additional idea, feel free to let us know.

@scenic ore, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 253 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 107.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

adding a #meme section

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

wir mussen dringend eine Memes channel bauen

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This suggestion has been denied many times in the past. Such a channel offers no value to the server and potentially only causes issues with memes that go against our rules. If you're having a conversation and you need to post a relevant meme, you're welcome to do so, but we do not encourage random off-topic meme dumps in any of our channels.

@static pulsar, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

role colour overhaul, democracy style

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We currently don't see the need for an overhaul. The current colour palette is well thought-out to account for colour blindness while still aiming for a nice look. Naturally we understand that some people might not like it, but changing the current colours will only make others unhappy in return. Sadly it's impossible to make everyone happy in this case.

@nimble steppe, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

prevent any person to close the ouija session, maybe via limiting it to the creator; Even better, what about some sorta voting like how the tea-word-game starts?

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Since it's rarely an issue, and considering the relevant discussion in #suggestions, we'll reject this for now. In case the situation changes in the future and people try to abuse the goodbye-feature too much, we'll reconsider this.

@azure radish, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 256 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 195.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a language exchange partner channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

a study partner program where people seek out study partners to do stuff together or at least partly simulate a peer environment which can help so many people study better and faster

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Will be implemented in a few weeks.

[tribal raft]

suggest adding a #Deutsch Musik section

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[icy finch]

suggest adding a #pictures from germany

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[solar hound]

suggest adding a #Deutsch Musik section

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wheat geyser]

suggest a way to create our own temporary rooms and customize them

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[mighty fjord]

suggest #Deutsch Musik sention

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

Please don't submit the same suggestion over and over again, messing with this system will get you blocked from the channel

[loud pivot]

suggest Das Tee-Spiel soll verschiedene Niveaus haben, sodass Anfänger ein leichteres Spiel haben können und Experte ein schwierigeres Spiel haben können. Man kann wie viel Trigraphe für die Niveaus ändern.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[chilly violet]

Hi sure.
Say we are playing it from German to English, so quiz based.
Bot: Was bedeutet "anstrengend" auf Englisch?
(All users type the answers and the fastest one gets the point) (like tea green currently).
Similarly, for English to German-
Type the word "talking":
Users could type - sprechen, reden, anrufen, schnacken and so on. (Not all are correct, just from the top of my head).
The problem I see would be synonyms and stuff but a good enough working version would be still fun!

[lunar idol]

Es wird sehr interessant

[naive imp]

Hey would you let me know how you made buttons ?

I want to use it for my server 😬

[wild aurora]

You can find the API docs for bots here: https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/message-components

[stiff finch]

suggest a meme channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gilded swan]

@stiff finch

[stiff finch]

Oh poo

[gritty geyser]

suggest a channel for the basics, like
greetings, etc. etc.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

What do you mean?

[fathom fulcrum]

Can you also explain more about what you mean?

[gilded swan]

It once was, but was changed because even beginners should be able to understand the channel names. And know the purpose of each channel.
The useful exposure you would get from that is minimal anyways.

[fathom fulcrum]

We do have rules in German.

We prefer the base language to be English so, like Andre said, beginners can understand it.

But if there's something in particular you think needs to be translated, you can suggest that. "Alles" is a bit too unspecific.

[gilded swan]

Verstehst du kein Englisch?
Gespräche die mit Sprachen lernen selber nicht so unbedingt viel zu tun haben und bei denen wichtig ist dass man die versteht, machen wir standardmäßig auf Englisch.

Wenn ersteres zutreffend sein sollte, hier zu der Antwort:
Alles soll auch für Anfänger lesbar sein und da die Lingua Franca des Internets nun mal Englisch ist, bleiben wir dabei. Jeder kann ja zumindest ein bisschen Englisch, aber Deutsch wollen die meiste Leute ja erst lernen.

Den German-Only Channel auf deutsch zu benennen hat in der Vergangenheit ZB bereits dazu geführt dass Menschen ihn ohne es zu wissen falsch benutzt haben.
Mit German Only ist das für 99% der Menschen sofort klar

Wenn Leute den Server betreten, um ohne Vorkenntisse Deutsch zu lernen, wird das für die nicht glasklar sein. Und das sind fast die meisten.

Es ist wie gesagt nicht so als hätten wir das noch nie gehabt.

