RE: Official #Steemsilvergold Membership Post - 8th of July 2019
I don't see a problem with culling or moving members that have been inactive for 6 months to an inactive list. It's not like they can't come back, right?This would be a step in the right direction as far as keeping the current membership list updated and current.
However, as you know it doesn't touch on the main issue that @welshstacker was bringing up... and that is to prevent abuse of the community bot. His idea was to remove members that ARE active BUT not posting, "enough" about precious metals.
For that issue, I think we'll need some kind of rule with specifics about how often a precious metals post is necessary as well as some kind of cull or enforcement necessary to accomplish that goal. I mentioned on @welshstacker's post that I might be in favor of this but would want to hear specifics on how it would work... (How often must one post? How many days can pass? Is quality an issue? Can someone just post a pic of a silver object and tag steemsilvergold?) It's tricky to make a rule like this that is fair, but I do think we should explore the topic.
I'd be interested to hear what others come up with to make such a rule work in a fair way!
People could totally come back. ☺️ I just feel like if they aren’t coming back why do we keep track of them.
As for the rest, it’s definitely a touchy discussion. Especially, when you start to put faces of friends (or actual family) to the folks that might fall outside of any parameters that could be set.
The bot makes things harder. I wonder if anyone would care about who is or isn’t a member and what they are posting about without the bot. When I think of it that way I wonder if there should be rules specific to the bot subscription vs. specific rules to membership.
Some of these people might see their delegations as a way to support a community in which they no longer actively participate.
And of course all of this is harder to discuss in disconnected steemit posts and replies than it would be to hammer out as a group in a room somewhere.
And on top of all of your questions about what criteria we might set, I also wonder who has the time to be post counter/quality enforcer.
All good points. :)