Adding Members in Bulk
From:
Kirsty Wild
Date:
May 08 22:32 UTC
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Hi there,
Thanks for that. Yeah, I think you really do need the same process for
site members as for new members, as group administrators have no way of
knowing whether someone already belongs to another group or not, so when
they go to send an 'invite' to a site member, they will actually be
signing them up without their permission, which is a) totally not
something a group administrator wants to be doing, and b)something the
person receiving the email is going to be understandly pretty unhappy
about.
Cheers,
Kirsty
Kirsty Wild
Researcher
Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE)
Massey University
09 414 0800 ext. 41357
<email obscured>
www.shore.ac.nz
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Randow [mailto:<email obscured>]
Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2008 5:15 p.m.
To: OnlineGroups.Net Administrators
Subject: Re: [OGN Admins] Adding Members in Bulk
Kirsty wrote
> I would like them to get the first email, inviting them to join,
> rather than email saying they are already joined up (without being
> given the opportunity to accept an invite!).
We made the decision to "just add" existing site members to groups,
rather then invite them to join, because existing site members already
have some kind of trust relationship with the site administrator, who
would usually only delegate group administration to someone trusted.
We know that this is able to be abused, or that mistakes could result in
people being added to groups that they don't want to be in, but we judge
that this risk is minor. The impact of this is also relatively low, as
it is not that hard to leave a group.
We could use the same invitation process with site members that we use
with new members, but that would make extra work for the existing site
members.
Dan
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