…Lunatic Fringe… is No More

Due to a combined lack of activity and LiveJournals recent policy issues, …Lunatic Fringe… is discontinued.

As a recommendation, might I suggest anyone who had an interest in the LJ community join One Human Tribe instead? Both are/were meant to be targeted at the same types of discussion, just using different formats.

The main page for the One Human Tribe Yahoo! group page may be found by clicking here.

Have a great day,
The Moderator

Filed under: Group Status, Groups, News, One Human Tribe, Online Communities

One Human Tribe – “Semi Open” List

In the hopes of driving up membership, One Human Tribe is now a “semi open” e-mail list.

In essence this means that while membership is open, one must still reply to the “Age Confirmation” e-mail before a new member is allowed to post to the list. Failure to do this will be met with automatic denial after fifteen days. If anyone, spambot or otherwise, gets through the first hurdle and posts objectionable material as considered by the group rules standard, then they will also be denied.

Hopefully, this will bring more people in while still keeping a safe, comfortable list.

If you’re new to this blog then please feel free to check out the list of groups via links and the signup buttons in the left sidebar.

Cheers and Thanks,
The Moderator

Filed under: A Guide, E-mail Lists, Group Postings, Group Rules, Group Status, Groups, News, One Human Tribe, Online Communities, Site Promotion

Age Confirmation E-mails

While it pains me to do so, I’ve been turning away quite a few new members from One Human Tribe and mainly for an otherwise trivial reason.As is indicated on the membership page of the groups, a response to a particular e-mail is required in order to obtain membership to the group. Without the Age Confirmation e-mail, memberships are <b>automatically rejected</b> whether otherwise valid or not.

My reasons for this are simple:

1. This is an Adult list and checking the age of every single member is of paramount importance to me to ensure that someone underage does not float in either accidentally or on purpose. I can’t control the misleading statements of some people but I can at least put that rule right up front to ensure that the general policy is known by even outsiders.

2. I hate Spambots. It is nearly impossible for the Spambots to get past this method of joining. Even if they can get past Yahoo! prevention protocols, they rarely get past mine. I do this to ensure that every member has a free and clear list to feel comfortable in without the fear of annoying e-mails.

So, if you’re considering joining or you’re currently a member and thinking of asking a friend, please remember the seperate e-mail that must be responded to in order to join our list.

Sincerely,
The Moderator

Filed under: E-mail Lists, Group Rules, News, One Human Tribe

One Human Tribe is now online!

The initial editing for One Human Tribe has been completed and it is now open to anyone who might wish to join.Please surf on over and check it out!

The Moderator

Filed under: E-mail Lists, Group Status, Groups, Multi-Culturalism, One Human Tribe

One Human Tribe

Hello there,

How are you? For those of you familiar with the history of why this blog was created, I thought a little introduction was warranted. I originally created this blog to serve as a combined homepage for a few groups I moderated but one night, in a fit of Eureka, I merged two of the groups into one mega list more in line with my principles. IRPRDD and IRPolyRDD are effectively no more. When they were active, they served as (what I had hoped would be) a meeting place for people of Pagan and Poly persuasions from all backgrounds.

My reasons for starting the Pagan and Poly lists were due to a combination of factors. First, at the time, I was both Pagan and Poly (still am Poly actually heh) and I had gotten quite a bit of flack on a few (non-pagan/poly relationship) lists about this. Rather than scream my head off at the moderator for what was honestly unfair behavior on the part of some members, I took the initiative and started the lists.

This put me in a quandry though in that I didn’t want to be a dictatorial moderator controlling each and every little thing being said, while at the same time I didn’t want the lists quiet. So, I sat back and let things run their own course and eventually (duh) everything went pretty much quiet. As they were both ‘closed’ lists to keep spambots out, a lot of people were probably run off by the extra measures used to keep the list safe and relatively free of annoyances.

So, the other night I decided to combine the two relationship lists into one big list with invitations for all to the new list, One Human Tribe.

I am still in the process of deciding whether or not I should open it up for everyone to join or keep it a closed list. On the one hand, I want people to have the freedom to post about just about anything they’d like to without having to worry about censure. On the otherhand, I would like more people to join and participate. This is what this blog is for. It allows for list news, ideas, and views while maintaining the private nature of the list for members. There will also be a signup box here for anyone who wishes to join as well as links to signifigant posts in the sidebar.

So I now invite you all to the new (old) dusty list known as One Human Tribe.

Filed under: Diversity, Egalitarianism, Group Status, Groups, History, One Human Tribe, Online Communities, Site Promotion