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.

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.

So this was partially brought on by the site change and also noticing that Geoff's comments were getting flagged as spam.

I've created a new user level called Member. It's like being a site user, except you get to create book/project pages, upload files, add clean urls to your contributions if needed and a whitelisting so the spam filter is less likely to purge you comments by accident. Oh, and change your user name if you wish.

OK, we are now approaching the end of August and we should start thinking towards Dragonmeet.

A few things need planned.

Now, I can sense some of you are excited at reading this. You will know who you are.

Take a breath. Pause.

OK, now read on.

We need to figure out who is interested in being on the Collective Endeavour booth at Dragonmeet.

Then we will need to figure out who is actually going to be on the booth. It may be everyone who is interested, but I suspect that we will have to limit it based on the available space.