Blue usernames are not current (paid up) trf members

[kris]

just going to updated the paid up TRF members on the forum....

so if your name goes from green to blue then please rejoin to help the trf and contact me with the reference to avoid any stigma !

or consider being a life member .. saves the aggro

[Billy]

Aren`t has an apostrophe........

[Billy]

..................and start a post title and a sentence with a capital.

[kris]

Ok so that is the cull complete...

Don't think we have sorted the list out for a while (hangs head in shame) and so there was about 35 to remove and 8 to add

We now have on the forum

"Vetted TRF Members 89"

(though we have 236 paid up members in the file from the national centre)

I notice that the following users are still blue but ARE vetted members .. so will try and green them up with some help from special dave

Agustamo
Bush Pig
markwyman
Nevskiy
Treloen

email [email protected] if you recently paid your subscription, have your access code and want to be green again.

[Stewie]

This thread stinks, 'Oh we're all in and your not!' Just turn me Blue now and I'll head off to another platform is the answer you'll get as apposed to the 'I'll just rush off now and join up' that you looking for most people know that you can only have one free ride on the ride outs before joining, encouragement and not finger pointing is the way to go IMHO.

[kris]

Guess we want to welcome all riders and participants ....just hope that they want to support us and become members.

We have run the forum for a number of years now and we have to maintain a list of members with access to members content ... we maintain that list based on the list of paid up members from the centre.

Just wanted to be honest and upfront so that people know the score so apologies if the message was too direct.

[Stewie]

No apologies needed, just my opinion that's all.

[Gonzalo]

Are you checking the national TRF lists or only the Surrey's group one?

I belong to the Southern TRF, so that is probably my name is blue now... anyway I have just sent an email with me data and I hope I will change color shortly as I renewed my TRF membership back in June.

[stevent]

Just thought I'd jump in on the discussion on this.

Our Forum is open to anyone to sign up, whether a member or not. I think that is a good approach, it is welcoming, encourages people to get in touch, strike up conversations about trail riding and get out onto a trial run. As Chris says we then hope our offering is good enough that people want to sign up to become fully paid up members. If people want to be part of our TRF gang then I think its right that we require them to sign up and pay the subs, so that it is fair for everyone and so that TRF can be as strong as possible in fighting for our rights. Legal cases cost a lot of money (even when we win, which we usually do).

With having members and non-members on the forum, it can be a bit confusing who is a paid up member, e.g. for granting access to the member only bit or for run leaders when arranging runs. So Chris's colour coded system (names in green = paid up member) will help with that as we will be able to see that members are fully paid up or not.

To make it work there is quite a bit of admin that needs to be done behind the scenes. The membership list is constantly changing so Chris and Dave's admin support (and others who are involved) is in constant demand just to keep up. They both do this for free for us. I think there are others who help out too.

There are inevitably going to be a few delays and teething troubles. Just to explain where some things can go wrong - every month I get sent a list of paid up members from the National TRF (plus those whose membership has recently lapsed) which I then share with Chris, Dave and Steve Sharp. This shows everyone associated with South London and Surrey Group as their main group and then others who associate with us as a secondary group. Gonzalo, you're a case in point - your association to us must be missing so what we need to do is getting you associated with SL&S as your second group. So despite the extra admin I think its better than have to grapple with the full National TRF list (its safer data protection wise, that there aren't master lists of 3000 + member being sent out to all TRF groups). Another issue is that if you sign up after the start of the month, you may not make it onto the national membership list that gets sent out till the next month, so it may take time to verify that you're signed up. A further headache is that forum names don't always help in identifying who you are, or if you're on the national TRF membership list.

Despite all of that, Chris and Dave and others have figured out how to manage all of this, and on the whole I think things are working pretty well but there will be a few anomalies to sort out, and there may be a few delays. Given some of the constraints and the fact we have volunteers doing the admin I hope people understand and will be patient while updates get actioned. And everyone else need to be aware that some people with names in blue may in-fact be members but they've just not been updated yet.

I think everyone involved is open to sensible suggestions for improvements, as well as volunteers to become either committed assistants and mini project leaders. Sorry for the long post, but just wanted to ensure everyone can understand how it all works.

[kris]

Gonzalo .. that is you sorted ... sorry about that.

Steven pointed the Southern group connection so will try and ensure we cross reference you folks next time.

[kris]

one other thing .... we do have another colour to mention ... we have GOLD for life members ...if you are a life member and not on our list then do let me know.

[Gonzalo]

I am afraid I am still blue =(