Making [email protected] a YahooGroups moderator
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Yesterday, I invited?[email protected]?as a new member. I read the instructions that?[email protected]?had to be given moderator privileges.
I went in YahooGroups and saw that I had to do was use Edit Profile, click on Role and change that to Moderator. Today after?[email protected]?joined I went into Edit Profile and I no longer can change the Role of any member. The function is now disabled and I can't make?[email protected]?a moderator. I have been the moderator of this group for 15 years so losing moderator privileges was a surprise. Also YahooGroups now shows me as Owner as well as Moderator on some screens. ?YahooGroups is making changes, likely to prevent group transfers. ?Suggestions appreciated. |
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Also YahooGroups now shows me as Owner as well as Moderator on someThat likely means that you have more than one membership in the group, at least one as moderator and one as owner. When visiting the group's pages click on the "Membership" drop-down and see if you are listed with a blue owner crown or green moderator crown. If that display is a fly-out you can switch between memberships. Pick a blue-crown membership. If that drop-down shows only a single membership, and it is not a blue-crown owner, you may need to sign out and sign in under a different account, one that has owner privileges. Before signing out look in the Moderators tab of the Manage Members list to see what other "Yahoo Profiles" (aka accounts) you have as members of this group. Today ... I went into Edit Profile and I no longer can change theAs a moderator you may not have that privilege. Any owner has it, and can give that privilege to moderators, but many owners don't give it to moderators, or give it only to select few, because the privilege to "Add, remove, and change moderator privileges" gives the moderator power second only to the owner role. YahooGroups is making changes, likely to prevent group transfers.I think it is more likely, given that you have both moderator and owner memberhips, that you were accessing the group with the wrong one, and that nothing has actually changed on the Yahoo side. Shal |
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I've never been listed as Owner before and I have just the one member profile and a green crown. Today I've asked the list owner to make me a co-owner. When I put the cursor over my name on Yahoo Groups Management function it now shows me as 'owner' with a green crown, this never happened before, my status changed overnight. Yesterday I had the privileges to make [email protected] a moderator. The list owner has been inactive for the last ten years, leaving the two moderators to run the list. ken On 2017-07-07 12:13, Shal Farley wrote:
Default,Also YahooGroups now shows me as Owner as well as Moderator on someThat likely means that you have more than one membership in the group, |
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I have just the one member profile and a green crown.Then you are a moderator. When I put the cursor over my name on Yahoo Groups ManagementI'd forgotten about that. That's a bug that's been present a couple of years now. I see "Owner" as the hover text on both blue and green crowns. Whatever the text says, blue is Owner, green is Moderator. I don't think any actual status or privilege changes have occurred on a system-wide basis. The list owner has been inactive for the last ten years, leaving theIf that's true, and you don't now, perhaps the other moderator has the privilege and removed it from you. If that happened it would either be an oddly coincident accident or an aggressive move indicating a disagreement of some kind. Look in the Moderator Activity tab of the group's Activity Log for "Privileges changed" entries. Or put your email address in the search box to see anything related to you. By the way, I'm not trying to say that you're not seeing what you're seeing; but I've seen no evidence lately that anyone at Yahoo/Oath/Verizon is paying any attention to Yahoo Groups, so I'm skeptical of claims that the code has been recently changed - and especially skeptical of claims of intent. So, to me, the more likely answer is that something else accounts for what you're seeing. Shal |
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