A Pain in the Whatchamacallit
By Tiny Ruisch
Lately, I’ve been at kind of a loss on what to write for this months Whatchamcallit article. Since the club domain is coming up for renewal, I decided to write about how lousy member participation is. I wrote the article and then realized it was probably not a nice thing to print. I wrote some stuff that could be pretty embarrassing to some club members.
I can’t imagine anyone not knowing about the Mueller Report. It has been on the news everyday. The final redacted report was recently released. For those that might not know, redacted means edited or censored. I realized that this was the perfect solution for publishing my article without compromising anyone or hurting their feelings. I hope you enjoy my redacted message. Most redacts are several words or names.
Last month, ℜeedacted the newsletter for a ℜeedacted I had hoped to ℜedacted this month. I will admit that part of the reason for the ℜedacted to make more use of the club website. ℜedacted. I told them they would have to find out by ℜedacted. I thought sure that everyone would check ℜedacted.
As I write this on the afternoon of April 19, ℜedacted to the web site to ℜedacted. Even though I was wrong, I was not really ℜedacted. Here are some website member statistics. These numbers are since ℜedacted. I don’t want to single out anyone so I won’t ℜedacted.
MEMBER DATE LAST ACTIVE NUMBER OF POSTS
ℜedacted Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:16 pm 823
ℜedacted Tue Apr 9, 2019 5:18 am 477
ℜedacted Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:01 pm 5
ℜedacted Sat Jan 12, 2019 7:44 pm 3
ℜedacted Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:09 pm 0
ℜedacted Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:55 pm 10
ℜedacted Never 0
ℜedacted Mon Apr 8, 2019 5:24 pm 0
Do we really need a club website when only ℜedacted and many members hardly even bother ℜedacted? A forum based website could be a vibrant place where ℜedacted are really “users helping users”.
There have been several ℜedacted. The site administrators have often ℜedacted. ℜedacted a suggestion was made to ℜedacted. The site was changed ℜedacted the idea. ℜedacted.
Then there is the club newsletter. ℜedacted useful part of the club. I still think so, ℜedacted members do. Other than some ℜedacted, hardly anyone has bothered to ℜedacted for content. A ℜedacted articles, I was told that it was helpful. If someone had ℜedacted the newsletter then.
My point is that it is the CLUB newsletter, not the Tiny newsletter. It is the CLUB website, not the Tiny site. (I already have four sites). Everyone has knowledge of something. Is it so hard to write a short article and share it with everyone? Is it so difficult to take a minute and share that link instead of e-mailing it?
There. I’m done with my ranting. I’m not trying to ℜedacted anyone, but I really think that ℜedacted give some thought to our club ℜedacted. Are they necessary or should we change or discontinue them?