Hey everyone!
So, it's been a very long time since a journal entry was made here - since Jan 2017 actually. This group was running quietly with 2 votes per submission but it's come to my attention that even the many co-founders that have been recruited onto the "team" to help have over the years have gone inactive themselves, resulting in submissions becoming expired.
Unfortunately, I am deemed equal amongst these co-founders so I do not have permissions to alter their roles in any way nor can I force them to keep up with something so mundane against their free will.
The owner has been long gone and left the group to me years ago and though I've been keeping up with it as much as I can, I can't expect everyone else to do the same for as long as I have and that's okay.
Enough of my rambling though -
how do we fix this issue? In the past, I sought out more co-founders to help and even lowered the amount of votes needed, but I don't think that is a viable solution this time.
It's a bold choice, but I have decided to
open all submissions to go through without needing to be voted on/all submissions will be automatically approved. This does cause for some chaos amongst the folders, but we've reached a point where that is the least stressful thing to do. If I leave it to one vote, I will also need to deal with possible complaints as well as having to deal with ever accidentally hitting "decline" on a submission that was meant to be accepted.
I've been running this group on the side for the past decade, so instead of shutting it down or abandoning it, I feel that's the best solution that can work for everyone. I trust that people will not abuse this freedom, and if they do - and it bothers anyone - they are welcome to report to me and we can decide on the next step. For now this is how I've decided to move forward and I hope that is okay for everyone else.