OK, open to everyone. Please post in this thread links to posts/threads you think are useful reads for new members around here. I'll kick it off and hopefully this thread will be a useful resource.

Forum/thread/post moderation and etiquette, 4 key points in thread etiquette/moderation, posted by Graham.

Site focus, during a thread about making an advert for the site, posted by Neil.

I've split this off from the UKGE thread in Conventions. It seems it ought to have it's own place here.

(Does anyone mind me doing this?)

In this thread Ash asks about buying on to the table at Dragonmeet, and it's a good question. And the answer is applicable not just to Ash but to anyone who has recently come across us and shown an interest in the collective.

The best way to think of it is not that anyone is buying a share of a table and that's all. The way to think of it is that you are a member here first, and then some of the members here choose to spread the costs of the table between them.

I think it's a subtle and important distinction.

OK, some time ago on the back of Dragonmeet we said we would be looking towards GamesExpo and then, and only then, would we see how we all felt about where this thing was going in terms of membership, booth presence, etc. See this forum topic.

I appreciate that this was frustrating for people who have come here and asked about membership only to be told "not yet, wait and see".

Especially as these good people were contributing to the forums, participating and organizing events for users of the forums, and working on games or helping others with their games based around here.

So, given that we've been musing about what membership means, and when we will open up membership to others I've put together a list of links that is intended to contain useful reading.

A lot of key points about the Collective Endeavour have come up on threads about UK Games Expo, particularly in this thread and then this one.

The key ones you should read are "What are the buy-in and other requirements for being a part of the CE?", and the response to that.