Group and account maintenance: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 13:59, 17 April 2024

After years of experience organizing and participating in events, as it can be understood, maintaining any large group actively healthy requires maintenance, which is time and resource-consuming. Likewise, it is also understood that life happens, and sometimes, the availability or possibility of having time to skate with the group is not there. Some reasons included are (but not limited to):

Personal life
No free time for the sport 
Moved on to other activities
Family and or loved ones' requirements
Professional life, schedule
Moved to another location (city, province and or country)
Injuries, not interested anymore, etc
I was just curious to see what it was all about and nothing else

For our group to thrive, it's crucial for all skaters to grasp that adjustments are often necessary. This helps our organizers and hosts know who’s actively skating and who’s really into it. Without this clarity, our dedicated planners could spend time, effort, and money on events and activities that don’t yield fruitful results. So, let's stay engaged and make every skate session count!

Membership Requirements

Keeping Your Spot: Skaters must sometimes hit the pavement with us to stay part of the group. Sometimes, we trim the roster to enhance group dynamics and resources. Inactive Memberships may be forgotten.

Costs of Community

Running a group isn’t always free. Platforms have costs and inactive accounts waste resources that could benefit active members. Ensuring that our funding directly supports active skaters and effective event planning is essential.

Benefits of Membership Review

By pruning inactive accounts, we aim to allocate our resources better and focus on:

Tailored Activities: Organizing events that resonate with active members’ interests rather than generic gatherings.
Welcoming New Skaters: Keeping the group appealing and manageable attracts fresh faces.
Reducing Spam: Minimizing unnecessary emails. With platform limits, every message counts, and active members shouldn’t miss out because inactive ones are taking up space.

Let’s make every skate count and keep our community rolling smoothly!

Returning to the group

Q: I left the group on my own. Can I be invited back
Q: Can a removed skater return to the group once he becomes active?

Yes, and we will be happy to have you back if you forget to rejoin, chances are that we might bug you back in.

