Are you a FB Admin ?

Legacy_user

Recently I became responsible for a FB page/group. It is public, viable and it states :-

"Any member can add members but an admin or moderator must approve them", so when anyone asks to join, I allow. This is then recorded by FB and where it shows in Admin activity, their name etc I can see.

Quite by chance yesterday, I took a screen shot about 8am and can see the number of members. At 8pm it had increased by one. Yet I haven't received a request for anyone to join. How can this be ?.

One theory is that FB is recording slow.

The other is this. I have sent out several messages to photographers to gauge their views on joining. With it a link to the page. If either of them took it up and joined, would that eliminate the need for my approval?, hence the number increase.

If there was an option to see recently joined members, I would know, but it dosent. So other than scrolling through the membership list of 384, etc. I know it's no big deal, but I would like to know.

PS, DAMN!, sorted. I looked again and saw there was an option in a drop-down menu to see Join Date, and there was one for yesterday. Added by an ex admin. So, I'm thinking maybe a member CAN add without my approval. Will put it to the test.

Cornucopia

Moved to Techie Stuff.

Malthusian

islandman wrote: »

If there was an option to see recently joined members, I would know, but it dosent.

It does on the desktop version. Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/islandmansphotographyclub/members/, click on the drop-down box next to "All members", and select "Join Date".

dan958

It could be that the users was a member previously, but deactivated their account. this would decrease the number of members, and when the user re-enabled their account, this increased the number of members.

dogmaryxx

Cornucopia wrote: »

Moved to Techie Stuff.

Why for heavens sake ?

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DoaM

dogmaryxx wrote: »

Why for heavens sake ?

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Depends on where it was originally ... it's certainly a query fitting for the Techie Stuff board.

System

Initially tempted to post on techie, but something told me it might not be suitable. Anyway, I have since discovered the "date joined" thanks. Still unsure if somehow I've changed a setting. When I'm on my laptop, I will provide a screen shot of settings.

assassin87

we still get notifications. i'm an admin of king of fighters community on facebook.

System

assassin87 wrote: »

we still get notifications. i'm an admin of king of fighters community on facebook.

Yes, I'm getting requests but also some appear to be getting through. I think, if I invite someone, that seems to do away with the request/approval.

Also, if a msg a professional photographer, explain who we are, state I'd like to lift/share one of their photos from their fb page, I send them a link to mine, that seems to be the way in