If you’re a group admin, you can ask people who request to join or participate in your group to answer up to 3 questions to help you decide whether or not to approve them. In private groups, these are called membership questions. In public groups these are called participation questions. Questions are limited to 200 characters.
Responding to membership and participation questions isn’t mandatory. However, admins can use Admin Assist to automatically approve or decline people based on whether or not they answered the questions.
Add or edit questions
- Go to facebook.com/groups and select your group.
- Click Manage in the left menu.
- For private groups, click Membership questions. For public groups, click Participation questions.
- Click Create or Edit.
- Add or edit the question.
- Choose a question type: Checkboxes, Multiple choice or Written answer.
View someone’s answers after you’ve approved them
- Go to facebook.com/groups and select your group.
- Click Members or People at the top of the group. If you don’t see Members or People, click More.
- Find the person whose answers you want to view and click their name.
- Scroll down to Membership questions or Participation questions and click View answers.
Admins can’t view someone’s responses if they answered the questions before July 2021.
Note:
- If a prospective member exits without answering the questions, their request to join or participate will still go through.
- If they did not answer the questions, prospective members and participants will receive 4 automatic notifications (after 3 hours and after 1, 2 and 3 days). Notifications will stop after 3 days.
- Members and participants can edit their answers.
