Honestly, I hate rule #1. The divisions are fairly arbitrary, there's no real way to figure out what group you belong to, and sometimes the splits completely destroy the community that was built up.
Belltown, in Seattle, got split into 3 (4? I can't remember) communities and there's still questions about which group people belong to because they're not sure if they're covered by one or another along the boundaries. Some of the resulting communities are far more active than others, too.
I moved from there to Greenwood in North Seattle and I quite literally have no idea what my new group is because there doesn't seem to be a map and all of the Greenwood groups end 2 blocks south of me.
We were part of the original group on Bainbridge Island. It became vastly less useful when it was split into subsets of the island. It's not like the island is that big...
Greenwood had a fantastic community, then it got big enough the moderators wanted to split it. The community revolted, the moderators backed down for a while. Eventually they forced it to split despite universal resistance.
Ha Capitol Hill was split into a bunch of tiny groups and half the group just migrated into a new "Don't Buy Things Capitol Hill" group someone created instead of going down to their new 3-block setup.
Belltown, in Seattle, got split into 3 (4? I can't remember) communities and there's still questions about which group people belong to because they're not sure if they're covered by one or another along the boundaries. Some of the resulting communities are far more active than others, too.
I moved from there to Greenwood in North Seattle and I quite literally have no idea what my new group is because there doesn't seem to be a map and all of the Greenwood groups end 2 blocks south of me.