I'm not sure about automatically granting membership for few reasons:
- A potential member has to review and agree to the bylaws. This actually is easy, just make it part of the "required reading" when signing up for a forum account. However:
- Per the bylaws you have to be above the age of majority to become a member. This is more thorny. I don't want to set an age limit for the forums.
- I'd like someway for a member to opt out of membership and still be able to post to the forums.
- Somewhat related to the previous item, I'd like membership to be website software agnostic otherwise we'll run into the same problem we have now.
- A potential member has to review and agree to the bylaws. This actually is easy, just make it part of the "required reading" when signing up for a forum account. However:
- Per the bylaws you have to be above the age of majority to become a member. This is more thorny. I don't want to set an age limit for the forums.
- I'd like someway for a member to opt out of membership and still be able to post to the forums.
- Somewhat related to the previous item, I'd like membership to be website software agnostic otherwise we'll run into the same problem we have now.