Presently 
Note that there's still a lot to be done on PeakD and Hive to get a community like this to reach it's full potential and it's meant to still be a pretty low key community not heavily moderated. But we have some new things we can do that I want to talk about.
But now I have A FEW QUESTIONS ... which may be me sharing some of my ideas.
Who wants to help moderate?
(There hasn't been much to do but now there may be some stuff... like labels)
What LABELS do we want to use? - I'll give some of my ideas below.
(This is a new feature coming up in PeakD.com ... presently we SHOW labels and next iteration (available on beta) allows adding labels.)
Where do we stand on Cross-Posts? Do we want to continue to allow cross-posts?
(I love the idea of cross-posts but I think in a photography community they don't make sense on Picture posts... maybe only educational posts or posts that generally help photographers or people who like photography?
I turned on Promotion ability for the community (Which means someone could pay on peakd.com to advertise in our community and the profits would be held by the community account... It's a new PeakD.com feature but it hasn't really been used yet but the idea is if we're a large community of active photographers (or people interested in photography that companies that deal with photographers would be dumb not to advertise in the community and those profits would go directly to the community) ... but that would probably mean like 10k+ active users to get real attentions from companies. We're a long way from that but in the meantime I've turned on that option perhaps mostly to help PeakD.com test.
We need a better Community Profile Image and maybe cover image. Share one and if selected we'll give you props... and it will help our community.
"PRO" - Would be nice to point out the users who are professional photographers. That may attract more high quality content and help other photographers to know where to look for advice, feedback or who to pay attention to if they want to also follow in those footsteps.
"REGULAR" - Those that post the most to our community. But what's the cutoff for that?
"EDUCATOR" - A tag for those that share posts that often educate about photography
Some day we could have many more labels like even to describe the type of cameras they use etc... but right now the tech on Hive/PeakD doesn't make that super easy and would take too much upkeep ... because we have very few moderators willing to help with that. Perhaps allowing users to select an option from different label choices and then let moderators approve them would be cool some day.
STARTING WITH THOSE LABELS... I'll just put a few of them on. If there are a lot of requests for a helpful or good gamified label and a good strategy to stay on top of giving the labels then let me know.
Community interface like on PeakD still has a long way to go with cool organizational tools etc.
