Group Memberships

Polemic · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject: Re: Group Memberships

I'm a doomer as much because of the 'engineered financial apocalypse' as 'hydrocarbon depletion.'

It seems to me there are plenty of solutions that could work in concert to alleviate any number of our problems. But it also seems to the me that those with the power to influence outcomes do not wish for solutions - but instead for the enslavement of the population.

Tanada · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: Re: Group Memberships

Moderate, I think my oh so many posts here bear out that description.

Aparently I need SPG's approval to actually be a member of the group.
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dinopello · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: Re: Group Memberships

Pixie · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Group Memberships

killJOY · Fission Joined: Feb 21, 2005 Posts: 2471 Location: ^NNE^

"killJOY"

GUESS.
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Aimrehtopyh · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: Group Memberships

Requesting permission to enter the Doomer Discussion Bunker.

the password is Leibig. Joke
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Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5395 Location: Oklahoma

To get to where you can subscribe to one of the groups, click here:

http://www.peakoil.com/gate.html?name=Forums&file=groupcp

Pick the group you're interested in from the "Non-member groups" popup menu. Click "View information." Click "Join Group."

In case it wasn't clear.
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PopeGideon · Heavy Crude Joined: Jan 25, 2008 Posts: 158

Not sure about all these fancy categories and whatnot, but I don't like the fact that I log into PO.com like usual, I click on the forum links on the right, as usual, and I get something OTHER THAN the linked page.

Not good.

I humbly suggest getting rid of whatever extra step is required for a browsing person to see what the hyperlink connects to.

As for me?

I've been an avid reader of this site for a long time, but I don't think I'm going to join groups or whatever to be able to read posts.

I've got enough hassles.

mkwin · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jun 01, 2007 Posts: 596

This system is a pointless waste of time. It will turn new users away who can't access posts and some might not even understand the terms of the group names.

IslandCrow · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:27 am Post subject: Re: Group Memberships

Just checked: 17 registered DOOMERs and nobody registered in the other two groups.
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dinopello · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:57 am Post subject: Re: Group Memberships

Maybe the other forums should be reserved only for those that don't pick a label ? If someone is posting too cornicopian or too doomerish or too moderate? then we can suggest they crawl back into their 'special place'

basil_hayden · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:06 am Post subject: Re: Group Memberships

What's next - Peak Oil version of Survivor?
Or would Peak Oil the board game be more appropriate so close to the Olduvai Gorge?

SpringCreekFarm · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 884

I still don't quite understand what this is leading up to or what this new feature will accomplish.

So we have these groups but what do they divide or filter?

Once you pick your group, will you be able to see and post in the other groups?

What happens when we choose a group?

What happens when we don't choose a group?

Does anyone know what the hell is going on?

Am I part of a social experiment?

I'm ok with it as I find it interesting but I, for one, am confused about all this expert, elite, group membership stuff and where it might lead. I was shocked the day I got the expert tag because I make it my business to not spend too much time on one subject in life or even a few. I am PROFICIENT in many areas because I'm a life learner, homesteader and alot of things interest me as long as it's PRACTICAL hands on stuff. I'm not an expert in anything but perhaps that is not what Aaron REALLY means by the expert tag. Maybe it's time to drag out the old thesaurus and find a synonym for expert that really fits what Aaron really means by 'expert'

I have been trying to figure out what an "expert only" forum would accomplish. I can't think of anything that we'd need to discuss inside there. Hell, I don't know any of you from a hill of beans so how the heck can any of this mean anything?

Does anyone else feel this way?

Heineken · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:48 am Post subject: Re: Group Memberships

Could someone in the know please explain, in an instructive and organized way, what this change consists of and its rationale? Sometimes (and this is one of them) significant changes are made seemingly without any explanation. They just happen, and members are left to grope their way toward the light.

Do members now have to register as a doomer, moderate, or cornu before they can view and respond to certain threads? Or what? And WHY??
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dinopello · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: Re: Group Memberships

Actually, what would make this more interesting is to let anyone read the doomer-only or whatever thread but only let a self-declared doomer post there. Then it would allow you to see who you want to associate with and/or it might tempt a cornicopian to temporarily declare themself a doomer so they could jump in a conversation and we could all get a chuckle out of that - eh? On the other hand, I don't really care.