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Hello everyone,
I am the originator and co-owner of [email protected]. I can shed some light on occasional posts of this type (not necessarily this post, but it seems like a good reason to jump in, along with noting our first year of service!) --- About 2 months ago, the other Dave (our co-owner) suggested we change the group's new user policy to allow immediate join, but have "new user moderated", meaning that a new person can immediately join the group without delay (allowing reading messages the file/wiki archives), but may not freely post until their first post has been manually validated by either of the Daves (the post will be held and both of us will receive a notification e-mail when this happens). This was done to streamline the administrative workload (our group is now well over 6000 members, almost exactly a year since it was started 6/3/2019), as the number of first-post events is smaller than the number of join events (the change immediately had the desired effect for the two Daves). Usually the first post moderation clearance happens within a few hours at most, but occasionally a little longer as both of us are occasionally asleep at the same time or otherwise unavailable (we're both in US, in two separate time zones.) So, if you have joined the group at some point, and make your first-ever post (a new message post or a reply post), and don't see your first post appear in your e-mail (if you are on single message delivery), the next digest e-mail (there are usually several per day), or on the group's web interface messages area, it's awaiting new user moderation clearance, and once cleared, your posts will appear as quickly as system conditions permit. By the way, neither of the new user mechanisms (manually approve join request, but allow immediate posting, or automatically approve join requests, but moderate first posting) are foolproof at preventing spam (which is why groups.io doesn't permit a group to exist which has neither of these mechanisms in place) (we've been spammed a couple of times, the best way to handle that is to immediately flag the post as offensive, which will notify the two Daves who will ban the user and usually clean up the archives, although we can't prevent the spam and any follow-up posts from appearing in e-mail deliveries) without resorting to even more time/delay intensive moderation processes, so overall the current seems to be a reasonable balance between administrative workload and preserving the SNR (integrity) of the group. Thanks again for your interest and participation in nanovna-users on groups.io! 73, Dave |
