Hi Josiah > I just noticed that it appears a reader can no longer "close" a thread. > > I assume that is a side effect of the recent changes in the admin system? > > Quite often authors of threads request that (as it is not possible for the > author of the thread to close it) it be closed when they got an answer that > solves it. > > Are moderators now going to look for that? It seemed to work fine before.
As discussed above, the Google Groups permissions are not very granular. We’ve changed a single setting called “Moderation” and it appears to affect pinning, tagging, closing — pretty much everything except post. Best wishes Jeremy > > Best wishes > Josiah > > On Saturday, 7 December 2019 12:37:34 UTC+1, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> I could be wrong, but it looks like the feature has already been turned off. >> I did feel that the original list of tags was too broad. > > It sounds like tagging is classified under the same “moderation” permission > that governs the ability to pin posts. > > We could revert the change, but perhaps the solution here is to appoint some > more group managers. The top 10 posters according to Google Groups are below. > Eric is already a group manager, but it might be good if maybe 3 or 4 of > these people volunteered for the role. > TonyM > Mohammad > TiddlyTweeter > Mark S > Arlen > Eric > A Gloom > PMario > (me) > Jed (inmysocks) > See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/tiddlywiki > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/tiddlywiki> > > The group managers would: > Help Eric with moderating posts flagged by Google as spam > Pin and unpin threads > Compile pinned anthology posts summarising important announcements and > discussions > And perhaps use whatever other useful moderation features may be lurking > under the surface of Google Groups > It also seems like we need to be more transparent about the rules and > conventions we’re following to manage the group. I’d suggest adding a tiddler > to tiddlywiki.com <http://tiddlywiki.com/> in which we describe our approach > (for example, guidelines about when to pin a thread, or a thread from last > year where I posted about the need to criticise ideas rather than people). > Perhaps we actually need two: one called “Moderation Policies” focusing on > the role of group managers and one called “Code of Conduct” focusing on the > standards of behaviour we expect from everyone in the group. > > I’d welcome any advice/thoughts from people who have experience of other > online communities. I’m sure we can do a better job overall, and I suspect > more formal roles in the community will be a part of it. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > >> >> On Friday, December 6, 2019 at 4:55:32 AM UTC-8, TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> In another thread ... >> >> Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> * Pinning should never have been globally available. I appreciate the >> argument that no great harm was done, but it evidently created confusion as >> to who could see that a thread had been pinned >> * We should agree on general rules for what threads might qualify for being >> pinned. To me, pinning would start with urgent announcements (e.g. if >> discovered a serious bug in a release and wanted to warn people to upgrade), >> important on-going informational threads like “Newbies start here” >> >> Ciao Jeremy >> >> In another thread >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/gWtX7uGi2QQ/xg6sv0PICQAJ> we >> discussing user v. admin privileges re PINS. >> >> Here I want to ask about TAGS. >> >> First I just want to check IF you are aware that at the moment any user can >> both add or delete TAGS on any post? >> >> + In a way its v. good in that missing tags get added. >> + Its good that an original author who has not added them may have them >> added by an enthusiastic user >> >> - in another way its not ideal as these don't get documented and the >> numbers could get vast... >> - I see no place user added tags get listed. >> >> For example, this post I gave tags: "question GoogleGroup tags" >> >> Tags have proved very useful for finding things here. 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