Laverne,
What kind of questions do you ask on your questionnaire? My Adams County, Ohio group has
almost 1600 members now and I am getting slammed with requests from what appears to be
spammers. They are getting smarter with their fake profiles.
The downside that I see is that unless someone is already in your contact list, you
message goes into their "filtered messages" box. On the windows pc version,
unless they routinely check it, they won't get the message. On my IPad, the filtered
messages do show up if and when I check my message box. but. . . .
In my group description I ask people to please message me. Most either ignore or don't
read it.
It is an issue if we want to be proactive and keep the spammers, trowlers, and porn
posters out of our closed groups.
Pauli Smith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laverne Tornow via" <usgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com>
To: "Dan Matney" <mygen2(a)d-matney.com>, usgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2016 9:44:11 AM
Subject: Re: [USGENWEB-DISCUSS] face book or not, you have the power in your own web page
I have one Facebook group geared to assist people who are researching their
Florida Pioneer Ancestors, it has over 850 members, I also have 2 co
admins there. Prospective members (people who ask to join) must answer a
prepared private message from the admins which serves to assess their
qualification for membership. Not all will respond and after 2 weeks of no
response their request to join is deleted, and not all who respond are
allowed into the group. This is a very active group and we have over 1,000
photos and files that have been uploaded to the group. To my knowledge
there are no restrictions regarding the amount of space a group or person
has available to them. This is a closed group, all groups are closed,
buone, I have a private with 2 memme and my sister, we save recipe's and
craft patterns to it for future use!
Laverne Tornow