Seems like there's a misconception about the word "members" by a few people out there and what it means when used in the form like "members of
DVTV." There's a YouTube video floating around (won't say who in order to save this guy some embarrassment) where one guy tries to explain by saying "I'm a member of DVTV" is incorrect and proceeded to explain because "member" means you pay to be a part of a club or group. Well, I'm sorry but there is no such thing the term "member" means payment is required in order to become a member. The word "member" does not imply a payment of any kind in order to become a "member." No such thing. It simply means that a
person belongs to a group, a club, political party or an organization. Any joining of a group or such means you become a member of that group. There are membership fees in order to become a member. Or one can join a group and become a member of that group and not pay anything. You are born as a member of your family, for example. Or a member of a political party, a high school band, a clan, a tribe, a "no girls allowed tree house club," and so on.
And so by saying "member of DVTV" or "members of DVTV" is absolutely appropriate (and correct) to describe membership of an organization or a group. To the person in question, you might want to remove that video or else a double face palm will be the result.
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Perhaps they are an secret society lol they have their fair share of anons don't they ? I suspect they have a hit list of who gets to comment and how, and who doesn't as I am told an few people at deaf.read are unable to get any comments in at all...
Dunno about that. But in DR people can select which blogs to show up on their own "personal" aggregator list. Tayler Mayer made that feature available after a lot of people actually whined over some blogs that shows up on the DR's aggregator list. Some I suspect have taken advantage of that function. Me? I just ignore blogs that doesn't interest me. Really comical when people complained over such nonsense that Tayler was essentially "forced" to come up with a feature to appease the whiners.
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