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This is just a copy of the e-mail which was sent on August 20, 2005 to all current members of our group.

Welcome to our group. We are a quick growing community and we have a few new rules & regulations that we are going to implement.<o:p></o:p>

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Effective September 1, 2005, we will have a Monthly Sign in page. We ask all members sign in each month. Each month we will start a new message thread asking a question about As The World Turns. We invite you to share you views in our Monthly Sign In. <o:p></o:p>

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The Monthly sign in is being designed to help with the overpopulation of our group. We have about a quarter of our members posting and the other three quarters of our group is in limbo. <o:p></o:p>

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This brings us to another topic. If after two months you have not posted, you will need to re-join the group. This is the only way we can control memberships here. <o:p></o:p>

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As always, we will NOT tolerate spamming of any kind. If you are caught spamming another member you will be issued a warning. The second offense will result in a ban form our group. We are a family here, and we wish to keep our board as it is today. <o:p></o:p>

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On a final note, the Management team will be notifying you of any new & exciting changes as they come to light. We welcome any suggestions you may have. <o:p></o:p>

Hi, just noticed the signing in board, so i'm signin' in!

Signing in here too.

I work so much and don't really have much time to post but understand. Will try to do better. I only see my soaps maybe once evry 2 weeks and ya'll really help keeping me up when reading the posts.

hey just signing in....really love this board....always gives great info and pretty accurate spoiler information....keep up the good work!!!!....fire

Just a FYI, no need to worry about the sign in. It will only start in September. Management will simply post a message asking some questions about a current story or actor/actress. All you have to do is hit reply and type signing in. You will have a whole month to sign in! You may answer the questions if you want to, but you don't have to.

We will only be looking to delete members who go two months in a row without signing in. The only reason we're doing this is bc the membership is so large and we are trying to weed it out to get to the members that actually post and or read the posts regularly. This will be a sure way of deleting those members who have not visited the board in several months or a year or better. There's no worries about getting deleted if you don't respond immediately or if you're on vacation, having computer problems, etc.

So let's keep posting! We like to see all the new posts!!

Allison, co-manager.

I'm just curious as to why a large membership is such a problem that people will be culled for not posting. I know that I don't post a lot but I do read the posts. I had to re-sgin up a while ago when for some reason my original username stopped working. Is it a physical problem with the server having so many names that things slow down on the board or is it something else? I'm just curious and not understaning why this monthly sign-in thing is necessary. Thanks in advance for answering.

Regarding Monthly Sign-In:

As stated earlier, we decided to implement Monthly Sign-In process to help streamline our board's membership. From an administrative standpoint, it is difficult for me and my colleagues to navigate the 800+ person member list (especially when the list is only sorted alphabetically, not chronologically!) and figure out who has been active on the board and who has not.

We would like to have a good sense of who our active members are so we as managers can better customize the content that you find here on this site. Each of the managers has a specific area of responsibility on this board, and we want to make sure that we're providing good and relevant information about ATWT to our members.

When only a small fraction of a larger membership group is active, we're only hearing from a small portion of the group. That's where the Monthly Sign-In comes in handy. By simply answering a question about ATWT each month (and that's all the Monthly Sign-In process is... you answer the question and say "signing in"), you give us immediate information about your feelings about the show.

I'll give you an example. Let's say that we're thinking of featuring a Character of the Week (we're not, but this is just an example) and we're not sure which character our members like the best. We might pose a question on the Monthly Sign-In Board that reads, "Who is your favorite current character on the show right now?"

This is where your feedback is invaluable. Once we get a majority opinion, we could then take that information and then put it to good use.

And that's just one example of the benefits of using the Monthly Sign-In process.

However, to answer your question, the main reason we are implementing the Monthly Sign-In is to help streamline some of our administrative operations. Simply put, it's just easier for us to manage a smaller group of active members than a larger group of inactive ones. Remember, we're all volunteers here, and we're trying to do the best that we can with the limited time and resources that we have available.

Again, thanks to you all for your continued support.

Taryn

Board Co-Manager

Thanks for responding to my question. As I mentioned before I was curious about why membership size was an issue. Thanks for clearly explaining the issues surrounding it. I hope you didn't think I was challenging the leadership on this board or its management. I was really was just scratching my head at the need for the changes but I get it now and appreciate the effort you are all putting into this community. All the best.

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