Re: Posts passing without being approved

Victoria,

But I noticed that the few members concerned were at times moderated in the old yahoo group. Could that be the reason?

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Yes.

Members copied over during a Y!Group transfer retain the Posting Privileges they had there (along with their Email Delivery setting and join date). So it is possible that those particular members were also Unmoderated in the Y!Group.

Shal

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Re: Posts passing without being approved

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Do you have more than a single owner?

If there are co-owners or moderators, you will not be notified when they approve a post...

Yes, I do. But the problem was indeed the overriding moderation (P) of some members as Shal supposed. Approval of posts shows up in “activities”, as I noticed.

Victoria

Re: Importing a csv list

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Peter,

A further question: does the Y! Group from which the transfer has taken place retain the data until it is closed/deleted? ?

Yes. The transfer agent copies data only, nothing in the Y!Group is altered.

If you want to close, moderate, or otherwise change the Y!Group you have to do that manually. See also the Afterward section of GMF's wiki page about Y!Group transfers.

Shal

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Re: Owner not showing up on member list

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 03:38 PM, Maureen wrote:

I never bothered to scroll down far enough to click over to another page.

In your particular case, you might want to change your Preferences under your Account to show 50 Items Per Page.? (This effects messages, databases, etc.)? It may again become a 'problem' when you have 51 members, but hopefully by then you'll be quite familiar with Groups.io. ;>)

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Re: Importing a csv list

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Any information requested in the transfer is copied from the YG!, nothing is actually touched.? What, if anything, happens to the original information is up to the YG! owner.

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Posts passing without being approved

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Shal,

I did indeed find only a few members with that P and changed it.

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How can this happen?

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Or, you may have one or more thread with a hashtag carrying the Replies Unmoderated option

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We do not work with hashtags, so this cannot be the reason.

But I noticed that the few members concerned were at times moderated in the old yahoo group. Could that be the reason?

Thanks anyway

Victoria

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Re: Polls

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Yes, I know that NEW POLLS?used to be buried within new topic.

This poll was set up after?Mark had made the change to move the New Poll to it's own spot on the left side of the menu.

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Only the members whose settings are?set so they can post to the group?were the only?members who?were able to?vote in the poll.?

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I haven't closed the poll yet.? I have checked the member permissions and the only members who were able to vote are the members who can send mail to the group.

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Now Beck is in my group and she just answered email right before you did Bruce.

She said she couldn't find the poll.

Now if I change her settings so she can post to the group, she will be able to vote in the poll.

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From: Bruce Bowman

Date: 10/11/18 14:14:50

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: [GMF] Polls

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 02:42 PM, magicalkingdomgroups@... wrote:

So now I am beginning to think that only members who can write to the group can vote in polls.

"New Poll" used to be buried within "New Topic"...you had to click "New Topic" first and from the resulting screen click on the "New Poll" button. Although Mark has very recently moved it back out to its own left-side menu item it's likely that the two still share the same member permissions.
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Re: Posts passing without being approved

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Do you have more than a single owner?

If there are co-owners or moderators, you will not be notified when they approve a post...

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Re: Polls

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The poll is there.

I just looked

It is message?#396

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Beck you wouldn't be able to vote as you do no have permission to post to that group and that is maybe why you don't see the poll.

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The results show that only 10 members voted.

9 of those members had permission to post email to the group.

1 did at the time of joining and then her permissions were changed.

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No member?was able to vote whose status was cannot post to the group.

Those members had sent me email to my personal email address with their vote.

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Ilene?

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From: rgaige2@...

Date: 10/11/18 14:11:07

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: [GMF] Polls

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ILene,

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Poll does not show I just looked.

If it shows will vote.

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Hugs

Beck

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Re: Owner not showing up on member list

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Hi Shal,

Well, I am completely embarrassed here.? As we decided to test this venue with just a small closed group of our active art guild rather than the large virtual discussion group as we had on Yahoo!, the members list is currently very short.? We wanted to see how we liked Groups.io before expanding it.? Long story short, part of what was puzzling me was that I was NOT seeing my name/email as the owner on the Members list because it was in chronological order and it turns out I was the ONLY one listed on page 2 (oops).? All this time I had been wondering why the owner wouldn't be listed, but just chalked it up to being a quirk of the site.? Nobody else was really "missing" so I never bothered to scroll down far enough to click over to another page.? DUH!!!? I didn't pursue it until yesterday when I made one of the other members an owner and she was still on the list with "Owner" next to it.? That's when I decided to delve in and ask some questions.

I did not do a true migration of our whole Yahoo! Group?for a variety of reasons, mainly because that group had a different owner who was out of the picture and there was a ton of old stuff we didn't want to carry over.? We wanted a fresh start so I simply copied an email list of the members we were moving over and auto-added them to our Groups.io account to avoid the invitation process.? So, I don't think there will be any serious consequences of removing my second "Yahoo!" membership here, but please let me know if you think otherwise with this additional info.??

Thanks once again for your timely response, and I'm terribly sorry that I took up your time with what ended up to be a really dumb question.

Have a great day,
Maureen??

Re: Importing a csv list

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Many thanks to all who responded - it’s giving me confidence to recommend our Members that transferring would be a good move.

