On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:46 am, Marv Waschke wrote:
What do other practical moderators think?
This risks getting me burnt at the stake for heresy but here goes...
I find myself wondering just how useful hashtags actually
are. On the Group I moderate* (no subgroups BTW) we have a few "Moderators Only" hashtags, but providing some for members to use is under consideration.
As a preparatory move I set up a poll yesterday to try to establish exactly how our members use our Group, and perhaps by extension how they use Groups.io. Now it's far too soon to conclude what the final result will be but the very early indication is that the majority of members** only use the web UI occasionally or less, right down to "never" because they rely solely on emails.
Look at a web UI with hastags; their presence is unmissable because they can be quite eye - grabbing; OTOH anyone using an email UI will find a (small) #hashtag in the subject line of the email, but only if they either look for it or spot it by chance - the body of the email may give no clue that the subject of the email is hashtagged.
I will go as far as to suggest that unless you actually
know how your members are accessing Groups.io, worrying about the use of hashtags and subgroups inheriting those from a main group by default (or not) may be pointless. If your hashtags are for members' use (and not just moderators) then if they use email access either mainly or exclusively then they will have no way of adding them; they would have to log in and use the web UI and for reasons I do not understand there is evidence that (our) members just don't do that.
FWIW I find that rather annoying...
* 2900 members
** 78% at the time of writing - 0820 GMT, but on an annoying low turn - out.
Regards,
Chris.
