The Kartbook admins have decided to allow members to create groups. But before you go racing off to create a new group please carefully consider the following:
1. Are you the obvious “owner” of this group? Really? Should you be setting up a “Top Gun Driver Training” group, for instance, if you’re not Troy Hunt? If you can't find a "Top Gun Driver Training" group then your first step should be to send Troy a Kartbook Message and suggest he set one up himself.
2. Is there already a Group for your group? Look carefully: it's just going to be one big mess if we end up with the 'People's Front of Judea', the 'Judean People's Front', the 'Judean Popular People's Front' and the 'Popular Front of Judea'. (YouTube).
But if you're convinced that a similar group doesn't already exist, and that you're the natural person to create one then it's on to the next step.
3. Choose a name that will make finding your group as easy as possible. When you create a group that represents a club or track, please name it with the “common” name that everyone uses: no-one says “Go Kart Club of Victoria”, we all just say “Todd Road”.
4. Put your group in the right category to make it even easier to find. We use the field titled “Location” to help categorise groups. (We didn't write the underlying software that runs Kartbook, otherwise obviously we'd relabel the field with something more logical). Please enter the appropriate text into the location field to make your group easier to find.
Your Group Type = Write this
Kart or chassis brand = Write “Kart”
Club or Track = Write “Track”
Shop or other commercial entity = Write “Shop”
Anything else = Write “Other”
5. Notice the option to allow, or disallow, members to message all other members in the group. As this feature could easily be abused by one rogue member in the future we strongly recommend turning this option OFF.
Finally, we consider the position of group administrator to be one of great responsibility, so please treat the members of your group with respect. Once you have created your group, one of the admin staff will have to approve it. This shouldn't take more than 24 hours in most cases.
Got this far? - you're ready to create a new group.
1. Are you the obvious “owner” of this group? Really? Should you be setting up a “Top Gun Driver Training” group, for instance, if you’re not Troy Hunt? If you can't find a "Top Gun Driver Training" group then your first step should be to send Troy a Kartbook Message and suggest he set one up himself.
2. Is there already a Group for your group? Look carefully: it's just going to be one big mess if we end up with the 'People's Front of Judea', the 'Judean People's Front', the 'Judean Popular People's Front' and the 'Popular Front of Judea'. (YouTube).
But if you're convinced that a similar group doesn't already exist, and that you're the natural person to create one then it's on to the next step.
3. Choose a name that will make finding your group as easy as possible. When you create a group that represents a club or track, please name it with the “common” name that everyone uses: no-one says “Go Kart Club of Victoria”, we all just say “Todd Road”.
4. Put your group in the right category to make it even easier to find. We use the field titled “Location” to help categorise groups. (We didn't write the underlying software that runs Kartbook, otherwise obviously we'd relabel the field with something more logical). Please enter the appropriate text into the location field to make your group easier to find.
Your Group Type = Write this
Kart or chassis brand = Write “Kart”
Club or Track = Write “Track”
Shop or other commercial entity = Write “Shop”
Anything else = Write “Other”
5. Notice the option to allow, or disallow, members to message all other members in the group. As this feature could easily be abused by one rogue member in the future we strongly recommend turning this option OFF.
Finally, we consider the position of group administrator to be one of great responsibility, so please treat the members of your group with respect. Once you have created your group, one of the admin staff will have to approve it. This shouldn't take more than 24 hours in most cases.
Got this far? - you're ready to create a new group.
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