Group Management

Ideas and concerns involving group creation and management

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Permalink Reply by M. Diane Rogers on July 21, 2009 at 8:45am

I do understand the difference between the notifications & an e-mail sent to the whole group - and I wouldn't call the notification e-mails spam. Annoying as they are - the person receiving them has agreed to get those.
Where did we hear that GW had warned & banned a spammer?

Permalink Reply by John Newmark on July 21, 2009 at 8:58am

Here's the discussion: Win-a-cruise email messages

Permalink Reply by M. Diane Rogers on July 21, 2009 at 8:55pm

Thank you, John, for that link.
I don't understand the haphazard nature of GenealogyWise's response and communication. Why wasn't that posted here, for example, in the Group Admins discussion group. (I'm assuming that a 'Genealogy Onsite Administrator' is an employee. Is there a list of official contacts somewhere?)
I do think it's a shame that your comment on June 17th wasn't addressed earlier.

Permalink Reply by September McCarthy on July 22, 2009 at 6:02am

It looks like GW is just now developing a policy to address these types of issues. There is a forum discussion going on now about it (GenealogyWise Community Guidelines), so I'm sure everyone's input would be appreciated.

In a more critical view, there does need to be better communication from GW to it's users. I believe they are learning in the same way we are - by experience and seeing what works and what doesn't. In many ways, this allows us to participate in developing what GW will be, but in other ways it creates some chaos in the process. With patience and vision, I believe we can make this something great!

Permalink Reply by M. Diane Rogers on July 22, 2009 at 7:07am

Well, I'm afraid I am still 'waiting to see'. This is a venture by a well known company which has very experienced business & genealogy people, at least one with both, so I do not understand how most of these 'teething problems' hadn't been anticipated. (Most of these problems aren't genealogical, they need plain business sense.)
There can be no real participation, without communication.

Permalink Reply by GeneJ on July 21, 2009 at 8:07am

Help! I want to make a minor change to the name of one of my groups. Will that effect the properties of my group?? --GJ

Permalink Reply by GeneJ on July 22, 2009 at 8:32am

Really appreciate Gena's effort, Gena Philibert Ortega, "GenealogyWise Community Guidelines," Jul 22, 2009 (12:55 am).

Question: Did anyone find reference to "Group Administrator" (and/or "Group administrator") in the draft that was posted?

Did a "find in page" without success; but I am "slow tech." --GJ

Permalink Reply by tami osmer glatz on July 22, 2009 at 6:16pm

Group Admins should turn off the ability for members to broadcast mail to all other members. I don't think that option should even exist. It opens the door for spammers as we've already seen. It also holds that door open for people who haven't figured out how to correctly post messages to the group board and instead send them to everyone. Already gotten a few of those misdirected messages.

Group members have the simple option to not receive e-mails from their group telling them that something new has been posted. But that won't stop something coming from a member who chooses to broadcast to everyone.

If someone has something to say to the group, post it on the group discussion page.

Permalink Reply by GeneJ on July 22, 2009 at 6:24pm

Is it possible for the group administrator to bring up all of a member's postings/contributions to a particular group; functionality would be similar to "see all postings/messages" available on some query boards.
Thank you for considering my request.--GJ