Update: New Abandoned Groups Guideline
Big thanks to everyone for posting all of the great input and suggestions on the new Abandoned Groups Guideline we’re developing.
Next steps are for us to continue making our way through all of the comments you left and incorporating our thoughts, then drafting the post. Once we have the internal sign-off, we’ll share the new Guideline with all of you.
Thanks again for sharing your thoughts on how best to resolve this on-going issue!
Best,
Yahoo! Groups Team
joann_breslin said,
November 1, 2008 @ 8:07 pm
As to guideline #6, perhaps it would make sense to prohibit advertising that is not done by a member. so a member could mention his or her new book, give you a link to the book’s new cover, and estimated print date, etc.
Any non-member could not post any advertising.
Joann
Jeanetta Mastron said,
November 2, 2008 @ 2:40 am
Yahoo site call Pharmacy lsland been in acgtive as moderator/owner gone awol for nearly 2 years. Was a great site at one time!
Same for Pharmacy Tech Talk owner Joy gone awol for over 5 years. We all get spam. I stay joined to these two sites just so that I can direct newbies to other active yahoo sites. But I am so tired of spam and the newbies are about 4 times a year! PLEASE get rid of these two sites.
Jeanetta Mastron
yahoo group owner of Jeanetta’s PTCB Study Group
Ellen R said,
November 19, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
In the mean time, could you let your customer care people know that Yahoo! is (or will be) changing the way that you are handling abandoned group adoption requests?
I know from posts that I’ve read, that some groups have already been adopted - but there still are other posts where they say that they requested to adopt, but were told that Yahoo! won’t do that and for them to start their own (different) group.
Hey, the sooner you get started, the sooner you’ll get this abandoned group mess cleared up.
Arbi said,
November 22, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
What I can get about share the new Guideline ?
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November 26, 2008 @ 12:28 am
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Michael Appelmans said,
December 3, 2008 @ 8:22 am
Well, here it is Dec 3rd and we’ve seen nothing on dealing with abandoned groups since Oct 28th. Our group owner passed away more than a year ago without leaving a moderator in place and although we can prove his demise we still have no means of managing the group and moderating the spam. If Yahoo! moves this slowly on the interweb they are likely to get run over by the more adept and adaptive providers out there. I think a valuable lesson can be learned from GM’s impending demise. Move it or loose it!
Viv said,
January 3, 2009 @ 4:49 pm
I’m also in that situation - one group I’m in has been abandoned by the owner and is being overrun with pornographic spam. Sometimes even the TITLES are too disgusting for words. Several of us have sent notes the group owner e-mail addy, and have gotten no response. We’ve tried reporting to the Yahoo Abuse folks, but they tell us to contact the group owner - when told that the group owner has vanished, they say they’ll look into it, but this has been about 6 months in coming with NO assistance. This pus pocket is posting from g-mail so we’ve also contacted them - nothing from g-mail either. When is this procedure going to be put into place so we can save an otherwise good group?
Thanks
Viv