Allow organizers to moderate comments before entire mailing list is spammed
Please, please, please let the organizers moderate comments before they are spammed to the entire mailing list. This is the most abused feature on Meetup.com.
I know that individual meetup users can change their preferences to not receive those comments. No one else knows that, unless the look really hard. New members think the organizers have some influence on this. They do not.
I organize one of Silicon Valley's largest and most active meetups, and our users complain about this to me constantly. Please change this.
Jonathan Nelson
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Pete
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I just voted and it's not showing up... is this the next thing from Meetup, to ignore votes? Isn't it enough to ignore organizers' pleas?
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Ephraem Leitner commented
absolutely agree!! please do something about this FAST!
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Mehri Nik commented
This feature is simply dreadful. Meetup, change it!
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Tavis Rudd
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I organize several large meetups and comment spame is the most hated 'feature' of an otherwise great system. PLEASE give organizers the ability to completely disable the comments feature on both the web and mobile app UIs.
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Esty
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Great idea. I don't want to "get the conversation started". It ONLY adds up to confusion.
With smart phones and ipads many don't even read the event so they ask stupid questions like "where is it" etc.
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Ben
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I agree - this is how it should work.
1. Disable ALL comments - except by the leadership team and hosts
2. Moderate all comments. Leadership team must approve comments before they appear on the site or go out in email. -
Geoff
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I absolutely agree that organisers must be able to moderate comments. Surely we should be able to protect against people wanting to SPAM or be deliberately destructive to our groups through the comments sections. Please listen to this Meetup.com - hundreds of votes have been made so you know it is the right thing to do.
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David McDermott
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I pay for 3 groups and it burns me to have non paying people sneak in their spam disguised under conversations/comments.
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David McDermott
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It is necessary for organizers to have the ability to moderate comments/conversations that are intended to attack other members for whatever reasons.
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Bruno
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HUGE FLAW for Meetup to not give the organizer control to approve/disapprove comments. I know a few entrepreneurs who will not organize their own Meetups with this fear barrier that spammers/trolls can attack their group's personal inbox. It's big security and privacy issue.
I think Meetup should give the organizer "moderator" control over the public forum section as these issues will always come up in any public forum.
The moderator should be able to approve/disapprove and remove offensive/inappropriate comments, or at the very least remove those comments immediately and it notifies Meetup with the reason for deletion (i.e. didn't attend the meetup, offensive language, spam, etc).
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Steven C.
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It only takes a few well intentioned INCORRECT comments to disorganize a meetup.
Despite some impassioned pleas A person's "right to speak freely" doesn't apply here since the organizers are PAYING for the site. I agree with Johnathan there should be two options on a per event basis:
1. Disable ALL comments - except by the leadership team and hosts
2. Moderate all comments. Leadership team must approve comments before they appear on the site or go out in email.There should also be a simple way to remove someone's RSVP comment as people often misuse that or fail to update it.
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Anonymous
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Without seeing this suggestion, I asked our Meetup Rep to tell me how to stop the spam to our members thinking the feature is already built in. Unfortunately, it is not. Probably the best way to go about this is to allow the organizers to post a comment once they approve it. So, there are no surprises. Confusion about event type, venue, and timing is the first that comments bring to our members. Please implement this feature ASAP as you can see it has a lot of votes.
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Anne
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I love John's suggestion that there be a user voice JUST for organizers.
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Anne
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I definitely agree! However, I don't think of it as "spam." I like the members of my groups to be enthusiastic but some are overly so :) I have a couple of people whose job is to sell certain products. I constantly have to remind some that our social group is not a platform for them to advertise their wares because they use the message boards and the comment boxes to keep plugging away. It creates hard feelings between sales people and other members and, of course, the organizer takes it on the chin from all directions.
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Lucy
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I was just thinking exactly the same thing - even if they are nice comments the comment is sent from an email with my group name and people have to open and read constant comments of "looking forward to it" etc which are probably very annoying as they don't actually say anything! Just thinking this and came across this on meetup (well I do run Meetup's largest Law of Attraction Group so not surprising! Hope it's changed!
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Michael D. Elliott commented
Can't you just boot the abuser or make becoming a member more difficult? We have rules that prohibit spammers and I kick hard. I run two very active meetups with over 100 members in each and I don't have spamming issues.
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Karla
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have a meetup group for Spartan Race in Vernon, NJ (9/8) or Tough Mudder in Freehold, NJ (10/20) soon. prices go up every month....
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John
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Dealing with members that post unwelcome comments on the event pages has been a major issue, the organizer/host can only do something about it when the comment has already been posted and everyone on the RSVP list gets the unwanted comment or message. This has been a major issue specially for large groups. It just makes me wonder why Meetup keeps subjecting its paying customers to features that tend to aggravate its organizers, the very same people that are attracting new members to Meetup.com and on top of that have to pay for it.
BTW, wouldn't it be nice if there was a UserVoice specifically for organizers? -
WhisperGarden
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE include allowing Organizers to also moderate EMAILS that event organizers can send to the ENTIRE meetup group. Right now an event lead can email the entire meetup group as often as they wish as long as they are an event organizer. Many members abuse this privilege because they feel members need to be reminded of *their* event at least once per week. Clearly this results in the entire member list being spammed with emails. Please enable Meetup Organizers to control the emails that are sent to their entire groups. Similar to the original post...this is also a huge oversight of Meetup and would be an easy fix.
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Bill M commented
Have the replies go to the mailing list AND configure them requiring approval. Walla, no more spam. It's in group settings >>> email members. Mine is set to 'allow all members to send messages, organizer must approve'
