I'm still driving

I would like to thank some of the pups for coming up with some good ideas for events and stuff, and the presentation at APEX was good for some outreach, as immediately afterward we had several people sign up to become users on the site.

One thing that I've noticed though, people don't log into the site. I've started to eliminate people who's user profiles are merely taking up room on the server. I have a setting that allows me to see how long it's been since the last time you logged on. If it's been longer than 6 months, I'll send you an email asking you to log back in, if you haven't done so within a week, I'll delete your account.

I updated the group rules to refect this new policy, and sent out an email letting people know that the rules have been changed. The final rule of the rules is: "Remaining a registered user on this site and participating in events implies your consent to follow the rules of A-PAH as outlined above." I opted to disregard user opts outs of mass emailings. Meaning that it was sent to every user, whether they elected to recieve mailings or not. Usually, if it's just something random like "I posted a new fun event" I honor the user opt outs, so that people aren't getting their email boxes full of a lot of those notes from me.

I am surprised about the number of people who signed on the read the update. If it were me, and someone told me that the rules had changed, and by staying a registered user I was agreeing to the new rule, I sure as hell would want to know what that rule was. Apparently some people don't. Those people also haven't logged in for a couple months, so a couple more months, and I won't have to worry about them anyway.

What does this prove, and what does it have to do with the topic of this blog? Just goes to prove that I am still driving this thing. In spite of the fact that my pup took the initiative to schedule a get together, he did it at my urging.

Really, I don't mind, I am just worried about what will happen when I start to over extend myself again. There are some great people in this group, and in combination with the Boys of Leather, we are making and building some great friendships, I just want the group to go on and become ...

And become the home I was looking for when I started putting it together.

Love and scritches.