How do I become a yahoo group moderator?

Question

There is a (potentially) really good group and it's plagued with awful spam, and I think as a result people have stopped using the group. How do I go on about moderating it? I have emailed the current moderator to ask him to remove the spam.

Answer 1

You can only be made a group moderator if the group owner allows you to be.  You can't take over a group cos you're not happy with the way it's operating.  Why don't you make your own group for the same subject and you can make sure no spam affects your group?

Good luck.  :)

Answer 2

if the owner doesn't reply, there is a chance the owner is MIA-

it is said that if you contact yahoo, they will appoint a moderator (not an owner) if a poll is conducted to vote one in by the members of the group. however yahoo hasn't said what priviledges they'd give as moderator.

some have said they tried this method, and once yahoo knew there was no active owner, they deleted the group as part of clean-up.

your other choice is to create another group and invite those active members to it. this is probably the better of choice since there's then be an owner.

either way, here's the help form

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/...