suggestions

[weary night]

So for the discord event it’ll show your local time

[tight perch]

ok, that message actually answers all my questions, thank you!

[weary night]

The ping shows both

Unless your local time isn’t working like mine looool, for that case you convert from the UTC time

@tight perch

My local time appears to be broken, but I’ll be in that spot

[tight perch]

haha yeah but converting from utc is simple and it does show my local time, thank you!

[weary night]

You can get the pingable roles, like grammar and advanced reading from the #850404908946423828 channel

[fathom fulcrum]

Lessons and learning content is a specific case - the channel for asking about that is #community-discussion

Although #general and tickets are also a perfectly suitable place to ask, and you can find a lot of info in #282831147942281216 also.

[weary night]

Soorrrrry I only answered half of this ;-; when we read from Die Unendliche Geschichte it’ll be at some part in the middle since we’ve been reading for a few weeks. There’s a copy pined in #lessons, there no limit (maybe just the streaming limit which is rather large) and you can just listen, I do a thing where I ask people to actively tell me with a little V in their nickname, that they want to read

[tight perch]

a, ok, thank you!!

[tight perch]

i wrote already above that this pinged message answers everything ive been wondering about :)) sorry for making a mess in this channel

[fathom fulcrum]

Btw just to clarify, regarding the original suggestion: we will definitely discuss the option of a specific help channel, but it will be hard for us to consider it seriously if we can't think of use cases for it. That's why it would benefit those interested in such a channel to help out by providing any examples where it would be useful.

Like the example above about info on sessions is a good example, although since it's a special topic for a server like this, we might just end up finding other ways to solve that problem.

One issue to consider with the suggestion is that the majority of questions people ask here are just the same 2-3 questions asked on repeat, despite clear info being available for those questions already. Imagine a channel where people just ask the same question 20 times a day with the same answers. I would be surprised if most people didn't just mute and ignore a channel like that, so we'd also have to think of a way to mitigate that, if we went with the suggestion.

[uncut aurora]

Okay. Well I guess I’m just used to having a channel dedicated to questions then. 😂

[dull horizon]

@vague ivy, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 281 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 265.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Add (if it's possible to moderate for mods) a memes channel. Memes are a nice way to expand vocabulary and learn new stuff about the language.

: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.

@tranquil tulip, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

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

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Please use #community-discussion for suggestions about lesson content.

@quasi hornet, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Update the #coding channel to #tech or provide an alternative channel for all stuff IT related. Seeing how other tech stuff is discussed in the channel, I believe this update is necessitated.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We discussed the idea and decided to keep the name the same. We feel that changing the name does not currently provide much practical benefit, and tech discussions are suitable for several different channels (such as #science and even #general ), so shoehorning them into #coding may cause issues. However, we are open to reconsidering this in future if the situation changes.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Please add a "Duden" emote.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Please use #community-discussion to suggest emotes.

@crude orbit, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

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 👀

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll look into ways to implement this.

@hot pilot, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 287 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 275.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

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

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate 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.

@thorn sundial, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

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

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

It would be difficult to make roles for every country and it would take up a lot of role slots. Additionally, most people don’t read roles, so it would not be especially beneficial for the majority of users. For those who are interested in this feature, it would be best to put your country in your Discord profile.

@prime ledge, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

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

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll look into ways to implement this.

[limber maple]

suggest a private vc system where only people you add to the channel can join

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

It's called (Group)DMs

[limber maple]

Dafür muss man aber mit allen befreundet sein

[uncut aurora]

I think @limber maple has a fair suggestion.😄 There are servers that have bots that allow private VCs. Some people might feel safer in private VCs in servers.

[lucid ledge]

@limber maple The argument would have to be made here as to why this is more beneficial over group VCs or starting your own small server. From how I see it, if there are already a number of people you're familiar enough with that you want to have a private call with them and only them in it, I don't see why they wouldn't be considered friends or on your discord friends list already. The only possible difference I can determine is that doing so on the server advertises your exclusivity.

The main arguments against this suggestion is of course, its redundancy, but also how this would potentially make many many more voice chats, leaving the channels even harder to moderate than they already are.

[gritty geyser]

Einen #general-18+ mit Ausweiskontrolle

[unique tiger]

[lucid ledge]

[limber maple]

[fathom fulcrum]

To make suggestions, you have to use the >suggest command. However, we don't intend to make any age-restricted channels.

[gritty geyser]

suggest #general-18plus kanal mit ausweiskontrolle durch mods/admins

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[unique tiger]

the suggestion was already rejected and he still formally suggested it

the determination

[gritty geyser]

what's wrong with you dude?

base told me to use >suggest

so gtfo.

[unique tiger]

yes and then he said they dont intend to make a channel like that

dont be rude

[gritty geyser]

where?

[unique tiger]

here

[gritty geyser]

your tone is rude and aggressive, so i reply in the same manner as you speak.

[fathom fulcrum]

Don't try to start a fight here please.

[gritty geyser]

right. didn't read that.

[fathom fulcrum]

If there's an issue, use #report-issue

[mellow elm]

there should be an other-languages VC

[limber maple]

I think there won't be a problem if you talk in any other language in the channels except in german-only

[mellow elm]

true, i'm just not ready to talk in and follow german-only and prefer casual bc i want to speak english, but practice my german when im able to say something in german yk

[meager bison]

Might be a lil confusing when general is English/German only, and would certainly make me stay out of the vc bc I'm confused like, suddenly there's french?

[limber maple]

you can always talk in English(Except German-only )

[wild aurora]

Quickly explaining something to someone in their native language is no big deal, but generally speaking communication should stick to either English or German (or German only in the case of the respective VCs)

[fathom fulcrum]

We've discussed it before in the past and decided it doesn't really work for the server. It's pretty much impossible to moderate and it's really off-putting for others who don't know the languages. My advice would rather be to invite people who want to speak that language with you to the language server of that language. We freely allow people to share invites of large/well-known language servers here so feel free to invite people to a server for that and use their VCs. If you don't know a server for that language, feel free to ask for one in #other-languages or check the pinned list of servers.

[mellow elm]

ty! i just meant so that casual vc would have just the two main languages of the server, german and english. earlier it was entirely another language, so i thought i’d recommend something for people who’d make good use of that

[fathom fulcrum]

Ohh, I see. Yeah, other languages aren't allowed in any VCs so it's fine to ask people to stop speaking other languages and contact a mod if they refuse. With obvious exceptions like what Syro described.

[wind granite]

suggest make a pet Media channel 😳

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gritty geyser]

suggest Make a ,,am wochenende we have fun by doing stuff together, like drinking, singing, watching movies etc etc’’ channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Can you explain more about this?

[gritty geyser]

Lets have movie night like last time

[past sorrel]

Can I join?

[pine pecan]

Maube add an music bot, ik this is a german learning server but could be a cool addition

[fathom fulcrum]

You can use the >play command to play music in the VC.

[wise moon]

that would be against discord tos but we could watch things that dont have those ! for eg public domain documentaries etc

[wise moon]

suggest a christmas event for glad(if there are no plans for it already)

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wise moon]

based ty

[tepid magnet]

suggest History page

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[toxic radish]

level system? (For being active)

[fathom fulcrum]

To suggest stuff, please use the >suggest command. Can you explain more about what the benefit of this system would be and how it would work?

[toxic radish]

Level system like in other servers -> you get xp for a message and get better ranks with it I don't know if it would be needed but some servers are using it to have active members

[fathom fulcrum]

Do you feel that there's an issue with activity in the server?

[toxic radish]

No

[uncut aurora]

suggest I would like to suggest holiday role icons for the roles of English Native, German Native, and Other Native. For example, Christmas trees for German Natives, Snowflakes for English Natives, and Reindeer for Other Natives during the season of Christmas and festive icons for the other holidays. Thank you for your consideration!

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[uncut aurora]

I meant holiday icons for the GLaD member role! Sorry, I typed that suggestion wrong! Entschuldigung!

[dull horizon]

@uncut aurora, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

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.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We prefer not to make a new channel for this, as the combination of #report-issue (to talk to moderators privately) and #general (for general questions anyone can answer) should be enough to cover all needs that people have to ask questions about the server or contact moderators. We will keep this idea in mind for the future, but currently we feel it’s not needed.

@prime ledge, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

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

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We have renamed #practice to #beginner-german to see whether people use the channel differently. Please note that this is an experiment and could change again in future. As always, we will continue trying to find ways to improve the server for beginners.

@limber maple, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a private vc system where only people you add to the channel can join

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Thank you for your suggestion - we appreciate the concern shown for people who may be uncomfortable with public voice channels. However, we feel a feature like this would not work for our server. Instead, we have Study Group channels, which only allow a certain number of people to join at a time, allowing relative privacy for those who don’t like bigger groups. The bot will automatically create new copies of these channels when one is being used, so they shouldn't ever be full. For entirely private conversation, we recommend that you make use of the features Discord already provides - DM groups and private servers.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

#general-18plus kanal mit ausweiskontrolle durch mods/admins

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We won’t make any age-restricted or 18+ channels on the server.

@wind granite, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 293 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 259.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

make a pet Media channel 😳

: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.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Make a ,,am wochenende we have fun by doing stuff together, like drinking, singing, watching movies etc etc’’ channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Everyone is welcome to use the relevant voice and text channels to do fun things together (as long as you are behaving responsibly and following the rules), so there’s no need for a new channel for this.

[compact moat]

könnt ihr den Hintergrund von dem Serverbanner ändern?? zu irgendwas anderem als dieses bild/gemälde

nur so

hat keinen grund

[limber maple]

Wieso sollte es ohne einen Grund geändert werden?

[weary night]

womit würdest du ihn ersetzen?

[fast verge]

Whats the difference between channel casual/practice room/study groups?

[lapis nymph]

siehe hier: #282831147942281216 message

[compact moat]

keine ahnung

[compact moat]

warum nicht?

[limber maple]

weil es keinen Grund dafür gibt

[gritty geyser]

Leute wie wäre es mit einer Leseecke oder einem Buchclub channel

Wir lesen Bücher auf Deutsch und reden dann gemeinsam darüber

[shadow forum]

bitte verwende >suggest, damit der bot es akzeptiert

[gritty geyser]

suggest Leseecke bzw. Buchclub channel

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[gritty geyser]

suggest Leseecke bzw. Buchclub channel

[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**

Leseecke bzw. Buchclub channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Proposals regarding lessons and events should go to #community-discussion, as #suggestions is only for suggestions that the mods can implement, whereas sessions are usually organized and run by the community, and not something you'd ask a moderator to do. We already have two reading groups (Reading and AdvancedReading) and anyone is welcome to organize sessions for them, which some people already do fairly regularly.

[raven grove]

suggest can we expand the limit of members of the study group voice channels?

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

what's wrong with using the VCs without limit when 6 is not enough ?

[raven grove]

😐

[fathom fulcrum]

It's a genuine question. We can't consider the suggestion if we don't understand the reason for why you think it's useful.

[gritty geyser]

suggest a translate channel where you can send a word in English or German and it will translate it, with synonyms, definition, and grammar info (noun, femenine, accusative, etc)

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

help lk

[dull horizon]

lookup <target> <phrase>

**Aliases: **lk, dictcc, dcc, translate
Translates the given phrase into the specified target language using dict.cc. Specify either en or de as targets.

Module: German

[gritty geyser]

oh

[sage oasis]

suggest can we have he/him, she/her, they/them etc roles?

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[solar cedar]

can't people just simply put that in their bio if they wanted?

[sage oasis]

Maybe but i think it would still be alright if they were added

[meager bison]

It would be a lot easier, having it right there would be good as an extra prompt, but people may still ignore it in the end

[keen ferry]

Es währe sehr angenehm wenn die Lessons Channel "Stage Channel" und keine normalen Voice Channel wären!
Vorteile:

• Keine dauerhaften join/leave Sounds
• Personen können durch Melden Vorlesen/Sprechen und müssen kein "v" vor ihren Namen machen

[limber maple]

Nachteil: Man kann keinen Bildschirm übertragen, was essentiell ist.

[wild aurora]

It's up to the hosts to decide which channel they prefer but yeah, for most of them screenshare is a deal breaker with stages

[weary night]

für mich zumindest macht dieses V die ganze Sache ein bisschen einfacher, da ich weiß genau wer mitmachen will, und wo er sich in der Reihe befindet. Wenn es so etwas nicht gäbe musste ich das irgendwohin aufschreiben und es mir merken. Übrigens soweit ich weiß kann man die Verlassen-/Betreten-Laute lokal ausmachen

in der Vergangenheit hatten wir Leserunden ohne Bildschirmübertragung, die waren ein bisschen mühsam für den Host, denn jeder hatte seine eigene Kopie des Buches und der Host musste ständig sagen "wir sind auf seite 101, zeile 4" oder sowas

oder die Frage "wo finde ich die PDF" hundert mal beantworten

abber ich bin auch Vorschlägen gegenüber jederzeit aufgeschlossen und vielleicht versuche ich es mal mit einer Bühne

[sand pagoda]

suggest Einen FAQ Befehl über Bielefeld als Info zB warum es gesagt wird dass es Bielefeld nicht gibt, eine Verlinkung zur Wikipedia Seite, etc

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

[wide zodiac]

You have to use >suggest so the bot can pick up your suggestion

[tulip bison]

Ohh thank you

suggest I suggest we have a vocabulary channel where we learn similar vocabularies and comprehend the differences between them.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[quiet fox]

suggest I suggest that we have a quiz channel were people can answer questions that other people sent

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[quiet fox]

suggest A Schnitzel emoji, because Currywurst and Schnitzel are German Culture

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

Emote suggestions in #community-discussion

[dull horizon]

@quiet fox, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

A Schnitzel emoji, because Currywurst and Schnitzel are German Culture

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Emoji suggestions should go in #community-discussion. Please provide the emoji you would like us to add, and make sure that it is properly cropped, not too complex (helps it look better when downscaled), and generally looks good.

[sharp pulsar]

@weary night @weary night

[weary night]

Yes?

[dull horizon]

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a christmas event for glad(if there are no plans for it already)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Turns out we had something planned. Enjoy!

[wise moon]

[sage echo]

suggest singing channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

suggest Remind command with a date

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

remind 2021-12-21 19:30 CET Tell Primax that this kinda sorta already exists lol.

[dull horizon]

Okay @sand bramble. You will be reminded in 17 minutes and 4 seconds.

[sand bramble]

[limber maple]

I looked it up with the help command and it is not explained there so I was assuming it does not exist

[sand bramble]

Yeah it's a format that we added specifically for session holders and the session create command, so it just got automagically added to >remind as well and I forgot to change the description.

[dull horizon]

@sand bramble, 17 minutes and 4 seconds ago

You asked to be reminded about "Tell Primax that this kinda sorta already exists lol."
[Jump to message](#suggestions message)

Reminder created · Dec 21, 2021, 6:12 PM

[tepid magnet]

suggest a thread for questions

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Can you explain more?

[tepid magnet]

I saw this feature on another server
For Every question asked in the #questions, a separate thread was created with it automatically.

So responses to it were limited to that thread

[fathom fulcrum]

Hmm, it sounds like it would be inconvenient, to have hundreds of threads to go through. Can you DM me a link to that server?

