Pursuing missing members?
- Thread starter Katrina
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Well, I think sometimes it's good to do that.
I got busy with life and got away from forums for long time. Thanks to a forum that sent me an email (admin-junkies), I started participating on
forums again.(thanks to that, ForumRace was born 🙂 )
So, I believe it does work for some users. Just try to call their attention with something cool/new/exiting.
I got busy with life and got away from forums for long time. Thanks to a forum that sent me an email (admin-junkies), I started participating on
forums again.(thanks to that, ForumRace was born 🙂 )
So, I believe it does work for some users. Just try to call their attention with something cool/new/exiting.
NeoMetallix
Reputable
Not outside of an email, no. If they see an email about updates and don't want to come back, that's fine.
If a member on a forum I run suddenly disappears I tend to reach out to them and see how they are and see if everything is okay and will a lot of the time send out emails regarding updates to see if that entices some back but other than that, there isn't much else that I can do I feel.
I find that chasing them down is a waste of my time. In the past I've brought back a few people by reaching out to them, but then they quickly go inactive again even if they do return. Common sense dictates to me that if someone wants to be active in your community, they will make every excuse to do so willingly. If they don't want to be active on your community, they will simply demonstrate this as not being active at all or just never logging in again.
I don't do it. That's part of the reason I purge the accounts that have zero posts. I only keep accounts that have posts. But even if you keep those posts, and they don't come back, its still a strain on the server anyway.
I don't know if there's an actual middle ground.
I don't know if there's an actual middle ground.
D
Deleted member 31696
Simply put.....no.
Why were they angry? It's not like they announced it to you or your forum.
It's happened more than once but I'm not entirely sure of the reason. The most likely explanation is that the forum where it's happened the most is a customer support forum and I guess the next of kin simply got upset or perhaps took offence at the email as it was unsolicited.
It's the primary reason why I removed Tapatalk from all of my forums. One the updates started out sending unsolicited messages to every member. If I remember correctly you could opt out as a member but the install default was to send out spam.
That seems like a ridiculous, stupid reaction. Its not like you emailed them via tapatalk. I get emailing directly to a member and the family receives it reacts that way, I get that... but I think I chalk it up as ignorance.
What I think happened is every communication on tapatalk gets like a copy/receipt sent to destination email.
I'm not defending tapatalk, but that's how I read it.
Dan The Man
Paragon
Depends on the circumstance. Sometimes I send customized PMs to specific members who have demonstrated activity over a prolonged period but are now all of a sudden missing. It may be personal life related. Always good to touch base once in a while.
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