I agree. people are in two many fellowships. I am in 4 because I accepted whatever invites I received. But I don't see any reason why I am in 4 fellowships. The game I am mainly interested in is pente, so I should only need to be in one fellowship. As harley alluded to (and Madmonkey), it is impossible to keep up with news and notes of multiple fellowships.

The fellowship I will probably stay in is the one where I am captain of the pente team. I made the decision to be captain of that ap[rtuclar pente team by way of a simple criterion-- it was the first team that asked me.

So, I will probably remove myself from the other fellowships.

I actually expected the fellowships to work like the clubs at Goldtoken do.
I think it is up to each individual fellowship big boss to explain to players when they invite them to join, what the fellowship is about. So far lots of players just receive an invite to several fellowships upon becoming a paid member, and really dont understand what its about. As Harley mentioned, a lot don't even read the fellowship discussion boards.
I personally dont see the point in joining a fellowship unless its to join a team, unless its just a social fellowship, which plays no official tournaments. I guess thats because I am used to the system there where inter club competition is in place.
When inter fellowship tournaments are in place I am sure players will move around a bit until they find a team they are happiest in. I guess quite a few members here have never played this type of set up before so are not quite sure what a fellowship is meant to be.
I dont see the point in limiting the amount of fellowships a player can join, as they can only join 1 team for each game type, its up to them to choose who to play for. I will probably limit membership to my fellowship to players who have signed for teams once inter fellowship tournaments have started.
I would like to see some additional features added to the fellowships, the ability to split off the game types into separate fellowships, or at least to be able to have separate discussion boards at the main fellowship, so if a player was a member of the backgammon team, and no other games, they can just go read what is applicable to them. Also the ability to have more than 1 big boss, and to be able to customise what a manager can do, also to be able to make someone a team captain without making them a manager.
I know a lot of players who would not even play at goldtoken unless the clubs were in place, hopefully the fellowships will create that kind of loyalty at this site, so far it has the potential we just need some refinement of its features.