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.
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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.
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The above procedures were put into place due to thieves stealing CHAD
posts and posting them on a blog.
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.)
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.)
