Shal wrote:
Yes, that¡¯s what we do - it¡¯s just more cumbersome than a more
thoughtful, better featured Invite process should be.
From my point of view Invite works exactly as it should. I don't want people that I invite to end up in the Pending list - I've already vetted them and I want them to be members.
So you want something else. You want to invite someone to request membership. As opposed to inviting them to be a member directly.
One possibility would be to have it be an option on the Invite page - Invite to request membership as opposed to Invite to join. My concern is that if we break the traditional semantics of Invite in this way it may lead to a lot of confusion.
I wish I could think of a better name for the function you want. Offer. Solicit. Request. Ask. "We ask that you request membership" - that's not too bad. Encourage. Propose. Suggest. Urge. Lure.
I might call it: Qualified Invitation
Actually, it kind of goes with the Promote function, maybe that's it.
Instead of promotion by display on a web site, you're looking to send messages promoting your group. Replying to the promotion would make the addressee a Pending member, and send them the Pending SUbscription notice.
This would work. Good idea to fill the current gap.
Michael Pavan