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Re: Moderation


 
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Elizabeth,

Except that that doesn¡¯t explain why people I know have posted many times on the Yahoo group and are not listed as moderated on groups.io, including myself, are being moderated now. They were not being moderated on yahoo.

Well, this isn't rocket science, so absent some glitch in the system we should be able to figure this out if we take it step at a time.

There are two primary controls over whether a member's messages are moderated: The member's Posting Privileges, and the group's Moderated checkbox.

First the Posting Privileges,
found at the very bottom of each member's page in the Members list:

If one of the Override's is selected that control's the member's posting. I recommend that you set the members you wish to be unmoderated to Default group policy, as shown above. I generally do not recommend that members be set to Override: not moderated, except possibly for a few highly trusted members.

For those members set to Default group policy the next relevant control is the group's Moderated checkbox, found on the group's Settings page:


You want the Moderated checkbox to be unchecked, as shown, for normal circumstances in your group. If a flame war or other disturbance happens in your group you can check that box to moderate the group until the disturbance is under control.

To satisfy the Spam Control criteria, at least one of the other checkboxes in this section must be checked. Generally a group would choose between Restricted Membership or New Users Moderated.

That? covers normal circumstances. There are a few other cases, but those are unusual in most groups.

The group may allow non-subscribers to post to the group, found just below the Spam Control section in the group's Settings page:


As it says, if this is checked posts from
email addresses not listed in the Members list are always moderated, regardless of other settings. If unchecked those messages are rejected.

A moderator may set a particular topic to be moderated, this is found in the More menu under any message in the topic:


This is a handy way of quelling an out-of-control topic, or one that is likely to generate controversy, without resorting to moderation for all messages (the Moderated checkbox, described above). Such topics are marked with that gavel icon, as J described.

Finally (I think), a moderator can create or edit a Hashtag to have it cause messages in a topic with that hashtag to be moderated, this is found on the Edit Hashtag page:

It can be handy to have such a hashtag in the group. It allows someone who knows that the topic they wish to post might be controversial to cause their first post in the topic to be moderated. That gives moderators a pre-emptive ability to approve or reject the topic even when the posting member is not normally moderated.

Shal


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