1) I think that the main thing here is that membership should have been define upon number of seasons, and not upon "3 months" (time) membership.
Changing that will make the membership more reasonable, and will eliminate requests for extending membership due to loss time...
2) I agree that it is a little bit frustrating not getting any indications from the BBs, whether they have read a suggestion, and what they think about it.
A simple message to a thread (or a BB-mail), whenever they get the time to read a thread, explaining their perception, would have made all the difference. [Kind of a suggestion...]