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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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Apologies. I’m a bit fed up with the path this thread has taken and have little patience left with it. You were the unfortunate victim.
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On Sep 4, 2018, at 7:20 AM, Tony Moody <aim@...> wrote:
-- J
Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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Tony Moody
Ouch !!!
That was damned rude, out of line and uncalled for.
not ok,
Tony
On 4 Sep 2018 at 1:37, J_Catlady wrote about :
Subject : Re: [beta] setting to moderate ever
This is irrelevant to the feature request. Do your hashtags however you want.
On Sep 4, 2018, at 1:24 AM, Tony Moody <
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Hallo J,
If #hashtags are written out in full then the hashtag collection could take up a lot of space
in the Subject: But they are clearly read and understood.
Were you thinking of a coded a hashtag?
I'm going back to being a maintenance engineer in food factories.
a code like #PCY01 could mean a Pump, of type Centrifugal, in the Yard, number1
and #VFS01 would be the oldest Forklift in the Store and is a Vehicle for maintenance and
accounting purpose.
We used codes for physical Location and for Priorities, etc
For what purposes?
An overall asset register of interest to engineer, maintenance workshop manager,
accountant, buyer, top management, and production staff.
To identify a specific piece of equipment, what it is, in broad-ish terms and where it is.
Production can easily identify the asset to Engineering and Maintenance, so that it can be
jobcarded and allocated to the correct team.
Accounting will easily allocate any expenses to the correct beanbag.
etc etc
Maybe a mix of both concepts (#clear and #coded) would be useful
OK,
Tony
On 3 Sep 2018 at 15:41, J_Catlady wrote about :
Subject : Re: [beta] setting to moderate ever
p.s. BTW I also have decades of software design and implementation under my belt. So
you can stop with the man 'splaining.
I've already proposed an alternative solution using hashtags. See the other thread. I think
Mark will understand the use case and if he doesn't, he's free to ask me. I've explained it
to you in greater detail offlist.
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-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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This is irrelevant to the feature request. Do your hashtags however you want. 😀
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On Sep 4, 2018, at 1:24 AM, Tony Moody <aim@...> wrote:
-- J
Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
#suggestion
Tony Moody
Hallo J,
If #hashtags are written out in full then the hashtag collection could take up a lot of space in the
Subject: But they are clearly read and understood.
Were you thinking of a coded a hashtag?
I'm going back to being a maintenance engineer in food factories.
a code like #PCY01 could mean a Pump, of type Centrifugal, in the Yard, number1
and #VFS01 would be the oldest Forklift in the Store and is a Vehicle for maintenance and
accounting purpose.
We used codes for physical Location and for Priorities, etc
For what purposes?
An overall asset register of interest to engineer, maintenance workshop manager, accountant,
buyer, top management, and production staff.
To identify a specific piece of equipment, what it is, in broad-ish terms and where it is.
Production can easily identify the asset to Engineering and Maintenance, so that it can be
jobcarded and allocated to the correct team.
Accounting will easily allocate any expenses to the correct beanbag.
etc etc
Maybe a mix of both concepts (#clear and #coded) would be useful
OK,
Tony
On 3 Sep 2018 at 15:41, J_Catlady wrote about :
Subject : Re: [beta] setting to moderate ever
p.s. BTW I also have decades of software design and implementation under my belt. So you can
stop with the man 'splaining.
I've already proposed an alternative solution using hashtags. See the other thread. I think
Mark will understand the use case and if he doesn't, he's free to ask me. I've explained it
to you in greater detail offlist.
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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KWKloeber
I understood you the first time. And again, it's not a matter of not playing nice. It has to do with the particular situation of the group member and their cat. -- J If you would provide situation and the issue why/how you want to moderate (since not a bad player in the group) it would shorten, not confuse the thread and responses. It can be generic, e.g., fruit diseases and farmers instead of felines and owners. ;-) While the solutions you ask for might work, it’s also very possible there’s another approach to accomplish the root goal in a different manner - if we knew what it was. I can’t count the times I thought I had the “best” solution, until someone else showed me that I wasn’t thinking outside the box, my head was still inside it! There’s ........’er...... multiple methods to skin a cat. Ken
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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Sorry, that was meant for someone offlist.
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 3:41 PM J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote:
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Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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I've already proposed an alternative solution using hashtags. See the other thread. I think Mark will understand the use case and if he doesn't, he's free to ask me. I've explained it to you in greater detail offlist.
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 3:37 PM Walter Underwood <wunder@...> wrote:
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J
Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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With a clear example of the problem, Mark might have a solution that you haven’t thought of.
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Mark has seen many more problems than any of us. He’s been doing this for decades. I’ve maintained conferencing software and I’m active with Solr open source search. We commonly see requests with an “X/Y problem”, where people have problem X and are asking about solution Y without explaining the problem. Often, there is already a solution or even a feature for problem X, but they are focused on the solution they have chosen.
