Group and account maintenance

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):

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
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.

Maintain membership

In order to maintain membership in the group, 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:

Most important: Joined the group but never skated with the group
Has somehow joined an invitation only group without being invited and or skated with the group
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

Group expenses

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.

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:

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 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 100 members reach per email and time and a group with 150 members only has 100 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: Can a removed skater return to the group once becomes active again?

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

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