It's interesting how groups take on a character of their own. Bloghounds began fairly quietly but found itself with twenty members not too long afterwards and they were of a type - quieter, sense of humour, reasonable people mainly professional and quite busy in RL.
Gradually, an ethos developed which doesn't much care for what the world says. My friend made a joke that "you're not controversial because nothing ever happens". Well, nothing bad happens, that's for sure and I'm probably the feistiest character in there. The thing about us is that with our systems setup, anyone outside sees a fairly dormant front page because what does happen, happens inside.
We thought about running blogroundups and changing profiles each week and pretending we're highly active but actually we're just a club, a group. As Wolfie noted, we have very few rules but we do like the few we have to be adhered to.
The membership has made its feelings known in many ways but usually we decide things on whether anyone feels strongly enough about something. One idea which has had some support and we're thinking it over now is to run a "Fun Awards". The idea is that in a number of categories, members would vote inside the site and then one day we'd announce it on our front page.
Meanwhile, we grow and have two more pending members at this point, putting us in the area where we'll have to start thinking about number limits ... or not. We'll get around to deciding this amicably one day. Perhaps.
