What Do The Moderators Do?
1. Chad Moderators watch for Spam! It gets deleted and the spammer gets removed and banned.
2. Chad Moderators approve or deny member requests to join. What is involved with approving or denying a request to join are several things.
- A. Does the requesting member have a Yahoo profile? If there is no profile, we email the requesting member and tell them they need a profile to join CHAD. The profile should be checked to ensure it is not inappropriate for a Family Friendly Group. Some profiles contain no information besides the Yahoo ID; this is OK.
- B. Did the requesting member return the required survey? If the survey is not returned, then the request will be denied. (There may be exceptions if the member gives a really good explanation of why they want to join.) Although the survey indicates it must be returned in 48 hours, we generally hold the pending requests for 4 days. This does eliminate the majority of requests that join only to spam.
- C. If the requesting member has an inappropriate email address the request is denied. This is a Family Friendly Group. Folks with an @blogger.com email address are automatically rejected. (The thief used an @blogger.com email address.)
The above procedures were put into place due to thieves stealing CHAD posts and posting them on a blog.
3. CHAD Moderators approve or reject moderated posts. Some posts need to be edited, mainly for new folks who don't trim. This is what most of the moderating entails. Sometimes members who are not moderated have been put on moderation for inappropriate posts. This doesn't happen often, when it does happen, it is usually for inappropriate language.
4. CHAD Moderators check the bouncing members list. This mainly involves requests to Yahoo for Email Account Reactivation. There are between 30 and 40 members who are constantly in a bouncing state. They are generally Yahoo email users whose accounts are 'over the limit'. Once or twice a month the member list is checked to be sure no one is using a blogger.com or a Grouply email address. If one is found, the member will be removed.
(Since requiring the survey to be completed and returned, the number of new members on the bouncing list has greatly diminished. I suspect the survey has prevented people from joining who no longer have a valid email address in their Yahoo profile.)