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Hello mamas and forgive me for not being present from the start. I awoke to all the racist issues and had to sort through that. Still doing so.
First of all let me say that what I would like to offer is a page here at Mothering set up just for the Fairy and other giving lists. Of course those organizing would be responsible for only the lists they volunteerd for and not whatever arises for whatever other lists. I hope, Sheena, that it can all be worded and perhaps an FAQ included as part of the setup so the questions would be minimal and no one would have to spend chunk of time responding to people.
I do have a few questions though. This one for you Sheena: You said "I am afraid if they go to the TP we will become deluged with requests from people who are not on the list"
Do you mean by this that the Diaper Fairy is limited to only certain members in Diapering?
Please clarify that for me. I was under the impression that anyone at MDC could take part. If that's not the case then we need to discuss the very essence of the list intentions before proceeding. We must keep in mind that members who are not active posters to Diapering and new mommies that are thinking to CD might be interested in taking part.
That aside I do think if we set up the info page as an html page and permit everyone that wishes to link to it through their signatures then it should be fine and not need direct hosting in TP. What we could place in TP is a subforum (or rename the Swaps and Co-ops forum to Swaps Co-ops and Fairies or somthing like that) so that the extraneous posting about the topic could be corralled in one place and not spilling over into other boards. If threads are started we need a place to move them. We can't move threads to an existing thread unless we merge them which can get complicated. And then we do have the rules of the TP that would be something governing participation.
However, I can see that general discussion and pleasure posting can stay in a single thread in Diapering and in TAO or a thread that is in Diapering and TAO but redirected to TP and stickied. That's workable (i think).
Another question, this time for Raven:
"4. If a member wants to be a Fairy, they need to contact an Administrator for relevent details."
By Administrator are you referring to the organizers? I think the terminology would have to be changed so as not to confuse.
General question - is it necessary for the "I want/need" posts to be made to the board? Can we rechannel them so that the 'begging' is not given space?
First of all let me say that what I would like to offer is a page here at Mothering set up just for the Fairy and other giving lists. Of course those organizing would be responsible for only the lists they volunteerd for and not whatever arises for whatever other lists. I hope, Sheena, that it can all be worded and perhaps an FAQ included as part of the setup so the questions would be minimal and no one would have to spend chunk of time responding to people.
I do have a few questions though. This one for you Sheena: You said "I am afraid if they go to the TP we will become deluged with requests from people who are not on the list"
Do you mean by this that the Diaper Fairy is limited to only certain members in Diapering?
Please clarify that for me. I was under the impression that anyone at MDC could take part. If that's not the case then we need to discuss the very essence of the list intentions before proceeding. We must keep in mind that members who are not active posters to Diapering and new mommies that are thinking to CD might be interested in taking part.
That aside I do think if we set up the info page as an html page and permit everyone that wishes to link to it through their signatures then it should be fine and not need direct hosting in TP. What we could place in TP is a subforum (or rename the Swaps and Co-ops forum to Swaps Co-ops and Fairies or somthing like that) so that the extraneous posting about the topic could be corralled in one place and not spilling over into other boards. If threads are started we need a place to move them. We can't move threads to an existing thread unless we merge them which can get complicated. And then we do have the rules of the TP that would be something governing participation.
However, I can see that general discussion and pleasure posting can stay in a single thread in Diapering and in TAO or a thread that is in Diapering and TAO but redirected to TP and stickied. That's workable (i think).
Another question, this time for Raven:
"4. If a member wants to be a Fairy, they need to contact an Administrator for relevent details."
By Administrator are you referring to the organizers? I think the terminology would have to be changed so as not to confuse.
General question - is it necessary for the "I want/need" posts to be made to the board? Can we rechannel them so that the 'begging' is not given space?
