I still think inviting everyone at once would be best.
- It would take less time to do all the initial paper work, and would lend itself to the use of non-admin helpers.
- Signups would still dribble in, because it takes some people longer than others.
- Even if they all signed up at the same time, they would be warned that it would take a few days to process everyone.
- They'd all have the benefit of a month and a half or whatever to be part of the constitutional process.
- It would be less confusing for the general membership to figure out who they've already reviewed - they could just spend one whole evening commenting on those they knew, then a few days later, reviewing threads and voting on everyone they knew. These new invites are less well known to everyone, so each of us will probably be interested in no more than 10 threads.
- No one would get their feelings hurt (any more than usual).
First an admin sees the user has registered. They then go move the invite thread (or delete it now I guess). Next they go to manage the user and activate the account. Next they have to go in and manually set all the permissions. Go back to the user list, find the poster's email address, go to the admin email account, send off the account activated email. Move the sent copy of the email to the sent activations folder...then go back to B77 and update the admin thread keeping track of what has been done.
Streamlined version:
Get alert from sponsor that invitee has registered. Next go to manage the user and activate the account. Next go in and manually set all the permissions. Then forward email set up by sponsor with the account activated info and move the sent copy of the email to the sent activations folder. Sponsors and helpers will do the rest.
I'm willing to help out.