First and foremost, I'm really super sorry about the delay in the header contest. We've decided on the top 8, and the polls should be open this weekend or sometime coming up soon. I promise!
Second: the 20sb awards! Originally we had decided we'd have them every 8 months (a compromise between once and twice a year) which would mean that the 2nd award round would be this Sept/Oct. (It's a two month process, remember from last time?). If we want to have the awards in Sept, that's cool! The next steps (deciding on categories and the voting process) would start immediately and the winner would be announced by Halloween. OR, do we want to make it an annual thing and have the awards in January like last year.
Jan or Sept? Vote in the comments or feel free to email me an input! (lfarblog at gmail.com)
Third: This place is growing like mad. Spreading like a virus... a good virus. However, admin is having trouble keeping up with all the membership applications! So we're looking for more people to add to the admin team to help approve new members. Got some time on your hands? Let me know!
Love Love and more news coming soon,
-Lisa
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Showing posts with label new members. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new members. Show all posts
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
New members by approval only!
Due to the super feedback on the last post, I've changed our network settings so that new members have to be approved to join.
I outlined the reasons in the previous post, but mainly: no more spammers!
Let's see how big of a job this is. If it gets overwhelming, it looks like I have PLENTY of helpful hands to share the duty. (You guys are all the best!) Read rest of these entry>>>
I outlined the reasons in the previous post, but mainly: no more spammers!
Let's see how big of a job this is. If it gets overwhelming, it looks like I have PLENTY of helpful hands to share the duty. (You guys are all the best!) Read rest of these entry>>>
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Sketchy new members?
What should our new member policy be?
Current state: anybody can join as long as they have a blog and are between 20-29
Problems with current state: If nobody is checking up on new profiles, people can just enter any url (yahoo.com, for example, has been used) and be accepted. This is a problem because we've had people join purely to abuse other members (our omnipotent pal Anonymous knows no ends!), and because we've had marketers join our group to try to learn more about this ever savvy 20-something age group (flattering and yet annoying)
Option 1: Stick with current state, rely on members to report abuse to me so I can ban stupid people from the network.
Option 2: All new members must be approved. Anybody can apply for membership, but they might have to wait a couple of hours or even a few days for admin to approve them. Reliable, but more work for admin
Option 3: You cannot join without an invite. It would make 20sb pretty exclusive (obvious pros and cons to that), and keep out abusers. Though about 99% of our members join from referrals, most referrals are from blog badges, not invites. We'd grow a lot slower, and potentially lose out on some new members who don't have an in.
I'm leaning towards option 2. What do you guys think? Read rest of these entry>>>
Current state: anybody can join as long as they have a blog and are between 20-29
Problems with current state: If nobody is checking up on new profiles, people can just enter any url (yahoo.com, for example, has been used) and be accepted. This is a problem because we've had people join purely to abuse other members (our omnipotent pal Anonymous knows no ends!), and because we've had marketers join our group to try to learn more about this ever savvy 20-something age group (flattering and yet annoying)
Option 1: Stick with current state, rely on members to report abuse to me so I can ban stupid people from the network.
Option 2: All new members must be approved. Anybody can apply for membership, but they might have to wait a couple of hours or even a few days for admin to approve them. Reliable, but more work for admin
Option 3: You cannot join without an invite. It would make 20sb pretty exclusive (obvious pros and cons to that), and keep out abusers. Though about 99% of our members join from referrals, most referrals are from blog badges, not invites. We'd grow a lot slower, and potentially lose out on some new members who don't have an in.
I'm leaning towards option 2. What do you guys think? Read rest of these entry>>>
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