^Yeah, I agree. If it's final, do you want me to change the first post of the thread with those..."guards"? [Not that anyone reads it anymore... ]

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<By Bubble Black

I don'tknonw if it's final yet, Gwenneth, but I advise from now on you tell those new members to CHECK FIRST POST --- the ability to edit your post is an amazing thing.

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I just want to say that...
Just like the WT can't talk about welcoming for very long, the NC can't talk about Nazgul very long. It just doesn't work.
As for the GW, from what I can read in the first post, it's a club for girls to be random in, not <i>only</i> talking about topics that's got female stuff in them. If that was the case, we couldn't even talk about the guys we like, which is a very girlish thing, but sadly it's not got female stuff in it. It's just guys, no girls, which from what I understand makes it illegal in the GW.
...Does anyone get my point?

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by Lembas

Again, I REALLY wish that I had been more aware of the contents and intent of the making of the Gentlewomen's club but alas, I was under the wrong impression. I really WANT the Gentlewomen's club to be closer to their intended topics of discussion as a Gentlewomen's club. On several occasions, I EASILY came up with topics relating to women but on most of those occasions, members failed to uphold the topic and started again going off-topic.

The Gentlemen's club do the same things, but not the major extent as the ladies. I mean 22 pages vs. almost 800 pages? Please. 800 pages of mindless chatting is overkill. NC club has over 800 pages, but atleast they're ON-TOPIC most of the time.

Nazgul Club / Evil Club was created before I tightened up in the Club section so I merged those together and made the club an overall Evil club --- NOT just a club for Nazgul fans. So they don't NEED to discuss anything Nazguly anymore to be on - topic. I widened the option of topics for them by merging those two clubs together.

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I just get what's on topic for the GW. Cause now we aren't even allowed to talk about our pets...

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by Lembas

Hmm..well I can say in all honesty I thought it was just a gathering of all the AU females. I didn't realise it was expected we just talk about female things.

It doesn't help of course that there are so many members. Keeping such a huge club with lots of people posting everyday, on topic is going to be hard, mainly as some people which just start talking about their day etc, paying no heed to the on-topic discussion. 'Tis difficult to come up with a solution.

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Indeed, with all the ladies in this forum, the memberlist starts going pretty far down...
I, too, thought it was a place for discussion without the presence of males...which includes anything, really.

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Thanks Haldir and Gil!
"You said: I know that this will hurt, but if I don't break your heart then things will just get worse..."

The moddies are still discussing it, and I think everyone can be satisfied with the choices... I think. Who knows.

Thanks for the thoughts!

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Is it too late for me to throw in some of my own ideas and comments?

As Luth said, I too am still split on this matter. I completely agree that it is necessary to keep threads on topic, however, sometimes that just can't be done all the time.

The Welcoming Team was set up as place for welcomers to meet, discuss their day, update others on when they'll be on the forum, etc. It's impossible for us to stay on topic all the time with so many members and really, I don't see a problem with on thread devoted to more than just one topic.

We would never be able to move the Welcoming Team [or any other thread thereof] into the Misc. Random. section because of the fact that we aren't making random posts. We do have topics to talk about and they are always more than one or two words.

I really have nothing to say concerning other clubs such as the GW club or the NC. It's impossible to stay on topic there too. There are so many members and so many things to discuss that I doubt we'd ever be able to stay on one specific topic for very long. I mean, look who your dealing with, a bunch of mostly teenage girls. What can you expect?

But really, we'll try our hardest to come up with some kind of topic to talk about if worse comes to worse.

^Well, I wouldn't say every post in the WT thread has more than 2 or 3 words. I have gone skimming through the pages to find a "Hi, everyone!" or "what's the topic?" And this is irksome to me, for reasons including that it clogs up the thread and causes members to miss important announcements.

Right now I think I'd prefer it if we just tightened up on the no one-worded posts or "substanceless" posts.

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I think one thing many people seem to forget at times is the Club section is meant to be that, about clubs.

As defined by Webster's: "Club- an association of persons for some common object usually jointly supported and meeting periodically; also : a group identified by some common characteristic 'nations in the nuclear club'"

or for those fans of Wikipedia, they define it as "generally an association of people united by a common interest or goal, "

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Clubs are meant to be focused, like it or not. They're meant to revolve around a common goal, topic, interest.... not a myriad of them. The gentlewoman's club and others were started under the understanding they would be just that...centered on a comman theme. Not a place to chat, discuss your everydays and so on... (there are other places in the forum and elsewhere on the site to do that) Now please, I'm not trying to offend anyone, just clarify what is meant by our club section on A-U. I know that for example the NC and GW have tons of members...which is awesome! But, to keep it fair for all of our many, many clubs...we have to come up with a way for them to stay on a general topic. Again, little steps out of line aren't bad...but the majority, at least 80% or more of a club's posts should be related to the name/interest of that club. That's my understanding of what is meant by that section of the forum, and I agree with it.

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If the Welcoming Team wish to update and say when they're going to be on, i doubt thats necessary, and when they'll be away, isn't there a thread in the "Your Life" section for that? I know the NC and the WC get off topic(i try to stay on topic as much as possible, but my mind wanders with my on topicness sometimes) and im wondering what the real purpose for the WT thread is. If its just a list of members that can be PMed by new members, or what?

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(wow, i have no idea to voice what i want to say without sounding mean... )


But do the Welcoming members need to put their feet up and say that, its not like welcoming is a physically nor mentally exhaustive task is it? And how many ways can you welcome someone, this is sounding reall accusing and mean, but i dont want it to be, so please, dont take offence.

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