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-After years of experience organizing and participating in events, as it can be understood, maintaining any large group actively healthy requires maintenance is time and resource consuming. Likewise it is also understood that life happens and sometimes the availability or possibility of having time to skate with the group is not there. Some reasons included are (but not limited to):
+After years of experience organizing and participating in events, as it can be understood, maintaining any large group actively healthy requires maintenance, which is time and resource-consuming. Likewise, it is also understood that life happens, and sometimes, the availability or possibility of having time to skate with the group is not there. Some reasons included are (but not limited to):
   Personal life
   No free time for the sport
   Moved on to other activities
-  Family and or loved ones requirements
+  Family and or loved ones' requirements
   Professional life, schedule
   Moved to another location (city, province and or country)
   Injuries, not interested anymore, etc
-  Was just curious to see what it was all about and nothing else
+  I was just curious to see what it was all about and nothing else
-Whatever the reason is, the skater must also understand that in order to keep the group functional, adjustments have to be made for organizers and hosts to have a good idea who is active and where as well as interested in skating, otherwise any organizers and hosts planing events and activities will find themselves investing time, effort and money without any productive outcome for the projected activities.
+For our group to thrive, it's crucial for all skaters to grasp that adjustments are often necessary. This helps our organizers and hosts know who’s actively skating and who’s really into it. Without this clarity, our dedicated planners could spend time, effort, and money on events and activities that don’t yield fruitful results. So, let's stay engaged and make every skate session count!
-== Maintain membership ==
+== Membership Requirements ==
-'''In order to maintain membership in the [[group|Kommunity]] , the skater must skate with the group 1 to 3 times a year''' and starting 2021, some accounts/memberships will be removed from the group if the skater matches any of the following:
+Keeping Your Spot: Skaters must sometimes hit the pavement with us to stay part of the group. Sometimes, we trim the roster to enhance group dynamics and resources. Inactive Memberships may be forgotten.
-* '''Most important: Joined the group but never skated with the group'''
+=== Costs of Community ===
-* Has somehow joined an invitation only group without being invited and or skated with the group
+Running a group isn’t always free. Platforms have costs and inactive accounts waste resources that could benefit active members. Ensuring that our funding directly supports active skaters and effective event planning is essential.
-* Is not an inline skater
-* Does not have the equipment and or skill required to be part of the group
-* Notorious trend of RSVP but never shows up or shows up randomly without RSVP
-* Has never replied to messages (text, email, social media) to let organizers and or hosts know their skating status
-* Has blocked messages, notifications and or other forms of contact from the organizers
-* Is in the group for personal gain/commercial reasons and not to skate with the group
-* Has not followed the [[agreement waiver and release of liability]]
-* Has not respected the [[code of conduct]]
-* Vanished
-and to [[Reasons to move away from meetup Toronto rollerblade inline skater group|prevent what happened with the meetup Toronto rollerblade inline skater group]]
-=== Group expenses ===
+== Benefits of Membership Review ==
-It is important to keep in mind that maintain a group platform for an activity, has associated financial costs and having of platform full of accounts that are not actually active within the group purpose, turns into expenses for the organizers which do not have the intended investment outcome of the people paying for it.
+By pruning inactive accounts, we aim to allocate our resources better and focus on:
-== Toronto Bladers chat ==
+ '''Tailored Activities:''' Organizing events that resonate with active members’ interests rather than generic gatherings.
-In order to be part of the [[bladers chat]] the skater '''must be part of the skater's group organizing platform''' which since 2021 has been [[kommunity]]. The [[chat]] is also optional but recommended. If the skater does not have an active membership in the group, there is no valid reason to be in the [[bladers chat]]. '''Approval to the [[bladers chat]] is always pending on being part of the skating group.'''
+ '''Welcoming New Skaters:''' Keeping the group appealing and manageable attracts fresh faces.
+  '''Reducing Spam:''' Minimizing unnecessary emails. With platform limits, every message counts, and active members shouldn’t miss out because inactive ones are taking up space.
-The [[bladers chat]] exists to support group event activities that matter to everyone in the group such as:
+Let’s make every skate count and keep our community rolling smoothly!
-* Plan events, get in touch during events, post [[live gps tracking]] during skate activities
-* Share tutorials, skating URLs, equipment, documentation, news, private sales ('''not advertising stores''')
-* Share pictures, feedback, suggestions and videos of events
-Being part of the [[bladers chat]] without being part of the skating group defeats its purpose and increases it's [[chat]] activity with many other topics which end up by not being related to the aforementioned support and overwhelms some skaters who may get a large amount of notifications on their electronic devices. These skaters end up by muting the app, the group and it's activity. Some even leave the [[bladers chat]] or lose interest on it.
-''Being on the [[bladers chat]] is like being in love'' and sometimes we may get carried away and it will go on forever. However it can also cause a lot of traffic on mobile devices and synchronization between all the devices of the skater which may also increase data consumption and overwhelm the person's resources as well as the skater's attention.
-  Due to these reasons the skater is kindly asked to [[chat]] and share within reason of the nature of the group and to '''address any other skater in private when the matter is more at an individual level rather than at a group level'''. For everything else, we can also make good use of many other social platforms out there and let our passion go with our stories and adventures.
-== Removal outcomes ==
-By removing a member account that is not active skating with the group, the intended outcome is to maximize resources for active skaters and:
-* Decrease the amount of mobile data traffic between the skater and group electronic devices
-* Decrease synchronization times between all members electronic devices
-* Focus on the skaters that are active and be able to create events and activities that match the active skater interests as opposed to generic event for everyone
-* Attract more and new skaters to the group and [[chat]] while keeping the platforms light and easygoing
-* Decrease the amount of emails that are sent to the group and prevent ''spam'' as the '''organizing platforms limit the amount of emails that can be sent to members, per day, week and even how many emails can be sent to members at all.''' For example, if a platform as a limit of 50 members reach per email and time and a group with 100 members only has 50 that are actually active, given that the platform does not distinguish the difference, then some of the active skaters will never be reached.
 == Returning to the group ==
-  '''Q:''' I left the group on my own, can I be invited back
+  '''Q:''' I left the group on my own. Can I be invited back
-  '''Q:''' Can a removed skater return to the group once becomes active again?
+  '''Q:''' Can a removed skater return to the group once he becomes active?
-If the group requirements are met by the skater, the answer is positive and we will be happy to have you back and if you forget to rejoin, '''chances are that we might bug you back in.'''
-== Chat guidelines ==
+Yes, and we will be happy to have you back if you forget to rejoin, '''chances are that we might bug you back in.'''
-Please see [[Bladers_chat#Guidelines| Bladers Chat]]
 [[Category:disclaimers]]
 [[category:laws and regulations]]