[tepid magnet]

No but like it's more convenient no? One will only have to open the thread that interests them

Sure

[lost kindle]

mod should bring rolle for people who is living in germany so we can ask question about them like i ilve in germany but i dont know few things i have to ask like a person who lived in germany or living i dont care that would be helpfull

[fathom fulcrum]

We have a channel for that: #archived-culture-study-visa

[lost kindle]

the roll would be much better sorry just feels like best

i will try that

[gritty geyser]

Hi, ich hab einen Vorschlag:
Und zwar, dass ihr einen Channel macht, wo jeder seine Verbesserten Geschichten oder auch Texte hochladen kann. Damit ihn dann andere lesen können. Wenn man Texte auf Deutsch viel ließt, kann man sich einiges, sozusagen, abschauen. Die Texte sollten jedoch korrigiert sein. Nicht, dass jemand sich etwas falsche abschaut und verwendet...dafür bräuchte es nur wieder Freiwillige (ich wäre da einer) und so... Aber ist ja nur ein Vorschlag...

[wide zodiac]

Theoretisch kann man sich ja die korrigierten Texte in #writing durchlesen. Wäre ungefähr das, was du beschreiben hast.
Vorschläge werden übrigens über >suggest erst aufgenommen

[gritty geyser]

Ah, oke. Danke!

[dusk vessel]

so this might be something that will be hard to make an sustain and ofc not a necessity but if you guys feel like it you could make a server to testing yourself on your level >suggest

like a test for a1 a2 and so on

[gritty geyser]

nice yes. someone would have to code a bot that tests you for your level though.

[limpid lodge]

you should do a >suggest to make it an official suggestion

[limpid lodge]

but also for those levels you have various tests available online if you only want a rough estimate of your level

for example there is the DW test, and the sample test questions from Goethe that also includes the audio clips

[dusk vessel]

yeah again its not a neccessity

i just thought it would be nice

[sand bramble]

The thing about online tests is that they're inherently wildly inaccurate. Anything that can be evaluated by a machine probably won't give you good results, and we're not really qualified to design CEFR level tests, so there's no guarantee that we'd get it right even if we tried.

The best thing to do if you want to assess your level is to either

1. Use one of the checklists we have in >faq resources and try to evaluate your knowledge
2. As Pol said, try doing one of the sample tests from the same list (they often have answer keys and other materials)

For example, you can't really claim that you're B2 but you can't understand a word of spoken German or you're unable to write a coherent letter on your own or speak with at least some degree of fluency. So any good test will have to test for those, and all of those are pretty hard to evaluate by a computer. Whereas you can easily ask someone to do a speaking exercise with you in VC or post your text in #writing and have it checked by a human.

[dull horizon]

@tepid magnet, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

History page

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Currently, we feel that interest doesn’t warrant a new channel for this. You can discuss history in #archived-sensitive-topics.

@uncut aurora, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I would like to suggest holiday role icons for the roles of English Native, German Native, and Other Native. For example, Christmas trees for German Natives, Snowflakes for English Natives, and Reindeer for Other Natives during the season of Christmas and festive icons for the other holidays. Thank you for your consideration!

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Thanks for the suggestion. We implemented something similar.

@raven grove, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

can we expand the limit of members of the study group voice channels?

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We feel that the current room sizes accommodate the majority of situations. We may review this in future.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a translate channel where you can send a word in English or German and it will translate it, with synonyms, definition, and grammar info (noun, femenine, accusative, etc)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Type >help translate in #botchannel to learn about the translation command.

@sage oasis, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 301 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 121.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

can we have he/him, she/her, they/them etc roles?

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

pronoun roles i.e. she/her, he/him, they/them

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We feel like this could cause more problems than it solves, as we would potentially have to add a large number of roles, and the system wouldn't see much usage anyway, rendering it ineffective. We recommend either using nicknames for that purpose, as some have done before, as they are far more effective than roles which might not even be checked. As you said, you can also make personal notes for users on Discord.

[dusk vessel]

ok illl do that next time thx

[lapis nymph]

suggest Emojis und gifs entfernen, die in einem bestimmten Zeitraum (z.B. 3 Monaten) selten verwendet wurden.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[exotic portal]

Hallo könnten sie bitte einen selfie Channel erstellen weil ich fühle mich danach meine Schönheit in diesem Server zu teilen

suggest Hallo könnten sie bitte einen selfie Channel erstellen weil ich fühle mich danach meine Schönheit in diesem Server zu teilen

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gritty geyser]

Can't wait to simp for you

[exotic portal]

Thanks

[haughty yacht]

suggest Adding a channel for opening a "report ticket". Would make it easier for people to report imo.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[haughty yacht]

(nvm, im dumb, I found it, couldnt find it earlier.)

[fathom fulcrum]

Oh yeah, sorry, we added some new channels lately so the #report-issue is a bit hard to find now in between all the other channels. We're gonna look into improving that soon.

[haughty yacht]

Maybe put 🛑 next to it? Or some other emote

[hidden inlet]

There should be a room to look for renting room in germany... berlin, munich.. etct..

[weary night]

there are facebook groups for this which might be a better place to search

[limpid lodge]

i feel like that is way beyond what this server is used for. this is a learning server, and we don't offer a place for anyone who wants to advertise or anything else. you can try wg-gesucht or facebook groups, like bluwu said

[sand bramble]

Not to mention that the majority of our user base isn't quite at the age where they can rent apartments. Subtract people who own but don't rent apartments, people who don't live in the one specific area where you want an apartment, and you basically get 0.

Plus Discord isn't really a platform that would make searching for these things easy, so yeah, what Pol said.

[fathom fulcrum]

Feel free to use #archived-culture-study-visa for help with things related to looking for accommodation though.

There may not be people here who can provide accommodation but there are plenty of people who went through the same experience as you and can help if you get stuck on something.

[hidden inlet]

Ummm ok guys.. I understand... You are right... Just a thought... Have a good day... 👍

[crude orbit]

suggest add @Limited Permissions to #role-directory

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[crude orbit]

suggest rename #850404908946423828 to get-roles (or similar) to avoid confusion at a glance between it and #role-directory

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[crude orbit]

this doesnt have much more use other than almost finishing the role directory, could be worth tagging roles that are given out as prizes ( #922492399899537500 ) for the duration of the prize in the same sense

we have @Streaming listed as well

[gritty geyser]

suggest add music bot to #voice-chat

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

There is already a music bot

[gritty geyser]

Wait really?

[limber maple]

Yeah, use the >play command

[dull horizon]

@haughty yacht, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Adding a channel for opening a "report ticket". Would make it easier for people to report imo.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Suggestion withdrawn by user, as #report-issue already exists. We'll work on making the top of the channel list a bit nicer to look at.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add music bot to #voice-chat

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

@dull horizon already has music bot functionality. If you're in a voice channel, you can use the >play command for now. In the future, this will be replaced by Discord's built in systems.

[tidal yew]

suggest I'm not sure how the voice channels are organised right now but it could be nice if the colours matched the language level role colours with basic at the top and advanced at the bottom! People don't have to strictly follow it or anything but having an unofficial designated "beginner:, :intermediate", and "advanced" channel can help people looking for where to join ❤️

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[willow robin]

suggest Can the sticker our-greatest-desire be renamed? If you have nitro and type ":-D" at the end of a message, it will always paste the sticker instead of converting it to an emoji. The problem is that the sticker name contains "-d".

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limpid lodge]

i believe you can turn off emote/sticker suggestion in your settings

[willow robin]

the setting does nothing though

I tried that

[meager bison]

I've had that happen too with the settings buttons not working before, sometimes you have to mess around with discord a lot to get it to recognise that the setting is off

[sand bramble]

@willow robin hi, I've changed it to underscores to be consistent with the other stickers we have. Can you check if that helps?

[willow robin]

😄

[willow robin]

so perfect 🙂 Thank you so much!

[dull horizon]

@willow robin, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Can the sticker our-greatest-desire be renamed? If you have nitro and type ":-D" at the end of a message, it will always paste the sticker instead of converting it to an emoji. The problem is that the sticker name contains "-d".

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Done as requested.

[sand bramble]

Great, thanks.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

like #thing-of-the-day ?

[wild aurora]

wdym, the posts almost always provide an English translation and/or explanation too

[limpid lodge]

i believe posting the english translation is part of the required format for posts in that channel. as far as I can see after scrolling up through it, all of them have english translations

[weak shell]

suggest please create a section of german facts that would be very interesting to see the german cultural aspects

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[obtuse stone]

Do you have anything in mind as an example for such a fact?

[wise moon]

maybe the things at the end of each nicos weg lesson

ill send you an example

ok this was a shitty one

[tacit relic]

You do nicos in English?

[wise moon]

this is a2

and yeah i did a2 in english

because i was uhhh

yk

still a1

[weak shell]

Like for example German people like to be punctual and being straight forward

[limpid lodge]

I feel like those are more stereotypes than facts

[sinful ice]

german kids get taught early on that being punctual is very important. some teachers in higher education won't even let you in the classroom anymore if you're one minute late, so i'd say this is kinda true.. most people when they have an appointment at 8 am for example will be there at 07:50

[meager bison]

Actually idk, it still ends up as a stereotype, no matter where it's shifted. Ig adding a qualifier like "usually" or "typically" is my suggestion

[sinful ice]

a representative survey of the "apotheken rundschau" disagrees, where it says "Die Pünktlichkeit der Deutschen entspricht weitgehend der Realität und ist kein Klischee." (https://www.presseportal.de/pm/52678/2145106)

but they did say "weitgehend" so i guess your idea is not too bad

[meager bison]

Yeah, even with the most conclusive thing it's best to disclaim it a little

Nice stats though, I like

Heck yknow what? The Google translated page has a good way to put it, "The majority of Germans"

[limpid lodge]

it wouldn't be good to compile these pre-assumptions anyway, since that will only perpetuate stereotypes and paint a false image in people's head

and like chickie said, the nicos weg episodes do compile cultural and regulational aspects of germany at the end of each episode, and since they're regulated by DW they would have a pretty good authority at what they write, much better than any one of us here at least

[fathom fulcrum]

Generalizing somewhat goes against our rules anyway, so for me personally, it seems like a bad idea to encourage it.

[wise moon]

suggest maybe there could be a place to post progress and be accountable in the server! im sure seeing other people's progress could be motivating and also make one feel less lonely in their learning process

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wise moon]

suggest bottfried have a trivia (tea? 😳) game, maybe multiple choice vocabulary synonyms/antonyms etc or english<=>german questions

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

We do have a >words command for a simple English/German quiz that we pull from dict.cc. I'm not aware of any good and free list of synonyms and antonyms existing though.

[wise moon]

o

thanks!

wait can it be multiplayer?

[wild aurora]

theoretically yes, the question is if it's worth it it's not exactly getting used a lot

stats command words

[dull horizon]

Server Command Stats For Command >words

Total Amount Of Command Invocations

62

Top Channels

:first_place:: #botchannel (46 uses)
:second_place:: #general-2 (13 uses)
:third_place:: #general (2 uses)
:medal:: #suggestions (1 use)

Top Channels Today

:first_place:: #botchannel (1 use)

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Top Users

:first_place:: @chilly violet (3 uses)
:second_place:: @wise moon (3 uses)
:third_place:: @dawn burrow (3 uses)
:medal:: @floral solstice (3 uses)
:medal:: @leaden lantern (3 uses)

Top Users Today

:first_place:: @wise moon (1 use)

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Successful Invocations

100%

Successful Invocations Today

100%

[wise moon]

damn

i understand 😳

[solar cedar]

i didnt know about this feature in the first place

[dull horizon]

@sand pagoda, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Einen FAQ Befehl über Bielefeld als Info zB warum es gesagt wird dass es Bielefeld nicht gibt, eine Verlinkung zur Wikipedia Seite, etc

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We prefer only using the FAQ command for entries about the German language, with an occasional exception being made for questions that really occur almost every day.

@tulip bison, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I suggest we have a vocabulary channel where we learn similar vocabularies and comprehend the differences between them.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Currently we don't see how a channel like this could work out. Being a messaging platform, Discord doesn't provide great ways to curate lists in the platform, and vocab would get lost, reposted over and over, and any discussions would drown out existing words. You could try organizing a session where people look into words like this, or simply try it out with some people in #beginner-german or a similar channel.

@quiet fox, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I suggest that we have a quiz channel were people can answer questions that other people sent

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This idea would be troublesome to implement and manage in a discord channel. It would be fairly hard to ensure people don't post spoilers, mess with the system, or that they don't simply use the channel to get homework answers. A quiz night does sound like a fun idea though and you could try organizing a session that follows a similar theme.

@sage echo, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

singing channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We don't see why such a channel would be necessary. It would not see frequent usage, and as long as you're with friends and no one minds, feel free to use any existing voice channel for singing.

@limber maple, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Remind command with a date

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

All time-based commands support the long date format. We'll update documentation to reflect this change.

@tepid magnet, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a thread for questions

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We have #questions and #questions-2 as channels for questions. Due to some technical limitations, we can't currently support public threads, but once we do, we might experiment with allowing threads to be created in those channels.

@lapis nymph, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Emojis und gifs entfernen, die nach in bestimmten Zeitraum (z.B. 3 Monaten) selten verwendet wurden.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We realize that even though there is a voting process, sometimes emotes that make it through the voting are not often used, or suffer from low quality. Some emotes which fit these criteria have already been removed, and we'll publish guidelines for new emotes to try and ensure their quality and wide appeal. In addition to that, we'll periodically review usage and remove infrequently unused emotes.

@exotic portal, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Hallo könnten sie bitte einen selfie Channel erstellen weil ich fühle mich danach meine Schönheit in diesem Server zu teilen

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This has been suggested and denied multiple times in the past. We're a fairly large server and we do not encourage sharing your personal information with thousands of strangers.

@crude orbit, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add @Limited Permissions to #role-directory

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The role is now described in #role-directory.

@crude orbit, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

rename #850404908946423828 to get-roles (or similar) to avoid confusion at a glance between it and #role-directory

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

While we agree with this, we are not going to be making the change right now. Next on our discussion list is a review of the (currently very messy) Server category. We will think about the channel's name as part of that discussion.

@tidal yew, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I'm not sure how the voice channels are organised right now but it could be nice if the colours matched the language level role colours with basic at the top and advanced at the bottom! People don't have to strictly follow it or anything but having an unofficial designated "beginner:, :intermediate", and "advanced" channel can help people looking for where to join ❤️

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

You can read about our dynamic voice channels work in #channel-directory to get an idea of what problem they solve and how they work. We're also happy to explain this in more detail if you wish. In short, due to some technical limitations from Discord's side, we specifically must choose colors that have no meaning or order, as these channels are frequently deleted or renamed. The idea behind having multiple channels is providing multiple channels while they're needed, while not cluttering up the list when they're not. The Practice Room channel is generally beginner-friendly, while other channels favor more advanced speakers, especially German Only. We're not big fans of making level-based chats, since Level A chats often tend to be echo chambers for mistakes, and likely wouldn't result in meaningful conversations.

[wise moon]

suggest allow tea black to have singleplayer, when the hearts run out, game over

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[rain phoenix]

suggest add a #jokes channel, so if users get tired from learning, they can get cheered up by some german Jokes!

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[rain phoenix]

suggest add a #jokes channel, so if users get tired from learning, they can get cheered up by some german Jokes!

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limpid lodge]

i bet it's just going to be filled with broob jokes

[wise moon]

brooba

[fathom fulcrum]

Feel free to submit a suggestion using the >suggest command. No need to include the whole text - just summarize it in one line and we'll be able to come back to your detailed explanation when we look at suggestions. It's just important to add it into the system so we can make sure we review all suggestions properly.

Just keep in mind it might take a while for us to get to this one because we're waiting on some updates on the bot before we can really consider features that use threads.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sullen grove]

suggest A beginner VC

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

What's wrong with Practice Room?

[sullen grove]

Nothing, I think that a beginner room VC would entice more people that don’t feel confident in their German to cultivate into one VC. Just like how there is a beginner channel that we go to I believe people would be more comfortable if there was a beginner VC knowing that they’re with other beginners. I hope that makes sense.

