Helping my members see their 'pending' Followers
Using Jamroom
Sorry to 'reopen' this thread, but there is a loose end here I really need to resolve. And I don't want to start yet a third thread on the same general problem...it's all closely related.
OK, so I mentioned earlier in this thread that I had TWO things I wanted to do in order to make it easier for my members to get their reciprocal 'follow' connection established in order to exchange private notes with each other. (they have so much trouble with this particular aspect of my JR site, even after 2 years).
The Second issue I need to address involves the "Friends to Followers" module, which I have activated.
Please see the below screenshot of the "Tools" tab of this module. It still uses the same confusing wording of "Set all site profiles to 'Follower Approve'"... which I always THOUGHT meant to make it so that 'follows' would be automatically approved... when in fact it meant the OPPOSITE... that a follow would not become active until the follow-ee Approved it. I know you JR Team have already changed the wording about this in the regular 'Follow' module language string, but the language also needs changing in the Followers to Friends module Tools tab.
So, I now recall over a year ago when I first got this module (when it was new and you guys had created it to help with these very issues amongst us former ning site owners)... I recall wanting to set all profiles settings to automatically Approve new follows, and I know I clicked that Tool button.... which immediately set all my thousands of memebers to the option that I absolutely did NOT want (to require each Follow be pending until Approved). Yikes, that's how that all got set that way... the tool did the exact opposite of what I wanted.
This reciprocal Follow/privatemessage/ thing has been incredibly difficult to get my members to understand, and also very difficult for me to figure out the right solution to, short of allowing all members to PM all members freely without even needing to Follow -which I don't want because some members might use it for marketing purposes.
What I'd really like is for there to be a sister Tool for the Followers to Friends module that would UNDO that one tool.. and switch it back to UNchecking the option to require follow Approval, on all profile pages. It was all too easy to misinterpret that wording on the tool (which ought to be changed to clarify it better) and I stupidly messed everything up a year ago by clicking the tool. Can we get a Tool there to change ALL profiles back to the OTHER setting state again, where follows do not need to be approved. If I could do that it'd be so helpful.
I ALSO want to change the default for NEW members so that that "approve" box in their profile settings is UNCHECKED by default. Right now all new members have it checked. It's causing so much difficulty since my members seem to seldom comb through their Settings, leaving many settings as their default. How can I change this default for new members signing up on my site?
Thanks for bearing with all this.
