XJ4Christ
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I hope to become red letter soon, but I wonder if many are not red letter due to same situation I am in atm.. lack of funds. With the economy being the way it is sometimes we have to drop certain things etc, so that could be a reason on top of other things i guess.
I have had nothing but good experiences here on
. Everyone I have met has been awesome and love to help. I have not been here that long though so I suppose there is always internal issues like you are all mentioning. What I do when i see something that I might not agree with and want to fire back a reply is take a couple minutes and reflect if it is something uplifting to say. If not then I try not to post it. I have had a couple times where my lack of judgement came in and posted something i regretted doing and then I tried to apologize and or edit what I said...
I do know there are those that are going thru hard times and maybe the forum is a place or only place they have to vent (loosing jobs, politics, etc). These are often the posts that I think can cause the most disagreement in the chapter aside from a couple of people just wanting to randomly flame someone.
As for making a probationary period I dont know how that would work as there are a lot of non red letter people on the forums and that go wheeling. They dont have a probationary period and can still cause issue and just make a new name if they really wanted too and come back etc.
Another idea to help the President and such with such a big area maybe would be to have subgroups of So-Cal chapter that would organize runs and such on a lot smaller scale and coordinate with the President and then he to the Nationals (this might be already done dont know hehe). What I am getting at is have a a group for down the hill, a group for high desert, etc. The groups could have meetings one night a month and maybe run official trail runs monthly or something and "hang out/build nights." Again this might have been tried already etc I dont know
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This of course would take a lot of work, but would divide it among those who want to see things move forward. It would also take all the burden off the main guys and allow more people to get excited. I often look at the board for runs and such. I havent seen any aside from some people on their own set them up (aside from major events). Would be cool to have what I mentioned in above paragraph to promote interest. The forums are a major attraction, but why not make doing stuff together more in organized fashion another major attraction for?
Brian
I have had nothing but good experiences here on
. Everyone I have met has been awesome and love to help. I have not been here that long though so I suppose there is always internal issues like you are all mentioning. What I do when i see something that I might not agree with and want to fire back a reply is take a couple minutes and reflect if it is something uplifting to say. If not then I try not to post it. I have had a couple times where my lack of judgement came in and posted something i regretted doing and then I tried to apologize and or edit what I said... I do know there are those that are going thru hard times and maybe the forum is a place or only place they have to vent (loosing jobs, politics, etc). These are often the posts that I think can cause the most disagreement in the chapter aside from a couple of people just wanting to randomly flame someone.
As for making a probationary period I dont know how that would work as there are a lot of non red letter people on the forums and that go wheeling. They dont have a probationary period and can still cause issue and just make a new name if they really wanted too and come back etc.
Another idea to help the President and such with such a big area maybe would be to have subgroups of So-Cal chapter that would organize runs and such on a lot smaller scale and coordinate with the President and then he to the Nationals (this might be already done dont know hehe). What I am getting at is have a a group for down the hill, a group for high desert, etc. The groups could have meetings one night a month and maybe run official trail runs monthly or something and "hang out/build nights." Again this might have been tried already etc I dont know
. This of course would take a lot of work, but would divide it among those who want to see things move forward. It would also take all the burden off the main guys and allow more people to get excited. I often look at the board for runs and such. I havent seen any aside from some people on their own set them up (aside from major events). Would be cool to have what I mentioned in above paragraph to promote interest. The forums are a major attraction, but why not make doing stuff together more in organized fashion another major attraction for
?Brian
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