Da die Lerner gegenseitig voneinander lernen, würde es da keinen großartigen Sinn ergeben, da eine Trennung aufzubauen.
Wenn in gewissen Rahmen Deutsche sich untereinander unterhalten finden solche Sprachkompetenzdiskrepanzen sowieso natürlicherweise statt. Nur können dann auch Anfänger über Lesen eines Texten oder Zuhören von Muttersprachlern oder Fortgeschrittenen sich die Sprache darüber wunderbar aneignen bzw davon Lernen.

Da ich nicht zum Serverpersonal gehöre, sollte meine Aussage jedoch nicht auf die Goldwaage gelegt werden.

Der Begriff Machthaber wird übrigens nur im politischen Kontext benutzt.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[tall nacelle]

Partner channel

[gritty geyser]

Ah, makes sense.

[gritty geyser]

As in, a channel for basic phrases, like „hallo, und vilkommen,“ etc.

Maybe even German punctuation, because I'm not sure if I got that wrong or not. Should that be in italics? Does it matter? Are the qoutation marks correct? Oh, wait, they aren't, because this is in English.
Like, basic German, which involves the basics, like hi, and welcome, and then punctuation, because that's important when forming sentences

Oh, sorry, I didn't notice you were writing something

[fathom fulcrum]

It's fine.

I just don't really understand yet how you would want this type of channel to work.

People just say "Hallo" to each other and nothing else?

[gritty geyser]

Well, that's kind of the idea, except not really. It's the basics. The linguistic basic; and when I think of that, I think of how to form a sentance (in writing) and the alphabet.
The comma, in Greek, serves as the decimal point  and it also functions as a silent letter in a handful of Greek words, principally distinguishing ό,τι (ó,ti, "whatever") from ότι (óti, "that") which could get confusing to some.
When it comes to the English language, I started with the alphabets, which were rather simple to me, since they were the exact same as in Swedish but without the three umlauted letters (did I use that word right?) in that language, being å, ä, and ö.
German has ä, ö, and ü, correct?
So, it's basically just the alphabet, punctuation, and a couple of the basic rules in a language put togheter.
Unnecessarily complicated if you're not familiar with learning in this manner, but not so much if you're familiar with the process and understand the linguistic basics in a language, which, in all honesty, I don't, but you won't really need to understand the whole process of linguistics. Besides, I can always learn.
It's kind of just the lazy way to learn a language. It's what I did with English. Then came the actual words once I understood the rules.
I don't think this would work for newborns, but if you already know a few languages, like English, the lingua franca of the world, then yeah, this channel would be more about learning and just absorbing all the rules of the German language.

Sorry about that

[lyric stirrup]

all gucci

[fathom fulcrum]

I understand wanting resources to learn the basics, but I'm not sure how a Discord server channel helps with that.

We have #resources which has a resource list including beginner info. We have #questions and #questions-2 for asking questions about the language. We have #beginner-german for practicing writing sentences and doing exercises together and so on. So I want to know what this new channel would offer that the existing channels don't already.

[lyric stirrup]

very niceness

[fathom fulcrum]

We also have #getting-started which explains how to get started with learning.

And an >faq command which contains the most common questions/answers.

[gritty geyser]

Well, in all honesty, I forgot these existed...
But on what it offers? Good question. Punctuation, the alphabet, and the syntax. Kind of just the starting point for beginners. So, it's just speed learning
Not much else. Just a lot more complicated than usual. Like practice, put togheter with the alphabet, punctuation, the rules, and basic greetings, and afterwards... well, not so basic greetings. So, a way to throw everything at you at once

And I really mean almost everything

Which is kind of hellish

But it works, methinks?

It would work
Unless if you have difficulties with taking in everything.
If you don't, it would be the German language compressed into a week

[half hinge]

Short question here: Is there a way to expand the pins on #resources ? Or should I just post it in when someone asks?
I saw that there are news sites on one of the pins but actually there are as well news site in an easier written German for German learners (That was a question in a Korean Forum where someone asked for news in an easier German - I just quickly need to search my answer and translate it). Another input I can give is a page where ppl can search for example "gehen" and find all different variations of "Vorsilben" as in abgehen, aufgehen, entgehen, etc. - I mean it is in general a big online verblist and if you click on the verb it shows the conjugation table and more information. I thought it might me helpful :3

[fathom fulcrum]

We have a resource list and you can make suggestions for the list by using the >resource command, but please use this command in #resources only.

The resource list is pinned in #resources .

[half hinge]

Oooh! Thank you! :3 I will check it out!

