Actually, we have 5 posts on membership:
I brought this up at a Team R&O meeting last year, and we agreed (I think… I don’t really want to trawl back through the minutes at this point) to keep ‘Welcome to the Reef!’ for proactive newlings to announce themselves, and which is the link provided in the Edgeryders manual. And we agreed to keep ‘Membership: update’ for members to announce they’re leaving and for us to announce who had moved on to the next stage of membership after a GA meeting. I tried to combine the other three threads into ‘Membership: update’, assuming they would slot into their date order, but they all bounced in at the end of the thread, which made it messy. This is also one of the reasons it’s now too long.
Fine with me, although would it also be for post-GA meeting updates concerning new Associate and Full Members? Also, buddies currently use the ‘Membership: update’ thread to welcome new members to the platform if they haven’t announced themselves on ‘Welcome to the Reef!’. This is the advice given and link provided in the buddy manual. So perhaps that should change too…
Yes and no. In terms of where the project is at right now, not exactly on the same level as getting the société simple sorted 
But in terms of attracting new members, which may be an extremely important part of the process soon, better if we don’t confuse the hell out of them with their first foray onto the platform…