Group Invites

i'm acting as admin for my first chess.com group and i've started sending invites. my concern is accidentally sending duplicates to players who may not be interested. does the invite process auto-prevent redundancies from being sent out?

Probably not.

Are you building the list in a separate place (e.g. in a Word document) so that it is easier to keep track of which names you've sent to?

artfizz wouldn't he be able to see that through 'sent items' from 'Message' ?

I don't send out many Group Invites - though I seem to receive loads! On the receiving end, you don't get to see who else has received it (so it's like using the Blind Carbon Copy option on email).

Have you sent any Group Invites out that you could look at, kco?

@artfizz, kco - i'd better start keeping track, since i've just started. i guess i thought like kco thought, that there would be some record left behind. if there is, then i can't find one. hopefully someone at chess.com will think this is a good idea if it doesn't exist, or else will show me where it is if it does!

no artfizz I can;t see anything in my 'sent items', I remember I sent a message to a small group for my tournament earlier.   

Incidentally, slurpz: have you seen this technique to improve-team-administration, for getting a member list in a usable format?

@artfizz, i think that's a good idea for the match-type group admins who'd like to keep track of cor.ratings...but thanks for your help with the invites!

It appears that INVITATION TO JOIN A GROUP is the only type of message that can be sent to multiple targets.

An interesting point about Group Invites: if you try to invite someone to join a group who is ALREADY A MEMBER OF THAT GROUP - the invitation gets suppressed.

artfizz, on your list. it's strange. if i don't login, i can check the members of the group and auto-rank them in order of rating. but if i'm signed in, then i can't do this.

no. it doesnt

sure it does. if i'm not logged in, then i can order the members by rating. if i am logged in, this function doesn't appear. at least it doesn't appear for me!

see? "sort by HIGHEST RATED"

this can be seen by the super admin.

i found it! after i select view members, i then have to select "view all members" as opposed to viewing just new members, or members online, etc.

The list sorted by rating is useful but it has two drawbacks: first, rating isn't displayed (and mouseover doesn't work in this context); secondly, the results are paged (10 to a page) which is inconvenient for processing the list into a spreadsheet or a document table.