I was an Organizer for a 2023 CNC event. It was really difficult and time consuming to message an invitation to each user that had been making observations in the area defined in my CNC project. 1600 messages were sent out…. Surely there is a way to, say, select all all users in a specific area (c…

No, there is no way to send bulk messages. [image] Send group messages We discussed this among staff a few weeks ago. At this point we’ve decided it might be something to work on in a few years but it’s not a priority and some real limitations (eg no more than 10 users per group or something) wo…

As I am sure the above links will tell you, the only real way to contact a lot of people is to write journal post and then @ tag a long list of people either at the end of the post or in the comments.

I’d limit the ability to Curators, or use some other method of prohibiting new or unproven people from abusing such a feature. Personally whenever I get a message that reads like a form letter I’m 90% less likely to reply and somewhat likely to dislike the sender if they’re wasting my time. Same if …

Yeah, I’ve gotten some journal posts for CNC projects and similar that literally tagged hundreds (maybe >1000?) users, some of whom (like me) had no relevance to the project - it looked like they were just tagging every high volume IDer for broad taxa. I think if there were a messaging ability, this…

Messaging users in bulk

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Messaging users in bulk

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