I definitely agree with you. I said on here multiple times, that the people that I run groups with, I have their phone numbers and or a sloth email addresses to contact them. And they can do the same for me. Not only Ken owners reach out to me by members can reach out to me as well. If there were such an issue on the group. And I think in regards to promotion of people, it should be those members that are the most active on the group that should be able to be promoted if the owner has not responded to any kind of pending notifications or done anything on the website for a period of time. Perhaps it should be 14 days just like the pending notifications are for approving new members.
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On Jan 14, 2021, at 10:30 AM, Ken Cameron <kcameron@...> wrote:
One option that might make the automatic option more trustable would be that
an owner must have more than one way to be contacted. Like an additional
email, text, or voice response phone number. The timer would try the
alternate method before going further. The idea is to give the owner a last
chance in case they had an email problem. Think of it as a keep alive
reminding them that they are an owner. This might also be useful to the case
of the owner email going into the bouncing state. Granted we'd still have
the issue of these becoming outdated but failure of these help support the
case where the survivor selection from the moderators or members become
important.
That last part, that a group member might be promoted, covers where the
single owner didn't want other moderators. They could tag anyone in the
group for promotion if they cease to respond to any contact. I could also
see the system sending warning messages if the owner hasn't been seen. The
warnings could also contain options for the owner to change things like
promote sooner, change who is promotable, etc...
But at the top of all of this should be a selection by the owner about the
group being something that should or should not be continued if they are
found to be 'not found'. That's the biggest gap, is the group intended to
continue beyond the owner or not. While I think for many groups the intent
is to continue, I'm sure there are some that do not intend it to continue.
Knowing the intent would make all of this much clearer as to what GIO should
be doing. That in turn justifies what should happen.
-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
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