there seems to be some general chatter and support for taking Dec 2019 Moms to a private group. I know some ladies have replied hoping to not feel left out, and I can say that each one who has commented thus far would 100% be welcomed in. this wouldn't be something where we "voted" people in, but we would come up with some guidelines to make sure people who weren't total drive by's didn't get in. the point is that some women have expressed feeling they would be more open knowing that their posts weren't public. it appears someone sets up the group and is an admin to admit members, and we can have additional admin as well (need to get clarity on the # of admin).
so that being said - let's take it a yes/no vote, leave it open until friday (that's a good 48 hrs to catch everyone). and we can hash out any concerns/guidelines once we are set up.
ALSO - to be clear this would mean moving ALL posts over to the private group, my prego brain can't handle looking in too many places.
For admins, I'd nominate @anniemarie887 and @k_mama91. Maybe @rjgmcmanus, @cpk3535 or @ktmaesim as the third? Depending on who is up for it. Of course there are plenty of people who would do a fine job, but I'm thinking of those who tend to start our weekly threads and keep things orderly around here😊
if anyone wants to nominate any one else can you comment by the end of the day today? and then if the ladies who are nominated are ok with it, i will do a separate comment for each individual name and then the "love its" will be how we decide. and if anyone is nominated who doesn't want to be, just comment that!
@blueskychicago12 You are way sweet, and thanks for the vote of confidence. :-) However, I think I'm going to bow out of the admin nomination--I'm getting into my busy season at work, which is also right before baby, so while I love participating, I'm not sure I'd be great at admining for the next few months. I'd also be fine with seeing @cpk3535@ktmaesim@mrszoobear@anniemarie887@k_mama91 and @CapricaAndrea as admins.
If I wasn't starting my new position in 10 days I would absolutely admin. But I think I'm going to be pretty scarce once I start, so I'm not sure how much I will even be able to participate, let alone admin.
Thanks @CapricaAndrea, its really sweet of you. But with everything being so up in the air health and work wise I don't know for how long I would be able to contribute.
I think the point of having admins (pref 3 for easy majority) is that if things got heated we would decide if that person(s) would remain. I don’t foresee that happening, but I am an insurance agent so I tend to “plan for the worst” 🤣
Being a SAHM I don’t have an excuse for not having the time to admin and I’ll gladly fill one spot. I just need someone else to be the brains behind the operation 😂
@anniemarie887 you do what I do to some degree- I manage retail and deal with worst case scenario and coddling craziness on a regular basis 😂. I have to be the calm at the center of the storm all the time, particularly because I manage a group of guys, and most of them have no customer service or organizational skills. Now I’m trailing off into the job board material, I should hop over there and complain for a bit! 🤣
Ok I’m gonna do the individual posts with usernames.... your “love it” is a vote for that person. We want to have 3 admins to easily have a majority if an issue were to arise. voting ends Sunday evening so that Monday we can move to private!
@anniemarie887 a message came up after I pushed “ok” that said something about “duplicate”....don’t know if it went through so I did it again. Sorry if I did it twice!
@anniemarie887 Help me lol I guess I don’t know where to look for a private message 🤦♀️ I used the link above and got the same message @KTZ17 did. It asked why I wanted to be in the group and when I hit submit it said something about a duplicate whatever. Let me in!!
@KTZ17 and @k_mama91 word on the street (aka me stalking the nov group's post) is that you need to accept from a computer, sorry! someone else in that post also mentioned the duplicate message but just kept clicking and after 4x it worked
@anniemarie887 Yeah, I'm on a computer, I haven't been on the app in days because it's been down (hence my being behind on basically every post). Pretty simple--just went into my inbox, saw the invite, clicked the link and accepted. Easy. :-)
I tried asking to join the private group from the desktop (OMG fix the app already) and I got some weird error message so I don't know if the request went through.
That said I will probably be on here less until they fix the app because I don't have computer access as frequently as I have mobile access.
*headbang* - @bookworm492 did you get the invite in your inbox? not sure why this is being so difficult, i'm thinking we should keep posting here this week until i can get everyone in the private one
@anniemarie887 Do we want to take this week for people to accept the invites and get technical issues worked out before switching over? Say go live on Monday the 1st?
Re: UPDATE: private group info
I agree with @anniemarie887, @blueskychicago12, @cpk3535, @k_mama91 for admins. And all of the other girls who also decided to decline.
Married 1/28/17
TW:
BFP #2 10/10/17, MC 11/4/17
BFP #3 12/17/17 Birth 8/13/18
BFP #4 4/21/19 Birth 12/5/2019
also it looks like the “admins” are myself, @k_mama91 and @cpk3535
That said I will probably be on here less until they fix the app because I don't have computer access as frequently as I have mobile access.
@anniemarie887 Do we want to take this week for people to accept the invites and get technical issues worked out before switching over? Say go live on Monday the 1st?