Thanks, Mark. I did email you some examples. I think Notes do correctly appear in the Past Members list but didn’t use to. However, Owner Messages currently appear only in the Banned Members list, and not the Past Members list, so you still have to ban a past member of yoh want to see those. Hopefully that can be fixed, too.

Call me

J the Snoop

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On Jul 22, 2019, at 2:01 PM, Mark Fletcher <markf@corp.groups.io> wrote:

Well, this topic has unfortunately taken on a life.

I'm not sure how keeping/referring to information about past users could be considered snooping or be in any way illicit. The Past Members list is a feature of premium groups that several people asked for, and seems pretty useful to me. What J has been doing was trying to work around a perceived limitation of the feature. I think that limitation has already been fixed, but I certainly can't fault her for doing what she did and I don't think she was doing anything wrong.

Dano said some things I agree with:

I'm saddened in a way to see how beta has changed in the last year or so. The more I read, the more I hear people trying to tell other people what they should and shouldn't be doing.

This also bums me out. I will definitely take some blame and readily admit that I'm not the best moderator; perhaps I could have steered things better. I would appreciate it if we could turn the group back to a more positive, helpful place.

 

I also read more and more discussions of technical things and the use of terms and acronyms that are undefined in the discussion, which push many non-technical people out of discussions.

I will take some of the blame for this, like my PSPTubes mention earlier today. If I ever use an acronym that isn't clear, please call me on it.

Also, I may not have explicitly said this before, but I will here: If I don't respond to a feature request or a question, please don't read anything into that other than my plate/inbox is overflowing. You can take comfort in knowing that you join an elite group of exceptional people who have not gotten responses from me. Be assured that I do read everything. In light of my not-very-exceptional inbox management skills, feature request bumps every once in awhile are fine.

I think it's important to remember that we all have the same goals here: to make Groups.io better, and to have free donuts on Sundays. Or at least one of those goals. I appreciate and am grateful for the passion in the service that has led all of you to be here.

Thanks,
Mark

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J

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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

Well, this topic has unfortunately taken on a life.

I'm not sure how keeping/referring to information about past users could be considered snooping or be in any way illicit. The Past Members list is a feature of premium groups that several people asked for, and seems pretty useful to me. What J has been doing was trying to work around a perceived limitation of the feature. I think that limitation has already been fixed, but I certainly can't fault her for doing what she did and I don't think she was doing anything wrong.

Dano said some things I agree with:

I'm saddened in a way to see how beta has changed in the last year or so. The more I read, the more I hear people trying to tell other people what they should and shouldn't be doing.

This also bums me out. I will definitely take some blame and readily admit that I'm not the best moderator; perhaps I could have steered things better. I would appreciate it if we could turn the group back to a more positive, helpful place.

 

I also read more and more discussions of technical things and the use of terms and acronyms that are undefined in the discussion, which push many non-technical people out of discussions.

I will take some of the blame for this, like my PSPTubes mention earlier today. If I ever use an acronym that isn't clear, please call me on it.

Also, I may not have explicitly said this before, but I will here: If I don't respond to a feature request or a question, please don't read anything into that other than my plate/inbox is overflowing. You can take comfort in knowing that you join an elite group of exceptional people who have not gotten responses from me. Be assured that I do read everything. In light of my not-very-exceptional inbox management skills, feature request bumps every once in awhile are fine.

I think it's important to remember that we all have the same goals here: to make Groups.io better, and to have free donuts on Sundays. Or at least one of those goals. I appreciate and am grateful for the passion in the service that has led all of you to be here.

Thanks,
Mark

OK, I see your original request and agree with that:

"...request to make the info in Past Members conform to the info in Banned member list..."

But I do think in the interest of transparency, that people should be notified they are banned if they try to log in, it seems like a different issue. 

However, it's not a huge deal.  I guess if someone left my group and didn't respond to my repeated requests/questions about why, I would take it as a sign they no longer want to interact and I wouldn't bother trying to find out more.  But that's me.

Barb

On 2019-07-22 01:23 PM, J_Catlady wrote:

It's irrelevant. I may look at their history even if thy DO answer the question are. 

 

On Jul 22, 2019, at 10:21 AM, Barbara Byers <babmay11@...> wrote:

If you want to know why they leave the group, why don't you just ask them.  It does seem creepy to snoop around after not telling them they were banned.  Just MHO, so I would NOT be in favor of keeping it from the people you've banned.

Barb

 

On 2019-07-21 01:03 PM, J_Catlady wrote:

Wow. This has nothing to do with punishing them for not responding. In the interest of my group, I simply want to see a record of their interaction, and any notes I or another mod might have made in their Notes page, to better understand why they left. This is not "nosying around after them." This is an attempt to understand why people may be leaving the group, and which people might be leaving and why, The information is available, and this is simply a technical issue. The banned members list retains more information than the past members list.