[fathom fulcrum]

Practice Room is for beginners.

[sullen grove]

Haha fair. “Practice” just has a broader scope than “beginner”.

[fathom fulcrum]

Yeah. But the room is designed that it has no restriction on who can join but everyone is required to be accommodating to beginners.

We prefer avoiding things like "beginner VC" as much as possible because it's not beneficial for a group of learners to simply learn from each other. That's a good way to embed mistakes.

Like learning together can be good but for VCing, it's better to have someone present who can correct you.

[wind urchin]

suggest A proper meme channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

[lapis nymph]

#suggestions message

[wild cosmos]

hi friends
How are your earnings today?

[wise moon]

suggest a sticky message in #resources for people to be reminded to check the resource list in description/getting started/23902480 other places 🤡

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Do you mean a pin? If so, there is already one.

Well, there is a pin that has the actual link, I mean.

[wise moon]

nope i mean a sticky post

or at least a regular repost from a bot reminding to check the list

https://www.stickybot.info/

like what this bot offers for eg

it could also be this invisible kind of reminder

[meager bison]

Maybe like what the bot already does in response to "How to I join a vc" you could have a response with smth like that to "How do I learn german" type messages?

[dull horizon]

@meager bison, please read the Roles section in #getting-started for info on how to join VC and more.

[meager bison]

Omg shush bottfried

But yes like that

I like the idea for a reminder, maybe you could toggle that on and off with a role, as many people may not appreciate the bot pings if it uses one, and it depends on the frequency. But then it depends if you intend it for ppl who newly join or just to remind people to look every so often

[limber maple]

Use the >suggest command so mods can review it properly

[meager bison]

I wasn't suggesting

I was commenting

[meager bison]

Even for comments about it then?

[limber maple]

It sounds like a good suggestion to me

[meager bison]

Guess I'll do it then.memepng

suggest Maybe there could be something similar to what the bot already does in response to "How to I join a vc" for "How do I learn german" type messages, with #resources or or use x command in #botchannel ? Obv it'd be amazing if everyone just looked at the directories themselves and looked but yeah

[dull horizon]

@meager bison, please read the Roles section in #getting-started for info on how to join VC and more.

Aborting...

[meager bison]

Wh

Guess I gotta go fast

suggest Maybe there could be something similar to what the bot already does in response to "How to I join a vc" for "How do I learn german" type messages, with #resources or or use x command in #botchannel ? Obv it'd be amazing if everyone just looked at the directories themselves and looked but yeah

[dull horizon]

@meager bison, please read the Roles section in #getting-started for info on how to join VC and more.

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limpid lodge]

you can also bring up comments on implementation of stuff in #community-discussion , but yes a suggestion was probably better in this context so we can review it officially

[meager bison]

Gotcha

[fathom fulcrum]

They meant they're commenting on the previous suggestion by chickie.

[wise moon]

this is a really good idea

somehow if it became a disappearing/invisible to everyone else except you kinda message its also good

since it would be annoying to check resource channel and see things that are repeated 43908430 times

[sand bramble]

That part currently isn't possible. We can only send that kind of messages if the user pressed a button (or uses a slash command which we don't use anyway), but we can't send one as a response to something the user said in chat, because Discord is silly.

[sand bramble]

I've considered this for various channels in the past, and I wouldn't mind trying it out, but a lot of people are still silly and would miss it. When you open a heritage speaker ticket, a channel is created and there's literally just a single short message saying ok explain why you qualify, run >purpose if you want to see what the role is. And we still get people who open a ticket and then write "um hi what do I do here".
So that's what's always demotivated me in the past. No matter how hard you try there will be a memer who simpy refuses to read anything.

[wise moon]

true

😔 😔

[limpid lodge]

there will be a memer who simpy refuses to read anything.
this would also rule out people who don't really care about learning i guess, as I like to think that people who genuinely want to learn the language would be more inclined to check out the resources and read stuff

[wise moon]

ngl i made the suggestion with a bit of a selfish motive
because i like checking the resource channel either to find new resources or help people
but if it's a >faq post or a whats a good textbook question

could be annoying to other people too

[limpid lodge]

.>suggest have bottfried dm chickie whenever there is a new message in resources

[wise moon]

might i suggest the french solution

[wise moon]

#resources https://forvo.com/word/mehrere/#de
something like this ALSO DID YOU DO THIS ON PURPOSE TO TRIGGER

[sand pagoda]

suggest Allow teawordgame for one participant, too. Especially the fast tea 😄

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

Already suggested

[dull horizon]

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

allow tea black to have singleplayer, when the hearts run out, game over

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We're currently waiting for some technical things to be resolved before we can push out the next big Bottfried update. This feature will be included in it though.

@sand pagoda, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 329 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 321.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Allow teawordgame for one participant, too. Especially the fast tea 😄

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

allow tea black to have singleplayer, when the hearts run out, game over

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We're currently waiting for some technical things to be resolved before we can push out the next big Bottfried update. This feature will be included in it though.

[low gyro]

suggestion to create channels named "practice German" for English speakers to learn German and "practice english" to german speakers trying to practice some english

[unique tiger]

the command is called suggest

[gritty geyser]

suggest I come to this server so I can study German, but I end up wasting my time in the channel more often than I'd like to, and this server ends up being a productivity sink for me. I think that other people may have the same problem.

My suggestion is to create a react-role so only those who want to see this channel will be able to see it.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

You mean #suggestions ? 🤔

[gritty geyser]

Well, it worked nonetheless 🤷

[fathom fulcrum]

He's asking if #suggestions is the channel you want to remove access to, since you said "this channel".

[gritty geyser]

Oh, no

I mean the channel #archived-media

[unique tiger]

u can just mute it

[gritty geyser]

I already did this

The channel doesn't disappear

Doing this only disables the notifications

And I have disabled the notifications of Discord as a whole anyway

[fathom fulcrum]

You have to right-click the server icon and tick "hide muted channels" option.

[lapis nymph]

Wenn du hier auf die Kategorie anklickst, werden die von dir stummgeschalteten Kanäle versteckt

[fathom fulcrum]

Ja aber, that just hides all channels which don't have new messages. That does include muted channels by default, but "hide muted channels" means they're completely hidden regardless of if you category is open.

[lapis nymph]

tru

tbh ich kannte diese Einstellung nicht

[low gyro]

suggest to create channels named "practice German" for English speakers to learn German and "practice english" to german speakers trying to practice some english

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[crude orbit]

see #german-only/#beginner-german and #general :^)

[low gyro]

Oh sorry, I forgot to specify voice channels

[crude orbit]

then #940019135780356176 and #939913398290898964

[crude orbit]

(these referred to Practice Room and Casual vcs)

[earnest ravine]

suggest create an entry regarding capitalization of words in German, especially because capitalization of nouns is mandatory and not optional and so that one can just type '>>faq/explain capitalization' instead of writing another message about the same (#questions message)

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand pagoda]

suggest Create a thread for every link in #writing . The documents could be discussed in the thread then; including feedback, infos, corrections (even if a document is not editable, etc.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

Would you be interested in writing one?

[earnest ravine]

I can think of something during a weekend
depending on how many zeros you'll add to my bank account

|| hint: X + 0 = X ||

[sand bramble]

Yeah, we're not forcing you to do it by any means, it's just that the fastest way to get a FAQ entry written is to write one yourself, otherwise the best we can do is add it to our idea list and see if someone will have any interest in eventually writing one. So I was just suggestion that as an option, but of course you know how much availability and motivation you have.

[limber maple]

@earnest ravine if you don't want to I could volunteer to write it

[worn wasp]

suggest we should make a gaming VC and chat

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[shadow forum]

already exists, check out #850404908946423828 to get access with the gaming role

[worn wasp]

\

[wise moon]

yay :d

:D

[earnest ravine]

I can do it on a weekend

[tepid magnet]

suggest movie livestreams

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

We can't really do that due to ToS prohibiting pirated content. We in fact explicitly ban streaming copyrighted movies, and have only allowed content that's freely available online anyway in the past.

[olive basalt]

suggest rooms like "Talk with a German" 1 on 1 or in smaller groups

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[olive basalt]

suggest rooms for different language levels

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

@weak shell, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

please create a section of german facts that would be very interesting to see the german cultural aspects

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Currently we don't think that such a channel would see much use, or that it would be easy to determine what counts as appropriate content for it and what not. In the future, we'll try to provide some handpicked additional resources in culture-study-visa that might be useful to people who are interested in German culture or moving to German-speaking areas.

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

bottfried have a trivia (tea? 😳) game, maybe multiple choice vocabulary synonyms/antonyms etc or english<=>german questions

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Synonym/antonym questions are difficult to implement, as there are no good online sources where we could get this data at a large enough scale to create a fun non-repetitive game. We'll be thinking about restructuring the games channel(s) in the near future to accommodate for more growth and additional ideas though. If you or other members of the community have an interest in compiling questions for a synonym/antonym game, let us know and we'll work something out.

@heavy basin, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 322 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 107.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

xianxia 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.

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

a sticky message in #resources for people to be reminded to check the resource list in description/getting started/23902480 other places 🤡

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We will try to implement this feature and experiment with it soon.

@meager bison, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Maybe there could be something similar to what the bot already does in response to "How to I join a vc" for "How do I learn german" type messages, with #resources or or use x command in #botchannel ? Obv it'd be amazing if everyone just looked at the directories themselves and looked but yeah

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We're unsure if something like this is best answered by the bot. For "How do I join VC" questions, we have a filter because it's asked multiple times every day, and is usually a result of people with little patience who refuse to read. People who ask how to learn German on the other hand, might prefer a more personal touch and might be genuinely asking for advice, so having the bot always point them to a channel or a command might not be the best solution, as it could lead to annoyances or false positives.

[wise moon]

its ok i saw the multiple choice translation game xd

[dull horizon]

@azure radish, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

anime-manga off topic channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We've decided to consider this suggestion as part of a different similar suggestion to restructure #archived-media, which we will be experimenting with soon. As such, we are closing this suggestion to avoid clutter.

[wise moon]

thanks

[dull horizon]

@loud pivot, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

: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 be reorganizing games a bit soon, and tea word will get some love as part of that work. This feature should be easy enough to implement.

@amber magnet, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

: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**

A few months ago we started a discussion thread about this in #community-discussion. The responses were mostly negative, with not much interest overall, so we have decided not to accept the suggestion. Correcting should always be the default on this server, but members are free to stress that they want corrections in their nickname or about-me.

@pulsar sorrel, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

please create a section in which a few German words are written in a daily routine with meaning and example in a German sentence so that we can learn more words.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

#thing-of-the-day already exists as a place to share interesting vocabulary and phrases, with example usages and English translations.

[wise moon]

ayo mods are you working on threads as well

[sand bramble]

@crude orbit as a follow-up to this, we reorganized the Server category and renamed the channel now.

[dull horizon]

@rain phoenix, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add a #jokes channel, so if users get tired from learning, they can get cheered up by some german Jokes!

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We don't currently see the need for a dedicated channel for this topic. You can easily google jokes if you want some, and you're free to occasionally share them in the general channels.

@sullen grove, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

A beginner VC

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The Practice Room voice channels are meant to accommodate beginners. Naming is always difficult, since if we name the channel "Beginner VC" people ask for a "Practice Room" VC, and the other way around. Nevertheless, regardless of the name, the channel is meant for German practice, allowing bits of English where necessary to explain things, similarly to how #beginner-german works.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

command to create topic for different level learners

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This is not easy to automate. If you need conversational topics, you can simply look some up online, or join one of the existing conversations. The server has many people talking every day, and there's rarely a shortage of things to discuss.

@wind urchin, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 326 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 107.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

A proper 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.

@worn wasp, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

we should make a gaming VC and chat

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The #gaming channel already exists. Please read #getting-started and #role-directory for more info.

@tepid magnet, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

movie livestreams

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As explained in the channel already, we can't do movie livestreams due to Discord's Terms of Service. The only exception to this are movies that are freely (and legally) available online in all countries, which we've streamed occasionally in the past.

[sand bramble]

A note on this one, we've talked about it during this suggestion round, but unlike all of the above ^, we didn't really reach a quick and easy consensus, so we're gonna discuss it in more detail soon and answer it when we figure things out.

[sand bramble]

Wdym?

[wise moon]

okie

[wise moon]

for all the different things people suggest, sports thread, jokes thread, memes thread etc

[sand bramble]

Yeah, we'll give it a shot and see how people like it, but we're waiting for some bot stuff to land before we can do that. And it's other people's work that we're dependent on there, so it's hard to say when we might see it, but hey, we'll get there eventually.

[wise moon]

awesome

[chilly violet]

suggest @unique tiger hey i had this idea could we have this "ping last 5 players" special ping in tea-word-game because it's hard to scroll up and see who all were playing or actively play.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[unique tiger]

thanks but i have nothing to do with this

[chilly violet]

Oh es tut mir leid, i thought you are code person of the channel

[unique tiger]

@sand bramble

[sand bramble]

Yes you do.

[unique tiger]

fugg

[chilly violet]

Ob nein es gibt zwei!

Ich habe gedacht dass Arrem seinen Name zu Acid verwechselt hat.

[sand bramble]

Can't you just look at the message where the bot announced the winners of the last round?

[vagrant python]

How about a song channel where we can share songs in German? I personally would like to see what other people have to share.

[wise moon]

suggest since tea game comes from mudae bot, how about the yellow tea and mix tea too

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wide zodiac]

Please use >suggest to submit a suggestion

[sand bramble]

#archived-media works for that.

[loud pivot]

suggest Differente Kanäle für Besprechungen auf Dialekte und Besprechungen um Dialekte (auf Englisch oder Hochdeutsch).

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

#dialects

[sand bramble]

For which you also already have the role.

[royal raft]

I would love that too

Oh nvm

[limber maple]

suggest Dynamic voicechats: Create another room for 2 people when there isn't a completely free one available.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

Like that

You can't join a voicechat with two slots with a friend now

[dull horizon]

@limber maple, please read the Roles section in #getting-started for info on how to join VC and more.

[sand bramble]

The two people threshold for creation is there for technical reasons. Discord is super strict about how often they let you create/delete channels, so if we lower the threshold to 1 person, someone malicious could just keep joining and leaving to get the bot rate limited and break the entire system. A simple solution is to just join the other VC with the person sitting alone, which will make a new one that you can then switch to.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limpid lodge]

what about the study groups?

[teal lily]

suggest One thing I've noticed the English learning server has which I think is quite nice is a "correct me" role which adds an emoji next to your server name showing that you'd like for people to correct you when you make mistakes. I think this might be useful here too

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wide zodiac]

@teal lily This has been suggested before

[teal lily]

Is there a way to see previously submitted suggestions or is that just for the mods?

[wide zodiac]

You can find them here in the channel

[limpid lodge]

@teal lily

[sand pagoda]

suggest Create a role (fe. you can subscribe to in #850404908946423828 ) which showes that a member would like to be corrected. Optionally the role would have an icon you can see behind the name, too :D
If something is unclear dm me ^^

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wide zodiac]

The "correct me" role has been suggested multiple times (just look above). Here is the answer
@sand pagoda

[sand pagoda]

Ou, havent seen that, thanks

[somber flame]

https://www.languagereactor.com/ this is very good if you dont know about it already

suggest https://www.languagereactor.com/ this is very good if you dont know about it already

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

@somber flame, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

https://www.languagereactor.com/ this is very good if you dont know about it already

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As the channel topic says, #suggestions is meant for suggestions regarding things that mods can do about or for the server. If you want to suggest resources, feel free to use the >resource command in #resources. Please take some time to go through #channel-directory and familiarize yourself with the intended purpose of our channels.

