I
designed this page to help out those who will be in charge of JABB in
the event of my absence. But anyone can feel free to browse
through this. As I stated on the main Self-Help Page,
please email me if you do not find the answers to your questions here.
God bless,
Jenni- JABB Co-founder
1. How do I moderate someone?
2. How do I approve messages from moderated people?
3. What do I do if
a bad message gets through?
4. How do I approve memberships?
5. How do I unmoderate someone?
6. How do I unsubscribe someone who requests it?
1. How do I
moderate someone?
A.
Log in to Yahoogroups and once at JABB's page there,
click on Members.
B. Locate the
problematic member. (I find it easiest to do this by using the
alphabet links at the bottom of the page.)
C. Click on Edit
Membership.
D. Under Membership
Privileges, click Edit by Posting Messages.
E. Click circle by
"Messages posted by this member are moderated."
F. Click "Save Changes."
G. Good job, they're
moderated!
2. How do I
approve messages from moderated people?
A.
Click on Pending under Messages on the menu at the left side.
B. Click on the Subject
of the message to preview it. If it's okay, select "Approve" from
the pulldown menu under status. Click "Save Changes." If
it's not okay, just ignore it so I can deal with it after I get
back. Please don't delete it because I always want to know what's
going on, no matter how bad.
C. Remember, the person
won't be notified that they're being moderated.
D. Also, YahooGroups generally sends out an email saying there
are messages waiting for approval. You can approve messages via
email, too. The email itself will tell you how.
3. What do I
do if a bad
message gets through?
A.
Don't panic! Just calmly moderate the person. We might
discuss later if going straight to banning might be a better option but
for now, let's stick with moderating.
B. If people get upset,
tell them matters are taken care of and not to worry but just to ignore
the post since the person probly is wanting attention and giving it
will only encourage them. Comfort those the person may have
offended.
C. I will delete the
message upon my return if appropriate. Just don't delete anything
yourself until I have had a chance to make a file on the incident.
4. How do I
approve memberships?
A.
This is simple, just hit reply on the email you're sent notifying you
of a potential member. Send it. Don't even have to type
anything. You're done!
B. If you choose to
approve the membership via the web, just log into JABB's YG site.
Under Members on the left hand side, click Pending.
C. Choose Approve.
D. Click Save Changes.
E. If there's anything
suspicious about the sub request, either wait until I return or be sure
to keep them on moderated and carefully read their posts before
approving (which is what YG is set to do as default, anyhow).
5. How do I unmoderate
someone?
In
the event that someone subscribes that you know very well or is just
the alter-ego of an existing member, you may want to turn off the
automatic moderation. You can do so by following these steps:
A. Locate the account you wish to unmoderate.
B. Click on
Edit Membership.
C. Under Membership
Privileges, click Edit by Posting Messages.
D. Click circle by
"Use current group message posting setting."
F. Click "Save Changes."
G. Yay, they're
unmoderated!
6. How do I
unsubscribe someone who requests it?
They really should be able to do
it themselves. There's an Unsubscribe link at the bottom of every
YG email. But since they asked...
A. Locate their account in the JABB@YG membership list.
B. Check the box on the right hand side after their name.
It's below Remove Member. Just make sure theirs is the only
box you check.
C. Click Save Changes.
D. They're now unsubscribed. Please save a copy of their
unsubscription request for me.