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Hi,
Please send additional information about your registration to admin@staylds.com, or reply to this email.
I would like to welcome you to our StayLDS online community. We didn’t get quite enough informatation about you in your “justification” entry in the registration process to make a decision. Unfortunately, we have to regularly weed out automated registrations from bots, and also those who might join the forums to be disruptive.
I have two quick questions that will help us:
1. Are you someone seeking to participate in a discussion about developing positive ways to use the LDS Religion in your spiritual life?
2. Can you provide more detail about your background? Are you struggling with a particular aspect of maintaining your connection to the LDS Church?
Please review the information in our “Rules and Policies” forum section found here: http://www.staylds.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7
This will help give you a feel for the overall tone and boundaries of our community.In particular, these two topics are important for new users who post in the forums:
Rules of Etiquette: http://www.staylds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21
Mission Statement (purpose of the forums): http://www.staylds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20Thank you for your time.
-The Management
I’ve been handling most of the approvals now. The “admin” mailbox is forwarded to my gmail account. If anyone else takes care of approvals, and you are not comfortable with the justification given, please send the user an email requesting clarification. You can copy-paste the boilerplate text above, or write your own if you want. I thought I would make a template to maximize economy of time. I don’t approve people that aren’t obviously from an LDS background, especially people who just fill in the “justification” field with nonsense or a couple words to get past that step in the process.
Good justifications contain a brief but typical LDS narrative we are all too familiar with:
-Current or former member of the Church
-Their world fell apart when they found out about ______.
-They don’t know what to do or who to talk to, looking for people who understand.
-Been lurking for _______ (time) and finally decided they want to jump in and participate, appreciate all the information.
etc.
Poor justifications I recall from recent registrants (examples):
“None … yet” (Tells us nothing)
“I want to post and have a unique perspective” (OK, but what is that exactly? Might be looking for a fight.)
“qweqiuwruwiy” (nonsense, spammer probably trying to bypass security)
etc.
Thanks, Brian. I really like the message. There’s a form for “Feedback” when in the User Administration area of the Admin Control Panel. I started adding the additional justification text provided from the user as a feedback entry. It looks like a good way of logging on-going notes about a user for other mods/admins to see when needed.
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