I have one member who refuses to provide a subject line to his messages, and instead inserts a hashtag which may [or may not] be relevant to his post. The topic then proliferates with a bunch of related posts that are nonetheless completely unsearchable with the search engine.

I find this irritating. Thoughts? Workaround??

Bruce

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Add the requirement for a relevant subject line to the group guidelines. Make this a “must”. Publicize this to the group. Give the person two warnings, then remove them from the group.

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On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 06:08 pm, Walter Underwood wrote:

Group membership is a privilege, not a right. It comes with some
responsibilities to the other members of the group.

I totally agree.
Put the member on moderation and reject his posts until he correctly applies the group rules.

For past posts, you can edit the subject of his first wrong message and then merge all replies into that topic. I have done this on a few occasions and it worked.

Good luck,
Marina

As others have said, put them on moderated status and send them a message as to what is expected.? Give them a couple of chances to conform and third strike remove them from the group and ban them.

Bruce Wilson
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 05:26 am, Paul Ohio USA wrote:

Just curious, why do you put up with them?

I run a closed group for club members only. Since he has paid his club dues, kicking him off isn't really an option unless his behavior gets a little more outrageous than it has so far. I have done the "edit topic and merge" thing but would prefer not to persist in doing that.

Anyway, I sent him a nicely-worded request to do better. His petulant reply was that he would direct-mail people from now on and not use the group. I think he's bluffing, but if not, so much the better.

Thanks to all for your responses.

Bruce

Depends if his questions are useful I guess.
(Questions are the only time he would be adding the subject line...)

He might be thinking a lot of people don't read the subject line anyway so......
OR conversations drift far from it... (Who knows?)

You might want to figure out his motivations instead of watching his actions.

Rick

On April 4, 2018 at 9:47 AM Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:

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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 05:26 am, Paul Ohio USA wrote:

Just curious, why do you put up with them?

I run a closed group for club members only. Since he has paid his club dues, kicking him off isn't really an option unless his behavior gets a little more outrageous than it has so far. I have done the "edit topic and merge" thing but would prefer not to persist in doing that.

Anyway, I sent him a nicely-worded request to do better. His petulant reply was that he would direct-mail people from now on and not use the group. I think he's bluffing, but if not, so much the better.

Thanks to all for your responses.

Bruce

Sent from my WEBmail.

Don't you have member terms and conditions that cover his case?
If not, it might be a good time to implement some.
And, you could always refund his membership and then ditch him.
--
Bob Bellizzi

The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 06:57 am, Bruce Bowman wrote:

Since he has paid his club dues, kicking him off isn't really an option unless his behavior gets a little more outrageous than it has so far.

Don't know what your clubs conditions are but I would put him on moderation and not pass on his messages until he changes.

My eMail client is set up to put messages without a Subject into the Spam Folder.
Arno

RE:?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/6937
>My eMail client is set up to put messages without a Subject into the Spam Folder.

There are other threads here that say that is not in anyone's best interests.

Rick

That's down to the interaction between e-mail (where it might be a sensible thing to do) and groups.io (where it has undesirable consequences).

So - as a group owner - put him, or, better still, his messages,? on moderation (can you select for moderation based on (non-) subject?), and not approve them until/unless message have subjects.

Jeremy

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 10:25 am, RickGlaz wrote:

My eMail client is set up to put messages without a Subject into the Spam Folder.

There are other threads here that say that is not in anyone's best interests.

It is not my providers Spam filter, which might cause a deletion of the poster, it is the Junk folder in my eMail client.