We have a unmoderated group of 900 parents of offspring with a particular progressive disorder. Our guidelines cover confidentiality, politics, religion, cursing and flaming. In 25 years we rarely have had an issue. One member thought we were too up-tight and started a group with looser guidelines. It quickly died on the vine.
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When people understand what the focus of a group is and the rules of the "game" they choose to stay or leave. Most people appreciate not having to deal with the drama of off-topic threads. In those rare times of discord I put the group on moderation and control the dialogue to re-center the group. It's not a democracy, the moderators decide and if it is a fundamental enough issue the original owner makes the call.
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Paul
On 05/08/2023 12:01 AM PDT Sarah Shapiro <sarahseventytwo@...> wrote:
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Placing all members on moderated status is the solution, if a nuisance.? If the group is large and active, then having several moderators may be needed.? I think having an unmoderated group is really impossible unless it is a very small group where everyone knows and perhaps loves each other!? Even in an international group I am in that shares Wordle results (without sharing solutions) American politics has crept in!
I set an individual account to moderated for violation of the policy
