Lapsed status being reintroduced for Senior Members with less than 1,000 reputation points

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Admin said:
In order to encourage our Senior Members to stay engaged with the site, I have turned back on the forum function which demotes inactive Senior Members with less than 1,000 reputation points after 90 days of inactivity. If you do not log in AND post at least once every 90 days your account will be demoted to "Lapsed Senior Member" status. This means you will be unable to access the Senior Members' area of the site until you make 30 new forum posts. Once you make 30 forum posts, you will regain your full Senior Member status within one hour (the system only upgrades accounts once per hour). Senior Members with over 1,000 reputation points have lifetime immunity from being demoted. You will get an email and PM warning a few days before the demotion happens, so please make sure the email address you registered with your forum account is up to date.

I will not lift the "lapsed" status manually for anyone from now on, so please don't PM me with requests!
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Why the 1000 posts? I feel like 500 posts shows more than enough commitment, personally. I’m sure you have reasoning, but figured I’d ask. Thanks!
 
Juju62861 said:
Admin said:
In order to encourage our Senior Members to stay engaged with the site, I have turned back on the forum function which demotes inactive Senior Members with less than 1,000 reputation points after 90 days of inactivity. If you do not log in AND post at least once every 90 days your account will be demoted to "Lapsed Senior Member" status. This means you will be unable to access the Senior Members' area of the site until you make 30 new forum posts. Once you make 30 forum posts, you will regain your full Senior Member status within one hour (the system only upgrades accounts once per hour). Senior Members with over 1,000 reputation points have lifetime immunity from being demoted. You will get an email and PM warning a few days before the demotion happens, so please make sure the email address you registered with your forum account is up to date.

I will not lift the "lapsed" status manually for anyone from now on, so please don't PM me with requests!
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Why the 1000 posts? I feel like 500 posts shows more than enough commitment, personally. I’m sure you have reasoning, but figured I’d ask. Thanks!
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It's actually not 1000 posts, it's 1000 reputation points - which means folks have responded to your posts with either like or helpful, etc. So, it's not necessarily about what a person says, it's more about how other folks see a person's posts as useful or helpful? If you look at people's rep scores, they are usually higher than the amount of posts themselves.

To me, this forum is set up to encourage participation and rewards helpfulness to others, which I also think makes it a great place to be... :unsure:
 
jaders said:
lana887 said:
I’m sorry if this has been answered but how do you stay in member status??
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By making one post every ninety days.
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@lana887 Not to step on my good buddy @jaders, but it's technically "at least one" post every 90 days. And some people have noted that they've missed the deadline by only a day or two, so... My suggestion to all new members (and all infrequent visitors) is to set a calendar reminder for yourself, like "go to Pharmacy Reviewer and make a post on the 15th of each month." That way, even if you forget one month, you'll still have plenty of time - it's very annoying to lose the Senior status you worked so hard to achieve, and even more so if you just miss the window. That's been my experience, anyway.
 
Thing is my old account apparently vanished so I had to start a new account, I get there is a need for the rule though and adhering has been key to the sites success and longevity over the years. Really it has been invaluable in assisting me. Happy to contribute to keep the resources going for all! The 100 character thing is new and sometimes I think the auto counter says my post is less than 100 characters when it's easily longer. Setting reminders to post every so often is certainly the way to go. I wonder is there a "character counter" we can use to ensure that we are posting by the rules and in accordance with the required post length?
 
BMC24 said:
Thing is my old account apparently vanished so I had to start a new account, I get there is a need for the rule though and adhering has been key to the sites success and longevity over the years. Really it has been invaluable in assisting me. Happy to contribute to keep the resources going for all! The 100 character thing is new and sometimes I think the auto counter says my post is less than 100 characters when it's easily longer. Setting reminders to post every so often is certainly the way to go. I wonder is there a "character counter" we can use to ensure that we are posting by the rules and in accordance with the required post length?
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Have you tried contacting one of the @admins? I think that same thing has happened to others and they were able to recover them with the admins help. Might give it a try?
 
@BMC24 Weird. I've been on and on this forum for years with large gaps of involvement over the years. My account has always remained. Does sound like a possible glitch.

As for 100 characters, I've found being thoughtful when posting very helpful. It can be hard but I appreciate not having 3 word posts filling up the forum just to get a post count.
 
I think its my fault I let the email address the old account was associated with lapse also. Time to update everything as digital mailboxes can get unwieldy anyway over time and it's good to have a spring clean of all. The site has been invaluable to many over the years and long may it continue to be so. Rules are there to help it be sustainable
 
I'm in the same cycle as always. I get bored with stuff and stop using the site. Lapse to purgatory, get back on and stay for awhile, get bored again, rinse and repeat.
 
Veejur said:
buzzkill said:
I'm in the same cycle as always. I get bored with stuff and stop using the site. Lapse to purgatory, get back on and stay for awhile, get bored again, rinse and repeat.
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Just make a reminder to post something, anything, once a month. In like flint
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I feel like the 1000 posts to get to permanent senior status is just a bit much. People have lives and life happens.
 
buzzkill said:
I'm in the same cycle as always. I get bored with stuff and stop using the site. Lapse to purgatory, get back on and stay for awhile, get bored again, rinse and repeat.
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Same here. This is like the 6th or 7th time that I’ve lapsed my status. Oh well, on i press…
 
Juju62861 said:
Veejur said:
buzzkill said:
I'm in the same cycle as always. I get bored with stuff and stop using the site. Lapse to purgatory, get back on and stay for awhile, get bored again, rinse and repeat.
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Just make a reminder to post something, anything, once a month. In like flint
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I feel like the 1000 posts to get to permanent senior status is just a bit much. People have lives and life happens.
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You don’t have to do that if you just post once every three months. As others say - set some sort of reminder to jump in once every three months?
 
I want to get my 2 cents in about participation. I got very discouraged for a few months because some of my favorite pharms were getting busted and packages seized. I had to disassociate for a little while to try and get it out of my mind. I was not mentally prepared to try and find new sources but not with the new year I feel energized...
 
MrBiggs said:
@Juju62861 I don't think it's 1000 posts, it's 1000 reputation points. We just need to start liking each other's posts :)
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That makes it a lot better and more attainable! I don’t think I’m going to be ordering more again anytime soon but still like giving what knowledge I have about medicine advice that I can!
 
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