Post by Admin on Nov 29, 2013 8:03:18 GMT -5
Cross-posted from Boards/Agenda for November 2013:
RE: your question on membership on CHUG versus membership on Forum---
When CHUG was transmitting the NewsHound in 2011-12, there were about a hundred or so email addresses from CHUG. Many of these addresses were non-owner. They were renters or previous owners. Apparently, it was OK for non-owners to have access to SLohA Official Records at that time. It is unknown what the current club policy is.
With regard to this Forum, membership is understandably low. The Forum is a venue for voicing concerns which are unlikely, in most cases, to be popular with MANBOD. So, owners reasonably read and post as a Guest.
In contrast, CHUG acts as a bulletin board for MANBOD concerns and for posting Minutes (at least the Minutes which MANBOD chooses to post). There is no discussion board--only a pre-moderated Current Events section which usually functions as a place for MANBOD's fans to rant against people who dare to voice any disagreement with anything that MANBOD does.
On this Forum, the Guest daily/hourly attendance is statistically maintained by the website and varies greatly from an average of 50 visits daily to well over 100. This can be 50 Guests or 40 guests with 10 of them visiting twice, which is what I think is the "baseline" behavior. Guests who post are more likely to "tune in" more frequently and raise the Guest Visit #.
My experience with the old Forum of Mik's was that validated members who were actually owners far exceeded the identified owners registered on CHUG. On that forum, Mik carefully required name/phone and stump # to validate that the owner--and only the owner--had access. There was no provision for the kind of Open Guest status that people enjoy on this one.