[dull horizon]

@tribal raft, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

adding a #Deutsch Musik section

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This idea is too specific to warrant its own group/channel. However, we will be reviewing the function of #archived-media in future.

@icy finch, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 260 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 259.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

adding a #pictures from germany

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

adding a #Deutsch Musik section

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This idea is too specific to warrant its own group/channel. However, we will be reviewing the function of #archived-media in future.

@solar hound, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 261 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 259.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

adding a #Deustch Musik section

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

adding a #Deutsch Musik section

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This idea is too specific to warrant its own group/channel. However, we will be reviewing the function of #archived-media in future.

@mighty fjord, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 263 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 259.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

#Deutsch Musik sention

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

adding a #Deutsch Musik section

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This idea is too specific to warrant its own group/channel. However, we will be reviewing the function of #archived-media in future.

@wheat geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a way to create our own temporary rooms and customize them

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We understand why this idea would be appealing to members, but unfortunately, for a server of this size, it would become very complex and messy to implement and moderate such a feature. Instead, we encourage people to create their own separate spaces (DM groups and so on) to study and socialize with their friends on the server.

@loud pivot, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Das Tee-Spiel soll verschiedene Niveaus haben, sodass Anfänger ein leichteres Spiel haben können und Experte ein schwierigeres Spiel haben können. Man kann wie viel Trigraphe für die Niveaus ändern.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We’ll look into what kind of modifications are possible and let you know if/when we implement it.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a channel for the basics, like
greetings, etc. etc.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Feel free to use #beginner-german to practice the basics, or ask questions about these topics in #questions or #questions-2. You can also type >faq all in the #botchannel to see a list of available FAQs which may answer some of your questions already. If anyone would like to submit an FAQ to be added to the bot, to provide information about a topic not already covered, just contact the mods for assistance. If there is a topic you think should be added to the FAQs but you aren’t able to write it yourself, you can make a suggestion in #community-discussion.

@tacit pilot, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

alles auf Deutsch umschreiben

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Suggestion revoked.

@tacit pilot, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Eine "nur deutsch" Abteilung zu erstellen

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Suggestion revoked.

@stiff finch, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 265 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 107.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a meme channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

wir mussen dringend eine Memes channel bauen

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This suggestion has been denied many times in the past. Such a channel offers no value to the server and potentially only causes issues with memes that go against our rules. If you're having a conversation and you need to post a relevant meme, you're welcome to do so, but we do not encourage random off-topic meme dumps in any of our channels.

[dull horizon]

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

A music bot, preferrably Rythm.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Our server bot @dull horizon can play music. Type >help voice in #botchannel to learn the commands.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 257 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 111.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a correct me role

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

provide a correct me role for beginners

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As members have stated in the channel, we encourage everyone to correct the mistakes they spot, since we are a learning server. If you want more visibility, you can add something like (correct me) to your username. In the near future, the staff team will discuss ways to encourage corrections more in general.

[gritty geyser]

suggest Make a channel like #german-books cause reading books will help us learn more and help us become fluent and stuff

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[lucid ledge]

hey just a question, what would be the purpose of the channel? Would it just be for book reccomendations, links to books, a book club, or something else entirely?

[gritty geyser]

for example if you think abt it
this channel cNn have the discussion of books and it can also be for books reccomendations in german links to books because when it comes to languages the best way to learn it go deeper into it is to read like reading can bring u into an whole another level
but for beginners liek me it might be difficult to get hold of good books of another language and to discuss them too

but it isnt exactly like a book club

P.S the >suggest wasnt exactly working for me ig

i hope it will still be counted :D

[lucid ledge]

its submitted dont worry

[lucid ledge]

alright, there are a few things to keep in mind.

1. We already have regular reading sessions for beginners and semi-regular books clubs
2. Users cannot post content with the intention of distribution that isn't already publicly available. For publicly available materials we have the #resources list. People can not only submit their books/texts in the format you described already, but you can also find previously submitted works in section 10 of the document.

Would this fit with what youre suggesting?

[gritty geyser]

hm oka

[unique tiger]

thanks for deleting those home of phobic messages basel

[limber maple]

sus

[gritty geyser]

Words and sentences of the day

[wild aurora]

#thing-of-the-day

[versed ice]

Can we recommend lessons here? Cause something about declension (weak, strong, when to / how to use it) would be useful imo

[fathom fulcrum]

Yeah, in #community-discussion

#suggestions is mostly just for stuff mods can do. Anything our session holders or content creators do is for #community-discussion .