[tacit bluff]

suggest the ronaldo gif into the same filter as the nitro scam links

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

[unique tiger]

[dull horizon]

@tacit bluff, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

the ronaldo gif into the same filter as the nitro scam links

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Since it's fairly clear that we won't mute unsuspecting people for posting a non-malicious gif, we'd ask you not to use #suggestions for jokes, as doing so can lead to being blocked from the channel.

[limber maple]

https://media.giphy.com/media/P3lPKFSCG2EEA72zA8/giphy.gif

[leaden orbit]

suggest formalised warning system through a bot to make sure people understand where they stand/position they’re in, and prevent isolated personal opinions of individuals dictating decisions.

Would be nice if individuals could check if they have any formal warnings logged, and said warning log is used as a standardised repository on which to base decisions.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

As with all suggestions, this will be discussed and formally responded to in the next suggestion round, but briefly

formalised warning system through a bot
We already track warnings and notes through the bot.

and prevent isolated personal opinions of individuals dictating decisions
Any decision that isn't 100% straightforward is decided by (at the very least) a majority vote (and usually a unanimous vote), including the one that prompted this suggestion. In particular when members that aren't entirely new and have some positive interactions are concerned, we consult all mods before making any decision.

Would be nice if individuals could check if they have any formal warnings logged
We prefer not exposing warnings and notes to the public, though one can ask to see their warnings at any point in #report-issue and receive a summary of their warnings and notes.

said warning log is used as a standardised repository on which to base decisions.
That's already the case. Though there's a bit more finesse to it than "X amount of warnings = punishment Y". We take multiple factors into consideration such as: previous interactions with the server, interest in learning German, number of warnings/notes, time between them, whether the person responded positively and seemed to understand the issue or just dismissed it etc.

[leaden orbit]

Then I'd suggest making it clearer for people as to where they can find out where they stand.

I think it'd also do good to tell people when they've been formally warned via DM. It's not always obvious whether or not something constitutes a warning or just a simple instruction to stop.

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[keen ferry]

suggest bitte aktiviert diese neue Discord Funktion: https://support.discord.com/hc/de/articles/4422142836759

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

It's not always obvious whether or not something constitutes a warning or just a simple instruction to stop.
What's the difference between those?

[dull horizon]

@keen ferry, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

bitte aktiviert diese neue Discord Funktion: https://support.discord.com/hc/de/articles/4422142836759

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As the article you linked says, Activities are a closed experiment (and they've been that way for months). We have no option to activate them ourselves other than to: (1) exploit certain features on bots or (2) wait for them to be publicly released to everyone. Given that we're a partnered server, we prefer going for the second option.

[leaden orbit]

A warning is formal. A simple instruction is not. A formalised warning provides an indication that something has been logged. A simple instruction to stop provides no such implication, and is rather more ambiguous or open ended. I suppose one could run on the assumption that any and all infraction is logged, but no such guidance is offered.

Given this is the suggestions channel, it probably shouldn’t be clogged. If you wish to discuss in more detail, then dm me.

[wise moon]

suggest self mute because

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[gilded kayak]

suggest Separate channel for discussions about movies and series that might contain spoilers

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

What's wrong with using the built in spoiler feature ?

[gilded kayak]

Discussions about a movie or series can quickly get lost in the current channels. In addition, an extra channel would provide better delineation and avoid unintended spoilers in the public channels. It would be much easier to create a new channel at the off topic section instead of handling spoiler issues in the other channels. You don‘t think so?

[wild aurora]

Well if you were talking about a show I haven't seen yet in a spoiler free channel (as in ||this||), you'd ironically still spoil me so I'm trying to understand what kind of problem this would solve

[gilded kayak]

Kann ich das auch auf Deutsch begründen? Fällt mir deutlich einfacher, als in Englisch :/

[wild aurora]

Klar

[gilded kayak]

Grundsätzlich wäre es möglich das interne Spoiler Feature zu benutzen, ja. Allerdings wird dieses auch hin und wieder für andere Sachen als dem ursprünglichen Zweck genutzt (bspw. für Jokes).
Leute die noch nicht so gut Deutsch können und ggf. darauf klicken würden gespoilert werden, ohne das sie es wollten - einfach weil im normalen, öffentlichen Chat diese Spoilertags verwendet werden. Hätte man jetzt einen extra dafür abgegrenzten Channel, dann wäre dieses Problem aus der Welt geschafft, da jeder den Zweck und Inhalt des Channels und der Nachrichten versteht.

Zumal so ein extra Channel auch die Möglichkeiten der Diskussion und des Austausches miteinander positiv beeinflusst, weil die Konversation nicht durch andere, nicht dem gleichen Kontext angehörenden, Nachrichten unterbrochen oder beeinflusst wird oder eine Einmischung aus dem Nichts, aufgrund von Missverständnissen (sprachlich oder geistlich) stark reduziert wird.

[gilded kayak]

Ist die Diskussion jetzt von deiner Seite aus beendet @wild aurora oder was ist los?

[obtuse stone]

Also im Endeffekt gucken wir da eh alle nochmal drauf, wenn wir den annehmen / ablehnen~
Und ich bin zwar nicht Syro, aber persönlich finde ich, dass man da mit Captions eigentlich sehr klar machen könnte, dass man da unter bestimmten Umständen lieber nicht drauf klicken mag.

Bspw:

Warning: Movie spoiler! (movie title)
||bla und bla sterben in Staffel 2||

[humble drum]

[limpid lodge]

suggest abolish sensitive-topics

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wise moon]

whats happening

[gritty geyser]

suggest region roles so we know each other's approximate time

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wise moon]

suggest mods from varying timezones to monitor chat more

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

We have mods that cover all times zones. Can you be more specific?

[wise moon]

they do?

then ig its alright

i thought everyone was only from europe and you from aus

[fathom fulcrum]

Adenark is from the US.

[wise moon]

oh ok

[gloomy lark]

is there is a chance for word as part Time in german ?

[fathom fulcrum]

What do you mean?

[glad ferry]

You can work part time in Germany 👍

[limpid lodge]

#archived-culture-study-visa is better for these questions. This channel is for server suggestions

[willow inlet]

Why there is no game channel?

[shadow forum]

there is, check out #role-directory/#850404908946423828

[shadow forum]

denk dran >suggest am Anfang deiner Nachricht zu verwenden, damit der Bot es akzeptiert

[jolly tree]

Ja

suggest Guten Abend, wir möchten gerne eine Rolle haben, die Wächter! Wir passen auf das in German only nur deutsch geschrieben wird. Wir sind außerdem für die Gemeinschaft da! Was sagen Sie?

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[compact moat]

Brüder:innenschaft

[dull horizon]

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I come to this server so I can study German, but I end up wasting my time in the channel more often than I'd like to, and this server ends up being a productivity sink for me. I think that other people may have the same problem.

My suggestion is to create a react-role so only those who want to see this channel will be able to see it.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We believe that it's up to the users to manage their time and act responsibly. See this guide for information on how you can mute/hide channels that you don't wish to see. https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/213599277-How-do-I-hide-muted-channels-

@low gyro, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

to create channels named "practice German" for English speakers to learn German and "practice english" to german speakers trying to practice some english

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We're a German learning server and have no plans to create any channels specifically for English. You can use #beginner-german, #german-only or the corresponding voice channels to practice German though.

@earnest ravine, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

create an entry regarding capitalization of words in German, especially because capitalization of nouns is mandatory and not optional and so that one can just type '>>faq/explain capitalization' instead of writing another message about the same (#questions message)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Please note that FAQ entries should be brought up in #community-discussion instead of #suggestions, as they're usually not something that only a mod can do. We'd be happy to assist anyone who wants to write such a FAQ though.

@sand pagoda, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Create a thread for every link in #writing . The documents could be discussed in the thread then; including feedback, infos, corrections (even if a document is not editable, etc.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We don't feel like threads would significantly improve the experience. In talks with other server admins that are more liberal with how they use threads, we've learned that the large majority of users still avoids threads and doesn't create them even when given an option to do so. We therefore feel like that adding such a system would only contribute to the mess instead of fixing it. So for now, we are going to reject this, but when forum channels are live, we will revisit it and consider using them instead though, as the interface is a bit more user-friendly there.

@olive basalt, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

rooms like "Talk with a German" 1 on 1 or in smaller groups

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Study Groups already exist for this purpose. We can't enforce how they're used, but feel free to find a speaking partner yourself and join one.

@olive basalt, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 337 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 175.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

rooms for different language levels

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

Create voice chats for different levels of discussions.
I am at A level, and it's difficult for me to find fellow A level speakers, I always meet people from the higher levels, which is nice, but it's not good for them because they can't enjoy the conversation and it's not good for me because I can't understand what they are saying.

: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.

@chilly violet, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

@unique tiger hey i had this idea could we have this "ping last 5 players" special ping in tea-word-game because it's hard to scroll up and see who all were playing or actively play.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We aren't comfortable implementing commands that ping users. People come to play because they have a bit of time at that moment, and might not appreciate being pinged hours later. You can invoke >tea status to see information about a currently running game.

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

since tea game comes from mudae bot, how about the yellow tea and mix tea too :peepoHappy:

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Yellow tea is on our todo list and will be added eventually when we get the time. It's not a very high priority issue at the moment, though.

@loud pivot, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Differente Kanäle für Besprechungen auf Dialekte und Besprechungen um Dialekte (auf Englisch oder Hochdeutsch).

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The #dialects group already exists and the required role can be obtained in #850404908946423828.

@limber maple, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Dynamic voicechats: Create another room for 2 people when there isn't a completely free one available.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As explained in the channel, due to technical limitations on Discord's side, doing this would leave the bot prone to attacks that could partially or completely disturb normal functioning. A workaround is to join a channel with someone else, and then when a new channel is created, switch there instead.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

rooms Study Group !

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Study Group voice chats already exist.

@teal lily, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 343 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 279.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

One thing I've noticed the English learning server has which I think is quite nice is a "correct me" role which adds an emoji next to your server name showing that you'd like for people to correct you when you make mistakes. I think this might be useful here too

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate 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**

A few months ago we started a discussion thread about this in #community-discussion. The responses were mostly negative, with not much interest overall, so we have decided not to accept the suggestion. Correcting should always be the default on this server, but members are free to stress that they want corrections in their nickname or about-me.

@sand pagoda, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 344 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 279.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Create a role (fe. you can subscribe to in #850404908946423828 ) which showes that a member would like to be corrected. Optionally the role would have an icon you can see behind the name, too :D
If something is unclear dm me ^^

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate 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**

A few months ago we started a discussion thread about this in #community-discussion. The responses were mostly negative, with not much interest overall, so we have decided not to accept the suggestion. Correcting should always be the default on this server, but members are free to stress that they want corrections in their nickname or about-me.

@leaden orbit, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

formalised warning system through a bot to make sure people understand where they stand/position they’re in, and prevent isolated personal opinions of individuals dictating decisions.

Would be nice if individuals could check if they have any formal warnings logged, and said warning log is used as a standardised repository on which to base decisions.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The details of how our warning system works were already explained in the channel. We will however add a piece of information somewhere in the info channels stating that users are welcome to ask us about their warnings/notes.

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

self mute because :troll:

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Our experience shows that in a large majority of cases, people who ask us to mute them end up asking to be unmuted before their mute is over. We feel that allowing people to mute themselves will only make this problem worse. It's up to the users to exercise self-control and limit their screen-time. If you absolutely need help with that, feel free to let a moderator know though.

@limpid lodge, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

abolish sensitive-topics

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We welcome any feedback about which aspects of the server our members find useful or problematic. However, we don't accept direct suggestions for major changes such as deleting an active channel. If someone wishes to make arguments toward reviewing an existing part of the server, please provide us with your feedback in #community-discussion or #report-issue.

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

region roles so we know each other's approximate time

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We prefer not cluttering up the role list, so we've always denied suggestions about roles that give away certain information in the past. Users who wish to share this info can use their about me section. Or you can use notes to store information about users who share it with you.

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

mods from varying timezones to monitor chat more

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Moderators are usually promoted from the helper team when we feel like there's a need for more moderators and think that we can find people who would be fitting for the role. This is usually decided internally, so we don't necessarily take suggestions to promote more mods or to promote specific people. As Base explained though, we already roughly cover most timezones.

@gilded kayak, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Separate channel for discussions about movies and series that might contain spoilers

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We feel like this topic is too niche to warrant its own channel. Suggestion 248, which is currently on hold due to some technical limitations, suggests adding threads to media. We'll revisit this idea as part of that discussion very soon and could create a thread for this purpose. In order to prevent suggestions from cluttering up our list, we'll close this one for now.

[leaden orbit]

Fucking hell this must've been a slog. Good job mods

[umbral lichen]

suggest sensitive topics voice channel

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[leaden orbit]

Honestly, I can't imagine anything worse lmao

[umbral lichen]

why?

[last escarp]

Wenn jeder damit einverstadnen ist ist da do h kein problem.

[leaden orbit]

I can only imagine how toxic and impossible to moderate it would become

[umbral lichen]

naja es wäre ja eher ein channel für politische diskussionen und nicht fürs toxisch sein

wir plädieren ja nicht für /pol-zustände

es geht eher darum, daß wir im voice channel manchmal über politische dinge zivilisiert diskutieren wollen

[leaden orbit]

Weiß ich, aber #archived-sensitive-topics ist oft toxisch und ich glaube ein Sprachkanal wäre einfach mehr so.

Dies ist auch ein Deutschlernserver. Wenn manche hier politische usw Sachen diskutieren will, dann können sie das, aber vielleicht lieber in einem anderen Server. Und es gibt hunderte davon auf discord, und viele auf Reddit auch.

[umbral lichen]

reddit 💩

[wise moon]

oki

[wise moon]

[wise moon]

oki

[wise moon]

any updates on this?

[fathom fulcrum]

Not yet.

[wise moon]

ok

[last escarp]

Legit auf jedem politikserver auf dem ich war waren entweder die häfte der Leute iwelche Nazis/Extremisten oder hatten anderweitige Konfuse gedanken, wenn du Leute die einfach n bissl auf deutsch debatierern wollen, mit solchen Leuten zusammen reden lassen willst, bitte. Fände ich aber gar nicht mal soo cool.

Wir wollen ja keinen Kanal in dem wir einfach nur schimpfwörter austauschen oder sowas, sondern einen in der eine gepflegte Debattenkultur einfach dazu gehört.

Und wenn halt einer mal Völkermorde leugnet, dann ist das natürlich unangenhem aber man kann ihn ja auch als gruppe aus der diskussion seperieren indem man ihn ignoriert.

[sand pagoda]

suggest Create a 'sticky message' (a message which will be send every time a new message appears so its the most recent message in a channel) for #corrections , including information about where to post texts or / and a link to #writing-info so the channel won't be used for questions like 'Is this sentence correct?'

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[dull horizon]

@sand pagoda, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion 356 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 327.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Create a 'sticky message' (a message which will be send every time a new message appears so its the most recent message in a channel) for #corrections , including information about where to post texts or / and a link to #writing-info so the channel won't be used for questions like 'Is this sentence correct?'

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

a sticky message in #resources for people to be reminded to check the resource list in description/getting started/23902480 other places 🤡

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We will try to implement this feature and experiment with it soon.

[sand bramble]

In the meantime we do have a tested and working implementation, but we're still waiting on other things before we go live with the next big bot update, so it'll take a little while longer. 😩

[sand pagoda]

Okay, thank you! :D

[wise moon]

september 3?