A further question: does the Y! Group from which the transfer has taken place retain the data until it is closed/deleted? ?In other words I suppose, is the information copied as opposed to deleted - in Microsoft speak, Cut and Paste or Copy and paste?

Thank you

Peter

Re: Polls

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 02:42 PM, magicalkingdomgroups@... wrote:

So now I am beginning to think that only members who can write to the group can vote in polls.

"New Poll" used to be buried within "New Topic"...you had to click "New Topic" first and from the resulting screen click on the "New Poll" button. Although Mark has very recently moved it back out to its own left-side menu item it's likely that the two still share the same member permissions.
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Re: Polls

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ILene,

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Poll does not show I just looked.

If it shows will vote.

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Hugs

Beck

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I sent an email about a poll a while ago and didn't receive any answer.

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I created a poll to a group where only a handful of members out of 703 members can post to the group.?

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It seems the only members who were able to vote in the poll were the members who can post mail to the group. The others received messages back saying the poll was unavailable to them.

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I went over the list of things they needed to do, like make sure they were signed in.

Only to receive a note from one member saying "I am NOT DUMB" I was signed in.

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Now a?member rejoined because she accidently removed herself while trying to vote in the poll and before I could change her status so she can't post in the group, she voted.

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So now I am beginning to think that only members who can write to the group can vote in polls. Ilene

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I sent an email about a poll a while ago and didn't receive any answer.

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I created a poll to a group where only a handful of members out of 703 members can post to the group.?

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It seems the only members who were able to vote in the poll were the members who can post mail to the group. The others received messages back saying the poll was unavailable to them.

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I went over the list of things they needed to do, like make sure they were signed in.

Only to receive a note from one member saying "I am NOT DUMB" I was signed in.

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Now a?member rejoined because she accidently removed herself while trying to vote in the poll and before I could change her status so she can't post in the group, she voted.

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So now I am beginning to think that only members who can write to the group can vote in polls. Ilene

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Re: Posts passing without being approved

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Victoria,

How can this happen?

Or, you may have one or more thread with a hashtag carrying the Replies Unmoderated option.

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And what can I do about it?

Review your hashtag list, opening the edit page for each until you find it. Then decide whether you want to remove that option from the hashtag, or remove that hashtag from current topics.

Shal

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Re: Posts passing without being approved

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Victoria,

I set my group on “moderated” in “Spam Control” temporarily, meaning that posts need approval before being sent to the group. The problem is that this doesn?t work perfectly. There is always a post or two going through without being approved.

You may have one or more group members who are set to Override: not moderated in their Posting Privileges option.

And what can I do about it?

Look for one or more members with the blue P badge next to their email address (in the Members list) and go set them to Use Group Moderation Setting.

Unfortunately you can't sort the Members list by their Posting Privileges, but if you have a lot of members it might be worth downloading the list and sorting it in Excel or a similar program.

Shal

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Re: Subgroup Direct Add

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Beth,

I just added a new member with Direct Add and checked 2 subgroups at the same time.? ...? But I'm getting 3 Welcome emails.? So the new member received a total of 4 emails.? I don't think that I can just turn off the subgroup welcome message in case someone is only added to a subgroup.?

I've learned to deactivate the welcome notice(s) immediately before using Direct Add, as I've crafted the Direct Add inclusion to say what I want to say for those people. My normal Welcome notice (which I must remember to re-activate after the Direct Add) is worded appropriately for people who join the group on their own. Fortunately, in my case, even though I do have co-owners I'm the only one who would use Direct Add or Invite in those groups, so there's less chance of crossed wires.

That's a bit of a pain but I haven't written a coherent suggestion for it yet. Maybe instead of a single Active checkbox we need subordinate checkboxes for Exclude Direct Add and Exclude Invite, since both of those have their own notices.

Or maybe the positive construction: Active for Direct Add, Active for Invite, and Active for Join / Subscribe as three independent checkboxes, allowing the moderator to craft the message for each circumstance if desired.

I haven't really thought this through, so other suggestions or comments are welcome.

Shal

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I set my group on “moderated” in “Spam Control” temporarily, meaning that posts need approval before being sent to the group. The problem is that this doesn?t work perfectly. There is always a post or two going through without being approved.

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How can this happen? And what can I do about it?

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Victoria

Re: Subgroup Direct Add

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Thanks Shal,
I'll go email support.

Another situation with subgroups and emails:
I just added a new member with Direct Add and checked 2 subgroups at the same time.? I just received received 1 "you have been added" email that lists the main group plus the 2 subgroups which is great.? But I'm getting 3 Welcome emails.? So the new member received a total of 4 emails.? I don't think that I can just turn off the subgroup welcome message in case someone is only added to a subgroup.? Should have I expected those?
Thanks
Beth

Re: Subgroup Direct Add

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Beth,

I'm in the subgroup trying to add a member that is already in main, and the add email isn't including the member notice.? I just figured out how to add from the main /members/choose one, and I received the same email - no customization which makes the member notice for direct add useless.? I wasn't not sure if it is a bug or if I misunderstood what the member notice was supposed to do.

Sounds like a bug to me. I think the subgroup's active Direct Add notice should be included in the You have been added notice in those cases.

Shal

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