Well said. If have also found that this kind of system - while hard to get started - works better than fining.
If you really want to have a big penalty for something - say recruitment workshop/recruitment - then after so many absences they don't get to go to the big event for the semester. In some chapters this would be formal. That's a pretty big penalty, but if you want to make sure they show up for recruitment stuff - that's a major incentive.
I still prefer to use the system that Zillini discussed. As I said earlier, it's hard to get it started (not quite as hard to maintain but not easy either). But, it is by and far the most fair, the most effective and the best received by chapter members.
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