Neal
December 19th, 2012, 10:20
In an effort to continue pruning the membership list some people may get annoyed and think I do not care, but I do. I care a lot. Many of us are older, weak, have cronic problems that will unfortunatly take our lives within the next few years. Some regretably have already gone to hopefully is a better place. Many have gone here and we know of them and many have gone while abroad may home and we don't know.
Before I took over, jinxs started labelling a few as RIP but that list is just a few he knew about and is by far inacuarate. Many people have requested that we get our house in order and one of those items is getting people off our membership roles who stopped posting years ago for one reason or another. my first problem is that if I keep the deceased people on my active membership list, that list will grow and grow and add people who will never post again to our roster along with those who stopped posting two or more years ago. So fa I have pruned off people who have either not posted in 2 yeas or have posted 3 or less posts in that same time. Some of those included people who have left us. All the posts have been saved and are still there but now they are inactve.
I am faced with a dilema and that is that there are many who have stopped posting within 2 years and we don't really know why. We are going to send out a tickler email to every active member asking that they log on so that they will not be pruned. Sure jinxs knew how to do this correctly but I don't so I am just trying.
When you get the tickler email, if you have logged on within the last two years, well disregard the email. It is meant to see how many of the oldies are still around and remind them about Sawatdee.
We regret that pruning the list will include those who have left us but really, we cannot keep track of them all over the world and how long do we list them as active? Our membership then boasts membership lists that is not accurate. Some of these people may be your freinds and I am sorry. jinxs if you think you know a better way, please email me within the next several days befor we start analyzing the emails that bounce. If you changed your email but are still with us, please go to the profile area and update your email address asap.
Thank you
PS As many of you know I "took over" the name DaBoss and did not choose it myself. I find it too "fist-like" and would like to change it to a more humorous one to go along with the avatar that jinxs made for me. Please send me your suggestions.
Before I took over, jinxs started labelling a few as RIP but that list is just a few he knew about and is by far inacuarate. Many people have requested that we get our house in order and one of those items is getting people off our membership roles who stopped posting years ago for one reason or another. my first problem is that if I keep the deceased people on my active membership list, that list will grow and grow and add people who will never post again to our roster along with those who stopped posting two or more years ago. So fa I have pruned off people who have either not posted in 2 yeas or have posted 3 or less posts in that same time. Some of those included people who have left us. All the posts have been saved and are still there but now they are inactve.
I am faced with a dilema and that is that there are many who have stopped posting within 2 years and we don't really know why. We are going to send out a tickler email to every active member asking that they log on so that they will not be pruned. Sure jinxs knew how to do this correctly but I don't so I am just trying.
When you get the tickler email, if you have logged on within the last two years, well disregard the email. It is meant to see how many of the oldies are still around and remind them about Sawatdee.
We regret that pruning the list will include those who have left us but really, we cannot keep track of them all over the world and how long do we list them as active? Our membership then boasts membership lists that is not accurate. Some of these people may be your freinds and I am sorry. jinxs if you think you know a better way, please email me within the next several days befor we start analyzing the emails that bounce. If you changed your email but are still with us, please go to the profile area and update your email address asap.
Thank you
PS As many of you know I "took over" the name DaBoss and did not choose it myself. I find it too "fist-like" and would like to change it to a more humorous one to go along with the avatar that jinxs made for me. Please send me your suggestions.