Excellent point Andy.. I can see its definitely a balancing act. However, the way I see it, your rules work to keep the photo collectors out, while the rules by miev and a couple others are making sure the members have photos that they can collect. Additionally, you are one that participates, as your rules require, while miev does not participate and blocks those that disagree with his rules or even sends him a question.
It is truly a balancing act. Trying to get new blood involved to jump start discussions is rough. Many people have been accepted after communicating with me via messages but once allowed into the group, we'll never hear from them again.
Additionally, I go through my member lists, on occasion, and I bump/delete people from the group who haven't logged on in months. If they show no signs of participation in topics of discussion, I will bump them as well. I find it hard to believe that these people can visit the site regularly, belong to dozens of groups and have nothing to say/add or give an opinion on various topics.
I know of the group owner you're speaking about. He and I had a discussion via messages about my unwillingness to open my profile gallery to everyone and to post a picture of me and my wife, naked, full frontal in all the groups he's a moderator of and we are members. I'd already uploaded a photo of both of us sitting and naked to his groups and explained that that requirement seemed totally unnecessary and asked why he wanted that of his members. One of his reasons was finding real nudists that weren't afraid to show themselves naked. I also said that a forum topic could emerge about his requirements and that it would be in a somewhat negative light. I thought it would have happened sooner but, here it is.
I disagreed so much to his requirements that I started my own similar group of living naked all the time and have no such photo requirement but do have the requirements as stated above and participation in discussions. Only problem is that no one wants to speak (type) up! hahaha
Some of us join a group because we are looking for lively conversations on topics we have interest in. Part of the issue here is that of the 1000s of groups, most of them are dead. If you find a topic of interest and the restrictions are to high, you are fee to creat your own with you own or no restrictions. Most become abandon and you either end up in join limbo or no conversation at all.
Lately most of the post have been in the forums.
The forum has the same FEW members posting over and over again. If the forum is any sign of activity in private groups, then most of those groups should be closed if there is no posting activity in a year. So many people here either add friends other or join groups and then never say one word. What is the point of doing this???
This site is almost like the local landfill. The local landfill needs a good clean out and organizing but this will never happen as the endless dumping will continue for an eternity.
Just think what people 100 years from now who view this forum will think of it.
The forum has the same FEW members posting over and over again. If the forum is any sign of activity in private groups, then most of those groups should be closed if there is no posting activity in a year. So many people here either add friends other or join groups and then never say one word. What is the point of doing this???This site is almost like the local landfill. The local landfill needs a good clean out and organizing but this will never happen as the endless dumping will continue for an eternity.Just think what people 100 years from now who view this forum will think of it.
I could support the idea that if a group has no activity the moderator(s) are notified and if there is no response in some time period (30 days?) the group is closed.
The point of having a large number of friends or joining a large number of groups withoout posting is probably the ability to view a large number of photos,
Group Mods have the ability to delete the group if there is no activity. I have a couple and I'm thinking of doing that. Most of the members are still active on TN but not in that group. I can delete the group; it goes away and so do all their posts are gone as well. I'm hoping that doesn't upset the post counters here! ;D
Group Mods have the ability to delete the group if there is no activity. I have a couple and I'm thinking of doing that. Most of the members are still active on TN but not in that group. I can delete the group; it goes away and so do all their posts are gone as well. I'm hoping that doesn't upset the post counters here! ;D
I think that we are all used to seeing our post counts go down at times.
I certainly understand that moderators have a right to delete posts, threads or even groups.
What I don't understand is why when someone leaves the site, all their posts and any threads or groups they started disappear.
I'm just swag'ing it here. (SWAG=scientific wild ass guess).
A website can be sold and when the numbers of members, visitors and activity are presenting very high, the owners of the site can up the price by showing these large numbers, which equates to the ability for the site to make money. The less numbers, the less interesting or desire to take over a site that's not very popular. It's my swag that that is why we won't see members deleted or moderating who gets to join.
I've taken over several groups where the moderator has left the site or forgot they were even a moderator of a group. I've made contact with TT2 many times to discuss taking over a group and have been approved to do so. As of late, she's not answering any of my requests to take over a couple of groups that are stagnant or the mod has left the site.
Like I mentioned, I not only go into my members list, in groups, I also look at the member's profile to see if they are active on the forum or any of their groups they belong to. I find, more times than not, that a lot of them haven't posted anything, anywhere for months and months. I understand a dry spell but if you belong to 50-100 groups and haven't made a comment in 6 months, you're not going to, and the group doesn't interest you, so why be a member. I cleaned out my groups recently and only got on member to ask why. When I told them why, and told them I'd allow them back in if they'd like, they never responded. That tells me they weren't that interested in being in the group anyway.
I only moderate a few groups that I had a personal interest. I also carefully review respective members. My real disappointment is that none of them actually generate any meaningful posts/discussions. I don't delete a member for inactivity. Not everyone has the time to post tings but may still have a genuine interest in the topic.
I only moderate a few groups that I had a personal interest. I also carefully review respective members. My real disappointment is that none of them actually generate any meaningful posts/discussions. I don't delete a member for inactivity. Not everyone has the time to post tings but may still have a genuine interest in the topic.
I can resonate with this the groups that generate traffic are all about body parts and sexual subjects not naturist related.
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