Groundspeak Portal

Recently I was clearing out the deadwood in one of my categories - members who had not logged in for long periods of time.  I deleted one member who had not logged in for TWO YEARS.  The next day he joined again.  I suppose it doesn't really hurt to have inactive regular members, but I don't see the point in the clutter with members who don't participate in any way.  Is there a way to block specific members?  I really don't want to turn open enrollment off.

I don't see a problem. If someone wants to join my group, so be it. It's jus another name in a list of names.

I agree w/ Saopaulo, as much of an annoyance it maybe having deadbeat officers, the activity level of a group's regular members really has no bearing on the operations of the group. Turning off open enrollment hopefully soon won't even be an option. We've been stuck with enough abandoned categories. So I say just ignore the inactive regular members, pretend they're not even there. Just don't promote them, whatever you do. Promote those who express interest, and hopefully if all the groups have open enrollment, we'll be able to revive some of, if not all, the dead categories.

i love regular members....so you have a pool of groupies you can use if needed.....

i try to stick to those i know are up to the task (active enough to fill in gaps, and care enough about the topic to really look at them)--when you get an approval message about typos, you know you have the right person......

Well, what I don't understand is why someone who has not logged in for TWO YRS want to be a member of any waymarking category?  Who needs that kind of groupie?

yes, maybe if thre was some way to flag groupies (only officers in that group could see)........the thumbs up/down thing we havent seen in years?

so then if you approve of someone that 'i dont know that well' i would know that i could count on them.....

i would also like to see PMs get some sort of icon, so i dont keep trying to approve nonPMs (no offence math teacher, but you got some loopholes going on)

chapterhouseinc:

i would also like to see PMs get some sort of icon, so i dont keep trying to approve nonPMs (no offence math teacher, but you got some loopholes going on)

I've had that happen.  An icon might help.
I'd suggest a gold crown!

remind me please, what a PM is.

silverquill:

Well, what I don't understand is why someone who has not logged in for TWO YRS want to be a member of any waymarking category?  Who needs that kind of groupie?

Yeah, and pay for the premium membership too? That blows my mind, not that it's expensive.

team farkle 7:

remind me please, what a PM is.

You answered yourself in the next post

team farkle 7:

Yeah, and pay for the premium membership too? That blows my mind, not that it's expensive.

PM = Premium Member

BQ

anyone else have the snazzy 'extend my charter membership' link on their WM profile? its been like that about a week now....i saw it say that once before......

i might venture to say that eventually GC.com and WM.com will need seperate memberships......and it still would be one of the most inexpensice hobby you have--as long as petrol remains affordable, but you dont really always need that.....

so then, maybe when ehough people give a person the thumb down they get auto demoted? i know that would help some coups......

I don't see a need for blocking regular members. They're harmless. In your particular case, it seems like booting him from the group reminded him that Waymarking exists. That's a good thing.

I don't think an open/close enrollment option should be necessary. It complicates group reorganisation.

I like the idea of a little bling next to my username because I pay to play.

I think Waymarking has to create an official process for reorganising a group when the leader or majority officers disappear and I think this process should involve Waymarking approval.

My two cents.