How does the "new member moderation" work?

Question

Some moderators of one of the groups I own and I are having a discussion about the moderation of new members.

If you have the settings to moderate only new members, does Yahoo eventually unmoderate new members after a certain time or number of posts, or do you, as a mod/owner, have to manually change them at some point?

I've always had to do the latter (been on the groups since they began and own/mod several), but yet other mods are saying their new members get changed w/o them doing anything.

TIA for any help you can shed on this!

Answer 1

the answer is below:

Can I moderate just the new members who join my group? How?

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

Yes! Here’s how to moderate messages from new members in an otherwise unmoderated group:

Click Management on the left side of any group page.

Click Messages in the "Group Settings" section.

Click Edit next to "Postings and Archives".

Select the New Members button in the "Moderation" column.

Click Save Changes. Now go on and moderate!

This setting means that new members to the group will require moderation for all messages they post until you change their setting to either "Use current group message posting setting" or "Messages by this member are not moderated" (the former is recommended).

--->This change must be made individually and explicitly for each member. There’s no set time period for membership at which point a member will automatically stop being treated as a "new" member. They’re "new" in this context until you explicitly change their setting.

An individual user's settings can be changed from either the Member Page or by clicking Edit next to "New messages posted by this member are moderated", which is in the upper-right corner of a pending message page (just above the "Edit", "Approve", "Delete", "Reject" buttons).

Answer 2

I believe you are correct and that the group owner or a moderator has to change the new members from moderated to unmoderated.  The moderation status is never automatically changed.  We have members who have been in the group for years and have never posted to the group, so we have not changed the status nor has Yahoo unmoderated them.

Answer 3

Hi HS Mom,  My experience is that I've always turned off moderation for each new member individually when I found the first few posts were trustworthy.  Maybe I've never left them moderated individually long enough to see Yahoo do it?  So, I've always done it manually.

Answer 4

I'm not sure.