Two things. First, Quite a few old Yahoo! groups have had no new message activity (not counting membership changes) in years yet they continue to exist on the system. Is there any plan to purge groups with, say, no activity in the last three years?

Second, sometimes old groups become, effectively, unmoderated where a group owner’s e-mail address is hard bouncing, a moderator’s e-mail address is also bouncing and a third moderator is nowhere to be soon. Is there any mechanism whereby a group member can request Yahoo! Groups add them as a moderator or owner to help maintain the group?

Look forward to your reply.

Thanks,
Doug M.

2nd I was reading all of the comments on here they were pretty good except you were correct they were not about Moderators. Im a moderator as well. I moderate a chat for a group on Yahoo BBWWOMENNEXTDOORTWO. Actually through JeanniesPlace.com It’s a great sight for Big Beautiful Women and, thier admirers. We do event’s in the NJ area. We actually have three different groups Chat is this evening at 9pm to 11pm you can come and enter through JeanniesPlace.com click on bbwwomennextdoor, click on bbwchat, then enter your name pls. Thats it. Come and have some fun. We try to do a topic for the evening. We have laughs. I have been told that Im a very good moderator. So Im going to say that I will be nominating myself for your MVP. Thank you and have a very nice evening.
Tina

Thanks for the information.

However, as a member of the Yahoo! Groups Roundtable for 2008, several of my fellow Roundtable members feel like “why bother”. The suggestions we were asked to make were not listened to, your minds were already made up with what improvements you were going to do – and even admitted that you were surprised by our input. Then the Roundtable was discontinued almost 6 months ahead of schedule. No forewarning – just here one day and gone the next. Thrown away with the days trash.

We put a lot of time, thought, energy, hope and dedication into being Roundtable members. We also put a lot of time into the Yahoo! Groups and do it as volunteer positions. As I said before, I might as well just put up my own domain and subscribe to one of the V Bulletin programs so I can make the group work as we need it to.

With this said, why would we, or anyone for that matter, want to be a part of the Moderator Value Program when we were not valued as Roundtable members?

I do appreciate all those at Yahoo! do, especially Gordon. However, I certainly miss Jamie and Matt.

Sincerely,

Winona

Thanks for asking and for spreading the word!

-Melissa

Hi Melissa,

Can you tell me if it would be okay to post this message to our groups? I wouldn’t really want to nominate myself but I think it would be great if group members knew about the program and could nominate their favorite mod. Not many that I know of read the groups blog unless they are also the moderator of a group.

Thanks,
Chevy (Karen)

We’ll gradually be moving more groups over to the service in the coming weeks, so depending on where your remaining 15 groups are in the queue they should be moved over in the near future.

-Melissa