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The photos on the previous version of our group on Yahoo were a complete mess so I was not too bothered about taking them across to io groups. But I'd hoped io might have better facilities for controlling the uploading of photos to prevent photos on the new group getting into the same state, but the improvements seem only marginal. The following are some observations and wishes from what I have tried (perhaps I've missed something).

A moderated user is allowed to upload photos - surely this is a bug? I can see moderating uploads of photos would be a lot of work, but at least disallow uploads when the user is moderated.

I want to restrict creation of new albums to moderators, but allow postings to some albums. I hoped setting "moderators can upload, users can view" at the group level and "Group access" at the album level would achieve this, but it does not allow users to upload to the album - I feel it ought, else the "Group access" option is meaningless when the overall setting is "only moderators can upload". Alternatively, a new "Only moderators can create albums" setting, but I don't like that as much.

The big change I would like is to be able to set up sub-albums. I would like setting up of albums at the top level to be able to be restricted to moderators, and for each of these albums to have a setting controlling the creation of sub-albums: moderators only; users can create with group access; users can create sub-albums with personal access (i.e. only they (and moderators) can upload).

For the present I've disallowed uploading photos, as the facility to post photos embedded in a message caters for a lot of cases and is searchable, but eventually I would like to be able to allow uploading photos.

Noel

Noel,

A moderated user is allowed to upload photos - surely this is a bug?

I don't think it is so much a bug as something that hasn't been done. It is on the to-do list:


Also:

In Yahoo Groups we had a checkbox to prevent a member from uploading files, but for photos we only got a notification, no ability to moderate or block an individual member from uploading.

The following are some observations and wishes from what I have tried
(perhaps I've missed something).

The rest of these I don't see on the to-do list.

Posting in beta@ a well-written description of what you want is likely to be the best way to get it on the to-do list.

Myself I'd like to see a "grand unification" of sorts of photos, files, and possibly wiki-pages such that they have the same capabilities, despite being presented differently. That is, I don't see why the ability to make subfolders (aka nested albums) should be a feature of Files but not Photos. Likewise with cut-and-paste for moving them around.

And the other way too: if we gain the ability to moderate or selectively block the upload of photos, we should have that ability with respect to files also. And wiki pages, perhaps.

Shal

I don't think it is so much a bug as something that hasn't been done. It

is on the to-do list:

While I agree full moderation of loading photos is an enhancement not a bug,
I think that in its absence it the correct behaviour is to prevent moderated
users from loading photos, not to allow it.

For example, consider group that allows anyone to join but moderated the
first post. As it is at the moment anyone can join and upload photos without
the moderators being aware. I would expect that a user on moderation would
not be allowed to make any updates to the group without permission. I'll
post this on the Beta group topic.

Noel

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:32 am, Shal Farley wrote:

I don't think it is so much a bug as something that hasn't been done. It is on the to-do list:

?Our group also would love to be able to monitor what certain members upload. Most members get that we are paying for space but others upload far too many useless (to us) photos. We get around that in most our groups and sub-groups by making all but one photo section moderator upload only. ?This gets very time consuming in one of our groups but where it is member upload, we have a few members who are "out of control". ?One member has almost 200 photos and the mod who would know for sure what pics are useless just has not the time to remove and re-remove the photos.

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