I have thought on it, and not to sound flippant, but much like most of my life, I have no goals for the site! I quit approving Members just cuz they sign up. We have about 10 a day, and I have approved maybe 10 new Members in the last 6 months. You have to take some initiative and send me an email asking why you have not been approved. Those emails are far and few between, and that is fine with me. The person that is wondering why they were not approved and will take that next step to get approved, that's the kind of Member who I want on the site.
When we 1st started this site, I tried to mold it after the only other site I was really active on, Pelletheads, and that did not seem to go over well. We will remain small, and I think I will like it that way more. I am trying not to morph into "Joe Average BBQ Site" and keep the emphasis on wood pellets, but I also realize that 90% of my cooking over the course of a year is done in my kitchen.
The level of involvement has become much like Pelletheads, a core of people that post regularly, which I enjoy, but the majority not participating, not what I had hoped, but reality. I enjoy coming on the site and seeing what my friends are doing, and I do consider you all my friends, even though I have not met most of you and that probably will never happen. I am a very opinionated, at times very self-centered and arrogant person, and for the most part folks accept me for that and are gracious enough to work through it.
So, what happens in 2019 happens, and if I look at the bank account in August and I can afford to renew every thing, we will do it again in 2020! I appreciate no end the folks that keep this site going with content!