[sand bramble]

No idea. It's not our code that we're waiting for, so we also can't really give an estimate.

[wise moon]

[gritty geyser]

suggest please put all rules in the #rules channel and not some of them in #info or #getting-started

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Which?

[unique tiger]

please don’t ask anyone to be your private tutor or help you cheat on your homework/exam maybe

it says
Asking for help or helping somebody on an exam is against our rules.
in getting started but not in the rules

[gritty geyser]

What acid stated above

[sand bramble]

As with all suggestions, we'll discuss and consider this, but the general reasoning for why it's not in the #rules is that #rules outline expected behavior that can in theory lead to a punishment on your very first offense. Like, if someone new joins and immediately starts being rude, advertising or posting NSFW content, we'd immediately ban them for all of that. For homework, we wouldn't do that unless the user repeatedly continues doing so despite warnings.
There are many more examples of behavior like this that's not explicitly mentioned in the #rules in an effort to keep them as short as possible. Less serious offenses are all outlined in the detailed rules https://bit.ly/2tOyhrA though.

[gritty geyser]

It's less obvious than the other rules are so maybe it would be worth mentioning it somewhere else and more obvious than in half a sentence at the top of #info

[wise moon]

so many skirt goblins

[sand bramble]

Well it's on both the top of #info and the top of #getting-started, and there's generally an expectation for people to read at least one of the two. So I'm not sure if someone who already doesn't read those would even read the rules. And I don't think "accommodate beginners in practice rooms", "give people a chance to try answering themselves instead of immediately solving their question", "make sure that the answers you give people are correct and don't post guesses as answers", "don't use the server to discuss things of personal nature or vent", "try not to use the server while drunk" are any more obvious than "don't use the server to cheat", which would already put us at a ton of new rules. But yeah as said that's just my opinion and we'll discuss it with the staff and see what everyone thinks.

Perhaps it would be helpful to ask what your motivation for suggesting this is. Have you had a negative experience related to it?

[gritty geyser]

I've joined the server a few months ago and was inactive. I didn't fully remind all the stuff metioned in #info and #getting-started and I just went to check the rules again before offering someone (not a learner but a native speaker) to help with the visual presentation of their info. I was warned but I didn't know why. I went to look at the rules and didn't find anything about that so I didn't know what I did wrong. If someone tells me I am not allowed to do something I expect to find something about the reasons for that in a rules channel.

It's very confusing to not be allowed tk do something without anythin about it being metioned in the rules

[limpid lodge]

maybe we can have a rules section and a guideline section

since these points arrem mentioned in #getting-started are more of guidelines than hard rules, but i also don't know if people will read that lmao

[sand bramble]

Well, all the points I've outlined (and more) are already listed in the Google Doc I linked above, but I'm strongly against moving them to the #rules because people already refuse to read even shorter blocks of text than #rules, so just making it longer wouldn't really help that situation imo.
For anything not listed in #rules, you're not expected to know it, and can never be punished on your first offense. And it's perfectly fine to contact us and ask where something is written, although even then, no document can realistically cover all cases and offenses, and a staff member telling you that something isn't allowed should be "enough" in that sense. I think it's a fair expectation that if you don't want to take someone's word for it and want to read about the rule yourself, you should be fine with opening the detailed rules Google doc and reading through it (or just find the specific thing you're interested in).

[gritty geyser]

People who don't want to read the rules won't read them anyways, so making them longer wouldn't lower the number of people who actually read them.
I'd also suggest to maybe write a short summary of the rule underlined on top to make it more clear and maybe put a more detailed explanation underneath it. This would make reading them and finding something you searcg for a lot easier, especially if you aren't a mod who just knows all of them but just a basic user trying to look up something

For example rule 7. You could put it like

RULE 7: No NSFW posts
This includes but is not limited to images, gifs videos... (rest of rule 7)

This would make navigating the channel a lot easier because peopke tend to not like a block of text as you already stated

[fathom fulcrum]

I don't get what you mean. The rules are already extremely short with no blocks of text.

[gritty geyser]

It's a huge block of text only divided by a few blanks

[fathom fulcrum]

Wouldn't it be the same if you added underlines?

[gritty geyser]

Adding a headline to each rule would make them a lot clearer imo

[fathom fulcrum]

Then it would just be a huge block of text on more lines with underlines.

[gritty geyser]

You don't underline the whole rule but only a few keywords as a headline to it

E.g. to make it easier to find something specific

[fathom fulcrum]

What do you consider the downside of simply reading the first line of each rule? Wouldn't it be exactly the same?

[gritty geyser]

It's called organisation

You underline headlines, you underline important parts of something you are trying to understand. If you write a handout, you also wouldn't do that in font size 12 with only paragraphs and no other organisation to make it easier to see th things related to each other

[fathom fulcrum]

I know what you're talking about, but based on my assessment of the channel and how it's written, it would be difficult to make it any easier to read than it already is.

When you make a list of points only 1-2 sentences long, you don't usually add headlines.

[gritty geyser]

I'll do it and I'll send it to you. Maybe you get what I mean

[fathom fulcrum]

Sure.

[fathom fulcrum]

Okay thanks, we will discuss it in our next suggestions discussion.

[shrewd inlet]

What about a word (explained with an example) + an Idiom of the day?

[wide zodiac]

#thing-of-the-day

[shrewd inlet]

Ahh, danke, nicht gesehen, sorry 😂

[hollow frost]

suggest people keep on dm me, and its really annoying. do you think you could have a role called: dm open dm closed ask to dm

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limpid lodge]

I think random messagers won't bother reading roles. The best thing to do to keep people out it to simply disable DMs from people you're not friends with

[lapis nymph]

Du kannst DMs von Mitgliedern in diesem Server selber deaktivieren. Oben links auf "German Learning and Discussion" anklicken und dann:

[hollow frost]

sorry, im really stupid

[gritty geyser]

People should be able to embed 1 link per hour in general chat @fathom fulcrum

[fathom fulcrum]

Why?

[gritty geyser]

Because you want to show a video or stuff there sometimes and you just can't

[fathom fulcrum]

#archived-media ?

[gritty geyser]

Dude that's kinda inconvenient

[fathom fulcrum]

Forcing people to look at your spammy media content in #general is inconvenient for them too.

It's a large and busy server so we have to make a choice between accommodating you or the general server member base. Of course we will discuss it as we discuss all suggestions, but I'm just making the point that just because something is inconvenient to you personally, doesn't mean it's the wrong choice for the server.

[limpid lodge]

also, if you're just linking a youtube video, you can still send it in general with the link wrapped

[polar comet]

Is it asked before? Can we separate speaking groups as beginner, intermediate, native too? Is that even possible?

[wild aurora]

#suggestions message

[simple herald]

suggest Add Activities bot @marble valley (official Discord bot that lets you play Discord VC games on the server, like checkers)

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[lucid ledge]

we already have a few opt-in games/activities, such as a dict.cc word meaning game, #tea-word-game and #ouija, the channels of which you can opt into under #850404908946423828

[simple herald]

These are games you can only play while in the voice channel

[lucid ledge]

The server admins have also expressed a lack of need or interest in adding 3rd party bots to the server. You can ask them to clarify on why this is, but I would recommend specifically asking for commands and features of bots you enjoy in other servers to be implemented here on @dull horizon

[simple herald]

It's an official Discord feature that requires the bot to be present on the server

[burnt notch]

Hello, I have a suggestion to discuss. #beginner-german seems to be not very ... helpful to boost the skills, I mean, here's the problem: quite a lot of the time you don't spend practicing but repeating the same "hello how are you" phrases. So I though... maybe we could practice some ... I dunno, theme channels? Or something... I'm not sure what could solve this issue, but maybe someone has eine Idee about it

[teal horizon]

Musik chat wäre geil, um Musik zu teilen :))

[sand pagoda]

Schicks nochmal mit >suggest davor ab, erst dann wird es an die Mods abgeschickt ^^

[teal horizon]

hahaha oki danke

[shadow forum]

#archived-media

[teal horizon]

musik könnte eigentlich separat sein.. falls es untergruppen für gaming, arts and crafts, sogar essen gibt, aber na guut hehe

[sand bramble]

Activities aren't released yet and Discord isn't too happy about people using them at this point. Bottfried actually already has the functionality because we did some private testing, but bots being able to create activities is just a quirk that we'd rather not publicly abuse just in case. :^)
When fully released, they won't depend on bots and anyone will have the option to start them from a VC.

(Note also that the Activities bot isn't official. It's made by a person who has close ties to Discord and developers, but they're not affiliated with Discord in any way)

[simple herald]

💜 okie thank you I just wanted to destroy people in checkers

[distant canyon]

Are these activities in English or German?

[sand bramble]

They're just ways to embed apps like Youtube or some games like chess, checkers or poker inside of Discord and play it together in voice chat. Which language you do that in is entirely up to you (apart from a few word-based games like Scrabble that are in English).

[distant canyon]

Ohhh, okey. Very cool!

[novel crane]

But wouldn't Scrabble be also good to learn German?

[sand bramble]

This is Discord's thing and something that they're working on. We have no influence over how they choose to develop it.

[novel crane]

Oh ok

[limpid lodge]

.>suggest arrem please lobby discord coders to implement scrabble please

[burnt notch]

suggest Add more detailed CEFR levels (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2). Maybe in some gradient

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[low grove]

no

[unique tiger]

this has been suggested before

[coarse kayak]

make this mascot

🖱️

[limpid lodge]

what do you want to do exactly?

[balmy grail]

he wants to make this mascot

[limpid lodge]

what mascot?

[wise moon]

[obtuse stone]

I'll ask differently: What does having that as a mascot mean to you? What does it involve? If we were to accept this suggestion what things would change for the server?

[hot halo]

suggest ein musik channel damit die leute auch mit musik und deutscher musikgeschichte lernen können

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[topaz haven]

suggest Maybe a 'German Learner' role and some beginner-only channels?

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Check out #850404908946423828 for CEFR roles, and #beginner-german and Practice Room for beginner-friendly channels.

We will most likely never make a "beginner only" channel because then there would be no one to correct mistakes.

[unique ridge]

suggest creation of a beginner voice channel

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

[wide zodiac]

@unique ridge this suggestion has already been answered

and take a look above

[unique ridge]

Tut mir leid sir

[gritty geyser]

Whats about a music bot?

[fathom fulcrum]

There is one.

[gritty geyser]

oh

[fathom fulcrum]

Try typing >play [song name] in #botchannel to use it.

[gritty geyser]

Okay thanks

[raw marsh]

suggest Change the bot embed color to match the name color (green)

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[topaz haven]

suggest Make some more events in some Asia timezones.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

Lessons are held by volunteers and they decide which time zone suits them.

[earnest geyser]

Gefelt

[silver ember]

An Channel for different foods from Germany would be cool

[gritty geyser]

Can we have a database for texts that have been corrected and validated by members in the #writing channel?
Some kind of document organized by theme, etc.
Could be done in google forms too. People submit their English dialogues or small texts and volunteers can type in the German equivalent.
In order to promote this and encourage corrections we could keep track of contributors and provide them with some type of perk or a badge, idk.

English texts/dialogues could be voted for translation based on public appeal or idk

I'm tired of textbook texts/dialogues

I need something more up to date

anyone with similar ideas pls dm me for brainstorming

update: it seems this is already a thing. I just checked the #study-tasks. Cool

if only we could get more customized and for immediate application vocab... such as: phrases to use in the voice chat if you're a beginner; 'most frequent asked questions in the voice chat and how to answer them'.

[fathom fulcrum]

Thanks for the suggestions. We definitely encourage people to be proactive in developing content like this. Most of our learning content is developed and managed by the community. If you want to be involved in creating resources like that, it's very encouraged. I recommend for you to post in #community-discussion if you want to work together with other community members to come up with some materials. Ask people to contact you to work with you to develop materials like that.

[gritty geyser]

Hi. I'll look into that! thx

I appreciate the receptiveness!!

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

Sorry what do you mean by add? Add where?

[burnt notch]

Do the FAQ

To the FAQ*

Like it's another way to type umlauts without suffering

[fathom fulcrum]

Okay, I can look into it. Can you explain the benefits of using this over AutoHotkey?

[burnt notch]

It's built-in solution (I use native Windows program) and very easy to install

The way I made it was using MS' layout editor. It produces an exe file with a few dlls, it does look like oyu're installing a program, but it's a keyboard

You basically click setup.exe and that's it. It adds a keyboard layout, not a hotkey. And you don't need to configure

You can try it yourself, it won't bite (to delete you just click setup.exe again and it will suggest removing)

If you don't trust me, which might make sense, here's the program I made it with: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=102134

[sand bramble]

This feature is now live. @sand pagoda @wise moon
I haven't really tested much so let me know if things break.

[wise moon]

[sand pagoda]

Awesome! I'll test it directly :D
Thank you! ^^

(And everyone who's responsible for that!)

[earnest mountain]

Ich finde in den 2 general Kanälen sollte englisch verboten werden. Um ihre Sprachkentnisse zu verbessern, sollten die Benutzer deutsch sprechen und englisch sollte nur im bestimmten Rahmen erlaubt sein. z.B. aus Schulungszwecken.

[unique tiger]

dafür haben wir doch german only

wer nur deutsch sprechen will kann da hin und üben

[wide zodiac]

Du musst schon >suggest verwenden, wenn du es vorschlagen willst.
Ich verstehe aber auch nicht, warum #german-only und #beginner-german nicht ausreichen. Man soll ja auch normale Gespräche hier führen können und manche sind halt noch nicht so weit, dass sie sich größtenteils auf Deutsch ausdrücken können.

[limber maple]

suggest add a refresh button to >star random

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[limber maple]

suggest show how much time is left if you can't start a new game at Wörtle

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wise moon]

suggest competitive wörtle with same word for everyone(happening once a day) with server wide stats and an "only you can see this message" like this to solve it (if possible)

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

See the last two questions in the pinned message in #962353044849320037. Saving data, rewriting the system to use ephemeral messages and handling automatic word switching around midnight are all extra effort that I'd personally rather not do. The Wörtle here is a fun learning game specifically designed to be played often, non-competitively and without the "burden" of your stats being tracked. https://wordle.at/ or similar sites provide a more classic Wordle experience, so feel free to use that for competitions, stat tracking, etc.

[wise moon]

[mild ridge]

why don't we have level systems in the only german channels

whether it's a vc or a text channel

encourages people to speak and implement german here

[fathom fulcrum]

What do you mean?

[mild ridge]

oh i mean xp

[sand bramble]

Even with limits on how much XP per minute you can get, that pretty much just encourages low-quality posts like people dropping in to say "hi" or "i'm just here to get my XP".

[dull horizon]

@jolly tree, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Guten Abend, wir möchten gerne eine Rolle haben, die Wächter! Wir passen auf das in German only nur deutsch geschrieben wird. Wir sind außerdem für die Gemeinschaft da! Was sagen Sie?

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We appreciate the community's effort to make people aware of the correct channel usage, but we don't feel like it would be useful to create special roles for people who do so. These may just lead people to believe that certain members have powers or authority that they in reality don't, and burdens us with deciding who gets such roles and dealing with inevitable conflicts when people get upset over them. Anyone is more than welcome to point members to the correct channel etiquette, so there's no need for a special role to signify that.

@umbral lichen, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

sensitive topics voice channel

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The #archived-sensitive-topics text channel is already one of the most difficult channels to moderate and a frequent source of arguments and content that goes against the server rules. Having a semi-permanent history of the channel available at all times is the only way we can deal with such incidents. Therefore, an accompanying voice channel for #archived-sensitive-topics isn't something that we'd be comfortable having on the server. If you wish to discuss such topics with friends, DM groups are always an option.

