bulb rant
Karl Church (Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:16:31 PST)

Jane, I agree while heartedly.

Karl Church
Dinuba zone 9b
On Nov 16, 2014 12:26 PM, "Jane McGary" <janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote:

I agree with David Pilling that a forum would require too much volunteer
effort for our small group to provide, especially if, like the wiki, it
admitted posts only by paying PBS members. Many people do not realize that
a large number of those who post to this list are not paying members; this
is an option offered on the website. PBS currently has fewer than 400
paying members, whose dues allow them to participate in the wiki and the BX.

If you want to post your photos so people on the list can see them
readily, one option is to join PBS and use our wiki, one of the most
frequently visited bulb photo sites on the web. If you join now, you will
be paid up through 2015.

I think it is a lot more trouble to participate in a forum, however well
it may be managed, than to delete uninteresting emails by glancing at the
subject lines in your mailbox and clicking the trash can.

Jane McGary
Membership Coordinator, PBS

At 10:02 AM 11/16/2014, you wrote:
The thing worrying me about a forum is who will run it.

I look at forums and there's always one person or two who have many

thousand posts to their name. What makes the SRGC forum such a success -
Maggi Young.

The PBS has had difficulty getting anyone to edit the paper based
newsletter. The PBS wiki is now stalled for lack of contributors.

We have to do something new that will make you happy.

I'd like to hear from the people who are going to put in 10 hours a week
on the admin side of a forum - deleting spam, helping new users, putting
names to all the photos people upload without names etc.
-
David Pilling
http://www.davidpilling.com/

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