Last week I had two posts turn up that I had queries about, to do with their appropriateness on the particular boards. I sent off messages to the posters asking to clarify, and lodged an objection on each to remind myself of them, so I could take appropriate action either when a reply was received or not after sufficient time. Both objections started out with "NOTE TO SELF" and signed off at the end with my name and that I was the Board Admin. A week has passed, and it's time for me to deal with those posts. But my objections have vanished - they were there the day before, but I decided to wait just one more day before acting. I can only assume that someone at Rootsweb has seen the objections and taken some sort of action - whether it was to delete the posts in question or only remove the objection, I can't tell. I administer over 200 boards, and can't remember which boards were involved. Is this normal? It occurs to me that even though my self-imposed time limit, which I had declared in my objections to remind myself, had passed (by a mere day or two), staff at Rootsweb are not to know if the poster(s) involved had written to me directly and I was about to respond to my objections in some way. Not really complaining here, just stunned that someone took it upon themselves to do this at this point in time. If two weeks or a month had passed, when I'd clearly set myself a limit of a week, it might be different. Wendy

Hi Wendy: "Note to Self" is not exactly what the objection que is for. If you left yourself a note asking re appropriateness to that board, it is likely that STAFF acted. STAFF can pretty much decide/know what is or is not appropriate. Objections do not automatically expire. Someone had to act to make it move or remove. I will leave a note "to myself" when the boards are balky and I cannot get edits or moves to take. However, it is not unusual for me to find that STAFF will act on them from time to time. However, some have sat for 4 months as the board molasses was particularly thick in spots and nothing would get the posts to move. Usually, my note will say something to the effect of , "move to xxxsurname board when system will allow." or "cannot edit surname box -- error message received ( and quote it)" The objection que is something that streams to STAFF in a master format.... all objections are viewed. It is not really to be used as a tickler file for us. So.... my recommendation is that when you have a post that you feel need correspond about with a user, use some other method for your tickler file. Excel spreadsheet, perhaps. STAFF will not see that "tickler file" as it does not stream to the area STAFF views as the Objection Que does. Cheers, Lauren On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Wendy Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Last week I had two posts turn up that I had queries about, to do with > their appropriateness on the particular boards. I sent off messages to > the posters asking to clarify, and lodged an objection on each to remind > myself of them, so I could take appropriate action either when a reply > was received or not after sufficient time. Both objections started out > with "NOTE TO SELF" and signed off at the end with my name and that I > was the Board Admin. > > A week has passed, and it's time for me to deal with those posts. But > my objections have vanished - they were there the day before, but I > decided to wait just one more day before acting. I can only assume that > someone at Rootsweb has seen the objections and taken some sort of > action - whether it was to delete the posts in question or only remove > the objection, I can't tell. I administer over 200 boards, and can't > remember which boards were involved. > > Is this normal? It occurs to me that even though my self-imposed time > limit, which I had declared in my objections to remind myself, had > passed (by a mere day or two), staff at Rootsweb are not to know if the > poster(s) involved had written to me directly and I was about to respond > to my objections in some way. > > Not really complaining here, just stunned that someone took it upon > themselves to do this at this point in time. If two weeks or a month > had passed, when I'd clearly set myself a limit of a week, it might be > different. > > Wendy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >