The other forum I've been a long-time member of e-mails each member a Happy Birthday each year. It's completely vanilla and automated, so no pretense that it is personal (although it is personalized in the way of most form letters).
Some would say that adds at least a bit of additional flavor of a community while others would say that it adds one more piece of junk mail.
But it also reminds people that have gone dormant that we are still here and, with as many dormant members that we have, if even 0.1% of them checked in that would be about one a day coming back and maybe getting active.
Some would say that adds at least a bit of additional flavor of a community while others would say that it adds one more piece of junk mail.
But it also reminds people that have gone dormant that we are still here and, with as many dormant members that we have, if even 0.1% of them checked in that would be about one a day coming back and maybe getting active.