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Susan:

Here's my take on hashtags. They are a way to categorize relevant posts and help elevate them to viewers. While?viewers could do a search of all the posts—depending on the word or phrase—they could end up pulling up a lot of irrelevant results.?

Another feature of hashtags is you can designate aliases and point them to the primary hashtag.?

This can be very useful with acronyms.? I don't know what focus your group has, but with mine (use of keywords and other embedded photo metadata for images) there are lots of acronyms.?

I've been designating hashtags, but haven't given the members permission to do this... yet. I'm considering, which is why I asked if this was limited to a plan, as I didn't want to get invested if I was going to have to drop this feature later.?

Does that help?

David

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 04:32 PM, Susan Pitlock wrote:

I am not a hashtag user. Can someone explain what the purpose is and is it necessary for a chat list? If so why?

Susan -- Hashtags are not really necessary, but?there are some features that can only be fully implemented by means of hashtags.

Here are some of the uses I've found for them:
-- Make a topic expire and automatically be deleted from the message archive (or locked) after a certain time period
-- Force an override of the usual group reply-to setting on a topic so that all replies come directly to me instead of the group
-- Force an override of the group moderation setting so all replies go through moderation
-- Highlight messages that relate to groups.io administrative functions (i.e.: that aren't related to the normal flow of conversation)

They can be powerful, but there's also much opportunity for abuse...the most annoying being when subscribers rely solely on hashtags as a?replacement?for providing a relevant subject line for their posts. Therein lies madness, at least from where I stand.

For this reason I have my group set up to allow only predefined hashtags that provide desired functions, and do not allow subscribers to create them. Unfortunately, you cannot turn hashtags completely off -- the system hashtags will continue to appear on notifications for any enabled feature that generates them.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

I paid for our Premium upgrade last Friday, I think, and were about 1050.? Sunday we were 1157 (ish) and right now we are 1105.?
It's been going up and down - I guess new groups are paying the extra $200:/

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 03:32 PM, Susan Pitlock wrote:

I am not a hashtag user. Can someone explain what the purpose is and is it necessary for a chat list?

You probably won't have any use for them then.? If you use the Calendar or Poll features, a few will be created by the system.? You can read about them at:
/static/help#hashtags
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Creating-Hashtags

Duane
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Alex:

If?info@... didn't work, did you try?wilson@...?

From my interactions, I'm guessing this is a one-person operation, so it's possible he might be traveling, etc. Or he might be innundated with questions, giving the changes going over at Yahoo (creating an increase in interest).?

What questions did you have? There has been a lot of talk on this forum, so most of your concerns may have already been addressed.?

I had one issue when first launching, and got a response within 24 hours.?

Given the 14 day trial period, and the following note reported here on this forum, I'd say download and kick the tires:

"Something you should also consider is that PGO will not hold your data hostage. When the trial expires you will still be able to read, sort & search your messages as usual. You will not be able to download any new messages but that doesn't sound like it's going to be an issue for your group. All your group members can download PGO, import your edited archive and then use PGO indefinitely for free."

HTH

David

Also that Chrome app is DOA and no longer works :(

I am not a hashtag user. Can someone explain what the purpose is and is it necessary for a chat list? If so why? I don't use them and I have many older, retired people on the list that I am sure would be confused. I didn't want to frustrate them so I didn't click on the hashtag permission part.

Thank you,
Susan?

I was going to buy the license... but no one there has answered any of my emails in over a week :/

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 07:45 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

Do you have recent evidence that content ownership is truly lost if someone joins the GIO group early...despite using the correct Y!G email address?

A valid question, and one I cannot answer from recent experience. I do know for sure that when the group I moderate migrated a couple of years ago although message attributions seemed to be OK the ownership of photos and files went awry. In reality that was not a major issue. It showed up after the Owner asked moderators to sign up in advance of the import of material from Yahoo.

Chris

I got the same thing when I tried. Just more crappy Yahoo system nonsense. I have a Yahoo building near me and you can see all these people in meeting rooms all day. I have no idea what they talk about in there, but it definitely isn't quality standards. I think they just live in their little isolated corporate bubble.

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 03:44 PM, James Counts, CPA, CTFA wrote:

I just got up and running on my group early this AM and want to find a particular member and not finding out how and where to look them up.

I go to members under Admin and only have one pending approval. Tried entering info on member address in search box with and without % at the end like Yahoo but that did not bring them up.

Tried looking under Directory and get boxes for each member with picture icon, name and button to email but that is totally useless with almost 1300 members to track someone down.

All your group members are in Admin, Members.?
It would be easier if all members had a display name. Not sure how to make sure that happens.

The Directory is up to members whether or not they wish to be listed for the group to see. (And the settings in Admin the group owner has made about this.)

Frances

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If you go to admin, click on members, any new book pending approvals Will be listed under pending at the very top. Then you will be able to click on their email address, and it will bring up all the different options that you can do what their membership such as approving.

I do understand the anxiety and frustration associated with having to just sit and wait, while feeling powerless to bring anything to a satisfactory conclusion.?

At the same time, one of the things I hated about my last job is whenever there was a crisis, our management would ask for daily status reports, formatted a certain way, etc. and we had to come to a meeting at the end of the day equipped with a PowerPoint presentation. This seriously obstructed progress in getting the actual work done, and I'd hope groups.io does not adopt the same business model.

This too will pass, although sometimes things pass like a kidney stone. I encourage more people who complete this Easy[?] Group Transfer process to continue to come here and report their satisfaction with how things went.?

Regards,
Bruce

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 02:44 PM, James Counts, CPA, CTFA wrote:

I go to members under Admin and only have one pending approval.

On that page, click on the blue Pending Approval button to get a list of other member pages.? The one you want is Members.? FYI, when there are any pending members, that will be the default page when you choose Members under the Admin menu.

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I just got up and running on my group early this AM and want to find a particular member and not finding out how and where to look them up.

I go to members under Admin and only have one pending approval. Tried entering info on member address in search box with and without % at the end like Yahoo but that did not bring them up.

Tried looking under Directory and get boxes for each member with picture icon, name and button to email but that is totally useless with almost 1300 members to track someone down.

Thanks

James C. Counts II, CPA CTFA
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On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 02:15 PM, caldwj wrote:

is there a way to migrate an existing groups.io group into another as a subgroup?

No.? You can read about it at

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