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I understand what you're saying. From what I've seen here, when there's a chapter that is struggling WAY down below the other chapters in numbers, it doesn't matter if they are 50 members smaller or 100 members smaller; keeping total at 150 where it's been forever isn't going to help them. And if they DO have a really rockin rush and can make up a good chunk of that difference, holding total artificially low means they can't catch up as far as they might otherwise. Let's say total is 150 but most of the chapters are really at 200. And the small chapter is at 100. They have a FANTASTIC rush and get to 150. They are now at total and can't do anything to get to the 200 that the others have because they have met total. They might feel better that they achieved that goal, but they have their hands tied against achieving actual parity. And we've seen chapters double their size twice in 2 years, so this is an actual problem a really motivated chapter can encounter.
RFM works when you use the entire program, including adjusting total annually to reflect the real numbers in play. At some point that will mean adjusting total downward, which will probably freak people out, but will keep the madness under control when the bubble inevitably bursts. Without a history of annual adjustments, people will freak out at the change.
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