Our experience has been that open groups seem to attract the largest amounts of bogus joiners. And, if you have a group specifically targeted, as we do to a rare disease or similar tight focus the

Mark, enjoy your vacation to Europe I hope you enjoy your time.

Mark, Helen wrote: Perhaps it would help if the Pending Approval list could be sorted or filtered by NC status. Of course, that still doesn't help find the "legit" applicants who happen to still be

If this is a box on groups.io, I think it's an interesting idea, and even nicer if I don't see the applications to join unless it's completed properly. I just hope it isn't too much for some people

Thank you. I have always had a questionnaire before you can join any of my groups. Unfortunately it doesn't really help in this situation. One of my groups is completely untouched by this problem, the

So far we haven't had any spam signups to our recently moved group. Back in the early days we took the decision to ask applicants to reply giving a name/nickname, age and location before membership

Would it help to require a statement of why applicants want to join which could not be filled out by a machine properly, then you could glance at this box to see if it was a legitimate subscriber for

Have a wonderful time, Mark! Thanks for how hard you work; please give yourself a break and enjoy!! Travel safely, Ginny

What would be really neat (but maybe only useful to my community?) is the ability to define sign up questions. If these fields had the ability to have REGEX validation behind them then you could weed

As the owner / moderator of 3 groups I can appreciate Helen's frustration with the bogus membership requests. It's obvious from the email addresses that these are generated by phishing

We are getting swamped witth these. We've gone from 7-15 pending members a day to 50-100. The problem, Shal, is firstly the sheer volume (trying to fiind the person to approve in a list of five

From our group's perspective, we would prefer to keep things the way they are. We like the Photos section with its ability to sort photos into Albums - and we use the Files section very little.

Great, thanks! -- 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

I wouldn't mind if they're under one roof (although it may get confusing?), but we do need to allow photos in the Files section if they stay separate sections. J Messages are the sole opinion of the

Have a great vacation Mark. IF any of us deserve one it is definitely you. Have a Great time in Europe as well. Thank You also for all you do to make Groups.io what it is. Doug

If I really needed to put a photo in the files section for some reason, I'd print it to a pdf file and upload that. Duane

I would have to go with No on this. We're big into photos and combining the two would get too confusing for our group members.

Sorry, didnt read this carefully. Obviously, it would negatively impact some groups to be forced to have photos in Files. I am a believer in owner options. Photos and files need to remain basically

But the request is to make it an option for the group owner. Default could be no photos in files. Those of us that need them, can click the option. I dont understand why you want to prevent those

I've changed it to behave this way now. Thanks, Mark