[versed ice]

Got it thanks

[grand slate]

<@&305455824174710787> sorry for disturbing you but i just wanted to say that i cannot dm people for help and also the time limiter in writing is a lil bit annoying

[sand bramble]

Whether or not you can DM people depends on their settings, there isn't anything the staff team can do about it. And #writing is only supposed to be used to post links to texts, discussions and comments should go in #corrections, so the slowmode shouldn't be a problem for anyone who's using the channels correctly.

[grand slate]

Ah thank you

[solar hound]

suggest meme channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

@solar hound

[lapis nymph]

suggest "meme channel" Vorschläge automatisch ablehnen und die Person ins Jenseits verbannen

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[unique tiger]

im surprised that that hasnt been implemented yet tbh

[solar hound]

Danke für die Anregung, wir sehen uns im Jenseits

[limber maple]

suggest make bot commands not case sensitive

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[icy hamlet]

we need a meme channel?

[limber maple]

We still get no meme channel

[icy hamlet]

y tho

like r/ich_iel subreddits could be helpful

[limber maple]

@icy hamlet

[lucid ledge]

Sure but why does it need its own channel

[icy hamlet]

sad..

[icy hamlet]

I gave an example. We could make our own memes about language learning, etc

[lucid ledge]

But you can do that anyway and post it in #archived-media or #general-2

I don't think it constitutes its own channel

[crude orbit]

i like the idea of a meme channel

[granite cosmos]

suggest Easy German Podcast for the resources document. Easy German the youtube channel is already on there, but the podcast is not listed under the podcast section.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Use the >resource command in #resources to make suggestions to the resource doc.

[granite cosmos]

oh sorry, it seemed like people were just sharing stuff in there, not suggesting stuff

[fathom fulcrum]

Yeah, people do both. If they just post stuff there, it's just sharing. But if you use the command, then it's for the resource doc.

[fathom fulcrum]

@keen mesa What is this?

[keen mesa]

it has some good daily words in it

[keen mesa]

I think I thought smt else sbout this section of channel
my bad
I thought I can recommend smt to others from here

[fathom fulcrum]

Maybe you meant #resources ?

#resources is where you can post resources for people to check out.

#suggestions is where you make suggestions to mods about changes you want to see in the server.

[keen mesa]

i see, thx and sorry abt it

[crude orbit]

suggest aldi should add those emotes that she said she would

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gilded kayak]

suggest A channel to share your favorite music with others from YouTube, Spotify etc.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

#archived-media ?

[gilded kayak]

Da kommt alles mögliche rein, Musik geht da unter 🤔

[weary night]

suggest ist es möglich den Knopf in #850404908946423828 umzubenennen. Ich sehe oft dass Neuanfänger sich die C-Rolle zuweisen, da sie dachten die cefr Skala wäre umgekehrt.

Ich schlage vor, es so zu ändern
A Beginner B Intermediate C Advanced
Oder eine Varietät davon

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

@azure radish, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

movies-series off topic channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

A similar suggestion has been made, which is a bit broader than this one. We plan to experiment with threads to organize #archived-media better, and we'll keep the other suggestion open until we have had a chance to do so. This one is being rejected to reduce clutter in the system.

@plush mountain, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Make a channel like #german-books cause reading books will help us learn more and help us become fluent and stuff

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We feel like this is too specific. However, once Discord's threads are properly supported by bots, we will be experimenting with splitting up #archived-media into different threads that might help organize things better. Do note that we also have reading lessons which you can subscribe to from #850404908946423828.

@solar hound, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 270 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 265.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

meme channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

a meme channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This suggestion has been denied many times in the past. Such a channel offers no value to the server and potentially only causes issues with memes that go against our rules. If you're having a conversation and you need to post a relevant meme, you're welcome to do so, but we do not encourage random off-topic meme dumps in any of our channels.

@lapis nymph, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

"meme channel" Vorschläge automatisch ablehnen und die Person ins Jenseits verbannen

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We'll add this to our idea list and look into it when time permits.

@limber maple, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

make bot commands not case sensitive

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This might require some technical changes under the hood, but we'll look into it.

@granite cosmos, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Easy German Podcast for the resources document. Easy German the youtube channel is already on there, but the podcast is not listed under the podcast section.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

#suggestions is meant to be used for suggestions regarding the server, more specifically things that the moderation team can do. We have a #resources channel where you can suggest new resources with the >resource command.

