On most of my groups, one of the rules is that you will NOT notify the group when a file is uploaded. After loading the file, a new topic with a link to the file and a description of what it's for

Hi Mark, I'm applying your comments about files to photos. In my group, there are times I quietly upload photos and other times I upload them and then kick out an email to share the photo. I quietly

Pleading and begging here also. We need at least a rudimentary "off" switch asap. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours,

OK; I haven't done a survey but I suspect that what Duane said about nobody wanting a blizzard of notifications is entirely correct. After a member uploaded some photos to the group I moderate 2

And actually there are simply some files - a lot of them, including every cat's labwork, which constitute the vast majority of files in our group - that I simply don't want to announce to the whole

Mark, I noticed you wrote at the beginning of all this: "The Notify Members checkbox when uploading files is now checked by default, in preparation for removing it at some point." What does that mean?

I created an event on our calendar to be every Tuesday and Thursday at 9:00am to 10:10am. After creating the event the decision was made to add a reminder to this event. (This was at least 2 days

Andy, Why wouldn't you want your members to know about files being uploaded? Isn't the whole point of uploading files being that your members can then access them? I'm confused. Thanks, Mark

I'm not surprised! There has to be a simple and quick way for mods to turn each notification, and later to specify details of how and to whom it is sent. Meanwhile I'd settle for a quick-and-dirty

I requested wiki change notifications but *always* assumed they would be available only to moderators. That is a problem overall: there is no mechanism to make sure a given notification is sent only

Agree that it should be unchecked by default, don't know why it was changed.-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can

I did an informal survey of some of my members. No one wants any/all these notifications sent to them. They don't care what goes on behind the scenes, they just want useful information that is

I would very much like to see it go back the way it was (unchecked by default). A positive action should be required by a user in order to generate a file upload message. If you forget to check the

Andy, do you mean actual emails were sent out to group members, or do you mean that a message was sent to the subgroup? "No email" just means (for a normal hashtag) that the messages in the tagged

I agree. The system hashtags could/should be set to "use by moderators only." Other attributes of them could/should also be set by default by the system, such as the ones that don't really apply (e.g.

Mark -- I'm thinking that we need some way to distinguish between the system-generated notification and a message with the #file or #wiki added by a subscriber. In the former case, I might want to

Yes, separate block. I'm about to go back and revisit Mark's question about whether notifications should be in a separate place, or something. I did not even understand the question at that point

Mark, I don't know how many people browse privately as a matter of course, but I suspect it might be non-trivial. I'm thinking you might consider adding something to the effect of "(Some browsers do

Mark I am pleased to see that the Notify Members checkbox when a file isuploaded is now checked by default. I would be unhappy if the feature wasremoved as I periodically move files around from one

Actually I tested it only for the #wiki tag, and my prior message refers to that. It needs to be tested for all of them at this point. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially