No one likes rejection. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to avoid rejecting someone, or something, on Gather due to the volume of requests we all receive.
Some rejections trigger a notification back to the member publishing the article or image, or initiating a request. On occasion, members may accept connection/join requests, and Gather Mail messages, rather than prompt a possible rejection notice back to another member. Often, this can be a difficult and uncomfortable decision, especially for newer members.
Therefore, knowing which actions send out a notification, and which do not, may be helpful.
The following actions do NOT generate a notification back to the issuing member:
Gather Mail
Blocking Gather Mail messages from another member.
Connections
Turning down a connection request.
Removing a member as your connection.
Gather Group Members
Declining an invitation to join a group.
Dropping out of a group.
Gather Group Owners
Removing a member from a group.
Changing a member's group permissions.
Subscriptions
Removing your subscription to a member, or group.
Invitations to Gather
If an non-member does, or does not, accept your invitation to join Gather.
(although, the individual may be automatically added as your connection, depending upon the type of invitation sent)
The following actions DO send out, or display, a notification to the member initiating the request, or submission:
Gather Group Owners
Declining a member's request to join a group (when membership is moderated).
Removing an article, or image from a Gather Group.
Turning down the publication of an article or image (when content is moderated).
Blocking a member from joining a group.
I hope that you 'accept' this information as beneficial...!
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Have a nice night.
I also featured a rejection Article on one of my groups to help people understand groups and to why they were rejected...Something I think every newbie goes threw.
As for my initial question, I really don't want to delete connections, but neither do I want hundreds of emails telling me that each of my connections has made a comment. Please tell me how I can make this function more selective. Thanks, Kevin.
I agree with your observations, and concerns. It has been recommended to Gather many times to add an explanatory note to rejection notices, as well as connection requests. We will have to wait and see when these suggestions materialize.
As for your question, the answer is YES! ...and no.
Here is something you can try (although it doesn't work for all members, due to a 'glitch' in the notification process):
1) Remove all notifications for your connections.
2) 'Subscribe' to the specific members you wish to receive notifications for (you can keep these private).
3) Under 'settings', identify what type of notifications you wish to receive for each member.
This should do the trick.
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Thanks for the info :-)
thanks.