@crude orbit, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

aldi should add those emotes that she said she would

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Please don't abuse the suggestion system for jokes, as they will lead to a permanent block from the channel.

@gilded kayak, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

A channel to share your favorite music with others from YouTube, Spotify etc.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Music falls under #archived-media or #resources, depending on how you see it. We understand that different types of content can get lost in #archived-media, and we intend to look into solutions, but we feel like creating new channels would just clutter up the list unnecessarily. Once bots get support for Discord's threads, we will experiment with them. There is already a suggestion open for the #archived-media reorganization, so we're closing this one just to avoid clutter.

@weary night, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

ist es möglich den Knopf in #850404908946423828 umzubenennen. Ich sehe oft dass Neuanfänger sich die C-Rolle zuweisen, da sie dachten die cefr Skala wäre umgekehrt.

Ich schlage vor, es so zu ändern
A Beginner B Intermediate C Advanced
Oder eine Varietät davon

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We originally worked under the assumption that users will get to #850404908946423828 from #getting-started, where this is explained. Since it does indeed seem like it isn't always the case, we'll discuss some changes and add a bit of extra info around the buttons.

[gritty geyser]

Test

[autumn crescent]

also test

[bronze frost]

suggest Different channels depending on the fluency, labelled A1,A2,B1 etc.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[rugged hazel]

suggest Add Role icons

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[buoyant glacier]

already suggested multiple times, it would just be a bad idea because the only way to improve language is to chat with people more fluent than oneself so it wouldn't be very beneficial

[bronze frost]

But by doing so, I am unable to even understand the higher level people, also the higher level people want to talk to someone that is fluent so they have to show this pace down just for me. If the levels are there it would be easy to talk and understand.

[buoyant glacier]

A's chatting with A's isn't beneficial for anyone

[lucid ledge]

yeah, and you may all propagate mistakes you're making without the input of somebody that is a higher level

[bronze frost]

Ok, I agree chatting with the same level won't be beneficial. But if there were labels I can atleast choose from what fluency people I want to talk to. So if I am good in A1 I will try to talk to A2, but suddenly talking to B2 or C1s definately does not help at all.

[lucid ledge]

thats fair, and thats why we have coloured roles (yellow = native, pink = A/beginner)

[fathom fulcrum]

We have beginner chats: #beginner-german and Practice Room VC.

[toxic saffron]

Nice

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[tardy kindle]

I’d like to suggest a “this tbh” react like most servers have

And maybe even kekw but maybe that’s too much to ask

[fathom fulcrum]

@tardy kindle Emoji suggestions can be posted in #community-discussion

[tardy kindle]

Thanks

[old coral]

As said before... It is not a welcoming place for beginners. Fluent people are talking there, and if you know only simple words you need to go to english so you can be understood.
So most of the time the beginners will just listen, unable to participate.
There should be a place flagged with SLOW or something like this, where A level are welcome and fluent people are aware that they should speak slow.
There is even a slow german podcast on youtube and spotify that uses the same principle.

[fathom fulcrum]

There should be a place flagged with SLOW or something like this, where A level are welcome and fluent people are aware that they should speak slow.
Yes, that is the Practice Room VC. If you are a learner, especially a beginner, who is using that channel, you can ask people to slow down or explain stuff for you. If they don't respect your request, you can contact mods to help you out. It even says in #282831147942281216 "Please try to accommodate learners, especially beginners, in the Practice Room VC. If you’re a fluent or native speaker engaging exclusively with other fluent and native speakers, you might want to use German Only, or Casual instead." You're welcome to quote that to people if they don't know about it.

The problem here is, no matter what rooms we make, it's up to the people using them to make them "welcoming". We can't do a magic spell that forces people to always speak slowly there - it's their choice to follow the guidelines or not. We (the moderators) can step in and talk to them and ask them to change their behaviour if they're misusing the channel, but for that to happen requires people to let us know that there's an issue. Making a new channel won't solve the problem. We can discuss renaming the channels, if that's what you're asking for, but we won't make any new channels for this.

[hidden frigate]

What if we do levels in this server, like for fun. We have have levels, like we can do it by 10s. For example if you reach to level 10 you get this role called “the basic role” the 20 level can be the role called “you are on a role” or something. Each time you level up you get it based on how often you can in this server yk? The more you text here the more your level grows. Idk how to explain but do you get the idea?

[fathom fulcrum]

The main problem with stuff like that is it encourages people to spam a lot of nonsense stuff just to level up.

