Over the years we’ve received a great deal of feedback from Yahoo! Group members, that while they love the groups they are currently members of, it’s often very difficult for them to discover other relevant groups that they might also be interested in joining. In response to this feedback, the Yahoo! Groups team is testing a new feature that will make this process easier and surface recommended groups based on common members between groups. These recommendations will appear in the right hand column of Groups emails.
Here’s an example of what the new group emails will look like:
For example, if there are many common members between Minions of Evil Leonard and Feline_tamer, then the Feline_tamer group will be recommended to members of Minions of Evil Leonard. The goal is to help you connect with other people you share common interests with, so recommendations will only be made between groups that have members in common. All members within a group will see the same recommendations.
***UPDATE***
Jami Heldt
Groups Community Manager
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Why are you recommending groups to me that I am already a member of?
The recommendations are based at the group level, not at the individual member level. That is, we are only looking at groups that share members. Future enhancements of this feature will exclude your existing memberships.
Recommendations are made by looking at your group and finding other groups that share common members. If there is enough overlap between members, we will recommend the group. Future enhancements of this feature will include more relevant recommendations to you.
You can remove your group from the Yahoo Group directory to make it unlisted if you do not want it to appear in recommendations. However, we highly encourage you to stay listed as this will help interested members find you.
I’ve been getting a series of constant invitations from Yahoo groups for porn groups – How do I stop them?
I don’t mind getting invitations from groups that have to do with subjects that I already obviously have an interest in. Anybody who knows me or who checks my profile can send me any such invitations. But the invitations from these porn groups, that advertise pictures of nude girls, webcams, etc., are just another form of SPAM & I have nothing in my profile that says anything being interested in such vile filth! And Yahoo has obviously neglected to do anything about this form of SPAM, at least so far!
I have contacted Yahoo customer service at least a half a dozen times in the past two months or so since I first started getting these invitations and they have responded rather consistantly with the automated responses, basically telling me that they will get to it when they get to it. And twice they actually did respond with a follow up e-mail, saying that they are reviewing the process thru which these sites/groups on Yahoo are regulated & saying that once they have come to a decision they won’t even bother to tell me what it is since they have a confidentiality agreement to follow & that they can not comment about any one specific group, even indirectly & without mentioning a group by name. Is there a way to design or make it so that I can not receive invitations from groups that advertise specific content, such as nudity, etc.? Obviously if the ability to do this does exist it would certainly be in, or under, some “Options” or “Preferences” tab or link, either where one edits their profile, or perhaps on the Yahoo Groups homepage.
I don’t see it! If it is there then where is it!? If it is not there then why not!?? Would I get a better/faster and a more adequate response from Yahoo if I called their corporate headquarters? (I pulled this off of the “Yahoo! Privacy” web page. – Yahoo! Inc. Customer Care – Privacy Policy Issues, 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, (408) 349-5070)?
I know that I could mark the invitations as SPAM, but then won’t all future invitations that I get thru or from Yahoo Groups, regardless as to whether they are from a reputable group that is not SPAM or is from a Yahoo Group that is nothing more than SPAM, be sent directly to my SPAM folder? I don’t want that and it would be a big inconvenience to me. Has anyone else received such invitations? To anyone who has, what have you done about it? Have you ignored them, complained about them, cancelled your yahoo account altogether, or what!? What has worked for you?
The following are the names of the three most previous porn groups that have sent me invitations. I have included them in this message to highlight the severity of this problem. I am obviously not the only user receiving these invitations and I furthermore can not be the only user disgusted by them. There has got to be a way to stop them & the number one way that I know or can think of is to put a flame under Yahoo’s rearend. The best way to go about doing this is for all of us who are effected by this to do it as a group!! The more of us that there are to put that flame underneath them the faster they will take notice, and hopefully do something about this problem.
“hallejaclyn20198839″
“linda_conyers9a_webdates”
“darinmercado125″
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