@Human-Science Appreciate your feedback here and will provide you with even more context in the goal of these sub-groups. But first, it's clear that you've been dissatisfied with Udemy support, Udemy policies and the community team at times as you've voiced in different threads.
Our goal within the community is to be a hub for instructor interaction, course creation guidance & networking opportunities. Though we can help with a few support threads, most of them are more involved than this team can manage and therefore we have no choice but to direct the instructor to support.
Our goal with creating sub-groups is not to segregate our instructors but to provide more value. Though you are right... Larry Miller, Sharon Ramel & many of our Community Champions are wonderful and gracious to answer newcomers' questions, we have received a lot of comments that instructors would like to network with others that are on their same level, or locale, or gender, etc. In fact, our data supports this, as it shows that smaller groups (like the Published Instructor Club) have about 82% more engagement than other groups.
If you don't mind, I'd love to give you an example. For instance, Adobe decides it wants to start general community for its customers. As the community grows, members start to get restless because every time they come to the community they see questions and discussions for programs they aren't using. These discussions aren't relevant to them, as a result, they visit the community less and less. BUT then Adobe introduces separate boards for Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. members feel engaged again because they are able to discuss things they are interested in, without having to weed through the hundreds of discussions that don't apply to them.
We see these smaller sub-groups as a way to re-engage our instructors and bring back those who have not returned in months. But again, it's only an idea we are playing with and appreciate the feedback that you and the others in this thread have given us.
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