@analog plume, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

please put all rules in the #rules channel and not some of them in #info or #getting-started

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This suggestion was made as a response to the cheating ban not being explicitly mentioned in the #rules. The #rules are meant to outline the most basic expectations from members, and we fully expect everyone to know about all the #rules, as violations of them can potentially lead to a punishment without a previous warning. The cheating ban does not fit this criteria, it's a soft guideline for which people are always warned first before action is taken.
Note also that everything else that is not explicitly mentioned in the #rules channel is written in the detailed rules Google document that you can find there.

@hollow frost, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

people keep on dm me, and its really annoying. do you think you could have a role called: dm open dm closed ask to dm

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Users who randomly DM you usually don't bother looking at roles or preferences. The best course of action there is to disable DMs from server members. (Click on the server name > Privacy Settings > toggle the relevant option off). We'll make a FAQ entry for how to do this in the future.

@simple herald, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Add Activities bot @marble valley (official Discord bot that lets you play Discord VC games on the server, like checkers)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As explained, Activities bots are making use of undocumented Discord features, which Discord staff is not too fond of. As such, we prefer to wait until Activities are fully released and available to all servers without the need to use hacky bots to get them to work.

@burnt notch, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Add more detailed CEFR levels (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2). Maybe in some gradient

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We currently don't feel the need to make the CEFR roles more granular, as plenty of people already struggle enough to assign the currently existing roles, and sometimes choose to have no roles instead. Therefore, we believe that further splitting them up may only make this problem worse and achieve the opposite effect of what you may want. If you want to specify your own level more precisely, you can always add it into your nickname or about me.

@hot halo, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

ein musik channel damit die leute auch mit musik und deutscher musikgeschichte lernen können

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Discussions about music can go into #archived-media. We will soon be allowing threads in some form in this channel, so you'll be able to have spaces for more specific niche discussions like these.

@topaz haven, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Maybe a 'German Learner' role and some beginner-only channels?

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Everyone on this server who does not have a Native role is assumed to be a German Learner. As for the channels, check out #beginner-german or the Practice Room voice chats. We do not want to make channels exclusively for beginners, as then there's no one around to correct potential mistakes.

@raw marsh, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Change the bot embed color to match the name color (green)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We recently rolled out quite a big bot update and are in the process of fine-tuning the features that we added. In addition to that we also have many other features on our wishlist, but only limited development time. As such, we currently don't have anyone willing to invest time into small cosmetic changes like these.

@topaz haven, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Make some more events in some Asia timezones.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Hosting events is not a suggestion towards the mod team. Lessons are hosted by volunteer hosts, so feel free to ask if anyone would be interested in hosting one in your timezone in #community-discussion or perhaps reach out to us if you'd be interested in doing so yourself.

@burnt notch, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add https://github.com/WhiteBlackGoose/AmericanKeyboardLayoutForGerman/releases/tag/v2.0.0 for ways to type umlauts on Windows (see the link to see the hotkeys)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We think it's problematic to include links to users' personal repositories in our FAQs, as the code and the releases can potentially be changed at any time without us knowing. Thus to guarantee our users' safety, we prefer just not doing that. We will however look into ways of providing a similar solution ourselves so that we can be certain that it's not malicious.

[burnt notch]

That's fine, if you make your own repo, I'm all for it

[light glacier]

suggest Make separate voice channel for practice room based on level, for example "Practice Room A1-A2", "Practice Room B1-B2", and so on

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[hidden mist]

that one has been rejected multiple times

[leaden orbit]

suggest flag roles exclusively for natives to denote which German speaking country they come from, and the German it reflects. Would be interesting to see and useful maybe for people seeking more specific knowledge for a region

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[mild ridge]

honestly i do think it's helpful if we have those.

I've encountered beginners knocking into natives or c level people in vc and just left.
the distinction doesn't have to be much but the separation between A1 - b1 and b2 - natives could maybe help with the knowledge gap

[hidden mist]

practice room

[mild ridge]

hm?

[hidden mist]

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[hidden mist]

_ _

[fathom fulcrum]

That's going to happen no matter what kind of channels we make. There are many channels available and it's the responsibility of the user to choose the right one for themselves.

[snow escarp]

And there no one really interrupt anyone - masters(C1- C2) wait for their noobs(me) to say something. Alles bleibt im Stand

[obtuse stone]

Here is our reasoning for why we don't wanna do that @mild ridge

[sand pagoda]

suggest Don't delete messages with a . or a 0 in front of a text in #962353044849320037 to allow simple conversations between users while a game is being played. ^^

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wide zodiac]

You can chat during the game, the bot recognizes only everything between (I think it's) 4-7 characters as a guess. So you can extend your message yourself if necessary

[dull horizon]

@sand pagoda, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Don't delete messages with a . or a 0 in front of a text in #962353044849320037 to allow simple conversations between users while a game is being played. ^^

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As verwirrte pointed out, only words with 4 to 7 characters are counted as valid guesses. In addition, everything starting with the bot's command prefix is already ignored, so if there's a particular 4 character message that you want to send, you can prefix it with > , e.g., > hello and it won't be treated as a command or a guess.

[sand pagoda]

Danke- ^^

[limber maple]

suggest one of those sticky messages for #lessons but it is only active if there is no lesson

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

@limber maple, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

one of those sticky messages for #lessons but it is only active if there is no lesson

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

This is already planned, though we'd prefer integrating it together with Discord's scheduled events, which the bot currently can't support. We'll revisit the idea once this changes.

[river kestrel]

suggest add a mathematics role, it's kinda my life

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

#science

[river kestrel]

I wouldn't correlate those two even though they're closely related. Math seeks to use logic to understand and often prove relationships between quantities and objects which may relate to no real phenomena, whilst science does not.

[sand bramble]

Hence it's categorized under "formal science" which is a widely accepted term. Still, regardless of definition, our place for math is #science.

[hexed slate]

suggest I think Eric2 should be put in AFK. He's been muted and deafened for a while, even while we were watching stuff.

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[fathom fulcrum]

This is not something that you should make a server suggestion for. Server suggestions are for things such as changes to the server, that we review formally every 2 weeks or so. If you want to simply report something to a moderator, please use #report-issue or ping a moderator.

[dull horizon]

@hexed slate, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I think Eric2 should be put in AFK. He's been muted and deafened for a while, even while we were watching stuff.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As the comments to your suggestion indicate, it is not the kind of thing you'd ask in #suggestions, so we're closing it to avoid clutter.

[gritty geyser]

OK so how about a sports and fitness channel?

[fathom fulcrum]

We had one but no one used it so it got deleted it.

[gritty geyser]

[gritty geyser]

suggest we should celebrate every year the foundation day of GLAD

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wild aurora]

what exactly would that entail ?

[lapis nymph]

jemand wird gebannt

[fathom fulcrum]

We celebrate GLaD this way every day. 🤗

[gritty geyser]

Idk, i leave it to the creativity of the mods.

[fresh musk]

do yall ever do movie nights? we could use teleparty!

[vague wagon]

idk if this is purposely done but i can see audit logs

[obtuse stone]

It's purposely done~
Thanks for your concern though!

[mild ridge]

suggest native speakers reading session/debate session for everyone to witness

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

@mild ridge, your suggestion has been answered:

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

native speakers reading session/debate session for everyone to witness

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

#suggestions is meant for suggestions regarding the server that the moderation team can take care of. Arranging/hosting lessons is not one of them. You should ask in #community-discussion if anyone from the community would be interested in organizing such a session, and we will gladly support them.

[weary night]

You can listen to something like a podcast for this. It would work if the format is like the show Q and A, or if the audience members can also join in on the debate

Well thats just my two cents in the matter, feel free to organise something with this format though

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

@surreal mulch, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

A channel in which people can write texts or sentence that have to be corrected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Suggestion withdrawn by user.

[surreal mulch]

?

[sand bramble]

You deleted your message so I assumed you saw that #writing and #corrections already exist and withdrew the suggestion.

[surreal mulch]

oh

[surreal mulch]

Lol wusste nichr das die existieren

[gritty geyser]

de en Boulevardzeitung

lookup

[dull horizon]

:x: The required argument target is missing.

[gritty geyser]

lookup de en boulevard

[dull horizon]

Translations for en boulevard:

**:small_blue_diamond:** zweidimensionale En-face-Aufnahmen

two-dimensional en-face en face images

**:small_blue_diamond:** Allee

boulevard

**:small_blue_diamond:** Prachtstraße

boulevard

**:small_blue_diamond:** Boulevard

boulevard <Blvd.>

**:small_blue_diamond:** Strandboulevard

beach boulevard

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[sand bramble]

#botchannel?

[dull horizon]

@limber maple, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add a refresh button to >star random

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We will add this to our to-do list and get to it in the near future.

[dull horizon]

@limber maple, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

show how much time is left if you can't start a new game at Wörtle

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We're okay with this in principle, but it's a big internal change to how the usage-limiting system currently works. It's on our to-do list, but it might be a while before we get to it, due to other tasks with higher priority.

[dull horizon]

@wise moon, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

competitive wörtle with same word for everyone(happening once a day) with server wide stats and an "only you can see this message" like this to solve it (if possible)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As explained in the channel, there are a bunch of design decisions that were specifically made with the intention of making Wörtle non-competitive. These would all have to be changed, which would be a significant effort, and at the moment we are more inclined to invest bot development time into new features and games. As mentioned, https://wordle.at/ or similar sites provide a more classic Wordle experience, so feel free to use that for competitions, stat tracking, etc.

[dull horizon]

@light glacier, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion 369 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 205.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Make separate voice channel for practice room based on level, for example "Practice Room A1-A2", "Practice Room B1-B2", and so on

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

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

: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.

[dull horizon]

@leaden orbit, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

flag roles exclusively for natives to denote which German speaking country they come from, and the German it reflects. Would be interesting to see and useful maybe for people seeking more specific knowledge for a region

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We believe that this idea might cause more problems than it solves. Even within the German speaking countries, there are wide variations of dialects, different regions, etc. As such, we feel like it would not be very useful to simply know that someone is from Germany, without knowing what dialect they speak, and this would lead to a potentially huge number of roles, as some people can get very specific about what they call their dialect. In addition, it will encourage people to ask for roles for their own non-German-speaking countries, which is problematic for the same reason as dialects.

[dull horizon]

@river kestrel, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

add a mathematics role, it's kinda my life

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As explained in the channel, #science is the place to discuss mathematics, as it is indeed a formal science.

[dull horizon]

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

we should celebrate every year the foundation day of GLAD

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

The community is welcome to suggest ideas for things they'd like to see during holidays/events. If we manage to find something interesting, we'll do our best to organize it.

[wind urchin]

suggest Der Bot schlägt in deutschsprachigen Channels ab und zu (automatisiert oder per command) ein Gesprächsthema vor, über das gesprochen werden könnte

[wide zodiac]

Nochmal, editieren reicht nicht

[wind urchin]

Nochmal senden?

suggest Der Bot schlägt in deutschsprachigen Channels ab und zu (automatisiert oder per command) ein Gesprächsthema vor, über das gesprochen werden könnte

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[wind urchin]

Na hör mal

[sterile bison]

suggest could a second ping be issued for lessons about 5 or 10 minutes before they start please

[dull horizon]

Thank you, your suggestion has been submitted!

[sand bramble]

Pretty much every session holder already pings 5-30 minutes before their session is about to start. Or are you suggesting another ping on top of that?

[sterile bison]

Oh, i dont seem to be getting those then ?

Or is that because im not on the recommended level ?

[sand bramble]

No, as long as you have the group role, you should be getting the pings, and you do seem to have them. Here are a few examples of old pre-session announcements.
#lessons message
#lessons message
#lessons message

[sterile bison]

Hmm ok , ill see if i get the pings tomorrow

[dull horizon]

Рэзарио

Suggestion by Рэзарио

Description

A story writing event. Everyone is given 10 common-rare German words and has to write a small story with them. Afterwards every story gets reviewed and the mistakes get erased by the host or collectively.

Advantages

Increases the writing skills and the feeling for the language tremendously

Disadvantages

Takes the time of a host that is highly proficient in German

[gritty geyser]

stories could be submitted after an announcement and the session which reviews the stories could be hosted on a separate day

@weary night opinion?

[dull horizon]

Master Chief

Suggestion by JÄGERMEISTER!!

Description

A competition for the best german Stories. One for every level and at the end there could be a little prize or just a winner role.

Advantages

People learn writing in maybe a more fun way. Also they learn to handle kritics. IDK if kritics is correct I mean Kritiken.

Disadvantages

Some people don't like losing. It takes a time to look at all stories.

[weary night]

I had planed to host something like this before i got too busy ™️, i beleive @lapis nymph and @fathom fulcrum have run something like this in the past

[gritty geyser]

ah interesting and yeah something like that would be great

[dull horizon]

Anwenden

Suggestion by Max (Around The World)

Description

Wir brauchen ein Kanal der "Around the World" kanal!

Advantages

Ist halt Daft Punkt also wie immer 10 von 10! und wird sich von vielen gewünscht

Disadvantages

Es gibt 1000 gründe dafür nichts dagegen!
also keine frage

[dull horizon]

@lone mist, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Wir brauchen ein Kanal der "Around the World" kanal!

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Suggestions that do not seem serious and do not make a serious effort to describe their suggestions and list the pros and cons are not considered by the staff teem.

[lone mist]

Hää das war ein ernst Antrag!

[unique tiger]

[lone mist]

[lone mist]

ich brauche das 100% das ist wichtig!

[unique tiger]

@obtuse stone is unser ansprechpartner für solche vorschläge wend dich bitte an ihn

[fathom fulcrum]

We've done some writing competitions before. We've had 0 entries so far. However, in the past we had a "writing group" which would meet up in VC regularly, and bring their writing, and then read each other's writing, after getting it corrected - like a reading group but the texts were written by the participants. This was very fun and successful.

[fathom fulcrum]

See my message immediately above yours.

[gritty geyser]

yeah dude i never said something about competition. The idea is that you announce 10 german words beforehand and have to write a story by also including them. Let's say you have a week time for this.

Then there is the VC session where all the stories that got written get read together and corrected.

[fathom fulcrum]

I was simply describing past events similar to what you and the other member suggested, and the success they had.

[gritty geyser]

ah kk yeah. The vc/session one seems to be the best

so bringing that back would do some good

[fathom fulcrum]

It's difficult because it requires a lot of time/effort to write something.

So it can be hard to find people committed to that.

[gritty geyser]

Because there aren't many opportunities to practice writing when learning a language

[gritty geyser]

Set a word limit of 400?

[fathom fulcrum]

400 is still a lot for most people.

But anyway, if you want to run such an event, you're welcome to do so. #suggestions is mostly for stuff you want mods to do. If you want to suggest a session type to session holders, you can post it in #community-discussion . If you want to run it yourself, feel free to contact mods using #report-issue and we can talk about it.

[gritty geyser]

Ok then set different word limits for the different lvls

[dull horizon]

Aborting...

Great Granny 🌸~

Suggestion by Spiritual Snow Granny

Description

bring back the smaller study groups. But this time people aren't randomly put together. Instead those with similar interest can be in small groups together.
The mods/admins/etc dont have to create programmes for the groups as the groups can conduct individually. An example would be: people who are interested in reading can find each other on the server, make a group together, and plan what to read for the week. And then talk & discuss abt it together.
Think of it as the server providing a platform for people to get together and do their hobby together.
yes sure we have reading sessions, gaming channel, and etc. but those are for the whole members.
in the smaller study group, it's more closed and personal, ig? and there's a bigger incentive to actually study german by having weekly targets, for ex by reading books and etc

Advantages

a more effective way of learning the language. and can make friends with people with the same honby

Disadvantages

i dont see any downsides from it
:D !!!!!!!!!!!!

