moderated Really lock a topic #suggestion
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Locked topics can still be posted to by Mods and co-Owners. It would be nice if there was some Message Policy setting to disable this.
Thanks for your consideration, Bruce
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This was a long and hard-won battle but I don’t see a problem with an option to disable.
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On Oct 31, 2021, at 9:33 AM, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 12:47 PM, J_Catlady wrote:
This was a long and hard-won battle...J -- My use case, if that helps: We have a Moderator who posts a weekly "news note." It's an announcement; she doesn't want any replies. So I created a hashtag to lock the topic immediately. Nonetheless, it seems that every week one of the other Mods posts a well-meaning "thank-you" message or something of the sort. Short of taking away their Mod privileges, I have to way to prevent them from doing this. For my edification, I would be interested in hearing more about the "battle" you are referring to. Regards, Bruce
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 12:14 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:
I would be interested in hearing more about the "battle" you are referring to.Without a mod's ability to post to a lock topic, any time you wanted to lock a topic, assuming you wanted to announce that it was locked - and I usually do, you had to post the announcement FIRST, and then rush to lock it before anybody posted to it. You can now lock it and then announce that it's locked. Immediately after it was implemented, I noticed that even Mark started to take advantage of it, by first locking a topic and then making the announcement. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 12:14 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:
J -- My use case, if that helps:That should be addressed to Mark. I don't care if there's an opt-out. Whether he thinks it's worth implementing the disable option is up to him. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 03:51 PM, J_Catlady wrote:
Without a mod's ability to post to a lock topic, any time you wanted to lock a topic, assuming you wanted to announce that it was locked - and I usually do, you had to post the announcement FIRST, and then rush to lock it before anybody posted to it. You can now lock it and then announce that it's locked.Ah, you're talking about sequential posts to an existing topic. I remember some discussion along those lines. For creating new topics locking with a hashtag seems a lot simpler. I wish I didn't have so many Moderators. Unfortunately, I'm kinda stuck with it. We have a lot of contributors to the group (a Secretary who uploads meeting minutes, a Membership Coordinator who maintains backup Excel files, etc). I want them to be able to [mainly] use the file repository without giving that permission to everybody, and the only way I can do that is to make them all Mods. Regards, Bruce
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Not sure what you’re saying. The topic IS “existing” once it’s created, n’est ce pas? So what’s the difference, functionally? You’ve got a locked topic (even if there’s only a single message in it) and you don’t want certain mods to post to it because of their annoying habits (or whatever). I need the functionality of allowing mods to post to locked topics. So make your case to Mark for the ability to disable that. :-)
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On Oct 31, 2021, at 2:11 PM, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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In addition to the locking problem, sometimes it’s useful to issue some sort of final pronouncement or piece of info on a locked topic, without opening it all up again (and without having to change it to moderated, etc). But this case was all made before and Mark made his decision, so I’m not going to make the case all over again.
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On Oct 31, 2021, at 2:23 PM, J_Catlady via groups.io <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 02:11 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:
the only way I can do that is to make them all Mods.BTW, you could put them on moderation. You probably don't want to do that, but it's not true that all mods necessarily have blanket permission to post. They could still do all their uploads. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Donald Hellen
Bruce . . .
On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 14:11:53 -0700, "Bruce Bowman" <bruce.bowman@tds.net> wrote: I wish I didn't have so many Moderators. Unfortunately, I'm kinda stuck with it.If you're the group owner, can't you just remove moderators you wish were not moderators? Feelings aside, sometimes that is necessary. Maybe getting rid of the moderators who might post to locked topics might be a better solution than changing the way this works? I can see a good case for J_Catlady's side and allow you to lock the topic FIRST, then make an announcement it's locked. Donald ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM https://groups.io/g/Ham-Antennas https://groups.io/g/HamRadioHelp https://groups.io/g/Baofeng https://groups.io/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 04:49 PM, Donald Hellen wrote:
I can see a good case for J_Catlady's sideThis does not need to be relitigated! I don't have a "side." I don't care if Mark implements a disable option for this. But I assume it's not going to be completely redone on the basis of a few uncontrollable moderators. If anything needs to be done, it should, and I assume would, be simply the disable option that Bruce is asking for. Which is absolutely fine with me. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Here are a few practical options/alternatives:
1. Put the mods on moderation who you don't want to post to locked topics. They can still upload their files, etc. 2. Have a hashtag called #Locked that you can put on topics where you want it to be very obvious they're locked, and instruct your mods not to post to those. Presumably they can read. 3. Create a new moderator permission called "Post to locked topics." -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Andy
I'm not following this thread closely, but I want to suggest another option (I think):
When a Moderator attempts to reply to a Locked topic, make that reply Pending. Then another Moderator can accept it or reject it. Even the Moderator who posted it can accept it; but that additional step should make them stop and think, and realize that it was locked and maybe they should not have tried to reply. Not foolproof, but it's better than now where a Moderator posts a reply without realizing that it was locked. Andy
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Not a bad idea.
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On Oct 31, 2021, at 9:05 PM, Andy <AI.egrps+io@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Bruce,
Based on Andy's suggestion, here's your solution: make your locked topics moderated as well as locked. That will require any posts to it to go through moderation. I justed tested and confirmed this. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 10:25 AM, J_Catlady wrote:
Based on Andy's suggestion, here's your solution: make your locked topics moderated as well as locked.Wouldn't that cause her first message to be moderated, too? Don't want to do that. On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 07:49 PM, Donald Hellen wrote: If you're the group owner, can't you just remove moderators you wish were not moderators?I already explained why that is not desirable (Ref: https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/30701). Regards, Bruce
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No.
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On Nov 1, 2021, at 4:04 PM, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Oops, yes it would. But actually that seems pretty crazy. You should be able to create a topic with either a moderated or a locked hashtag or both and have the first message post normally. I will do some further testing. This seems to be a design bug.
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Bruce and all, Yet the description of "Moderated" for a hashtag reads: "Messages with this hashtag will be moderated." (It should read "Topics" rather than "Messages" but that's another issue.) -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Donald Hellen
Bruce . . .
On Mon, 01 Nov 2021 16:04:39 -0700, "Bruce Bowman" <bruce.bowman@tds.net> wrote: I already explained why that is not desirable (Ref: https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/30701).Maybe it's just an educational thing then. You must trust them enough to upload files, so maybe they just aren't aware of your expectations? Donald ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM https://groups.io/g/Ham-Antennas https://groups.io/g/HamRadioHelp https://groups.io/g/Baofeng https://groups.io/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main
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