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I cannot seem to find a way to make [email protected] a moderator of my Yahoo group.

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The Yahoo page on which this is to be accomplished lacks a drop-down menu with a heading "Role". That menu is required to make someone a Moderator.

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Until I can do this I cannot transfer the Yahoo group to Groups.io.

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Any suggestions?

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Thank you.

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Bob Chaparro
Moderator

Railway Bull Shippers Group

/g/RailwayBullShippersGroup

Bob,

I cannot seem to find a way to make [email protected] a moderator of
my Yahoo group.

The Yahoo page on which this is to be accomplished lacks a drop-down
menu with a heading "Role". That menu is required to make someone a
Moderator.

It sounds like you are a moderator of the Y!Group but lack the privilege to "Add, remove, and change moderator privileges". Without that you're stuck.

Another symptom would be in the Moderators tab of the group's Manage Members list - if clicking on the rows (outside the checkbox column) does nothing instead of opening the moderator's Edit Member page that too indicates a lack of that privilege.

Until I can do this I cannot transfer the Yahoo group to Groups.io.
Any suggestions?

Correct. You need to find a group owner, or a mod with that privilege, to give you that privilege.

If there's no one active in the group to do that then I think the best you can do is create the new group on Groups.io and invite over any members for which you have email addresses. That might only be those whose postings you've kept in your email folders.

This is basically the same situation Dale is in, you might want to read his threads:
/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/22140744
/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/22653627

Shal


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I should have added that I am the Owner of the group.
Bob Chaparro

Bob,

I should have added that I am the Owner of the group.

Then it would seem that you're signed in with the wrong account, or using the wrong email address.

Click the Membership menu (just to the left of Management in the top bar). What color crown is showing to the left of your email address? Blue = Owner, Green = Moderator.

If your email address there has a droplist arrow to the right of it click that, and see if you can select an alternate address that has a blue crown.

If no joy with that, use the Management menu to bring up the Manage Members page, and then the Moderators tab. Find the row(s) for yourself which have a blue crown. Make note of the Yahoo Profile on that row(s). Then sign out of Yahoo, and sign back in using that Yahoo Profile in the field for your ID (even though it says it wants an email address, the sign-in will still take Yahoo Profile IDs). Do NOT put an email address in the sign-in form, unless it happens to be an @yahoo.com address with the same user name as your Yahoo Profile ID.

See if either of these approaches get you to having a Role drop-down.

Shal


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I followed these steps as recommended:
Click the Membership menu (just to the left of Management in the top bar). What color crown is showing to the left of your email address?

Blue = Owner, Green = Moderator.
[It was blue.]

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If no joy with that, use the Management menu to bring up the Manage Members page, and then the Moderators tab. Find the row(s) for yourself which have a blue crown. Make note of the Yahoo Profile on that row(s).

Then sign out of Yahoo, and sign back in using that Yahoo Profile in the field for your ID (even though it says it wants an email address, the sign-in will still take Yahoo Profile IDs). Do NOT put an email address in the sign-in form, unless it happens to be an @yahoo.com address with the same user name as your Yahoo Profile ID.

[I did this.]　

See if either of these approaches get you to having a Role drop-down.
[Still no drop down menu.]

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Bob,

Blue = Owner, Green = Moderator.

[It was blue.]

Interesting. I guess I should have asked this the first time, but is the Role control missing from just the transfer agent's page, or from all members' pages?




(I don't have a group with the transfer agent as a current member, so just imagine that the Email field says [email protected] and that the Display Name and Alias say whatever they should for that account).

I can't think of any reason it should be missing from a particular member, but I also can't think of why it would be missing at all for someone signed in as owner.

Shal


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