Additional comments

i imagine it to be like small clubs within the server. let's say like, when you play video games for ex clash of clans, there would be clans,,where people can join in to play together and etc.
i gues creating a new channel called "Online study buddies" or "book club"or whatever idk (my naming sense sucks) would be closest to what and how i imagine it to be.m
we would appoint a group leader and plan stuff . well we as in members of the study buddy group.

[fathom fulcrum]

@gritty geyser What would your thoughts be on dealing with that kind of thing with threads?

[gritty geyser]

I think it would work better with making channels for it? But i think threads would work too.
It would only need to be advertised by the mods, by writing an announcement and etc. otherwise people wouldn't know of it.

[fathom fulcrum]

The main problem with channels is that with this model, there would be quite a lot of them and it would be difficult to remove them. A thread kinda deals with that problem by itself.

[gritty geyser]

Hmm you're right

[wise moon]

any updates on this

[dull horizon]

Pascual

Suggestion by Pascual(korrigier mich)

Description

My suggestion is to add another bot able to reproduce music.

Advantages

People could hear different songs in different channels at the same time.

Disadvantages

I don´t know if there is any technical problem that does not allow it, but I guess it would be a little confusing to have several music bots.

Additional comments

Thanks for reading, I really love this server, therefore I thank you for doing these work (I guess you are a mod or an admin).

[sand bramble]

Briefly, we see both pros and cons to the suggestion, so we'll most likely be doing a community-wide survey to see how people feel about it before reaching a decision, however everyone has been busy with other projects so no one has started drafting one so far. It's still on our list though.

[wise moon]

can i dm you what im doing on a small scale server for this idea?

[fathom fulcrum]

It's probably better to use #report-issue if that's fine.

[wise moon]

done

[snow tartan]

Telc B2 Group

[gritty geyser]

Fehlt nicht die niederländische Flagge in der Beschreibung in german-onlay?

[alpine wren]

Warum ?

[wild aurora]

Deutsch ist keine amtssprache in den niederlanden

[gritty geyser]

Aber dort Sprechen 400.000 Menschen Deutsch.

[alpine wren]

in Belgien ist Deutsch aber eine Amtssprache

[wild aurora]

Deswegen ist die flagge ja auch da..?

[alpine wren]

.

[cunning oasis]

xdd

[alpine wren]

allis guet

[gritty geyser]

Kommt es hier, denn auf die Amtssprache an oder auf die deutsche Sprache an?

[wild aurora]

Es gibt in jedem land menschen die deutsch sprechen, also haben wir uns auf die länder in denen deutsch eine der amtssprachen ist beschränkt

[cunning oasis]

macht sinn

[mystic dirge]

Need lessons for A1 level.

[fathom fulcrum]

To request lessons, you can use #community-discussion . This channel is for suggesting things for moderators to organize, but lessons are run by Session Holders.

[dull horizon]

Vasanth

Suggestion by Vasanth

Description

Need lessons for A1. Lessons and grammer for A level can improve the speed.

Advantages

Improve the speed of picking up the vocabulary and grammar.

Disadvantages

Might feel like spoonfeeding.Might feel like nagging too

[dull horizon]

@mystic dirge, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Need lessons for A1. Lessons and grammer for A level can improve the speed.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

As said after your initial message, #suggestions is meant to be used for suggestions that the mod team can make happen. Hosting lessons is a voluntary community efforts, and you can give your thoughts about them in #community-discussion.

[sterile zealot]

perhaps you could add a question answering system like the one this server has https://discord.gg/python

[sand bramble]

@sterile zealot See below for how to properly make a suggestion, and please provide us with details instead of just pointing to a server. Suggestions are discussed by the entire staff team and we don't want to make 15 people have to join a server to see what the suggestion is about.

[sterile zealot]

oh i didnt know

sorry

i will look into it

[dull horizon]

sorokada

Suggestion by lebenswert00

Description

I don't know the programming behind this, but I've seen in some learning/studying servers that you can add pomodoro studying technique sessions. If you don't know what it is I can explain it to you. The concept is basically a channel that people join all muted, maybe with cameras on (it would be better but only if it is possible with the trolls), and stay motivated together to study, maybe with a text channel to go along with it. And some simple timer command for study-break intervals. I could go into more specifics but only if you seem interested in the idea. If you don't like the idea of the study-break timer, then a ''study room'' channel that more muted people can join (up to 10-15?) would be also nice. Thank you for reading my suggestion!

Advantages

I have seen a lot of benefits in my studying with this technique. And I think a lot of people feel motivated when they see more people study at the same time with them, especially the same topic (German, in this case)

Disadvantages

As I said, the only downside I can see is trolls taking advantage of the possible turned on cameras. But if I am not mistaken people can turn on their cameras already in specific channels(?) Anyways, of course you are the mods and know exactly what you have to face, so you decide, of course.

Additional comments

Schönen Tag noch! :D

[dull horizon]

Brum

Suggestion by Brum

Description

My suggestion for the Discord group is to create a "Practice room" for beginners

Advantages

People that is just starting to learn German can feel more comfortable talking and practicing with people that is at the same level (including me)

Disadvantages

Maybe, there could be some people that enter to the vc and make fun of beginners (?)

[zinc yoke]

Tjanks for reading!

[onyx saffron]

Practice room is already for beginners to my knowledge

[wild aurora]

what about #beginner-german and #977111329217331210 ?

[zinc yoke]

Really? Because sometimes I feel people speaks really good German and can't keep it on 😦

[zinc yoke]

The channel #beginner-german is perfect! But I'm talking about a vc that says is for beginners or something like that

[onyx saffron]

Well everything is practice, the more you stay the more you will be able to understand:) it is completely normal that you feel this way though.

[wild aurora]

the "Practice Room" VCs (like the one I linked) are exactly what you're looking for in that case, the name just doesn't contain "beginner"

[onyx saffron]

There has been a discussion about this before I believe, that a room for ''beginners" would in the end be an echo chamber for mistakes, which makes sense.

[zinc yoke]

True, I think at some point I will be able to understand more and speak, but I really just get so nervous haha

[zinc yoke]

I dind't know about it, but make sense also for me

didn't*

[zinc yoke]

Exactly

[onyx saffron]

I totally get you, don't be embarrassed or afraid of mistakes, it's the only way to learn

[dull horizon]

Damien_

Suggestion by Damien_

Description

Create a Learn-Partner channel for users to search for similar level users to practice actively together.

Advantages

People make long term buddies dedicated to learning german.... also allows for dep per discussions and the ability to cover more topics/vocab when speaking to each other because we often interact with new people all the time and the questions usually go up to A1/A2 topics only.

Disadvantages

People might request for partners everyday. You can set a cool down.

[dull horizon]

Carrots

Suggestion by Carrots

Description

make the "removed after 15 minutes" part or similar bold so that people who look through #getting-started are less likely to overlook it.

Advantages

Hopefully less people will ask why they can't use the voice channel, which in turn won't bother the other users as much.

Disadvantages

I guess it indirectly supports not reading the getting-started page, but in all honesty it's really just helping the people who look through it to find the most important parts. It a channel most people will only go through once anyway so why not try and get the most wished for result to begin with?

[dull horizon]

lieb

Suggestion by lieb

Description

People are often looking for a speaking parter in preparation for the speaking section of an exam. Maybe we could have a channel or forum dedicated to this purpose so that people can find each other easier, instead of posting in a random channel and the message becoming lost.

Advantages

Users can more easily find others who are also preparing for an exam, or others who are simply willing to help them.

Disadvantages

I can't really think of any downsides to this suggestion.

Additional comments

Thanks for reading.

[dull horizon]

RunFree

Suggestion by RunFree

Description

Add names of the days to the lesson schedule. For example:
May 29, 2022 6 PM -> May 29, 2022 6 PM Sunday (you can change thr position of the name)

Advantages

It helps us understand the given date easier and better. We don't always know which day a date (with numbers) would be, we would need to check it in the calendar. For example, over the top of my head, I don't know which day June 10th would be, I have to check it. If I know it, I can see if it fits in my daily routine on Fridays.

Disadvantages

We can always check the day ourselves, it's not really that necessary.

Additional comments

This is just a very small detail, I was checking the lesson schedule and I felt like it would be nice to see the day as well. But it's not that big of a deal. Sorry if this doesn't fit in this channel. It's a very small suggestion.

[dull horizon]

szew

Suggestion by TakTak🐄 #BulliistDoof [LotM]

Description

Increase the amount of VCs that can opened up.

Currently up to 3 VCs can be created. At certain times all 3 are taken (especially Study Groups), so it feels very limiting.
Study Groups are nice as they allow to practise in smaller groups and they have a cap on people who can join. Usually servers allow for people to create their own VCs.

Advantages

More activity, more people can use the VCs! (and if they aren't those channels simply won't be there)

Disadvantages

Possible confusion with the amount of open channels.
Possibly affects a bot as it has to keep up with more VCs and when to close them but idk

Additional comments

Just circles that haven't been used yet: 🟠🟢🟣🟤⚫⚪

[dull horizon]

Vasanth

Suggestion by Vasanth

Description

Thread creation in various channels like beginner channel, questions etc

Advantages

Creating thread can ensure continuity in solving complex doubts

Disadvantages

Chat might look cluttered or filled with more and more threads

Owain Glyndyr

Suggestion by MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Description

in lessons, beginner German, and other learning related channels, allow for the creation of threads

Advantages

this will allow more detail and attention to go towards questions and needs

Disadvantages

no there is no suggestion I just need 50 letters:/

[dense cedar]

Broken English at the bottom

[fathom fulcrum]

@dense cedar Why did you make a duplicate suggestion?

[dense cedar]

I did?

Oh

[fathom fulcrum]

Look what the person above you wrote.

[dense cedar]

I didn't see

[fathom fulcrum]

Np.

[dull horizon]

Taiquann

Suggestion by Taiquann

Description

Erarbeitet eine klare Antwort, warum sogar die Meta-Diskussion über das Thema Pornographie und die gesellschaftliche Rezeption von Pornographie selbst ein "NSFW" Thema und damit auf dem Server verboten ist. Dass Pornographie selbst verboten ist, denke ich, ist klar. Aber meiner Meinung nach, ist die Diskussion über Pornographie nicht pornographisch.

Advantages

Klarere Guidelines und Regeln an die man sich halten kann. Die Ausformulierung schwammiger Argumentation und löchriger Umgangsregeln. Und natürlich die moralische Offenlegung sozialer Konfliktthemen mit allen Beteiligten, statt des Ausschließens ganzer Gesellschaftsschichten von der Diskussion um Themen, die sie selbst betreffen.

Disadvantages

Selbst die Community-Guidelines und Nutzungsbedingungen von Discord sind diesbezüglich sehr uneindeutig, weil Discord so natürlich die Verantwortung auf die Server abwälzen kann und sich nicht mit diesem Thema beschäftigen muss.
Das Server-Team müsste hier also eine striktere Entscheidung treffen, als Discord das selbst tut. Das könnte zur Folge haben, dass Discord irgendwann den Server sperrt, weil die Definitionen von "NSFW" des Servers und die von Discord auseinandergehen und Discord nicht mit Server-Ownern diskutiert, um nicht juristisch angreifbar zu sein, sondern einfach alles löscht und bannt, was nur nach "illegal" riecht.

Additional comments

Wenn der Konflikt mit Discord und die Angst, um eine eventuelle Abmahnung oder gar Löschung des Servers von seitens Discord eure Sorge ist und ihr deshalb auch nur das Gespräch über sexuelle Themen verbietet, dann wäre es cool, wenn ihr das transparent offen legt. Ich fände es nicht gut, könnte es aber nachvollziehen, wenn man deshalb lieber auf Nummer-Sicher gehen will, statt die Löschung des Server zu riskieren.

[dull horizon]

@wind urchin, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Der Bot schlägt in deutschsprachigen Channels ab und zu (automatisiert oder per command) ein Gesprächsthema vor, über das gesprochen werden könnte

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We have nothing against a command like this existing, but the biggest challenge in creating something like this is finding good responses for the bot to post, which takes significant effort. We'll try to think of some good prompts on our own, but if you or anyone else wants to help provide topics and speed up the development process, feel free to reach to us in #report-issue.

[dull horizon]

@sterile bison, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

could a second ping be issued for lessons about 5 or 10 minutes before they start please

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

All our hosts already ping between 5 and 15 minutes before their lesson is supposed to start. If you or anyone else is not getting the pings, potential causes might include: missing the necessary roles (#850404908946423828), having the channel muted, notification issues with mobile clients, etc. It's best to try to diagnose and fix the issue locally.

[dull horizon]

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

A story writing event. Everyone is given 10 common-rare German words and has to write a small story with them. Afterwards every story gets reviewed and the mistakes get erased by the host or collectively.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Events are not something that the moderation team organizes on their own. Our past experience also shows that the community doesn't show much interest for events like that.
If anyone from the community is interested in trying it out anyway and hosting an event like that, free to ask for community feedback in #community-discussion, or if you're certain that they'd like to hold the event, reach out to us in #report-issue and we'll do our best to assist you.

[dull horizon]

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion 381 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 380.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

A competition for the best german Stories. One for every level and at the end there could be a little prize or just a winner role.

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

A story writing event. Everyone is given 10 common-rare German words and has to write a small story with them. Afterwards every story gets reviewed and the mistakes get erased by the host or collectively.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Events are not something that the moderation team organizes on their own. Our past experience also shows that the community doesn't show much interest for events like that.
If anyone from the community is interested in trying it out anyway and hosting an event like that, free to ask for community feedback in #community-discussion, or if you're certain that they'd like to hold the event, reach out to us in #report-issue and we'll do our best to assist you.

[dull horizon]

@gritty geyser, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

bring back the smaller study groups. But this time people aren't randomly put together. Instead those with similar interest can be in small groups together.
The mods/admins/etc dont have to create programmes for the groups as the groups can conduct individually. An example would be: people who are interested in reading can find each other on the server, make a group together, and plan what to read for the week. And then talk & discuss abt it together.
Think of it as the server providing a platform for people to get together and do their hobby together.
yes sure we have reading sessions, gaming channel, and etc. but those are for the whole members.
in the smaller study group, it's more closed and personal, ig? and there's a bigger incentive to actually study german by having weekly targets, for ex by reading books and etc

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We likely won't be bringing back the study groups in the exact same form as before, as we believe it's rather hard to make groups that work for everyone involved and that can stay consistently motivated to work for longer periods of time. However, we have some similar alternative ideas that we'd like to try out in the near future.

[dull horizon]

@dapper orchid, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

My suggestion is to add another bot able to reproduce music.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Due to privacy concerns we are strictly against adding bots other than our own to the server. Hopefully Discord will release the VC activities feature in the near future, which will completely eliminate the need for music bot.

[dull horizon]

@onyx saffron, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I don't know the programming behind this, but I've seen in some learning/studying servers that you can add pomodoro studying technique sessions. If you don't know what it is I can explain it to you. The concept is basically a channel that people join all muted, maybe with cameras on (it would be better but only if it is possible with the trolls), and stay motivated together to study, maybe with a text channel to go along with it. And some simple timer command for study-break intervals. I could go into more specifics but only if you seem interested in the idea. If you don't like the idea of the study-break timer, then a ''study room'' channel that more muted people can join (up to 10-15?) would be also nice. Thank you for reading my suggestion!

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We don't see the need for having a VC in which people have to remain muted. There are dedicated study servers that feature these things and more, and we recommend using those instead if this style of learning appeals to you. The best we could do is provide an incomplete solution in comparison to what the servers that specifically exist for that purpose can offer.

