auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?
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I have to come back to this with a fresh brain tomorrow. The path often seems more obvious to me after sleeping.
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I have to come back to this with a fresh brain tomorrow. The path often seems more obvious to me after sleeping.
auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?
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Yes, understood Paul.
So the little weirdness will be that if members are set with the checkbox OFF (so that their new followers go through without needing their approval), then should I also keep the Friends module to make it do an automatic follow-back and complete the connection without the profile owner's approval? This would enable anyone to go ahead and follow, and then Private Message any other member, without that member having a choice.... so I guess that might create a problem concerning certain self-promoting or needy members. Not sure how I can have this arranged so it's more user friendly but not completely free for all. I can't tell you how many members have been confused by the follow/followback arrangement over the past two years. Over and over, my members ask "how do I 'follow' someone?"... and now I've found out that so many members have accumulated pending followers because they never check their followers page and they are by default set to have to approve followers.
Hmm... just thinking... is there a way to have some sort of flashing button or message appear on people's profile page advising them that they still have Pending Followers awaiting their approval? (and include a link that takes them right to their Followers page where they can see the bright yellow Pendings) ....Something way more 'in yer face' than just the notification they might get only once?
excuse me- will be back in an hour....got to go take care of something
updated by @strumelia: 12/15/17 04:06:48PM
auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?
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Sorry for the many posts in a row, but I'm just noticing the description of exactly how the Followers to Friends module works:
"Followers to Friends sets up the Jamroom Followers system to work like a "Friends" system by automatically "following back" a profile when a user follows a new profile. Includes a tool to set all Profile settings to require Follower approval so it works like a Friends request. "
I installed this module over a year ago because I thought it would help complete the 'follow back' circuit allowing members to then PM each other. My members were having a real hard time understanding the Follow system, I thought this would make it way easier.
Now I see that what I was hoping it would do has created a situation where many members are completely unaware that they have a whole bunch of Pending followers. Even those who have notifications set to ON for 'new followers' are seemingly not following the email/notification's link to go approve the new followers. This is very problematic. I hate to say it, but on Ning it seemed it was much easier for my members to understand and use the Friend function.
I'm trying to think of how to handle this.
auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?
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Now i see where I must have clicked the button long ago when I added the "Followers to Friends" module... in the Tools section (see screenshot). Now I remember- that at the time, i thought "Set all site profiles to 'Follower Approve'" meant set it to automatically approve all follows. D'oh!
Paul what happens if I were to click the "Set Approval" button again?- does it toggle back to what it was before? Not that I am about to do that though- because I know you may be in there trying to change things for me...so I won't touch anything.
At least now I know how it got that way! All because I misunderstood the meaning of the words and button/setting labels.
updated by @strumelia: 12/15/17 03:28:05PM
auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?
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Yes, as I suspected- new members currently get the 'approve followers" checkbox CHECKED by default.
I really need to change that (on both sites), it's preventing member interaction.See the pending member I just created, here:
https://fotmd.com/profile/settings/profile_id=5946/id=5946
updated by @strumelia: 12/15/17 03:19:12PM
auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?
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paul:
That box is unchecked, by default, for all new profiles.
Paul... do you mean you have set it this way just now? Or do you mean that it already was set this way?That box is unchecked, by default, for all new profiles.
...because I really think new members have been having the box checked by default.
Hmmm, Let me create a new member and see how the default is set.... brb
auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?
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Yes please, Paul... so great!
Will you also be able to approve all current pending followers on fotmd.com for me?
auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?
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p.s. my personal thought is that jamroom sites (especially ning-to-jamroom imports) should, if they don't already, have the default being that box should be UNchecked to start out. I don't remember how all mine wound up being checked...it was a couple years ago when I was but a newborn jambaby.
auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?
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paul:
Bear in mind though that if all pending followers are approved by this 'back-end' method, no emails about it will be sent. New followers will just 'appear' to your users. You might want to notify them before doing this?
Bear in mind though that if all pending followers are approved by this 'back-end' method, no emails about it will be sent. New followers will just 'appear' to your users. You might want to notify them before doing this?
No, I'll mention it in the thread I have currently going on my site, but I don't worry about notifying them all- it's quite benign and all my members are super friendly and into communicating.. but also clueless about their own account settings much of the time. I can't see why any of them would want to maintain a bunch of pending followers when they could merely delete them anyway. I'm going to just say go ahead on this.
auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?
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paul:
....the database admin tool can be a dangerous place to be if you're not sure what you're doing
Uh, I resemble that remark. =:-\....the database admin tool can be a dangerous place to be if you're not sure what you're doing
Gosh Paul, "say the word"? Well heck YEAH, I'd LOVE for you to pull the magic switch and UNCHECK that checkbox for all my 3000+ members on fotmd.com- but I'd need it also on my other jr site pennywhistleclub.com
If you do this will it make the default setting for that checkbox UNchecked for also all new members that come along in the future?- that'd be ideal!
And, YES, it'd be a great thing if you could also approve all currently PENDING followers while you were at it, on both sites (though not many are likely pending on the pennywhistle site)
