Thank You!

[the_alchemystic]

Thank you for declining my request to join your community. Having looked at the answers received by others who were declined I do not need to ask for myself. Clearly I was denied because my profile does not show enough, if any, other vegan comms,interests, etc. I guess this comm isn't a good starting off point? Apparently I do not have enough

Comments

[bitspike]

I'm sorry we gave you a bad initial representation of the community.

I would say this process is less us being 'elitist' and more that we've learned from experience that it's necessary to do what we can to prevent trolling from a few specific external communities. We've implemented moderated membership, but sometimes it's difficult to determine who to automatically approve. We feel that, if someone actually wants to be a helpful member of the community, they'd at least politely pull us up on this and ask to be approved if we deny them initially.

It's far from a perfect system, but it's the best we could do right now for the sake of the community.

If you'd like to find another lj veg*n community, I recommend checking out the profile page of vegpromo as it has quite a comprehensive list to choose from!

[joshthevegan]

I think you might be overreacting here a bit. If you would have looked at the posts by other users who were declined (as you claim to have done), you would have seen that a simple, short conversation with us here leads to most people being allowed in. Posting a sarcastic, uncalled-for rant like this doesn't help your case that you would be a positive member of the community.

[megamuphen]

As the other mods pointed out, we do end up letting most people in to the community if they take the time to ask us about it, as you will see from past posts. We find that most trolls won't bother with a follow up post, and most people that actually want to be in the community but get reject will.

This is fairly standard procedure in communities that tend to attract trolls. We don't mean to be "elitist," we are just trying to protect our members from spam/vegan mockery/off topicness.

[supercarrot]

just so you know, angry defensive posts made here indicate to us that you might be a troll and that we have made a wise choice. thank you for helping us feel more secure in our decision.

[laceyslostlove]

agreed...I don't understand why people still think being rude is a way to accomplish ANYTHING!