If you (still) feel the need to discuss Moldies [part 2]

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This thread is a continuation of this one. That one had become too big for its own boots the system to handle.

i will stop if you don't think this is kosher. i'm trying to be un-salacious, tbh, i'm just sick of the intrigue when it's not that mysterious, just a bit messy and chaotic and human and, yes, a bit selfish.

Please don't stop now ...

What's an avatar? Some sort of South American bird? Sounds jolly exotic anyway!

NO, keep going.
This is the first initiative after 7000 posts
that might lead somewhere.
PLEASE keep going.

aitch,

will you be at for posting your thoughts tonight?

Aitch, you probably missed my question below -

Can I ask how Moldies obtain new members now? How does the recruitment process work - does it involve current MN members?

The reason I ask is that I have this slightly paranoid vision of lots of moldies with dark sunglasses taking notes of current postings on mn and deciding whether the posters merit a tap on the shoulder ...

So how does it happen now?

no reason. in fact, you only got contacted if the person you nommed had been accepted. so i'd nom x, y, and z, and get a message by PM to say 'could you give z a buzz, please?'

a lot of those people who everyone's been saying 'why the fuck weren't they invited, they've been on here yonks and are lovely' seem to have been admin fuck-ups, i should perhaps (not) tell you... it was totally haphazard. it's hardly like this place, where it's someone's JOB to run a website.

omg what a crappy place.
I run the yahoo group for the sn board, and in 2 1/2 years it has been goingno one has ever been turned down.

"i never quite got an answer as to how many no votes would make someone not get invited but it wasn't enough to be one."

I don't agree - I never saw any answer from anyone in charge which said how many veto's there had to be. I think it was done on an individual basis, nomination by nomination.

Also, 'I've never heard of her' was sufficient reason to veto. So all the really old guard - so old as to consider 3 yr old reggers to be newbies - just veto'd anyone who wasn't their personal friend.

So who made the decisions as to who was accepted/refused?

Nooo - don't stop!

The moderators? Appointed or self-appointed? Not asking who BTW.

Nah, don't stop on my account. I've only posted on this entire subject half a dozen times. Some on here have been losing sleep for a week or so.

I understand why some people want to know. It's just that I don't believe that 500 odd people have a need to know as it's all got carried away.

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a lot of those people who everyone's been saying 'why the fuck weren't they invited, they've been on here yonks and are lovely' seem to have been admin fuck-ups, i should perhaps (not) tell you... it was totally haphazard."

So those people have been contacted and invited to join post hoc?

Come on.

quattro i will be taking questions later... arf. no. no members at the mo. don't know what will happen in the future. what would you suggest?

don't think i'll be at, comeova. they're still the same people, decent women etc, anyway i've been pretty open about my misgivings from the start.

I wondered the same thing, onebat. They just disappeared? Seems a little stalinist odd.

i think it would be a lot fairer if, say, only those who had been on MN for 4+ years were invited, that way it wouldn't get personal. Otherwises it does seem like cherry picking, particularly with 'younger' Mners.

your'e saying come on as if you don't believe me, onebat. i think that a couple have been reminded that they were sent emails or FBs in the earliest days anyway, and one may have been contacted to explain by way of an apology. but not completely certain of that. i hope she has, most definitely.

or an open invite to those who have been here 4+ years to contact so and so for a link>>>

Will nobody tell me what an avatar is?

Hmmm I think you're all looking down on me cos I've been here less than two years and work full time and give my children fruitshoots occasionally.

Well I'll have you know - i've got a sausage roll in my fridge and I'm not afraid to use it!

Fwiw, I saw individual threads about nominated ppl - I still have the thread names in my Internet history, there were no polls when I was there

stop, onebat, i haven't got to that bit yet. please don't give me the grand inquisition when i haven't even said what happened yet.

Isn't it a pretend person you move around? Like the penguins on CLub Penguin, but a person...

So, MP, who was taking responsiblility for approving/rejecting nominees?

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are you 100% sure, mp? you were there when i was, and you said you were only there for a day? were people debating the merits and demerits of these people on the threads or were they being used as de facto polls before the polls were found?