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A sob story is any information in a post other than a description of what is wanted, possibly considered to be a way of getting the sympathy of the reader and ...as a result. On the other hand, this sort of narrative can make reading a wanted post more interesting. There is no way of verifying sob stories. Some group

...ice_Notes#Wantedposts_are_a_good_thing]] and try to avoid sending back any wanted or requests unless you are totally overwhelmed! I am sorry to return your message but we have a rule of X wanted messages per X .

...t you hadn't thought of offering, including things like used jars, broken i-pods, rags etc needed for a hobby. ..., suggest they [[Filtering Emails|filter out emails]] from your group with WANTED in the title.

===== Payment offered/wanted ===== Anything which looks too good to be true, ie expensive items, probably is. Put on hold, seek more in

*[[Clarify request]] – response to a vague or unclear Wanted message *[[Request too soon]]

However, please keep Wanted messages short and to the point. There's no need to tell the community pers Putting in too much personal information can actually put some people off replying to you. It c

*[[No animals|No Offer or Wanted Messages for Animals]] *[[No-Shows]]

How you go about finding stock for your event is likely to depend on how much you'll be giving away and what sort of access you have to your venue before Plan ahead and things will go much smoother at the event!

...of good publicity from it in previous years so let’s hope we do this year too. See message 57892 for details of how to apply – there may still be time. ...ticipants http://www.channel4.com/programmes/take-part/articles/all/hoarder-sos so perhaps some members out there would like to apply.

'''Results of poll on how frequently repeat wanted posts are allowed''' ...ponded to this poll, which asked ‘How often does your group allow the same wanted to be repeated?’ The three most common answers were 14 days (14 replies),

*Please wait 7 days before repeating a wanted post. *Not too much personal info. Please do not post phone numbers, addresses or personal circ

...glemail.com’ and then transferring to a Freegle google account of ‘freegle-info@ilovefreegle.org’. As we use google mail, the messages are sorted a *38 enquirers wanted to know why we moved from Freecycle to Freegle

...em were people who had died, and some people objected to that because they wanted the accounts to continue as a kind of memorial. ...many of them recommend - three months would be better. But we think that's too short for Freegle.<br>

* To give monthly reports to Freegle UK Central Group with statistics and non-confidential relevant narrative of enquiries and pending, rejected and appro * No-one is keen on reading or remembering lots of rules, so too many just means that your members don’t know what they are.

...are welcome to join us, even if you only want to dip in and out. Mods are wanted who are willing to try out new stuff, test any tweaks done, or just comment ...ack may work if you get a report from a member although clearing the cache too will be better..

...egle-Structure/message/2308 2308] to [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freegle-Structure/message/2438 2438]. We warmly welcome input and comments on Centr ...on 21 February. If anyone has any comments to make on the draft it is not too late - just reply to that thread!

*mark an item as Taken (or Received if you have posted a Wanted) as soon as possible; please do not leave it until next time you have anoth ...hange this or have changed your mind, please let them know – we all hate No-Shows!

...ys when we were on a very low budget, but now we have more reserves, it is too low. They would like to see the requirement for a contract to be changed to ...at was correct and that it was for proper written contracts that the Board wanted the proposed changes to cover. The request is to change the wording in the

Messages 25633-25815 If the image is too small (less than 150px width or height) then we won't include it. This hel

Re-selling of items is not against our guidelines -as long as the members gifti ...the donor of this intent in their response to an OFFER or in their initial WANTED posting.

Messages 25396-25632 ...ugh many would like things to be improved it was felt this would be a step too far.

Posts 21786-21980 ...n adjusted to this easier - initially for us mods, and in time for members too.<br>

...t these on your wall. That way you can do a bit of extra publicity without much effort.<br>2.6 Edward has added a setting to ‘My Settings’ this will be ...opefully it will inspire still more Yahoo members to use the message maker too.<br>New photo upload to be completed.<br>6.2 .Problems with trial Digests w

...are welcome to join us, even if you only want to dip in and out. Mods are wanted who are willing to try out new stuff, test any tweaks done, or just comment ...omains (hotmail, msn, outlook etc) accepting our emails. We’ve done some re-plumbing to stop this affecting other mails, but these mails continue to be

Posts 24449-24619<br> *Improve layout of group info on My Groups page* Don't offer business cards too frequently <br>

Messages 25978-26376<br> Q. I wanted to send someone a link to our volunteering page on Freegle Direct. I brough

'''Messages 11525-11717''' ...ff as they were receiving duplicates. We might instead have a pop up double-checking repeat events, and perhaps also spotting duplicates.

