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Flickr group management (web only)

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Flickr group admins and moderators have tools to manage the group, its content, and its members. This article outlines duties, permissions, and administration options.

Shared admin & moderator actions

Admin actions only
  • Approve/ deny photos photo submissions to groups.
  • Remove or ban members.
  • Moderate group discussions.
  • Create up to 20 Sticky Topics, by selecting Make Topic Sticky on a discussion.
  • Add and remove photos from the group pool.
  • Set group rules.
  • Update the group’s information.
  • Customize the group's appearance.
  • Invite other member's content to the group.
  • Promote someone to be an admin or moderator.
  • Demote moderators. (Admins cannot be demoted.)

Shared admin & moderator actions

Approving or denying photo submissions to groups

The pending queue for Flickr group lets admins and moderators control which photos appear in the group's pool.

Enable the pending queue
  1. Log into your account.
  2. Go to your Group's Overview page | select the Administration tab.
  3. Select Moderate your group.
  4. Under "Would you like to review submissions before they show up in the pool?" select Yes, then SAVE THIS at the bottom of the screen.

View the pending queue
  1. Log into your account.
  2. On the Group’s main page, select the link showing the number of pending photos.
  3. Alternatively, from the list of Groups you administer, select the link showing pending photos.

You can also enter the pending queue from the list of Groups you administer by selecting the link showing pending photos.

Approve or deny photos
  1. Sort images (top left) by newest or oldest first.
  2. Select the number of images to load on each page (25/50/100).
  3. Toggle Save for later (blue) to mark a photo to review later.
  4. The option to Approve all or Deny all will apply to all images, except those marked Save for later.
  5. View the image title, submitting member, and any tags, next to the photo.
  6. Select Manage to remove or ban a submitting member.
  7. If there are more items to load than currently visible, select Load more at the bottom of the screen.

Remove someone from your Flickr group

If someone was added to your group by mistake, or they're not following the group's rules, you can remove them.

Group admin tab
  1. Hover over You | select Groups.
  2. Select the group you administer.
  3. Select the Administration tab.
  4. Select Manage your Members.
  5. Select the Members tab.
  6. Select Remove beside the member you're removing.
  7. Check the box to also remove the member's images from your group (optional).
  8. Select Remove again to confirm.

Group pool
  1. Select the three-dot menu on the top right-hand corner of the photo of the member you want to remove.
  2. Select Remove User from the group or Remove User and their photos from the group.

Notes: 

  • To prevent the member from joining your group again, follow the same steps but choose the Ban option.
  • Group admins cannot remove or demote other admins.

Admin only actions

Adjust the group's settings

Rules & moderation

About the group
  • Moderating the group: Set group rules & safety levels.
  • Manage members: Promote, temporarily remove, or ban group members.
  • Group rules: Set group rules that members must agree to before joining.
  • Privacy: Control what non-members can see. Keep in mind, changing a public group to private is irreversible.
  • 18+: Indicate if the group allows "Moderate" or "Restricted" content.
  • Name / URL / Description: Describe the group and optionally link to an external website.
  • Keywords: Add or remove keywords to make the group more searchable.
  • Flickr web address: Create a Create your own personalized Flickr URL for the group. Keep in mind a personalized group URL cannot be changed once set.
  • Moderator roles: Give "admin," "moderator" & "member" more descriptive names that best fit the group.

Only admins can access group administration options from the Administration tab at the top of the group page. These include sending group messages, updating the group’s appearance, adjusting settings like privacy, keywords, and moderator roles, and managing members.

Send or delete a group blast

This option can be used when you want to send a message to all members in the group.
  1. While viewing the Overview tab, Select the Pencil icon on the right.
  2. Type your message.
  3. Select Done.

To delete a group blast you’ve created, select the trash can icon. The date will show the last time the message was edited.

Update the group icon
  1. Hover over the group's icon | select the Edit icon.
  2. Choose  a Safe & Public image from the pool | choose Select.
  3. Optionally, drag to adjust the image position
  4. Select Save.

Update the group's cover photo
  1. Select the 3-dot menu next to the group's name | select Change cover photo.
  2. Choose a Safe & Public image from the pool | choose Select.
  3. Optionally, drag to adjust the image position
  4. Select Save.

Make a public Flickr group private

Public Flickr groups can be found by anyone on Flickr and are listed on members' pages, while private Flickr groups aren't listed anywhere on the site and are invite-only. If you’d like more privacy, a group admin can change a public group to private.

Are you sure? If you make a group private, you cannot switch it back to public.

  1. Go to your Flickr group list.
  2. Select the group you administer.
  3. Select the Administration tab.
  4. Under Rules & Moderation, choose Privacy.
  5. Select Make this group private.

Delete a group

Only the last remaining admin can delete a group.

  1. Remove all members so you are the last member.
  2. Go to You | Groups.
  3. Select the group you want to delete.
  4. Hover over Joined | select Leave Group.
  5. Select Leave this Group to delete it.



 

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