My first inclination is to not do this. I thought there was too much off-topic stuff on Beta recently, and I'd like to avoid that going forward. I'd like it to be more focused than it has been

It might be helpful to allow beta members to start topics that they only want private replies to, either because they are somewhat off-topic and they don’t want to clutter up the message list with

Yes please. Thanks,Mark

Whoops. Fixed. Thanks,Mark

Good catch. I completely missed that and assumed they applied to groups.io as a whole - including that "meta" meant suggestions about the beta group. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the

Since we now have a recognized #bug hashtag, should we begin to submit bug reports here instead of support@groups.io? Bruce

J_Catlady wrote: I'm not sure what form the implementation would take, but if all are visible, this would be a perfect place for Tooltips! Larry -- Larry Marks

I see on the hashtag list that #meta and #suggestion refer to the app, even though this is the main non-app beta group. JohnF

This notification could have the list of permitted hashtags, preferably with an explanation of their use, so that email only users do not have to go online. The link to the draft may go unused if

Another idea is to use single-letter codes, with a key at the bottom of the page - M for mod only, L for locked, P for private replies only, etc. But that may not be enough information (e.g. if M, you

Yes, I'm generally on Pacific Time. But even when I'm awake I will not be looking at beta all the time; I'd never get anything done. :-) I do think slowing the conversations down a little bit won't

Gerald -- I think you got it right, but am not very clear on what can be done about it. For what it's worth, when someone sends a non-compliant message via email, the offending post is held in Draft

Mark; during (roughly) what hours will moderation effort be available? The information is most likely to be of help to those of us not on the Pacific Coast! Chris

I can confirm that there were at least 59,873 last Tuesday (more by now), including non-public groups. Duane

I am always leery when I think something is obvious, only to be told that I've missed the real "obvious" part, but here goes... Since a non-moderator only ever sees the available hashtags in the

Or light gray, like unavailable seats when you’re buying tickets to something. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we

One way would be to designate an automatic dedicated color for mod-only tags. I’m predicting there may be some objections here to that, but it seems like a very simple way for the user’s eye to

I've added a banned icon to the hashtags that are mods only. I admit that may not be the best icon; I'd be happy to take suggestions on that. Also, displaying other aspects of each hashtag would be a

In looking at the beta hashtag list this morning, I realized that I couldn't directly see which ones were for use by mods only. Of course I received the message this morning about the four hashtags

Thomas, I should have scrolled down to the bottom. Sometimes the easiest answer is to think. Bill