[Chapter-delegates] membership database - yet another problem?

[Franck Martin]

Well,

We were close to 400 members and now we are close to 300 members in just
one month...

The story I had in the past, was that when a membership expires it is
removed from the chapter list until it gets approved by ISOC then goes
back as a member for approval for the chapter...

So depending the time of the month and how often ISOC check these
renewal you can loose quite a significant amount of members for a couple
of weeks...

Cheers

Veni Markovski wrote:
> Hi.
>
> problem again?
>
> I just visited our chapter's page at isoc.org, and there are 113 
> pending approval members. Now, these are members, who have been once 
> approved, when they signed in. Now I have to approve them again. And 
> basically, because there's no "mass approval", I have to click 113 
> times on the field "approve", while scrolling down to the other 
> names.They could have at least put a button "approve all".
>
> Further, there are only 188 members, listed below these 113 pending. 
> They are listed as "approved".
>
> However, if one goes to the isoc.bg/members.html we'll see that there 
> are abou 686 members (70 of them did not renew when we switched from 
> paid to non-paid membership model). So, my question is why the 
> membership database doesn't have a clue about the missing members? 
> Have you faced similar or other problems?
>
> 113 pending
> 188 members
> 301 total.
> 315 missing ???
>
> Basically, I don't think it's right to waste chapters officers' and 
> presidents' time to make such entries, esp. for members, who are 
> lifetime members, and the approval button is of no usage.
>
>   
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