Could I Have a Completely Disconnect Button?

Just don't hold your breath, Ron.

mmmmff?

I'll stand by with an oxygen tank, then.

I'm plugging away, but I really have no hope of finding this person in Nonconformists.

He will raise his obnoxious head again, and you'll be there with your trusty button to nail him.

I got rid of a guy from Tibet with a click of the button. He was out for my blood and hated all of what he considered overpriviliged Americans.

Great idea! I wonder if we are getting hit by the same person.

Ron, I guess I am lucky as I haven't ever had this problem, knock on wood, but I can feel ya for the need of that darn button.

I've recently come to the conclusion that I have to moderate more of my groups. Not a huge deal because my groups aren't that big, but people don't look very closely at the criteria. With so many groups getting to big, you'd think that a search within groups feature might be possible someday

One of many annoying little glitches.... like the inability to scroll thru lists (of articles, connections, groups, etc...), Goin one page at a time is absurd.

Ruth, I've had a couple wing nuts I was able to get away from by booting them from a couple groups, and they had the good sense to not join any more of my groups.

Tiffanie, I don't want to give any names, because I LOATHE fights on Gather, once they get started.

Stephanie, it's only happened about 4 times that I want to be rid of someone, but it can be a chore if that person has joined a lot of my groups.

Gretchen, one of the deciding factors is that this person said they moderate their own groups, and reject articles all the time.

Nancy, I wonder if Gather wouldn't benefit from volunteer groups that brainstorm on problems. They need to not restrict traffic also, so I think that may have something with the site being welcoming even to pests. And then, how do we define a pest and screen the person out without creating situations where Nancy and Ron don't inadvertently get caught in the net. I've already been warned once, and I have the audacity to think *I'm* not a problem. In other words, rules are problematic. I agree we need better navigation and information-finding tools; you're sure right about that.

I vote for alphabetical order to connections and groups and go to option instead of page by page by page. I feel for the people with dial up connections. It could take hours to get to that last page and you have no idea which page the thing you are looking for is on. ARgh!
Have a great day Ron and I hope the gather Gods hear your prayer.

Ron,

Gather could hire a group of twelve Gatherites for a year contract and let them look at gather from a users point of view. It could be a part time job for these twelve. After a year try twelve different members and so on.

Nana, I would really appreciate alphabetical everything, or at least the ability to arrange items alphabetically. If when someone were posting, their groups would show up alphabetically, I think temptation to post to all of their groups would be greatly reduced.

Patrick, that sounds perfectly reasonable to me, and given that some on here are actually doing it for the cash, my guess is they wouldn't have to pay too much to attract quality applicants. They could also look at the member's "performance" to decide whether they wanted to hire them or not.

I believe I've only cut loose two people also Dan. One wasn't even connected to me, but he was creepy in the extreme, and I didn't want him in any of my groups.

What a great little ditty!

Ron, so much of what we wish we could do on gather is just a little SQL statement away...and away it will most likely stay. ;-)

...some days I find myself wanting to check the boxes in the group setup that make the group totally moderated...but who has the time to review every post?

Thanks, Sue. I prefer to sing a happier tune, and it's a sort of a downer.

Mr Bill, I only have one moderated group, and I've had to reject about 20 items from this person . . . who, I swear will remain nameless. This is not a bad person, just a little bit too inconsiderate.

I disconnected from a few, but gained a lot more. It all pans out. Good Article Ron.

Oh Ron - You have read my mind! I have had this issue too many times with not just deleting memberships, but for looking for things in general. I also have had people who thought I owned Gather and was declining their posts for all of Gather. No matter how much I tried to help, I was still the bad person! Some people honestly just do not get the concept of groups being topical. It makes it where I get exhausted just thinking about having to approve things. In other words, I feel your pain and second your motion!

There are only a few creeps, Ron. Of course, it dosen't hurt to chew on them a little defore cutting them loose; they're less anxious to come back.

Monica, I was very self-conscious about rejecting articles for a while, and then I just accepted that this is a different world. In a small town, annoying people can get by because everyone else in town has to see them every day. On the web, there are millions of inhabitants, and if they can't behave, they need to go to MySpace (sp?).

I have moderated groups and I like the ability that I have to boot out those who insist in constantly posting stuff that doesn't belong . I also like it that If this person persists I can also block them. Only have had to to this with a couple of people.

I would be happy for better ways to find people and groups Wendy. The ability to sort by state, alpha by name, alpha by Gather name, etc. would be great.

Alpha would be a great idea. : )

Sarina, if I could order my groups alphabetically, I could post to three of them, and do so in one tenth of the time it takes to go through and read the name of each randomly ordered group name.

Ron - what I do with some members instead of banning them from the group is to remove their posting priveleges. It is an option in their membership screen. This way they still get all group notices and can read anything else in the group, but the group does not appear in their list of groups to publish to. I have yet to have anyone complain about that.

Interesting, Monica. This must be a somewhat new feature for group owners. I need to reacquaint myself with the options as they stand today.

Hey, found it. You still have to scroll through all those members, but it does give you flexibility for member privileges. I like it. I know a number of people I would like to give more privileges.

Those features have always been there, but many have never realized it. I have been using them from pretty close to day one of groups.

Monica, I can surely see how managing each member's privilege would help the quality of the interactions. Thank you.

Ron,
I've got a quirky member in the "Corn Dog" group. I only send group emails out to members of my group every two months or so, and this certain "member" always emails me back and threatens me with a "knock it off, or else" threat. I'd like to bid him farewell, but looking through 2600+ members is not an option. There should be a way to police groups.

Exactly, George. Sometimes I miss someone's icon scrolling though 4 pages. Add to that this: someone who is too lazy to technically unsavvy to block emails from you probably is using the generic icon anyway . . .

Ron, here's some "good" eggs to offset the bad egg.

Happy Easter!

The Gather Easter Egg Hunt

Color is good, Mr Bill. This egg was as white as a blank page.

heh , I am reading this a year later and I guess they didn't take this suggestion up " I vote for alphabetical order to connections and groups and go to option instead of page by page by page. "

Wendy, I like that a lot. Yes, I go to group members, there's a drop down, I type in "M", it takes me to beginning of he group members starting with M. Or, I go to "M"s account, select their groups, and filter "groups owned by me", and then I can boot them from 4 of my groups without having to go into any of the groups. Actually, I only turn off their ability to post, but anything like that would be sweet.