How do I block users that are abusing this site?

Question

As the owner of braintumorgbm I don't know how to block people from the group. There are abusers using this group to advertise home businesses etc. Quite insensitive since this is a very serious disease and people are there to support one another. Please let me know how I can start blocking them.

Answer 1

go to members list- locate the ID's of the members in question- click edit membership below their ID

XXmemberXX

Offline

Send Message

Invite to Yahoo! 360°

Edit Membership <----

very bottom right of next page last tab is Ban Member- they will not be able to join again with that e-mail/ ID

consider moderating new members- then the ads will never get to your group, you can delete them prior to them posting

management- under group settings click messages- 3rd column check moderate new members- click save changes

Answer 2

as an owner or moderator you can ban people by (if they're already members) finding them under 'members', then 'edit member', then 'ban member'

if you want to block others, or everyone from the same domain, you can do that from the members page - above the member info is a few tabs including 'ban', to which you can add e-mail address, yahoo ids and domains (eg *@hotmail.com)