We do welcome suggestions about fun and encouraging things to do on the server, but we also try to avoid anything that will make it too competitive or make people feel like they'll be at a disadvantage if they don't have much time to spend.

We want everyone to feel equal. 😄

But if you have any other ideas for fun stuff we could do, it's fine to suggest it.

[amber magnet]

suggest Add a correct-me-role to know whether or not people would like to be corrected, instead of them having to put it into their nicknames.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Can you explain what you feel are the benefits of that?

[amber magnet]

The .gg/english server has it, and I believe that members would benefit from it as they could choose whether they would like to be corrected or not instead of people simply correcting them, and possibly embarrassing them, or people just not correcting them at all because they are not sure if the person would like to be corrected. So this would not only benefit learners but would also help natives, and it has worked quite well in the English-learning server.

[fathom fulcrum]

How is it beneficial over putting it in the name though? Putting it in your name is a lot more visible and people are more likely to read it and follow it. A lot of people are too lazy to read roles.

[amber magnet]

You can still put it in your name, but I don't believe that everyone would come up with that idea and that everyone would want to do that. I don't see many people having it in their names, but when I check the other server, I see a lot of people using the role, with 50 thousand reacts under the message, the server itself only having 300 thousand members. The role would draw attention to the opportunity of being corrected whenever you make a mistake and would thus be beneficial + it's just a role, so it wouldn't do any harm to try it out.

It's also the most chosen role in the other server

[fathom fulcrum]

it's just a role, so it wouldn't do any harm to try it out
If that were the only role suggestion we had, then yes, I could agree. But we have had many, many different various types of suggestions for new roles and we try to mostly stick to functional roles only (aside from those which denote German level). If we accepted all role suggestions because "it's just a role", then we would have run out of space for roles a long time ago. We will still consider the suggestion, but I just wanted to point out that "just a role" isn't as simple as it sounds.

[gritty geyser]

i need help

anyone know german

[fathom fulcrum]

Wrong channel.

[gritty geyser]

ok

[amber magnet]

I did not intend to make it sound as if you could just try out any role. I have stated arguments for adding the role and simply wanted to have another argument for adding it, and to perhaps make it easier for you to make a decision

But I am glad that you will consider it

[fathom fulcrum]

We consider all suggestions (as long as they're properly submitted with the bot command, of course).

[amber magnet]

Good to hear

[crude orbit]

suggest move roles to the server category

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dusky sparrow]

Base, maybe a easier preliminar approach to add would be suggesting in the #getting-started or in the #rules that people cann have a "KM", Korrigiere mich. ||und sry falls es schon da ist, ich schaue mir diese so nicht mehr an hehe.||

[wild aurora]

ich schaue mir diese so nicht mehr an hehe.
you succesfully argued against yourself

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[hidden frigate]

Hiiii I have a suggestion

For fun, what if we add this thing where we can customize our name colours, for fun, like I can customize my name to light purple, light blue or red.

[fathom fulcrum]

Suggestions need to be made with the >suggest command.

But we won't add name colour customization because we use the colours to show German level.

[hidden frigate]

Awe okie :3

[tranquil tulip]

suggest I joined last lesson here and I think this was for easy A1 I think so I mean people can easily learn this from tons of source from youtube but can we make harder lessons or something like hard to find like using Doch, noch and schon . It has no translate I watched videos about it but still cant use them

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Thanks for the suggestion. However, #suggestions is only really for things moderators can do. For recommendations for session holders, just posting in #community-discussion is best (no command needed, people will just read and comment).

[dawn burrow]

Agreed

[dull horizon]

@bronze frost, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Different channels depending on the fluency, labelled A1,A2,A3 etc.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We don't think that creating channels that exclusively house beginners in particular is a good idea. Learners who are just starting out often need support from others, and cutting off the input from more experienced learners makes such channels an echo chamber for mistakes. The #beginner-german channel is usually quiet, so that makes it a good place for beginners to talk, but still lets others comment if necessary. For voice chat, you can use the Study Groups to study with friends of your level.

@rugged hazel, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Add Role icons

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

At the moment, we don't want to add a new feature just for the sake of adding one. We already have some more specific plans for what to do with role icons in the future, and we're open for specific suggestions by the community, as long as the use-case is clear and compelling enough. It's unlikely that all roles will get icons though.

@amber magnet, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been marked as open for discussion.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Add a correct-me-role to know whether or not people would like to be corrected, instead of them having to put it into their nicknames.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We will allow members to comment on this in community-meta for a few days, and see what people think about the idea, as there are reasons both for and against implementing this.

