Pruning the Membership List

[Rayman]

Spot on Jackson.

You have my support.

[Johan007]

It's a pity that this site doesn't have a "bouncing" tool like yahoo groups has;-)

That would have saved you a lot of work Jackson!!!

Just do it.

Johan.

[lastrueplayer]

Great idea, I'm in favor of this change

[Boom]

This is a great idea! And hopefully alot of the chatting back and forth will be done in the chat room rather than using up valuable space in the forums. Kudos Jackson, it is about time!

[stevealluna]

I think Cleaning up the membership list is a great idea. Lurkers as we all know are worthless.

My only concern are the lurkers who have never contributed anything. I'm waiting for them to start posting in the forums made up info just to keep their accounts alive.

Oh well, thanks to you Jackson and the users who share great info

Stay safe :) Happy hunting ;)

[Jimmy]

I love the idea of getting rid of the dead weight. I also think that you may consider limiting viewing by non-members. I am unsure of a good way to do this and still be able to gain productive new members without having hundreds register and never come back.

Thanks for all the work you have done!

[Genuis8]

Jackson,

I agree with your current plan of pruning the unused membership.

[Redneck3565]

I agree that cleaning up the "registered users" is a must, and re-arranging the "cities" within at least the CA state area should be considered too. Perhaps categorizing by area code (213, 714, 909, etc.) can be done, or by County, and then the cities with each county that SW's are active at. It will make it easier for those of us who can't go too far in pursuit of the hobby!

[WorldTraveller]

Jackson,

I agree that you need to make these changes, and the way in which you presented them seems to be logical, I must also agree with some that you are being too easy in the inactive area. If this was a "pay site" I could understand someone "expecting" to keep their "name".....I say if they are inactive that long, drop them, they can always re-register and if nobody else has taken their name, they can get it back. By doing this you are already taking on an enormous amount of work, why burden yourself more? Let each person take responsibility for themselves, if they post they stay, if they strictly lurk and never post, or only post once a year.....well....bye bye....

Keep up the great work, I admire your drive to promote and maintain this great resource tool.

Thanks!

[Jager]

Hi Jackson,

Regarding pruning the membership list, in my opinion it is better to only have a few selected members who are actively posting and reporting. You are doing a fine job and please don't worry about the ones who might get upset after they are cut off.

You gave them a fair warning and just go ahead with the strict pruning and cutting down the membership list to a managable number.

Go for it, cut them off if they don't follow the rules, you are doing the work, you have the right to implement what is necessary to keep the wsg site running smoothly.

THANKS for all the work you are doing for so many of us.

[Deshka]

I agree with everyone else. Drop the inactives!!! If they want to use the resource they will register again, and hopefully use the forum.

[Pariah]

Jackson,

you're doing great work! Forget the onetime posters and delete their names. Most of them are just chickens**t lurkers who got the guts to post once then got scared.

The live chat sound cool!!

P

[Fcrus]

Excellent plans Jackson - you do a great job and your judgement is solid. BL

[Member #1465]

Its a great place for finding information before the trips. Go for the changes.

Jackson you are controling this in a great way.

Thanks

[clarence]

I agree with all the comments. You are the MAN. Dump the deadwood; and thanks for all the work you do.