Yep! I'd also say to put an announcement up (can you do it Estel - I really feel I've done enough announcements lol) as soon as may be.
Stop the invite process entirely for new people to join meaning
- no one starts a new invite thread
except for those people who so far have received info from us via email and are in the pipeline so to speak.
- threads that are now running let them run their course. Just who get's activated when is kind of an organic process anyway as you ladies work down the list
- any new email that arrives or any new member that signs up as of Monday will be asked nicely to be patient. No need to remove their name from the memberlist (since that's just not nice
) but keep the tally running in the 'log' thread and change location to: not yet an active member
As to the actual announcement about this. I'm afraid I think you'll need to be a bit more 'precise'. Apart from telling them why and what also say very clearly what each user can and cannot do (for the time being)
e.g. my suggestion (expanded from yours Estel):
Due to a sizeable influx in invites and new member registrations as well as the urgent need to get on top of priority board governance issues, all invites to this board will be stopped as of today until 01 April (at which point the situation will be reassed).
We apologize but this was a necessary executive decision taken by all the admins at this point in time and under the circumstances we're finding ourselves in.
Please understand, we do welcome you to invite your friends to this board - only not now during this time but rather in a few weeks after we have resolved important issues of governance and then reassed the situation. We don't have enough admin/man-power to work through all the invites and at the same time the forum is overloaded with thread not many find the time to wade through. The board will eventually be opened to the public - but first we have to 'stabilize' our situation here.
- Theads that are already running will be allowed to run their course
- New threads starting up as of today will be locked and after 24 hours (approx.) deleted
- new member that have signed up as of today will continue to be processed - meaning if you get an email from one of the members on the list in the
New members as of March thread asking you to be a sponsor you of course may open a thread if it is your wish to do so.
- new members that sign up as of today will be sent an email informing them of this change of policy for the time being and will be asked to please be patient. The same goes for people that just email us.
We hope you'll understand and accept the extraordinary circumstances under which we had to take this decision.We're working towards a splendid future of the Board 77 community and welcome you to take part in that process. If you're interested in helping build a community then please head over to the Business room and familiarize yourself with the threads running their. Your input is valuable. Thanks
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Too cheesy?
Well, it's just a suggestion of course but the sooner this or something like this goes up as an announcement the better. We might get a bit of flak but I'm sure in the end everybody will understand.
If and when you put it up, please also edit in the link to the announcement into the other announcement (lol - crossreferencing).
Thanks
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Resident witch