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Re: Lost moderator and ownership of a group I started
#groupowner
Rod,
Every thing is fine and the 'block' cleared up! No idea whatYou have (at least) two subscriptions to GMF under two different email addresses. Which means you have (at least) two accounts at Groups.io - here every email address is its own account. So most likely you were signed in with the "wrong" email address - the one that isn't owner of the other group. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Moderator Permissions Problems
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýMy group of 800 basically only uses Emails to communicate and the site message archive as people need it. I have 3 owners and 2 moderators. I set moderator Bart to ¡°view member list¡± and ¡°Set Member Subscriptions¡± so he could help another member but he says the member list is not visible. So I changed my wife from Owner to Moderator and gave her the same permissions as Bart. Then I logged in on her computer to her membership and looked at her membership profile AND all the permissions are shown and I was able to change any at will! Her ¡°Role¡± is set to ¡°moderator¡±. ? What gives?? He can¡¯t get in and she still has owner¡¯s power?? ? Paul |
Re: Transfer problems
#transfer
Southenders Admin
Here's the thing. I did not give anyone the name of the new site. The email that Groups.io sent out had the name,
"Hello, Thank you for your interest in the??group at Groups.io. If you did not request or do not want to join?main@... If you only want to send and receive messages from?main@... Very strange Norm |
Re: Groups.io site updates
#changelog
J_Catlady
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 04:48 pm, Shal Farley wrote:
Yes and I could have sworn it was in effect before. It seems to have gone away. I also wonder whether there haven't been some significant changes to confirm in general.?NEW: For restricted premium/enterprise groups, approving a NotWait. Wasn't this already true? ? -- J |
Re: Lost moderator and ownership of a group I started
#groupowner
? OK!
? ? ?Every thing is fine and the 'block' cleared up!? No idea what happened or why!? Thanks for helping! Rod |
Groups.io site updates
#changelog
Hi all,
This week's change log: Feel free to reply to this topic if you'd like to comment on the changes. Or better yet, if you expect a lot of discussion start a new topic (or rejoin an existing one) about a specific change. CHANGE: Improvements to the wording of the spam unsub email andHopefully this will help reduce the overall confusion. See also: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Removed-for-spam and /g/GroupManagersForum/topic/15036408 NEW: For restricted premium/enterprise groups, approving a NotWait. Wasn't this already true? Comments about these others are also welcome: NEW: Enterprise groups can customize the HTML on the login page as Please call out any you find significant. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Lost moderator and ownership of a group I started
#groupowner
poikaa
? ?The Yahoo group for the SONY receiver, the ICF-2010 was having problems with Yahoo so I started a new one with group.io in December. All went well till just recently and I am still a member but no longer have administration control with the group. I did not originate the SONY Yahoo group, that was done by a fellow back in 1999. Him and I worked on the groups.io and that switch over was fairly smooth. I also lost membership with this group and had to re-join....
? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks Rod Wallberg aka poikaa |
Re: Is there a way to move posts from one topic to another?
#moderation
Thanks for the very complete answer.? The split and re-merge solution does seem kind of awkward, but I can see the logic behind it. Something a little less complex would be an improvement! On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:57 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote: Valerie, |
Re: Is there a way to move posts from one topic to another?
#moderation
Valerie,
More robust platforms offer the option for a moderator to remove aThe feature exists, but as it stands it is far from facile or trouble-free. What you have to do is split the misplaced message out of the topic it landed in (unless it is already stand-alone, or unless the rest of that topic should go with), and then merge that topic (the misplaced message) with the topic it should have been in. These (in need of some TLC) instructions are linked from the home page of our (GMF's) wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/How-to-Split-Threads /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/How-to-Merge-Threads The trouble comes in if the topic in question is still active. That is, specifically, if someone replies by email to the (formerly) misplaced messages. Those replies will (most likely) have the wrong Subject text and become new topics of their own. Requiring further merge efforts. And replies to those replies, and so on. If the group is fully (or mostly) moderated you can head (some of) that off by putting the correct subject on the replies while they are in the pending list. But not every group runs that way, nor are moderators always that attentive. There have been some rumblings in beta about needed improvements, but I don't know if that's likely in the near term. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Re: Sub Groups
couyld you not just use databases? thats what i use for swaps jackiep? On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote: Wanda, --
Growing old is compulsory, growing up is not. I don't intend growing up!!! |
Re: Sub Groups
Wanda,
Can we use a sub group as a bulletin board for swaps and challengesYou can set the subgroup's visibility to: "Group listed in parent group, messages viewable by parent group members". That way all members could see them without having to join the subgroup. But they'd need to join the subgroup to receive the posts by email, or to reply to them. That might be an advantage if most members don't need to post or reply to the swaps or challenges (I'm not sure how those work). Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Is there a way to move posts from one topic to another?
#moderation
Hi -- I've managed email lists and forum sites in the past and am wondering whether I am missing a more elegant way to move a post to the appropriate topic?
So far, I've found I can copy the text of the original post to the desired topic and choose not to spam everybody with a resend, and optionally remove the original post. More robust platforms offer the option for a moderator to remove a post from one topic and put it under another without having to change attribution etc.? Is this a feature I am just missing, or something to consider as an enhancement? Valerie |
Re: Transfer problems
#transfer
Norm,
So I've begun the transfer procedure. But my members are getting anThe phrase "joins them to the Update group" makes me suspect that what they've done is gone to the Groups.io site and used the Sign Up page to create a Groups.io account. The message in question would be the request to confirm their email address. They didn't need to do this, the transfer agent would have created accounts for them. On the other hand it causes little trouble except possibly some initial confusion on their part (and yours). I've had a few copy me on their email, and when I use it in incognitoI'm not sure, but that was probably harmless. If they had already used the link in the message then it shouldn't do anything for you. If they hadn't and you confirmed their email address on their behalf maybe something could get confused, but being incognito would likely prevent that. But the point is that you should not have expected to become a member in your own group merely from that message. To become a member they should wait for the transfer agent to do it, or they would have to use the Join button on the group's page, or its email +subscribe command. Two members have tried to send messages to the new group, but they areThat's one of the pratfalls of announcing the new group name (email address) prior to them receiving the "You have been added" and/or Welcome notice. Either that or they could be posting from a different email address than the one subscribed to your Y!Group. And yet, one member got on all by himself, having received the sameThat implies that he/she found your group's home page and used its Join button (and that your group is not restricted membership, or that you approved their membership). That particular member's membership settings will not be copied from the Yahoo group - delivery choice and posting privilege primarily, but also his/her join date. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Re: Several questions
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýDon,
Here's an example with a sidebar from a different brand of wiki: Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Re: Transfer problems
#transfer
If you just started the transfer, it may not be done, depending on how many members, etc.? If you set up a Welcome message, it will go to the members so they'll know the group is active. The one person that got in may have just joined on the site if you don't have a restricted group.
Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |