Approved/Denied/Waiting!!? WHY?
There have been a lot of emails lately from either pending members or friends of pending members asking why they've not been allowed into the community. I figured now's a great time to remind everyone why we have a screening process for new members and why it might take so long.
It wasn't too long ago when clothdiapering was a place where people didn't feel safe a lot of the time participating in buying/selling because the chances of them being scammed was rather high. People could set up new journals on a whim, pretend to be selling diapers, take your money, and run, and we had absolutely no recourse.
So, the moderators decided to screen all incoming applicants to prevent this. People with established journals, or with friends already in the community, or with "linkable" feedback elsewhere (ebay, diaperswappers, etc) are approved with very little effort. Sometimes we have to email back and forth a few times to solidify the vouch/feedback, etc, but that's about it. The only people who are generally truly denied are those that have brand new journals with no entries and no activity. We're not denying them to be elitist, but to protect our current membership.
We do have a community (clothmods) where kimmlett posts all current activity in the approval/denial process. There are reasons given for every denial. There is nothing being hidden from anybody.
If you have been denied and you're wondering why, check out clothmods. We never ignore a pending request for membership. There is either acceptance or denial, and if we CAN communicate with people with brand new journals (they must have at least one public entry), we do our best.
Please comment with any questions or concerns.
Edited to add: As a side note, the email address is sometimes a concern. cloth.mods@gmail and clothmods@gmail both come to the same place. Gmail doesn't "recognize" the periods in the username (before the @ sign). So, really, you could send it to c.l.o.t.h.m.o.d.s@gmail.com and it'd get to us!
It wasn't too long ago when clothdiapering was a place where people didn't feel safe a lot of the time participating in buying/selling because the chances of them being scammed was rather high. People could set up new journals on a whim, pretend to be selling diapers, take your money, and run, and we had absolutely no recourse.
So, the moderators decided to screen all incoming applicants to prevent this. People with established journals, or with friends already in the community, or with "linkable" feedback elsewhere (ebay, diaperswappers, etc) are approved with very little effort. Sometimes we have to email back and forth a few times to solidify the vouch/feedback, etc, but that's about it. The only people who are generally truly denied are those that have brand new journals with no entries and no activity. We're not denying them to be elitist, but to protect our current membership.
We do have a community (clothmods) where kimmlett posts all current activity in the approval/denial process. There are reasons given for every denial. There is nothing being hidden from anybody.
If you have been denied and you're wondering why, check out clothmods. We never ignore a pending request for membership. There is either acceptance or denial, and if we CAN communicate with people with brand new journals (they must have at least one public entry), we do our best.
Please comment with any questions or concerns.
Edited to add: As a side note, the email address is sometimes a concern. cloth.mods@gmail and clothmods@gmail both come to the same place. Gmail doesn't "recognize" the periods in the username (before the @ sign). So, really, you could send it to c.l.o.t.h.m.o.d.s@gmail.com and it'd get to us!