MJJCommunity Announcements and Feedback

[Mikky Dee]

This thread is for general announcements from MJJC Administration.

It is also for feedback from the community, about the announcements and about anything that members would like to see happening, or not happening.

Constructive, productive discussion and positive Q & A sessions are most welcome.

[Mikky Dee]

This is an Administrator Announcement: Members need to give out THANKS and Positive Reps. to each other more often. It's free, guys. Just like a smile, it costs you nothing and makes someone else feel happy, visible and validated.

I'm not saying we need to hand them out like candy, but in my opinion, we can definitely do MORE than we have been doing, in this area. Let's boost those user points and achievement levels, shall we?

Yours in Positivity,
Mikky Dee

[Mikky Dee]

Congratulations to StaceyMJ and Daryll748 who have been promoted from their previous roles as Staff Members/Moderators to Administrators, so now we have become a team of three hard-working (and approachable) Co-Administrators.

I'm sure Stacey and Daz will continue to do a wonderful job here at MJJC and I am looking forward to working alongside them to keep MJJC strong and vibrant, as the year unfolds.

[Mikky Dee]

In case members haven't seen this slight tweak to our rules (in the Name Change Request thread) we have relaxed the rule on user name changes, just slightly. Name change requests will now be allowed more than once (as long as the privilege is not abused by members). There will be a six month waiting period after a name change, before another name change will be considered.

Staff maintain the right to make name changes at their discretion and will discuss requests with members in the name change request thread, as usual.

Going forward, a log will be kept in a staff thread, making note of when name changes have come into effect and what members' previous user names were.

Keep on Michael-ing!

[Mikky Dee]

To all of the wonderful members of MJJC,

We would like to encourage everyone to PLEASE embed videos in threads, in future, rather than just posting links to youtube and other sites. Links take user traffic away from our site and onto other sites. We would prefer to keep our members here, watching and talking about videos IN THE THREADS, as much as possible.

It's not compulsory, but rather a positive suggestion - in my experience, people often can't be bothered to click on a link and follow it; they are much more willing to watch a video if it is right in front of them. Threads also look more appealing with videos embedded, rather than a whole bunch of nondescript links.

Thank you!

Happy video viewing to all!

[Mikky Dee]

Administration Announcement: There has been a slight rewording of MJJC Rules for the Michael Jackson News and Discussion Forum.

Please read the revision carefully, as this is both an update and a reminder. We have recently moved a few threads from the news and discussion forum into other sub-forums on the site, which we feel are a better fit for the content of those threads.

The rule: Michael Jackson News and Discussion Forum.

Since the Michael Mania sub-forum has been merged with the Michael Jackson News sub-forum, there has been a title change and therefore this section of the site is for both news AND discussion. News articles, official announcements and current events constitute "news", whilst other more general topics about Michael Jackson the man, or his body of work, constitute "discussion".

Please be aware that any new threads posted in the Michael Jackson News and Discussion forum are automatically posted to MJJC social media accounts, so think very carefully about whether what you are posting is appropriate and/or worthy for this section and for social media.

We cannot stress this enough: please make sure to search and check to see if your topic has already been created. We do not wish to have MJJC social media flooded with the same news stories and discussion topics over and over again, or with topics that we might consider to be "fluff" topics, with very little substance, intellectual value, or professionalism attached to them.

To summarise -

News is official announcements, current events and news articles which are both reliable and sourced.

Discussion needs to be about Michael the man, the humanitatian, or about his body of work.

[Mikky Dee]

Hello Everyone,

Project 1: One of our MJJC members is travelling to Forest Lawn this year, for the 25th June. She has very kindly offered to print up people's letters to Michael and take them with her, to leave there for him, on the day. If anyone would like to send a letter to Michael in this way, please send them to me via a PM. Letters that are sent to me will then be forwarded directly to our pilgrim, for her to print.

Project 2: In addition, I am thinking very seriously about making a large card for Michael, from all of us at MJJC. After the card is made, I can mail it to our travelling member's post office mailing box for her to take with her to Forest Lawn, along with any individual, personal letters that have been printed. Anyone who would like a message placed on the card from MJJC is welcome to PM their message to me and I will make sure it is added to the card. Once the card is completed, I'll take photos of it and place them in this thread.

I will discuss a suitable deadline for both of these projects with the travelling member and subsequently post the appropriate dates in this thread, as an MJJC announcement or update.

In the meantime, please give it some serious thought. Letters and messages can be written any time from now on and sent to me....my inbox is waiting.

Warmest Regards to All,
Mikky Dee of MJJC

[Mikky Dee]

Hello Everyone,

Project 1: One of our MJJC members is travelling to Forest Lawn this year, for the 25th June. She has very kindly offered to print up people's letters to Michael and take them with her, to leave there for him, on the day. If anyone would like to send a letter to Michael in this way, please send them to me via a PM. Letters that are sent to me will then be forwarded directly to our pilgrim, for her to print.

Project 2: In addition, I am thinking very seriously about making a large card for Michael, from all of us at MJJC. After the card is made, I can mail it to our travelling member's post office mailing box for her to take with her to Forest Lawn, along with any individual, personal letters that have been printed. Anyone who would like a message placed on the card from MJJC is welcome to PM their message to me and I will make sure it is added to the card. Once the card is completed, I'll take photos of it and place them in this thread.

I will discuss a suitable deadline for both of these projects with the travelling member and subsequently post the appropriate dates in this thread, as an MJJC announcement or update.

In the meantime, please give it some serious thought. Letters and messages can be written any time from now on and sent to me....my inbox is waiting.

Warmest Regards to All,
Mikky Dee of MJJC

Update:

The deadline for Project 1 - personal letters to Michael - is Sunday 10 June at 6p.m. GMT/ London time.
Please PM your letters to me before then, so that I can pass them on, for printing.

The deadline for Project 2 - the MJJC card with messages from members in it - if I make the card, I will need to mail it by 30th May. Anyone who would like a message placed in the card should PM it to me before then.

Of course it's perfectly okay if members want to participate in both projects. The higher the level of participation that we have, the better we will all feel, for having done something lovely for Michael.

[bluemoon7]

How beautiful!

I participated in the print-out-letter a couple of years ago, and I think I´m doing it again for this year.

Mikky, wonderful idea - the MJJC card!

[Mikky Dee]

How beautiful!

I participated in the print-out-letter a couple of years ago, and I think I´m doing it again for this year.

Mikky, wonderful idea - the MJJC card!

Thank you for participating! Don't forget to PM your letter to me by the due date, so I can pass it on to our traveller.

Also if you'd like a message on the MJJC card, PM it to me as soon as you're ready, as I'm going to start making the card next week.

[mo_rizwan]

....I think they should.

Ironically, I've just created another "Discussion" thread here......

[Michaels Lover]

No..I don't think it should

[Dunk96]

I think they should be done away with in this section of the forum. They do nothing but clog up this section with unnecessary discussions (especially from certain users *cough*). It should really be relegated exclusively to media purposes. There shouldn't be discussion in this section of the forum because you can discuss it everywhere else in the forum or better yet,off this forum as well. But that's just my opinion anyways.

[h0opman31]

If its a post regarding a recent leak or upcoming leak, or just something relevant, then i think it should be kept. Delete repeated posts!

[Galactus123]

Yes if the thread is not about downloads. I think if it is just discussion about concerts or possible releases it should be on Michael Jackson News And Discussion section. Then more people would read them. Like there was a thread about Thriller 3D here for some reason recently. That shouldn't be here.