[dull horizon]

@zinc yoke, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion 387 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 369.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

My suggestion for the Discord group is to create a "Practice room" for beginners

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

Make separate voice channel for practice room based on level, for example "Practice Room A1-A2", "Practice Room B1-B2", and so on

: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.

[dull horizon]

@mild ridge, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Create a Learn-Partner channel for users to search for similar level users to practice actively together.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

A channel like this has been tried out once already, but ended up looking exactly the same as #introductions so it was removed. There are already plenty of opportunities to meet new people on the server. Simply hang out in the general channels, talk to people, and you should meet lots of others with similar interests and study goals.

[dull horizon]

@glacial stump, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

make the "removed after 15 minutes" part or similar bold so that people who look through #getting-started are less likely to overlook it.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We're not entirely convinced that doing this will make a meaningful impact, as it's very rare to see someone who says "I actually read #getting-started and didn't see that line". That situation usually only occurs after someone has already been told to go read the channel and then only skimmed over it. Still, since it's a minor change we decided to implement it anyway and will do so in the near future.

[dull horizon]

@dawn grail, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion 390 has been marked as a duplicate of suggestion 388.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

People are often looking for a speaking parter in preparation for the speaking section of an exam. Maybe we could have a channel or forum dedicated to this purpose so that people can find each other easier, instead of posting in a random channel and the message becoming lost.

:small_blue_diamond: **Duplicate suggestion**

Create a Learn-Partner channel for users to search for similar level users to practice actively together.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

A channel like this has been tried out once already, but ended up looking exactly the same as #introductions so it was removed. There are already plenty of opportunities to meet new people on the server. Simply hang out in the general channels, talk to people, and you should meet lots of others with similar interests and study goals.

[dull horizon]

@wraith sierra, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Add names of the days to the lesson schedule. For example:
May 29, 2022 6 PM -> May 29, 2022 6 PM Sunday (you can change thr position of the name)

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We'll change the format in the next few days.

[dull horizon]

@simple herald, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been accepted.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Increase the amount of VCs that can opened up.

Currently up to 3 VCs can be created. At certain times all 3 are taken (especially Study Groups), so it feels very limiting.
Study Groups are nice as they allow to practise in smaller groups and they have a cap on people who can join. Usually servers allow for people to create their own VCs.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

We'll increase the maximum channel count to 4 for now and see if that helps with the issue.

[simple herald]

@sand bramble ok, but what colour will the 4th room have

[sand bramble]

Find out and tell me.

[simple herald]

💜

very cute, 10/10

[dull horizon]

Vectorate of a Triangle

Suggestion by Owain But B1 by August 1st

Description

Create Anki decks that can be posted in #study-tasks (is that the one where you have 30 tasks split between A-C level?) that cover vocabulary based on the topic picked. It can simply just be some 50 card deck you can study with vocabulary, say for vegetables, it would have Oranges, Apples, Nectarines, etc.

Advantages

I think vocabulary is the best option for this as it is able to be used by everyone from A levels to C levels, and help expand the Specialisation into certain subtopics you couldn't usually reach with your average flashcard deck or course or grammar book

Disadvantages

It could be harder to implement say example sentences to the decks because those would contradict the simple nature of the A-level sentences, and you may need to search for people to record the audio files of certain cards

Additional comments

I think this would greatly increase engagement with the study tasks that are unable to occur due to a lack of understanding in certain topics. Even if it is unable to be an aid during the task, you could release them after the task is over as a revision onto that topic, avoiding the first of the downsides I listed

[dull horizon]

@dense cedar, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

Create Anki decks that can be posted in #study-tasks (is that the one where you have 30 tasks split between A-C level?) that cover vocabulary based on the topic picked. It can simply just be some 50 card deck you can study with vocabulary, say for vegetables, it would have Oranges, Apples, Nectarines, etc.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Creation of learning material and study tasks are not part of the moderation responsibilities, but you can request that someone creates a specific learning resource by starting a discussion about it in #community-discussion .

[shut oar]

fügt die flaggen von liechtenstein und luxemburg vielleicht sogar hinzu

und südtirol

[dull horizon]

skyisthelimit

Suggestion by V Damien

Description

I still insist on the idea of the learn-partner channel. A lot of newcomers go straight to the german-only channel to search for native speakers/other learners but type in English and the flow of the chat just gets cut off.

Advantages

Exchanges. Natives can also benefit from teaching people german while picking up the other's native language.

Disadvantages

the need of a channel cooldown and a mod to watch whether there are odd requests like a man requesting for female ONLY.

Additional comments

Since the reply to my former suggestion was that it originally existed but ended up looking like #introductions, why not reform #introductions into Learn-Partner-Search. The point of the introduction channel is to let newcomers/existing members to see who's available and who's not. #introductions is too vague and can be used for a better purpose. People usually don't look into the channel at all so why not give it a better purpose and look

[dull horizon]

@mild ridge, your suggestion has been answered.

Suggestion has been rejected.

:small_blue_diamond: **Suggestion**

I still insist on the idea of the learn-partner channel. A lot of newcomers go straight to the german-only channel to search for native speakers/other learners but type in English and the flow of the chat just gets cut off.

:small_blue_diamond: **Response**

Please avoid resubmitting suggestions that have already been voted on. While the situation could change in the future, the staff team unanimously voted against the suggestion in this round, and resubmitting the suggestion immediately will lead to the same response.
According to stats that we have from Discord, #introductions is actually one of the most read channels on the server, and we currently have no plans to repurpose it, get rid of it, or create additional similar channels. We again recommend just getting to know the people here as the best way to find study partners.

[dull horizon]

Kaiser Semmel

Suggestion by Kaiser Semmel

Description

A Meme Channel! Like a Channel where everybody on the server can share funny meme pictures or videos. I dont know if its hard to make a channel like this but it would be very cool!

Advantages

Everybody on the server can share memes, funny videos and picture so the server would have more intertainment

Disadvantages

Memes also have some downsides... like earrape which hurts a lot or very dark memes that arent funny and dont belong in a such meme channel

Additional comments

Some meme channel roles like "King of Memes"
but memes that i announced in the downsides can be punished with a warn or something like it. I hope the team likes my idea and maybe make the channel!

[dull horizon]

Ďâŕk

Suggestion by Ďâŕk

Description

Add football to off topic tab , where people chill and talk about their favourite team or discuss upcoming matches.

Advantages

We can talk about different leaugues , cultures and teams around the world from different countries and enjoy the beautiful game together .

Disadvantages

Conversation might turn bad if too racist or someone hate a specific club .

[dull horizon]

Simondiscor

Suggestion by Simon(please correct me)

Description

when you react with a certain emoji on a message it will translate to English (just for you)

Advantages

if your learning german and you dont know what something means you translate it and you don't have to open Google translate and stuff

Disadvantages

emojis can be annoying for some users, and you are less free to use other emojis bc the translate emoji is everywhere

Additional comments

no

[dull horizon]

Marty1001

Suggestion by Kroatische Kartoffel

Description

In a Python server with around 350 000 members, there is a really effective questions channel system, basically there are bunch of question channels, and anyone can "occupy" them with sending their question there, after that question the channel is "their's" and the people that have "Helpers" role (here it would probably be "Native speaker") can help the person that posted the question. After the question has been answered, the person that asked it can close the channel with a command and therefore free the channel for someone else.

Advantages

This way someone's question can't be skipped or burried with questions of other people so that the people who actually could have answered to the question don't even see it anymore (it is really frustrating when someone has to send their questions twice just because someone completely ignored the fact that there is an unanswered question above, which is very impolite in my opinion). It would be really effective and probably easier for the natives too. It would also disable the possibility of natives answering to a few different questions, which can sometimes create a little mess, this way it would be way more tidy and organised.

Disadvantages

I'm not an expert in coding Discord bots but the code looks pretty complicated and it could maybe be hard to implement / customise it for the needs of this server. (I don't know if the bot only does the question channels thing, or does it moderate the whole server, as I said, I'm really not an expert, someone should probably look it by himself).

Additional comments

Invite to the server: https://discord.gg/python
Link to the code of the bot: https://github.com/python-discord/bot/blob/main/bot/exts/help_channels/_cog.py

Even though it will maybe be hard to implement, I think that a little more time should be investent in looking into this, because the server could benefit a lot from this feature.

[sand bramble]

Seems like this is trying to solve the exact problem that #942470380692590632 already solves (and imo it solves it in a better way, since the channel is preserved so others can benefit from the answer as well, and people who like to answer questions can opt to be notified whenever a new post is posted)

[sterile zealot]

then why does #questions even exist?

[sand bramble]

Because as the guidelines for #942470380692590632 state, it's an experimental unreleased channel type so it's not yet completely supported by all devices, not supported by bots, and still very much in development as constantly changing. As such, we're definitely not removing our existing channels until the forums feature is fully released, and we may opt to keep a single regular #questions channel even after the release, since some people prefer that format.

[sterile zealot]

all clear 👍

[dull horizon]

Vectorate of a Triangle

Suggestion by Owain But B1 by September 21st

Description

An intermediate channel, mostly for speaking at an intermediate level in German or asking for intermediate advice from other B level learners, not as basic as #beginner-german or as advanced as #german-only

Advantages

-A more decent field for intermediate speakers
-More scaled down, however decent enough skilled speaking area for B levels
-Dedicated advice for B levels and intermediates aswell as help for sustaining growth at such a stage

Disadvantages

-Drawn traffic from #german-only or #beginner-german

Listener

Suggestion by Listener (Correct me Pls)

Description

Instead of Beginner German and Germany only, we can have there Channels
-Beginner German (Both English and German allowed)
-Intermediate German
-Advanced German

Advantages

I often see beginners being confused when Level Bs are talking in the Chat because they expect the Chat to be very Beginner friendly, and for me personally German only is way too advanced. So that's why I came up with this Suggestion. People who are Not Sure about their Levels can also determine where they fit in by reading those Chats.

Disadvantages

The Activity on the three Channels might end up being too low. Doubts like "Are level As allowed to type in Intermediate german might arise"

[dense cedar]

The idea of an intermediate and advanced aswell seems pretty good tbh, although German only could likely continue on as #german-general

It will allow for focusing on advanced and intermediate specified Talk and relevant help being given, German only isn't really an advanced chat because of this

[shadow linden]

Or german-only could turn into Advanced german

[fathom fulcrum]

I don't think this idea is possible because it's extremely difficult to draw a line between advanced and intermediate German language.

Even beginner German is very difficult for people to stick to.

Advanced and intermediate German, in the sense of language used in conversation, tends to look almost identical.

[dense cedar]

Pretty good proprietory lines like A level B level and C level correspond pretty well, because there's a big different between fluid C level and more robotic artifical B level, but I get your point

I think that difference could warrant a separate channel

[shadow linden]

Also Beginner german often chat end up being an English chat (evn I am at fault here ), I thought, a seperate intermediate channel might solve the problem.😅

[fathom fulcrum]

You can apply those levels to a person's skill. You can apply those levels to a textbook or exercise sheet. You can't apply them to a Discord channel because a Discord channel is conversation held by dozens of people that is constantly changing minute by minute.

[fathom fulcrum]

Yes, but that is actually a point against your suggestion. Currently we're trying to evaluate if the #beginner-german is even going to work, since most people misuse it. So rather than considering adding another layer of complexity onto it, we're going to have to figure out if even #beginner-german is going to last.

People have a really hard time using channels correctly.

If we made intermediate German, it would just be #german-only again.

[shadow linden]

Yeah but like German only is often filled with natives and Intermediate german would be just Level Bs and A2s most prolly speaking only german

[dense cedar]

Obviously true, but the intention of the suggestion was to provide a platform for people to talk about resources and immersion at that sort of level, and of course the speaking side of things. It seems sensible for B levels to have that sort of thing especially for the dramatic change of how things work between a Level and b. I think localising efforts for each level is more important than having a channel for speaking at a certain level. Also to your message I believe changing these chats from 'let's speak at a certain level German' to 'this channel is for talking and helping people at this level' would warrant more benefit, this is what I'm campaigning for

If we go with that more people will use these channels, more specific and helpful advice to certain levels are given and the problem of people not using the channels correctly will dissipate

[fathom fulcrum]

People would not use it correctly. The only way to enforce that would be to lock channels to certain roles, but that goes against our views that people shouldn't learn in a bubble with other people of their level.

[dense cedar]

And for this argument a divide between B level and C level would make obvious sense

[fathom fulcrum]

People really struggle to tell if something is Level A, B or C. Most of the concepts span all the levels so it's really hard to split them up in that way.

[dense cedar]

The channels would be dedicated to helping fellow B levels or C levels, people wouldn't randomly start giving C level advice to the beginner chat for... obvious reasons

[shadow linden]

I have actually seen many Level Bs in that channel in support of not speaking English there, but we always end up switching cuz there are also Level As(blame game kinda😔). I think people will use it correctly.

[dense cedar]

They can split, yes, but in that case the topic could warrant talk in whichever channel is wanted

I'm considering the aspect of it being used as a hub for B levels here, not as a B level chat, distinct difference

Other people with the B role for example would speak in say #intermediate-german because other B levels are there and able to help with grammar and stuff and same with the other levels, not because a topic is distinctly B level

[fathom fulcrum]

I understand where you're coming from. It would be really nice and convenient if everything could be sorted out in this neat and orderly way. But people simply don't work like that. They would not use the channels correctly. Every channel would be effectively the same.

Just look at how #beginner-german is currently identical to #general and #general-2 because people choose not to use it correctly. They aren't going to change just because we make additional channels.

[shadow linden]

English is allowed in that channel right?

[fathom fulcrum]

Yes.

[dense cedar]

Let's start from the basics here again

People go to beginner German to ask questions about entry German

People go to intermediate German to ask questions about intermediate German

People go to advanced German to ask questions about advanced Germans

[fathom fulcrum]

You mean in your new "beginner German" channel or the current one?

[dense cedar]

New one idk the current one could be rebranded since its already pretty similar in concept

B levels ask questions talk with other B levels speak German etc

If two C levels get into intense talk ask them to move to Advanced German or General unless they are answering a question sent there

[fathom fulcrum]

The current #beginner-german is not meant to be used to ask questions. #questions is for questions.

[dense cedar]

Then new one I guess

What I'm asking is basically a general for asking the other people at your level questions, share personal experience advice and progress instead of doing It all in General

It would be much more effective than a A B and C level questions and unclog general abit

[shadow linden]

I think they will change, Level Bs will not need to speak English there if absolute beginners weren't there and they wouldn't get the habit of switching to English. Like no one speaks English in german only because it will be a rule, and people will absolutely follow the rule.

[fathom fulcrum]

People really dislike being asked to move channels. They will fight about it. And since it's almost impossible to differentiate between intermediate and advanced German, they can easily say "this is intermediate" and there's not much people can argue against that. What do you suggest should happen in that situation?

[dense cedar]

Their role rank could go more into it I say

B levels are adviced to talk to other B levels in the Intermediate channel

Not necessarily B level topics

[shadow linden]

I will happily move to Intermediate german channel, knowing some others, they will too

[fathom fulcrum]

Level Bs will not need to speak English there if absolute beginners weren't there
No one needs to speak English there for beginners. That is not the reason people are speaking English. It's usually Native Speakers and Level B people who encourage the English being spoken there. I have seen Level A people talk German in #beginner-german and then native speakers and Level B speakers reply to them in English, many times.

[dense cedar]

I think I need to compromise here abit

3 channels

Beginner German (reformed for only German in Beginner)

Same for all the other ranks