Subroles

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Something that can be especially useful in larger servers with complex organizations is the ability to create "subroles--" or the ability to make certain roles inferior or superior to others without affecting the role hierarchy of the rest of the server. 

Let's say that I run a business and use Discord to communicate with my employees. If I wanted to give the manager of the sales department the ability to manage roles in the sales department, I would also be giving them the ability to manage all of the roles beneath their own that might lie outside their area of responsibility, when I may only want to give them access to one or two. With subroles, I could make the roles in the sales department inferior to the sales manager role. That way, there is a clear hierarchy between those people, and the sales manager wouldn't have the ability to mess with other departments.

In the above diagram, the sales manager would have the ability to manage the sales and marketing roles, but he would not be able to manage the production, logistics, or finance roles, even though he is above each of those in the role list. 

One objection that people may have to this idea is to just give each of the managers a "manager" role rather than give them specific "sales manager," "production manager," and "finance manager" roles. The issue that arises with this is that then those three people--since they have the same role--would be able to manage the entire company rather than just their department. In some businesses and communities, this is not desired.

As Discord continues to grow and is marketed towards a wider range of people, it should be able to provide for the needs of businesses and other organizations with complex organizations. The introduction of subroles would allow businesses to create a communication platform that works for them, and it may influence some to make the switch toward Discord. Discord took a step in the right decision when they added the feature to allow roles access to manage only certain channels and channel categories, but if they want to take another step in the right direction, they should implement subroles.

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  • Ryks

    This is actually a great idea!

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  • JadenStar10

    Awesome Idea!

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  • DJ-Ю
     
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  • MaDMardigan

    I have a Discord for my Multigaming Clan and i would love to see such a feature. It would make things so much easier. right now i need bots to get work around solutions.
    We have different games with different leaders and recruiters. I want them to just manage their specific part / game in our community. Just imagine... game A Leader is gone mad and kicks everyone from Game B, C and so on.
    Even the recruiter can do bullshit if he needs a high role for color or sorting issues. xD

    We definitly need some rework of the role system!

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  • Adalbär
    • Edited

    Here are some more ideas with organization, and a focus on more of an aesthetic organization rather than what the role can do, though that is still important.

    You have your role, then you attach subroles to it. And you can give your members the same role, but different divisions. 

    This could be used in many ways... 

    You could use it to have subsects in a guild for your D&D server:

     
    Member of the Adventurer's Guild (Brown)
    >>>>Scout (Green)
    >>>>Warrior (Red)
    >>>>Master (Brown)
    >>>>Crafter (Orange)
    >>>>Lorehold (Blue)

    Then have it display like:

    (blue) Lorehold | Member of the Adventurer's Guild

    Or for other things have it for your gamer groups and have it be like:

    (Green) Xbox One | System


    I also went onto the web version and edited the html to make an idea for what it could look like.

    https://imgur.com/a/4Ux8YAP 

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