Your criticism is inappropriate.

On Jul 21, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Helen <helen@...> wrote:

I'm gobsmacked that you use the ban function in this way. If people don't wish to respond to your goodbye message, that's their prerogative. IMO nosying around after them in other ways is inappropriate and abuse of the feature.

Helen

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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. - Desmond Tutu

--
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. - Desmond Tutu

It's irrelevant. I may look at their history even if thy DO answer the question are. 

 

On Jul 22, 2019, at 10:21 AM, Barbara Byers <babmay11@...> wrote:

If you want to know why they leave the group, why don't you just ask them.  It does seem creepy to snoop around after not telling them they were banned.  Just MHO, so I would NOT be in favor of keeping it from the people you've banned.

Barb

 

On 2019-07-21 01:03 PM, J_Catlady wrote:

Wow. This has nothing to do with punishing them for not responding. In the interest of my group, I simply want to see a record of their interaction, and any notes I or another mod might have made in their Notes page, to better understand why they left. This is not "nosying around after them." This is an attempt to understand why people may be leaving the group, and which people might be leaving and why, The information is available, and this is simply a technical issue. The banned members list retains more information than the past members list.

Your criticism is inappropriate.

On Jul 21, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Helen <helen@...> wrote:

I'm gobsmacked that you use the ban function in this way. If people don't wish to respond to your goodbye message, that's their prerogative. IMO nosying around after them in other ways is inappropriate and abuse of the feature.

Helen

-- 
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. - Desmond Tutu

--
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. - Desmond Tutu

If you want to know why they leave the group, why don't you just ask them.  It does seem creepy to snoop around after not telling them they were banned.  Just MHO, so I would NOT be in favor of keeping it from the people you've banned.

Barb

 

On 2019-07-21 01:03 PM, J_Catlady wrote:

Wow. This has nothing to do with punishing them for not responding. In the interest of my group, I simply want to see a record of their interaction, and any notes I or another mod might have made in their Notes page, to better understand why they left. This is not "nosying around after them." This is an attempt to understand why people may be leaving the group, and which people might be leaving and why, The information is available, and this is simply a technical issue. The banned members list retains more information than the past members list.

Your criticism is inappropriate.

On Jul 21, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Helen <helen@...> wrote:

I'm gobsmacked that you use the ban function in this way. If people don't wish to respond to your goodbye message, that's their prerogative. IMO nosying around after them in other ways is inappropriate and abuse of the feature.

Helen

-- 
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. - Desmond Tutu

Wow. This has nothing to do with punishing them for not responding. In the interest of my group, I simply want to see a record of their interaction, and any notes I or another mod might have made in their Notes page, to better understand why they left. This is not "nosying around after them." This is an attempt to understand why people may be leaving the group, and which people might be leaving and why, The information is available, and this is simply a technical issue. The banned members list retains more information than the past members list.

Your criticism is inappropriate.

On Jul 21, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Helen <helen@...> wrote:

I'm gobsmacked that you use the ban function in this way. If people don't wish to respond to your goodbye message, that's their prerogative. IMO nosying around after them in other ways is inappropriate and abuse of the feature.

Helen

-- 
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. - Desmond Tutu

Dano, I totally agree with everything you have said.  I have also stopped reading so many of the messages for the same reason as you.  I've also when with the group for a long while.
Judy F.
SW Florida - USA

Yes, Dano misunderstood. The original request was to change something that’s seemingly a bug, or minimally an oversight, to conform with what was the majority opinion here, and Mark’s subsequent agreement and decision, namely: not to notify members when they are banned from a group. 

The rest of it  - the consequences of the oversight with respect to my creative use of banning - is meaningless and could have been left out. The fact that I’m using banning as a workaround is meaningless and irrelevant.

The request is to make the system consistent with respect to not explicitly notifying members when they have banned.

The implicit request to make the info in Past Members conform to the info in Banned members is a reiteration of many requests I’ve made here and given up on, because it seems that because of the way the various lists work, that’s been too hard to implement.

I’m done referred to last night. It’s a whole new day in which to fight more misconceptions and misinterpretations! 😊

On Jul 22, 2019, at 9:30 AM, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:21 AM, D R Stinson wrote:

I see a lot of piling-on here, and I don't understand why. What you're suggesting, Bruce, is what I interpreted as what J was asking for in the first place.

The original message is https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/21683. I quote it verbatim:

"Is it possible to fix this but [sic] changing it back to what it was (i.e., people are not informed they're banned from a group)?"

This request still strikes me as a bastardization of an existing work-around, and eliminating the need for the work-around strikes me as a more appropriate course of action. If that's piling on, consider me a piler...if you agree, then I don't see where the problem is.

Regards,
Bruce

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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. - Desmond Tutu