This is still very much a work in progress - for example we haven’t started to consider how well ...since volunteers already give their time and may not be able to give money too.

Messages 23403-23777 ...ining because they are unable to turn them off. Chats are working ok for 1-1 conversations, but are not great for group discussion. There's no threadi

Posts 22566-22724 ...change the dropdown to anywhere to look at it just now as there may not be much near you yet), and you can post, comment etc. Included are some recent com

...are welcome to join us, even if you only want to dip in and out. Mods are wanted who are willing to try out new stuff, test any tweaks done, or just comment ...ot of his time trying to find ways to combat the spammers before they join too many groups. This may result in the odd innocent person being unable to joi

[[File:Cumbria-County-Council-Logo.jpg|right|Thanks to Cumbria County Council]] ...from Cumbria County Council Community Waste Prevention Fund - thanks very much!

'''Freegle Tech Report May 2015<br>Posts 15033-15408<br>Members 102'''<br> ...und a week to appear.<br>Members seem to be finding the new Freegle Direct much easier, if the decline in queries is a good indicator. Obviously some hiccu

...trying to keep communities safe from possible problems, and we didn't know much about how people behaved online. Since that time internet use has increase *No-one likes to be told off or have their first efforts fail, so avoid rejectin

Posts 24063-24269<br> Q. A member wanted to log in using the Google button but it was greyed out. <br>

Posts 24620-24786 It is early days, and this has caused some disquiet and much debate from both members and moderators. This is settling down, and it is

Messages 25979-26192<br> * OFFER/WANTED info missing from user profiles<br>

Messages 27380-27543<br> ...y changes will not happen quickly. What you see after you post has become too complex already.<br>

Posts 16458-16599 ...droid and iOS have a footer bar asking people to support us by making an in-app<br> purchase to help Freegle (and remove the support us footer). So far

...the activities on the Tech group [http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Freegle-Tech/ [1]]for February&nbsp; 2012. It covers messages 6999 to 7583. ...done in a way that means we should be able to offer this for other regions too. Esther (Coventry) feels Coventry and Warwickshire could benefit from such

Posts 27544-27751</br> Some of the job Ads were set too far away from the groups they were on. so Edward has done a fix until the c

Posts 22246-22429 ...osting messages, but please don't encourage people to post by email. It's much more likely that:<br>

Posts 24270-24448 ...discussion about this here: [https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FreegleUK-Central/conversations/topics/62102] It was a bit controversial, and so we

Posts 17089-17209<br> ...g had been taken but the only options on the website tool was OFFERED and WANTED. The only button that appeared on the email was "i give up" despite three

Posts 15983-16166 <br> ...Yahoo groups mail, showed that Yahoo is still failing to send out around 3-4% of posts by email. We are also failing to get any response to our enquiri

Posts 24449-24947 Someone wanted to print their chat out on the FD website. It only showed the list of chats

Messages 27243-27379 Q Had a Wanted reposted after 7 days - no problem except it has no Auto-repost # in red at the top - and I assume it must be because it has the sam

Posts 22725-23028 '''Auto-approval'''<br>

Posts 25104-25395<br> ...taken out a months subscription to litmus.com to test any changes. It is too expensive to use it permanently..<br>

Posts 24948-25103<br> Much of the discussion this month has been on the new regulations concerning Ge

Messages 27094-27180<br> Back out unsubscribe changes as they generate too many mails .<br>

Messages 26982-27093 ...a bit of work by WRAP (http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/monitoring-tools-and-resources) which has a tool which can be used to model the benefits of reuse

Messages 26377-26498 <br> ..., I unpromised and messaged a second person who hasn't replied as yet so I wanted to repost. When I clicked to repost I was taken to a screen which said I wa

Posts 21322-21785 ...in (groupname-auto@...) rather than the Yahoo -owner, you may see some auto-replies. There is some filtering to strip these out still needs some improve

23029-23402''' ...t a Chat feature for members of local groups to interact would not be used much, and that the News feature would be sufficient to meet present needs.<br>

Messages 26500-26693 Google are killing off Google Plus, which we used in our Google sign-in code, so he had to change that. Let him know if you see anything odd

...fited (unlike many) from a COVID boost. We’re noticeably busier than in pre-COVID times. *A very part-time person to help with general admin and keeping things moving.