I am a moderator of a yahoogroup whose owner had passed away. How can I add other moderators or set new owner?

Question

I have moderator privileges except the privilege to add other moderators. Who can I contact in order to obtain additional privileges since the owner had passed away? Please advise.

Answer 1

Since the owner didn't grant you the privilege to add other moderators, there's nothing you can do.  There may be a rumor out there that Yahoo Groups staff might appoint a new moderator from the results of a poll of the Group members, but I haven't seen any evidence of that being true, so I wouldn't believe it.  Sorry.

Answer 2

sorry about the group owner passing away.

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/...