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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 02:43 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
you have left him in the position of being able to compromise your groupTrue but all of that seems irrelevant to disallowing this group member to remove his own posts. It seems what Bob really wants is to get rid of the posts anyway. This is not adding up for me. I must be missing something? Surely the worry is not about emails floating around. You can't be sued for that - only for what remains on the site, if even that. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 10:14 PM, Bob Bellizzi wrote:
The issue for us is that a member made an unverifiied, serious statemen about a specialist/surgeon.If it had been down to me he would have been moderated straight away so that further contentious posts could not arise. And if he has been a problem more than once I have to ask why do you allow him to remain a group member; as such you have left him in the position of being able to compromise your group. Chris
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 02:27 PM, J_Catlady wrote:
I remove the post,More likely I just edit it to redact the vet name. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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Andy
I don't see how disabling the ability to delete a message, helps in this particular case (fear of a possible lawsuit). Unless you are talking about being sued because someone else destroyed evidence, but I did not think that was your reason; or was it?
AFAIK, neither this nor Yahoo!Groups ever prevented message deletion by the sender. Isn't there anyone in your group who receives your group's messages by email? I have 15+ years of my groups' history in my email folders. If your group is "public", then (some) messages might also be saved forever on the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine. I have also wondered about giving Moderators the ability to lock other group features (Files, Photos). But since there is a long history of not doing that, it might not be easy to argue for changing it. Andy
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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Bob,
I don't understand your issue. You're asking for the option to disable allowing members to remove their posts. But it seems your actual issue is that YOU want to be able to remove their posts. So why not just remove the offensive posts? What's the problem? We have the same situation in our group, where vets are not allowed to be discussed onlist by name. If anybody does it, I remove the post, and/or moderate the topic and/or the problematic group member. Why not just do that? I'm confused. Disallowing members from deleting their own posts would seem to do nothing to solve your problem. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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Bob Bellizzi
Maybe a suggestion to "follow" a member, immediately sending all of his emails to a specified address would do the trick but Moderation already does part of that.
Or add a flag to Moderate a member to make those messages non deletable by the member. -- Bob Bellizzi
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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Bob Bellizzi
J,
I agree with you 100%. Because we provide references to specialists, online discussion of not only expectations from surgery but often day by day vision surgery recovery, we do not countenance doctor bashing. We require off line communication for that type of issue so that we can investigate and delist doctors if needed. I'm sure I have at least one monderator who keeps digests. I hope. -- Bob Bellizzi
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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Bob Bellizzi
We checked the no editing when we moved here in 2016.
The issue for us is that a member made an unverifiied, serious statemen about a specialist/surgeon. There are an adequate number of, let us say, repeaters, who might repeat this outside our group which could cause serious damage not only to his reputation but also to his livelyhood, We could possibly be sued for defamation or some such. It turns out that this bloke has deleted 9 posts since 2016. He has occasionally been a problem. -- Bob Bellizzi
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 06:19 PM, Bob Bellizzi wrote:
I think it's very important to have the option to prevent individual member from deleting their own posts because it changes reality.There was a suggestion related to this back in 2018. I'm not aware that anything happened. Regards Andy
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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That will never happen. It seems to be thought of as a legal requirement to allow them to do this. I disagree with that (although IANAL) because they grant groups.io indefinite rights to publish. But this was battled several times and it's not gonna happen.
On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 10:19 AM Bob Bellizzi <cdfexec@...> wrote: Actually I think this is a Bug but since the ability doesn't currently exist, I can't call it that. --
J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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I can imagine that in some types of groups messages might serve as an audit trail, and therefore owners would want to prevent deletion and/or editing.
Pete
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Re: Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
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On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 12:19 PM, Bob Bellizzi wrote:
I thought that we had a selection that limted post deletion to the Owners/moderators.That's never been the case. Members have always been able to delete their own posts. However, it's quite likely that someone on the group will have the original message in their email files/archives. It also won't delete anything quoted in a reply, so deleting isn't all that effective. There IS an option to prevent them from editing their messages. Duane
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Provide option to disable ability of members to delete their posts
#suggestion
Bob Bellizzi
Actually I think this is a Bug but since the ability doesn't currently exist, I can't call it that.
I've just noticed that one of our more "inventive" members has deleted 9 of his posts over the past 5 years. This finding was the result of a review and discussion of one post containig an unverified statement that cause potehtiial professional harm to a medical speciaist. I thought that we had a selection that limted post deletion to the Owners/moderators. I think it's very important to have the option to prevent individual member from deleting their own posts because it changes reality. We are now possibly unable to prove where that particular piece of (probable) misinformation came from. -- Bob Bellizzi
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Any chance the app is incorrectly showing the "Delete Rows" button, and she butt-deleted them?
Just throwing out ideas.... JohnF
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Re: Allow Users to Disable Email Address Truncation on Website
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Donald Hellen
Noah . . .
On Wed, 05 Jan 2022 13:13:53 -0800, "Noah Carver" <noahcarver494@...> wrote: I was advised that this truncation is controlled by group owners only. I would therefore request that the ability to control email address truncation be made available to a group's members as a global setting within Groups.io settings. This way, group owners can prevent scrapers and bots from scraping email addresses from archives, however legitimate group members can compose emails to email addresses provided within messages using their mail clients with no difficulty.How then would you prevent scrapers from joining the group, changing the setting, then scraping email addresses from the group? A scraper would be "seen" by the platform as a legitimate member as there is no way to verify a person's intent on what they will do in the group. Donald ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM https://groups.io/g/Ham-Antennas https://groups.io/g/HamRadioHelp https://groups.io/g/Baofeng https://groups.io/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main
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Re: notify when member bounces
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On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 07:25 AM, J_Catlady wrote:
I would like to have an optional notification when someone tries to post to a locked topicExpected suggested workaround: "Just put it on moderation." Been there, done that. Sometimes you just wanna lock it. And I'm just asking for an optional notification. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: notify when member bounces
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On that subject (sort of), I would like to have an optional notification when someone tries to post to a locked topic. Usually they're innocent and just need to be clued in, and in many cases, I'd like to know what they were trying to say. We lock topics under several circumstances, not just when topics get contentious.
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Pamela Tatt
Mark I was going to give up but did some more investigating this morning. The deletion of rows shows up on the groups activity log but DOES NOT show on the members individual activity log.
I have just received a message from this member saying "I have not been on my computer for at least the past 24 hours so am not sure how I could possibly have done this. Nor would I have a clue as to how to do such a thing." It is a complete mystery to me! I will ask what system she is running but if she is like most of our members she will not be very computer literate, so fingers crossed. Thank you for looking into this mystery. Pamela
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Pamela, This is a little baffling. It turns out that the edit database permission was not checked before bulk deleting database rows. But this should not have been an issue, because your member should never have been shown the red 'Delete Rows' button when viewing the database rows. So she should never have been able to have sent the request to the server to bulk delete rows. And yet somehow she did. I have added a permission check when bulk deleting rows, to verify that you have permission to delete the row. I would be curious to hear what she says about it. I wonder if she's running some weird firewall that looks for form submissions in web pages and clicks on them. Thanks, Mark
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