Sending Message To Group members
Design and Skin Customization
brian:
Let me ask a quick question for Ning users - our assumption has been that on your sites there are going to be a lot of different "group owners" - i.e. each user could potentially create their own groups on their profiles. With this scenario the "invite users to a group" or "send all group members a message" is open for abuse. However, the feeling I get is that a lot of you are running ALL the groups on your site - i.e. your users are NOT creating their own groups. In this case if we limited this ability to admin only, then I can see it being very useful. So if we made a feature like this that was only usable by admins would that be a good compromise or is the expectation that all users would want to be able to use this feature?
Thanks!
I can't speak for everyone, but I'd be happy with just admins being able to send a message to all members of a particular group. I am the only person who can create groups.
Some groups on my site have over 1000 members, so I can't imagine trying to send them all a message by punching them in individually. ! If someone else owns the group, they could always come to me to have ME send everyone in the group a message. That way no one will be privately spamming a group without my knowing.
On ning we had check box to allow ALL the group MEMBERS to send out group messages to each other ...or not. I had them all set to 'not'. Too ripe for abuse.
But admin only- I'd be happy with that.
