Bob, >>> I'm sure I have at least one moderator who keeps digests. I hope. You can setup an archive gmail account and have it get everything (from now on) from the group,

... BB| 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

On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 04:13 AM, JohnF wrote: John the person concerned says she was not on the computer at the time this happened and has not been on the database page for several weeks. Mark, I

I don't get it. If the offense was posting a defamatory message, then why worry about deleting the message? The damage was done when that member posted the message, years ago. It seems to me that if

You would have no way of enforcing the no-deletion other than removing the member of putting them on moderation if they do it. You can't prevent members from deleting their own posts in groups.io. You

I'm just not seeing that, nor am I seeing a need for a defense. It's gone from your site. Over and done. Regarding keeping tabs on members' actions, why not request an optional notification for post

Hi Duane and others. We have a rule on our buying and selling group, that members cannot delete or edit their approved ads (messages). As moderators, we refer to those messages to confirm various

J. Groups.io doesn't flag moderators/owners when someone deletes a post. So he deleted it after I moderated him and before I could copy it. While there are about 3200 copies in our members' hands an

True 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

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

More likely I just edit it to redact the vet name. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

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,

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.

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

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

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,

There was a suggestion related to this back in 2018. I'm not aware that anything happened. Regards Andy

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

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

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