@crude orbit, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

move roles to the server category

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The channel has been moved.

[sand bramble]

#902496771530440754

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Can you explain more about why you feel this change is needed?

Sure, but I'm just wondering about how the channel name relates to that.

You can already talk about those topics there.

Sure, and if the name is #tech, you could argue that it's called "tech" so people won't necessarily discuss code there.

Oh, that would rather go into #general or #general-2 . I don't think talking about new stuff you bought is at the point where it requires a dedicated channel, nor is it really that related to IT discussions. Although if you want to make a suggestion about that specifically, feel free to do so.

Those things would go in #coding , yeah.

The channel is described this way in #282831147942281216 : This channel is for discussing programming/coding and various other topics related to computer science.

We can update the channel description to include that though.

It is enough. People talk about other IT stuff all the time there and there seem to be no obstacles related to that, as far as I've seen.

I can at least confirm that the name has nothing to do with the lower activity of the channel. The reason we had to create the channel originally is because people would talk about CS and programming stuff in #general so much that it would constantly take over the chat and people were getting kinda annoyed about it being the only thing people would take about. We have a lot of CS people in the server who are quite active. But like all topics/channels, it goes through busier and less busy phases depending on what people are working on.

In December it tends to get very active, for example.

But yeah, the vast majority of the content is coding, but any reasonably related topics are also welcome.

[mint cloud]

Hi. Sometimes it's hard to understand the meaning of a word in a sentence, specially when the word have several meanings. Would you please add a specific tab for help with dictionary translations? For example by asking "what's the meaning of ___ in the sentence ________."
Thanks.

[fathom fulcrum]

You can use #questions for that.

[mint cloud]

Ok, good to know. Thanks 👍

[fathom fulcrum]

No problem.

[sharp token]

A geography channel

Imagine everyone in the server being able to say all 198 countries in german

[crude orbit]

i feel like the motd could at least be updated

[fathom fulcrum]

Yeah, that's what I meant with "We can update the channel description to include that though.".

[crude orbit]

oh i just didnt read that

you made me ill i have an excuse

[fathom fulcrum]

True. 🫂

[sand bramble]

Go back to IRC you motd memer.

[crude orbit]

is that not what its called on discord anymore

oh its a channel topic, swear to fuck it used to be called the motd on dicksword

oh no its been channel topic since the dawn of time imowumpal, guess i am a nerd then

[prime ledge]

I think this suggestion was perhaps misunderstood. The purpose wouldn't necessarily be to limit the discussion to only e.g. A1 speakers (nor to prohibit anyone who is more advanced), but rather to signal to participants that the level of discussion should be "A1 friendly." More advanced speakers would naturally be welcome and encouraged to participate--simply with the caveat that they should be mindful to keep the discussion at an approachable level for A1s.

The issue is that it's not necessarily immediately apparent, based on the names of chats alone, how advanced the level of discussion should be. Yes, there are guidelines for how to use, e.g., Practice Room. But if users start to speak too quickly or too advanced for newer learners to keep up, it would be much easier for a user to simply cite the chat name itself ("Is this discussion really A1-friendly?") than it would be for them to go look up the chat guidelines in order to cite them to others.

One feature I've found really easy to signal was the "sensitive topics" channel. Any time a discussion got too political / personal / triggering, it is relatively easy for users to signal to the instigator to move that conversation to #archived-sensitive-topics, based on nothing more than the purpose apparent in the name itself. It would be nice if the chat levels were similarly clear, where their names alone could help corral respective discussions towards them.

So the chats could perhaps be named, e.g., "A1-friendly" to signal this intent.

suggest Explicit "level-friendly" chats (please see above explanation)

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[prime ledge]

I hope I'm not considered spamming by somewhat renewing your existing suggestion, but I think, with clarification of what was intended, it is an idea worth consideration.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[obtuse stone]

Do you have one in mind? If you do you could suggest it in #community-discussion and it will be put into #archived-emote-suggestions where the community will be able to vote for it later

[fathom fulcrum]

It's no problem, but beginner-friendly chats already exist: Practice Room VC and #beginner-german text channel.

We prefer not to make them extremely level specific (e.g. A1) because language isn't that exact and a beginner-friendly area should preferably be oriented towards anyone up to B1 or so.

Having a bunch of chats "this chat is suitable for A1 speakers", "this chat is suitable for A2 speakers", etc. wouldn't add anything because they would end up all looking pretty much the same and I think people would get confused on which channel they're meant to post in.