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 03:19 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
But you won’t explain, so I don’t see how we can help.I think I HAVE explained, and I'm not asking for your help. :) I'm asking Mark for a feature. Have a great rest of your Labor Day. :) -- J
Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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Obviously, it is about managing specific people at specific times. But you won’t explain, so I don’t see how we can help.
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 02:03 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
Myself, I’d work with the person.I will try one more time: This has nothing to do with managing a specific person or persons, except in a few cases. This has more to do with managing threads on specifically sensitive topics, which certain people in the group, because of their specific cats' diseases, will post about. It's about moderating the advice and/or warnings posted to people whose cats are in critical (or otherwise sensitive) situations. Being able to add a hashtag to the member with cats in these situations will solve the problem just as well, and I think will also be useful in other groups, not just groups with sick cats. I've already started another thread about that so I will stop posting in this one. -- J
Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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Again: our cats have diagnoses already. None of this has to do with diagnosing them or managing behavior.
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And I’m sure my request is both easy to implement and useful, should Mark decide to do it. I really was trying to avoid all this detailed discussion or justification, because without belonging to the group itself, it’s difficult to understand the issue or how my request, if implemented, would mitigate it. And again: groups.io has successfully automated many group management duties already, thereby relieving moderators of lots of manual labor. There’s no reason for it not to continue doing that. I don’t think I will continue to try to bat down further objections to the feature. Mark will, as always, make his own decision.
On Sep 3, 2018, at 2:02 PM, Walter Underwood <wunder@...> wrote:
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Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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Hmm, I think it has to do with trying to solve bad human behavior with technological blocks. Myself, I’d work with the person. Calling them on the phone has worked for me.
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I think specific examples, with redactions of course, would be extremely helpful in understanding this problem. So far, I’ve seen solutions without an understandable problem. I’m not just shooting in the dark here. I have a disabled child with no diagnosis and I managed discussion groups with 5000 opinionated engineers at Hewlett-Packard.
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Re: Calendar overly updates repeating events.
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I should've have written:
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Also, Federal Election Day in the United States of America is the Tuesday following the first Monday in November - the 1st day after the 1st Monday [in November] and repeats every 24 months [even years]. Some States also hold elections on that date every year, or every other but on odd years.
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Michael Pavan wrote:
On Aug 6, 2018, at 10:52 PM, Rick Steeves <groups.io@...> wrote:Another work-around would be to create it as a 3rd Friday event with the event name "Day after 3rd Friday 'event'" - not very satisfying, but less labor intensive.
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Button to temporarily swap Owner/Mod view to Subscriber view (for testing purposes)
Not sure if this has previously been requested. I'm a new Group Owner, and finding it cumbersome to "see" what how the website appears to regular (non Owner or Moderator) Subscribers. I only have ONE personal email address, and would rather not have to create another one to subscribe (as a "testing profile") for my group. It would be a lot easier to have the option (under Owner or Moderator Settings) to easily swap back and forth.
Is something like that feasible?
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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I also want to moderate threads for any cat in extremely critical condition, and with one of the subcategories of disease, etc.
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 11:35 AM J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 11:10 AM, J_Catlady wrote: --
J
Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 11:10 AM, J_Catlady wrote:
This kind of comment is exactly why I did not want to get into the specific applicationI'm sorry. I tend to get exasperated when people don't understand me after I've failed to explain myself. ;) The idea is that either the member or the mod applies the hashtag at some point, thus *eliminating* the need to moderate on a per-message basis and/or add it later. In our group, we deal with one main disease that has subdiagnoses. We know a priori when a member joins which their cat has (or the cat may be diagnosed with it later). We would apply the hashtag to the member immediately upon joining, or when their cat's diagnosis becomes known. I've started a separate thread about this, since it's a different feature on its own. -- J
Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: Ability to apply hashtags to group members
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In some groups, the members might apply their own hashtags to themselves (e.g., #ToledoOhio) to save themselves from manually adding it to every one of their threads. I see this as akin to the auto-signature, which either the member or the moderators can edit, and it would be on the member page.
-- J
Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Michael Pavan wrote:
It sounds like you need to Moderate everyoneNo, I absolutely don't need or want to moderate everyone. I doubt software could be written that would know and/or diagnose all your members’ cats and their diseasesThis kind of comment is exactly why I did not want to get into the specific application. I am not asking for anything like that. Sigh. -- J
Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu
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Re: setting to moderate every thread a member starts
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It would also solve another problem, where I want all threads started by someone whose cat has a certain subset of the disease we deal with to have the hashtag for that subset of the disease. Often, the people fail to append the hashtag. Having this feature would allow me to do it automatically.It sounds like you need to Moderate everyone, so that you can determine and apply the appropriate hashtag(s). Or set up all the appropriate hashtags that match the "certain subsets of the diseases we deal with” and mandate that all messages must use one of those hashtags. I’m not sure if this is currently possible, and if it is you still would have to hope (or Moderate so) that they are correctly applied. I doubt software could be written that would know and/or diagnose all your members’ cats and their diseases (especially if it has to be done by email) and/or if members do not yet know what "certain subset of the disease we deal with” any of their cats might have. Also how would it handle members who use the same email address for different cats who may have different ailments?
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