Unfortunately we can't rely on everyone intuiting every term to mean the same thing.
I appreciate the clarification of terms and their definitions and anyone willing to update update the wiki to promote greater understanding. It took me months of reading GMF posts to get a good handle on GIO. The Yahoo exodus was a great help to me as many of their questions repeatedly exposed me to the same GMF wiki but in various contexts. I learned more in the past two months of GMF posts?than I have since joining GIO and studying the Wiki.?
I wouldn't say GIO terms and user actions are the easiest to comprehend. GMF postings have been my key to understanding much of what's in the wiki.
What Michael wrote made sense to me.?I had also separated members who have never logged in from members who have. I have seen posters asking for clarification if the user has ever logged in or not. Perhaps a term would help clarify between those two actions. Perhaps not. Newbies with questions aren't likely to know all the "correct term definitions" so their posted problem might not be correctly reflected by the terms they use.?
Reading Shal's response gave me new insights into where I had wrongly interpreted a definition or action. That I can use the terms members and subscribers interchangeably. Reinforcing once again that a post can be made to a group by a person who has not joined that group.
No matter how tightly terms are defined, it seems to me that GIO is open and fluid in ways that other groups platforms are not. And that fluidity likely contributes to more complex problem solving.?
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Sandi Dickenson
Moderator of ASG Volunteers Group
