" though you are right to imply that the chapter is over-sensitive to
criticism... "
John, I must have missed that bit as I didn't see Katie imply that at all.
If anything, I think the chapter receives, and always has received, a lot
of unwarranted criticism from people who have ill-defined issues with how
it operates. Some people have always been very quick to rush to criticism
rather than gently join a conversation. Others simply have an axe to grind.
The chapter is doing a good job. Wouldn't it be nice if we heard people say
that more often?
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 6:49 PM, John Byrne <john(a)bodkinprints.co.uk> wrote:
As very often in recent years, I got a notification of
my post sent an
hour or so ago, with completely blank text. Yet Katie has clearly seen it,
as she quotes me. Have others also got blanks? Can the rather cryptic
instructions for replies be clarified, or is there some bug? I get the
digest version. It doesn't exactly encourage people to contribute, and may
be a factor in the much lower activity on this list in recent years. It
never used to happen.
No Katie, I don't think this has much to do with it, though you are right
to imply that the chapter is over-sensitive to criticism...
John/Johnbod
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On 10 April 2018 at 11:41 Fæ wrote:
It appears that the jump in numbers was a one-off event, there has
been no continued growth since whatever happened.
I don't know what happened. I did correspond with the office about a
prompt to renew. One could simulate such a "one-off event" by simply asking
people whose membership had lapsed to renew. I was doing this sort of thing
for WMUK some seven years ago, so as an explanation it is not far-fetched.
Charles
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Oh I don't know, maybe this "yawning gap" wouldn't be so wide if the
chapter don't get criticised for both not increasing its membership numbers
and having increased its membership numbers.
Just a wide guess....
KTC
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