ZHP Mafia SIG Status

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Jon, we could have an open forum for the SIG. However, there would be no way to accept new members in a segmented way. You either accept everyone in an open registration or you moderate the way we're currently doing it.

The SIG forum has always been open -- once you're a member of ZHPMafia.com.

So, everything goes back to the beginning: do we open registration to everyone, including many of the asshats who participate in other forums we've left, or do we keep things the way we are and make people jump through an easy hoop?

We're not opening registration to the world.

[alexandre]

Definitely agree with this decision. No need to introduce the garbage we see on other forums over here.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

I figured that everyone already here liked ZHPMafia.com in its current form. As such, I figured everyone would be pleased to know we're not reopening the forum -- even though this doesn't make people outside of our forum happy.

[alexandre]

Reading the initial SIG announcement, I noticed the following:

And this note: you do not have to be a member of ZHPMafia.com to be a member of the ZHP Mafia SIG. If you are not a member of ZHPMafia.com, but would like to be a member of the SIG, I will use your email address to correspond with you. Please provide a first and last name, though, so that I can identify you in my records.

Wouldn't this make their point moot ?

[Marcus-SanDiego]

I told them that some people had actually become SIG members without joining our site. They thought that was preposterous. They thought that it was akin to being invited to dinner and having to sit at the kid's table.

Don't blame me. Some people don't want to join the site. They just want to be part of the SIG.

[johnrando]

It gets more and more interesting.

[imola red zhp]

It gets more and more interesting.

+1

sent from Dennis' Personal Electronic Device

[zhpnsnv]

What a bunch of morons.

Seriously. I love my nj chapter and the people in charge of it, but these national bozos obviously take themselves way too seriously.


Sent from the freaking Catalina wine mixer.

[zj96sc]

Yeah, I'm not sure I understand their inherent coupling of the SIG to the mafia. Is there a BB for every SIG CCA recognizes?

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Paul, no. Some of the SIGs do not have active sites at all. There is no reason to couple them.

In fairness, though, I did tell the national office that ZHPMafia.com was the gathering place for our SIG. Indeed, the SIG spawned out of our forum. Still, I don't think it's necessary to have an active forum to have a SIG.