Can't I be a Yahoo! group owner AND moderator at the same time?

Question

I want to be the moderator of my group that I created; but Yahoo! tells me if I wish to be moderator, I'll have to remove my owner privileges.

One more question: Why am I asked to approve my own messages even though I'm the owner? How can I avoid this?

Answer 1

first of all if you remove your self as the owner of your own group and something happen..you no longer can fix anything in your group. To be a moderator and for you to do that..if you have another e-mail..log on to yahoo and join your group with that e-mail. Now log out and rejoin it with the name you are useing as the owner. Now when your in there look for your other e-mail and then go to edit member and make your self a Moderator that way..I have done this in a few groups on my own and I even made myself a owner with another e-mail i use and the reason is for that if you lose your password for one e-mail and yahoo id you have your other e-mail as back up..you have to be very careful how you set your self up as if you don't..you will never get back into your group. Now as far as why your approving your own posting go to the Management  and then click on Messages  next and click in there and then click on Posting and Archives and then go in edit and see how you have it setup..that would be why you have to approve of your self..if you only want to do that for members you need to change this

Answer 2

well, you are both moderator and owner- with all the privileges. you'll want to stay owner, since it give you full privs, just sign your posts moderator if you want

locate yourself in members list- click edit membership below their ID- Posting Messages: Override: This member's posts are always moderated (Edit) <-- click the edit

next page select and check

* Messages posted by this member are not moderated.

click save changes