Airliners-India

jbalonso777 · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:27 pm Post subject: Off topic in the Facebook group

Hey everyone

Off recent, there have been various posts which do no not relate to Indian Aviation and/or photographs taken by the members here.. (I'm sure others are allowed, too Smile

) in the Airliners-India Facebook group.

People try to advertise their aviation industry training, or other non-aviation nonsense (let alone Indian aviation) by posting links into the group. Then there's the daily greetings with the some highly unlikely designs of what presumably are planes. Or worse, even those surveys which are 'fun games to see how many people are active on the group.'

The group is reasonably sized - 1500 members and growing by the day. And lets face it, there will be more of those useless spam posts.
I call upon some reforms to this group, which will hopefully lead to a better experience overall..
1. Pinned post highlighting the rules of posting in the group.
2. Issuing warnings to those who do not abide by this
3. Promoting senior members here (or the youth) as admins in the Facebook group.
4. Changing post settings in such a way that only admins can approve of the same (which is why there should be a few more admins, if possible)

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Regards
Jish

airindia787 · Member Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 770 Location: DAB & ZTF

I have noticed this as well. This seems to be a problem among Facebook groups with large membership numbers. Based on my experience, the only effective solution is for the admins to make clear that those who make commercial/spam posts will be removed from the group and their content deleted. In addition, the group could be converted into a closed group, where membership needs to be approved by the admins.
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Nimish · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:47 pm Post subject:

1. The FB group is not managed by the current Forum admins (though Aseem is the sole admin there, I don't think he does anything administrative on that group).
2. I bet Aseem would be happy to transfer admin permissions to anyone interested to take over and clean up the place. However - I'll let Aseem confirm/ deny that himself.
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jbalonso777 · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 12:18 am Post subject:

Thanks for your responses!

Was enraged to see yet another spam this evening, selling glasses this time. Mad

I hope Aseem sir looks into this really soon and we start taking the measures!

Aseem · Member Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 2841 Location: YYZ

A couple of things here. Changing it into a closed group will put additional burden of approving or disapproving, and resultant grievances. IMHO! It will be far better if we leave it as it is. I would urge members to take ownership upon themselves to report posts as spam. It goes without saying that I too will be keeping a watch on the posts. Also, I wouldn't mind sharing administrator role with somebody who has been on the parent site for quite some time now.

Keep thoughts flowing...

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jbalonso777 · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:46 pm Post subject:

Aseem · Member Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 2841 Location: YYZ

Actually quite a few members have come forward to report spam, and those members have been removed/banned. So, it is working. If I find it unmanageable, I will seek help regarding sharing burden.

thnx

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sabashahid · Member Joined: 13 Apr 2017 Posts: 11