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I put in a vote for individual mute. Sometimes a poster simply gets my personal goat. They dwell on a line of argument that I am tired of, or get repetitious in ways that I find personally annoying. These aren't general offenses that call for shutdown to all members, but a mute option that hides these posts from just me would be a great convenience, hopefully not often used. I once dropped out of a group that I enjoyed, but not overly, because I got tired of a frequent poster. If I had had a mute option, I'd still be in the group. If I were the implementer, I'd make it a specialized filter that could be turned on and off on the web site so I could occasionally check if the thorn in my side had blunted over time.
Best, Marv

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 12:34 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

You can, however, search on words in the message body. You would have train people to manually put a consistent string into the body of the message itself and use that as a search key.

Another thought:? If the same person is posting on behalf of a committee every time, you might put an identifying string in that person's customized sig line.?/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/controlling-your-email-subscription-preferences/signature?

Before someone suggests it, Display Name itself is not a searchable field.

Bruce

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On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 05:23 PM, Donald Hellen wrote:

What would happen if someone simply added a hashtag to a subject line in a reply
to the group?

Hashtags added to the subject line of a reply are included in the email sent out to members but are not added to the topic subject so a search will not pick them up.

Regards
Andy

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 12:20 PM, Linda Kilcrease wrote:

My point is that replies need a field or hashtag (searchable) that can be used to view/group replies.

Hashtags cannot be used to distinguish the original post from a reply (or replies from each other). You can, however, search on words in the message body. You would have train people to manually put a consistent string into the body of the message itself and use that as a search key.

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 12:23 PM, Donald Hellen wrote:

What would happen if someone simply added a hashtag to a subject line in a reply
to the group?

If the in-reply-to field is intact in the message header, the extraneous hashtag gets stripped out before it's merged into its corresponding topic. If groups.io cannot figure out which topic it belongs to, a new topic is started. See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/6321?for details.

In either case, the subject line and its hashtags are properties of the topic, not the message.

Regards,
Bruce

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Duane . . .

On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:25:51 -0700, "Duane" <txpigeon@...> wrote:

Hashtags apply to topics, not messages. You could split/merge replies, then apply a hashtag to each thread, but that could turn into a lot of work.

What would happen if someone simply added a hashtag to a subject line in a reply
to the group?

Donald



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My point is that replies need a field or hashtag (searchable) that can be used to view/group replies.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 05:30 PM, Frances wrote:

This doesn't do anything retroactively however.

Just to be clear, any messages stored by search engines, like Google, won't be deleted immediately, but they will disappear eventually after they realize they can't get to them any more.? The existing messages will become private immediately, so no one can just go to your group and read them.? I've heard up to six months for the search sites to drop them, but never really checked.

Duane
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More help on privacy:
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Frances

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On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 06:25 PM, Kim Owens wrote:

Can someone please assist me— my message archiving is showing up as public. ? ?Can you give me directions on changing that from public to private?

Go to Admin, Settings. In Privacy, Visibility, choose Private Messages. You can allow your group to be listed in the Groups.io directory - just the name and part of your description.?/search?p=SubsCount,,,20,2,0,0
This is best setting for marketing your group to new members. Otherwise, choose Group not listed in the directory, Private messages.

This doesn't do anything retroactively however. Just from now on.
And you can't go back to public messages after being private.

See #7 on this page: ?/helpcenter/gettingstarted/1/step-3-create-the-group-and-set

Frances

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Can someone please assist me— my message archiving is showing up as public. ? ?Can you give me directions on changing that from public to private?

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I know there are all sorts of groups but I really don't understand the desire for the mute of individuals

If someone is posting things that others or the moderator does not like, moderate them and warn them, and if they continue ban them

Why would you want a divisive poster?

And if a subscriber doesn't want a persons posts, email clients will divert or delete a particular post from or includes a given address or name

Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)

Sandi . . .

On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:12:53 -0700, "Sandi D." <Sandiongio@...> wrote:

I use "web only" for one group and log in routinely to catch up so as to avoid numerous emailed posts by the same couple of annoying people. Its easy to see their names and skip reading those replies.

In most email programs you can set up email filters and have them route messages
meeting certain criteria to a separate folder. Some programs can be set up to
delete those instead of re-routing them.

That might be a way to accomplish what you wish and allow you to stay connected
to the group, just letting the email program do its work so you avoid reading
those messages.

The downside would be that you might miss something important. Having them
diverted to a separate folder would allow you to review subject lines to see if
you wish to read one of them.

Donald




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On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 12:21 PM, Sandi D. wrote:

However, given that group owners have posted that such a feature should be owner or moderator controlled, then such a feature would be of limited use to us members.

I believe the consensus is that an individual would control who they mute, but would not be able to mute the mod/owner.? I've had a couple of occasions where I'd like to have the feature, but didn't want to 'nag' Mark to do something.? He's gotten around to several of the smaller projects recently, but I don't know what his priorities are.? He did say one time that those that would benefit all groups, especially paid ones, would be closer to the top of his list.? A reminder in the , or even a new suggestion topic, might be worthwhile.

Duane
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 12:20 PM, Linda Kilcrease wrote:

Each Reply is an Answer from a different source (Council A Meeting, Council B Meeting, etc.), so a hashtag seems needed / helpful.

Hashtags apply to topics, not messages.? You could split/merge replies, then apply a hashtag to each thread, but that could turn into a lot of work.

Duane
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Thanks for bringing this to light again. The beta group 2016 discussion is locked.?
I chose to leave 2 groups on GIO because I could not "unfollow" a group member. It wasn't a personality thing.

In one group the posts by the member were no more than links and attachments to the group. The posts were at least once, sometimes twice daily. It wasn't only me, others also were annoyed, but because the poster was a "founding" member of the club and interim president, those of us that posted about this annoying behavior were told we had to accept it or leave. Which we did. I was sorry to miss out on the many other benefits but that was the only solution open to me.?

The second group I left was because of a poster who routinely posted replies to technical inquires with information that was confusing and contradictory. It was often glaringly incorrect. The links in the posts were broken or non functional. Initially I posted replies with corrected information and links to help the OP to resolve the issue. But that soon became too wearing on me. I don't have time to read topics subjects of interest to me that contain a body filled with nonsense. Just easier to leave the group.?

In both situations I informed the group owner that was why I left. (As did other members who posted the same thing before leaving those groups.

If "unfollow" or "mute member" were a feature under the control of the member, I would happily return to both groups. However, given that group owners have posted that such a feature should be owner or moderator controlled, then such a feature would be of limited use to us members.?

I do belong to a couple of groups that I cannot leave without also resigning a club membership. I use "web only" for one group and log in routinely to catch up so as to avoid numerous emailed posts by the same couple of annoying people. Its easy to see their names and skip reading those replies.

The Web Only option doesn't work if real time communication is central to why I joined the group.

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Sandi Dickenson

Our group would like to make replies to a topic be distinctive.? Our Topic is a Question.? Each Reply is an Answer from a different source (Council A Meeting, Council B Meeting, etc.), so a hashtag seems needed / helpful.

In fact, we are considering making specific Date a hashtag of the Topic so we might then have 2 Topic hashtags:? Location and Date.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 09:29 AM, Linda King wrote:

I had a member ask me about "muting" other members

There have been some discussions about it and Mark even put it on his several years ago (though that list isn't kept up to date).? The long discussion is , then a couple of others at and .? Mute may be a more acceptable word than Ignore.

Duane
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Lots of detailed information can be found in the Owners Manual and Members Manual.

You cannot mute a member, only a hashtag or a topic.

Pete