Pruning the Membership List

[Gern]

Good Work on the Membership List project. I'm not an active poster, because I'm located in BFE mid-America. I'll gladly post when I have good information to contribute besides the infrequent..."thanks for the help" type of messages.

Have you ever thought of adding a section for South Dakota? Not that anything ever happens there, but it'd be nice to find out if someone has ANY information on Sioux Falls!

Thanks

Hi,

I added a South Dakota section a couple of months ago, but there's been no activity.

Jackson

[Chip_s]

Jackson,

It makes sense to me, as long as I can keep my handle ;-)

Chip

[Razor]

Jackson,

You're the MAN. I agree with you in all your points.

I'll try to post more in the future.

Thanks for all your efforts.

Razor

[Phish]

I agree, I have used this forum very much and hats of to Jackson for the fantastic effort in maintaining this forum free and very update and useful.

I do know a lot of my friends who are member but do not post. Its a give and take and everyone must participate.

I am for pruning the member list and keeping it to what it should really be.

[Scuba123]

Hey, I appreciate the good work and the site that you have. My vote says do whatever you have to to be able to manage it. I appreciate this site, because I travel a lot, and can usually find good material for wherever I am going to be.

Thanks again for the site.

[MpfsLover]

Jackson,

My hats off to you, for always continue to make improvements to this site, and this site is still FREE.

I support your proposed efforts of fine tuning the members list. If there are inactive users for over a year, drop them.

I believe Yahoo does the same thing, for their email, they drop people after three months of inactive account, with no email activity, at least that happened to my friend a while back.

Great Forum, and great service support from you.

Many thanks.

[Jayb4512]

I say thet it sounds good, just as long as my name doesn't get cut. I don't post that frequently.

[Sailing]

It makes total sense to me as the dead weight only makes management more difficult ie time consuming, and in the long run more expensive. I have hosted several people from other countries while they were here and though they may post something from time to time in their country of origin, they have never commented on the services they enjoyed or may not have enjoyed here.

You are doing a great job and from my point of view deserve to do anything that makes it less tedious for you.

[hemoskin]

Jackson,

I agree with your site improvements. Thank you for the WSG.

[AlexDude]

Well, I just have two or three things to say:

This is a great forum (I've used it many many times) and it has provided me with valuable information. For us mongers who want to get the best deals possible, it is extremely useful, vital I would say, when heading to a new unknown destination. I know I haven't posted many reports, but I least I'm aware of the fact that to keep this forum alive and rockin' the way it does, contributions are necessary. So, I think everybody using it, should take the time to give something back in return. My humble opinion is that, considering the fact that you're able to get so much for so little (free forum, no money being charged), go ahead, purge the ones that have volunteered no information at all.

I also believe that all your ideas for the future are great. Keep up the good work !

[SamaRy]

My 2 cents....

If it is really that important you should be posting to keep the hobby alive. And or making sure your account is verified.

[4FThem]

You got my vote. I think you should also explore the idea of exclusive membership like Tommy’s group. Refer only to group by current member, with user ID & password sent by administrator to get log in. I believed this will keep the riff raft out and help cut down on LE bust.

[Lazzaro]

Originally posted by Cachondito
I have an idea Jackson. It's not quite membership related but I'd like to say it anyway: Sometimes it gets difficult to follow some threads e.g. Europe / Turkey / Istanbul because there are hell loads of messages and sometimes the messages on say the 7th page are answered on the 9th page and one gets nauseous trying to figure what people have been talking about. So.. Maybe you can implement a system that enables the user to view all the messages on a particular thread at once even if there are 768 messages posted? I know it would eat bandwidth, but it would be absolutely useful too.

Regards

I completely understand what you're talking about, and changing the forum software will be a discussion topic in the Forum in a few weeks.

Jackson

I agreee 100% with you.

If I may a suggestion more, could you implement the system as you could check all the msg of the user XXXX by clicking on his/her name? Sometime I read "pls see my previuos report posted some times ago....." and it is boring seeking this msg between tons of msg.
And a lot are really interesting, and it's a pity losing them.

In the end, IMHO I think that you could delete a user if this one has less than 10 msg and it's more than 1 year doesn't post a new one.

Ciao

Lazzaro

[Elton]

For what it's worth, I'd say go for it. It does not make sense to keep good usernames reserved for people who never had the least intention of actually using them.

The less needless handles on the user list, the easier it is to administrate this place - which, as at least all of us long-time members can appreciate, must be quite a task in itself.

[Nobbin]

I have been a senior member for some time, and now I have tried 3 times to post a message, but it fails to appear. Not sure why!