Hey everyone. I have been saying that I will make a post about this topic for a while now and now is the time to finally do it.
This post is subject to change and influence. The members of Busy Bees are welcome to respond to this post and give me your opinions and suggestions. I do however, have a few strong points to put forward.
The main gist of what I want to change in 2026 for the Busy Bees progress report is that I want to remove DEAD DATA. Accounts that are dormant and not posting need to come off the list and I am sorry, they need to stay off the list.
This is the Busy Bees... BUSY... The whole idea was to create a support group for people who are on Hive often and constantly and are growing together.
Today will be Week 3, once I am done with the normal post for the Busy Bees. In 4 weeks time, by Week 7 I want to action the following changes:
I will add new members based on suggestions from members only between now and week 7. They need to be people who post daily/weekly and have been doing it for the last 4 weeks or more.
After this, for 2026, I am not adding new members to THIS list. If new members want to join, then we can create a new list, possibly with someone else doing the capturing.
Once Week 7 starts, the rule will be that if your account is idle for more than 4 weeks, you come off the list and you stay off the list in 2026. If you want to be on a list after that, see above about a secondary list.
The only omission to this is if you declare that you need to hold your place on the list but will be unable to do so and you declare a "holiday mode". Eg: You will be travelling for work for 3 weeks and might miss out on posting for more than 4 weeks because of this. Pop on and send a message to me on the Busy Bees Progress posts. I will put the account on "holiday" mode for the specified time. You have 4 weeks to do this. People who do not are going to get booted off the list for 2026.
I hope that this is understandable.
Let's look at the first bit of supporting information:
This list is the member list for 2025, Week 1. There were 90 members.
The members listed in red are no longer on our list today.
I am busy with a nice 2025 recap stats post but there is 1/3 of the data that is irrelevant now. All those weeks that I recorded these (and other) account's growth and counted their posts, all wasted time.
That is not something that I want to repeat.
So let me reiterate:
The Original List
Let's fill it up to 100 with some new or old accounts that want to join the Busy Bees now in the next 4 weeks.
My support will be based around this list for 2026. Drop off the list, stay off the list.
Holiday mode is available when LIFE happens. But ghosting the Busy Bees for 4 weeks or more is not acceptable.
The Secondary list
Right now, there is zero call for a secondary list. Should it be necessary, I will make an allowance for it and find an administrator who wants the job.
