[committee] Fixing Facebook Group

[Oscar Hermoso]

Definitely worth a shot, because if dropping a few already inactive members
fixes the problem that's sweet.

But if I remember correctly, it's not going to be that easy.

Kind regards,

Oscar

On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 2:02 pm <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Oscar Hermoso wrote:
>
> > When the group is below 250, you can invite all members regardless of
> whether they're friends. When UCC hosts an event, they're
> > restricted because the admins don't have everyone as Facebook friends.
> Because of this, we never hit the 500 member cap anyway.
> > Committee first had this problem since at least 2014 when I was
> secretary as we approached 300 members.
> >
> > As far as I'm aware there's no centralised platform for this
> information. I grabbed it
> > from
> https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-invite-all-members-in-a-Facebook-group-to-an-event
>
> Ah. Although with that information I have now found this one which says
>
> "If your group is smaller than 500 people, you can invite your entire
> group to the event by clicking Invite all members while creating your
> event. For larger events, you must select the members you'd like to
> invite. Keep in mind that if someone removes themselves from a group
> event, they can't be added again."
>
> https://www.facebook.com/help/167159300010051
>
> I guess remove 33 members and then see if you can invite everyone to an
> event?
>
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