New Bronze Member Group, for the inactive members Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hello all.

I've created a new member group, the Bronze Member which will be used for those members who have been in-active for a period of at least six months.

I will monitor those members and if they post, I will update their member group to either Silver or Gold member status.

I have restricted their ability to vote and post in polls. This should be the only difference between a Bronze Member and a Silver Member.

We hope to send out a message to those members letting them know of the change shortly....

Regards.
~Cleo  

[Cleo_Serapis]

I plan to send out the following email to our Bronze members today:

Hello from all of us at mosaicmusings.net (name/member name).

I've noticed that you haven't posted recently. Under our new membership system, that makes you a "Bronze" member - those who've been inactive for six months.

We really don't want to lose you and would like to invite you back to active posting, critiquing, interacting and competing on MM again. When you do post, we'll automatically upgrade your membership to enable you to play a full part in MM again.

If there is a reason you feel unable/unwilling to return, please write to me in confidence, and I'll try to help. I'd certainly like to see you here again, helping to shape the ongoing developments at mosaicmusings.net.

A lot has happened at Mosaic Musings in 2005.

We have re-designed poetry forums, instigated new awards and mini-plaques, run several competitions, and incorporated ebooks, amongst many other routine and special activities, including the incorporation of weekly Times Ten word challenges and bi-weekly FLASH Jam sessions providing inspiration as well as an opportunity to snap out of a dry spell.

Some other new and/or revised features include self-publication chapbook packages, our annual MMHC (Holiday Classic) now underway, the new revised Odin’s Opposition Chapbook Competition set to begin November 1st, both of which are FREE to enter, and three important changes that you may not be aware of:

1. Revision of Section 8  (our copyright disclosure in the Terms of Use policy) to once again require written permission for Mosaic Musings and its affiliates to publish your works posted on site as follows:

Content displayed on the Site is protected under U.S. Copyright laws and cannot be copied, altered, uploaded, transmitted, published, distributed, reproduced or sold, in whole or in part for any purpose other than for non-commercial and personal use. Further restrictions on the Content may depend on the Forum Participation Rules associated with the Forum in which the Content is posted. All works posted on the Site are submitted on a voluntary basis. This allows Mosaic Musings to display and archive such works within Site, and if applicable, allows members to comment on such works. All exclusive rights are reserved by the respective copyright owners and no redistribution including publication or reproduction in any form is permitted without express permission of the copyright owner.

2. Amendment to the forum rules as follows:

Please do not include your own composition as part of a response to a tile posted by someone else for critique UNLESS it is clearly for ILLUSTRATIVE purposes and relevant to the original thread. Each composition deserves our full and individual attention. Please keep in mind that the topic starter may ask for its removal (politely of course).

3. Amendment to the posting rules as follows:

The 1:2:2 rule applies here. You may post (1) work every (2) days when (2) critiques to other's works have been given within the same forum. An easy way of remembering the posting limit is not to post more often than every other day (as long as the required critiques have been given). Post today, not tomorrow. You may post one new topic every two days provided you comment on the works of two fellow members (within the same forum).

We hope to see you at MM soon!

Sincerely,
Lori Kanter a.k.a. Cleo_Serapis
Founder and Manager, Mosaic Musings LLC