[prime ledge]

Fair enough. Thanks for responding despite the repetitiveness. 😄

[fathom fulcrum]

No problem, we're always happy for people to give their thoughts.

[wind urchin]

Vielleicht einen Channel für deutsche Musik?

[stiff ether]

Kanal

[lapis nymph]

#archived-media

[spiral star]

Hallo

[crude orbit]

suggest would the automatic reply for entering a voice channel work better as a reply? would mean you don't directly need to ping them, might look nicer 👀

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[hot pilot]

suggest a music channel please? sharing real german music that germans vibe to would really enrich the german learning experience don't you think?

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[lapis nymph]

#archived-media

[thorn sundial]

suggest adding a role were people can select what country they come from so we can have a better understanding of everyone

[dull horizon]

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[cedar cosmos]

faq help

[dull horizon]

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[cedar cosmos]

help

[dull horizon]

Stargazing commands

:small_blue_diamond: **📒 star**

Provides stargazing functionality for the server. The stargazing system highlights memorable moments from the server. The starboard can be configured dynamically, temporarily locked and posts from it can be displayed.

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[lucid ledge]

Why can't users just put it in their names or the about me in their profiles

A role is far more likely to be overlooked and serves no organizational or categorical purpose

[gritty geyser]

A role is far more likely to be overlooked and serves no organizational or categorical purpose

[tidal trout]

Why is there no memes channel

[buoyant glacier]

^

[unique tiger]

can we just make bottfried automatically reject meme channel suggestions

[prime ledge]

suggest suggestion FAQ
In response to certain common trigger words in a suggestion, links or summaries to possibly related past suggestions will pop up, with advice to read before confirming the suggestion

[dull horizon]

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[lapis nymph]

@prime ledge Ich habe sowas schon vorgeschlagen und es wurde zum Backlog hinzugefügt, wenn ich mich richtig erinnere.

[limpid lodge]

You should make that to a >suggest

[unique tiger]

jeuhdjdeuh

i dont wanna get rejected i am fragile

[unique tiger]

and i suppose this is similar anyway

[compact moat]

but what about german memes?

Alman-Memes

[unique tiger]

[compact moat]

what about making a chat only for natives

If someone got a problem to explain something he could ask for help there

[limber maple]

I think it is kind of useless, since there is #questions and everyone can chat everywhere

[uncut aurora]

suggest A channel for members to contact moderators/helpers of the server. I suggest this because if there's some general questions for the mods/helpers (that aren't emergencies) then there's a place to ask without having to make a ticket through the Bottfried bot and mods/helpers as well as regular members can look through questions without needing to click so many arrows from the bot lists. The tickets can be designated as a system that can be used when there's an emergency or someone is reporting issues in VCs or regular chat.

[dull horizon]

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[fathom fulcrum]

Can you give an example of when it would be used?

[uncut aurora]

All the time. Whenever someone has a general question (that isn't an emergency), then a mod, helper, or another member can answer the question. Example: If someone needs help with receiving roles, then they can ask in the "help channel" and get help from whoever knows the process of getting roles instead of submitting a ticket.

[fathom fulcrum]

Why would submitting a ticket be a problem in that scenario?

[uncut aurora]

Just so that no one has to contact a mod every time they need something. It could just go to a channel where people can read questions and see if theirs can be answered before making a ticket or talk to someone else that possibly knows.

[fathom fulcrum]

Hmm, I understand what you're saying to some extent, but I can't think of any scenario where another option isn't already available.

If someone want to ask a question to mods: open a ticket.
If someone wants to ask a general question about the server that anyone can answer: ask in #general .
If someone wants to look up the answer to their questions before asking: read #282831147942281216 and #getting-started (since most questions will be answered there already).

That's why I'm curious to hear examples of where a dedicated channel would be useful.

[tight perch]

frankly, im exactly in this position. i am interested in the events posted but i have several questions about them and have no idea where to ask them

or whom

[weary night]

The events have a group that gets pinged with the relevant infos for that event

The discord integrated ones are new

I’ll link you to some in #lessons

[tight perch]

yeah... ok, maybe you can quickly help me: date and time: is it adjusted to gmt or "10pm" is some random midwest time? also, when theres a reading of a book, does it start from a beginning or middle? is there limitation to who can join? do i have to talk or can i just listen in?

[weary night]

UTC is displayed as well as your local time

[tight perch]

not in the event tho, only in the ping