A little survey

“Argh!!”

There there Peggy, let it all out. Thanks for the answer.I'd like to get as many people as possible to answer this.

Yes the techy glitches.You lost two whole boards eh.Yeah I see the pods as somewhat 'flimsy.' And by that I mean people can set them up so quickly, and also shut them down just as quick.Of course you can shut any type of discussion forum down without telling the members, but pods seem especially 'casual.' Is this good or bad? Personally I would prefer more 'control,' in that members are notified ahead of changes. To be honest I've never really gotten into the pods.I'm a member of some, but I can't really be bothered, even with the one's that vaguely interest me.

I still feel wounded from the fact that before this place we had a forum board called the 'zaadz community' which one day was just taken down without any  thought of telling the members.Hell we had to enquire to 'higher powers', I! had to answer people's emails to me asking where the hell the boards had gone.And they emailed me because they thought I would know, seeing as though I used to help admin the place.Oh and I also spent my own time and expertise adding new features to the board, all of which have dissapeared along with the rest of the board.We had a community built up over a year, had many 'classic posts' which I think many of us who were there still remember.How would you feel if you had a pod like that and one day zaadz came along and deemed it was time the boards where no longer necessary, and didn't even give a fuck to let you know.Well you might as well get familiar with that feeling, because it'll probably happen to you.Trust me I'm a person who gets over most things quickly and so for me to be bitter about this still now must mean it really bothers me.And why does it bother me? Well I get the impression that certain people don't actually wanna even know you unless you don't suck ken wilbers dick and use lots of long words.Hell I barely even know who ken wilber is, or integral theory.Perhaps because that forum had pretty much, if non at all , discussions related directly to those subjects, it was deemed worthless.So let me just tell you, whether it was Aaron, someone else, or even the great man himself.Let me just say that you fuckin pissed me off big style and I think treating your members and their posts and discussions as though they're just another part of the machine, to be dismantled at will, is disgraceful!

Personally I spend most of my time elsewhere, on various sites.But zaadz is still perhaps the number one single place in terms of time spent, but not of amount of content I post.I hardly blog any more, and spend less and less time here.It's not that I like saying this, but honestly I don't really like the new zaadz very much.I meet some interesting people sure.People email me to ask to me to join in discussions.But I'm just not that interested.I've added comments recently on some blogs, but really it felt like hard work, like a strain, just to see if I could do it.Unfortunately it just served to remind me how pretty much pointless and unfeeling the process is.Hmm, “unfeeling” now there's something.So many words here at new zaadz, so so so many words.But I feel empty inside.Why is this so, I wonder.

PS: Don't mind all that ranting.It's nothing personal to anyone or even to zaadz in fact.Or maybe it is, maybe it isn't, maybe it is, ahahha! Don't lose sleep! now :D Oh well, just the fucked up perspective I currently have.

Cheers!

Thanks for the replies and for satisfying my curiosity.Interesting stuff.

Shelly I don't think you'll be losing me.These are just bumps in the road we have to slow down for.And as we slow down we look at things more carefully, we analyze things more.We perhaps become inpatient because of the slow pace and not getting anywhere fast.The trick is to open ones eyes and look ahead to see the smooth road that runs for miles beyond this bump.When you can see that these bumps in the road aren't “everything”, they're just “something” then one can put things into perspective.So while I follow my feelings and say what I think, within this I do see the whole picture.That's why I'm always laughing at myself :D

Yes Shelly, I agree that the email notifications are a great way to easily keep track.I'm subscribed to all my friends blogs and about ten pods, so emails save me having to always open a browser if I'm busy with something else.Like you say there's lots of inspiration to be found.Maybe I will blog about my zaadz setup, to show how I work the “maze”, as indeed it can well become one if not setup effectively.Thanks for the idea!

Like many of you and those who have said here, I too spend a lot of time on zaadz.It goes up and down and sometimes I can spend a few days without visiting.Though I always catch up with everything .Zaadz doesn't fulfill all my needs, and there are other community websites I like to visit.Personally I wish it were all integrated into zaadz, as it could well be.But then again maybe for zaadz to become a monopoly isn't a good thing.So with that, I actually do appreciate that their are non zaadz places I can go to.I think that's healthy.

Yes elme the old community was a delight.I was told (after I inquired) by Brian that the old community would be transferred into a pod in a “couple of weeks”.That was ages ago! months ago now. This still hasn't happened as far as I can see.Don't ya just hate BS! I mean tell me one way or the other, but don't fuckin BS with me LOL! It's boring and tiresome.Just tell me straight up,we're not children for pity sake.

Dear elme, I must apologise in case you were one of the unfortunates who I proposed to during our first meeting in the chatroom.I had no idea you were already engaged.I just get carried away with myself, lol.I LOVE! women :) wil, bless him, always tried to calm me down, but to no avail :D

Oh and your so right, it's the “little people” that keep me here too.So well said elme, a beautiful awesome truth, spoken from the heart.

Cheers back to you all and blessings to you! 

Oops, sorry Michael, wasn't notified of this reply.Anyway, here now, so…

Michael, I never knew you were at the old boards.Forgive me if you were signed up under a different name, but I don't recall conversing with anyone called “Michael”.Or perhaps you were more of a reader than a poster.Anyhow, I totally digged your blogging about this my man, good stuff! I find that many people seem to wait around until someone else speaks up.So it's good to see that you took the initiative and asked “wtf is up?!?”  *so to speak* :D

Yes I have emailed Aaron a few times in the past, but never gotten any reply either.For someone with such a suppossedly huge brain that he finds it hard to get through doors, it is a perculiarity how the memory portion of that brain seems to be so small.Or maybe we just weren't important enough to be worthy of being replied to.Perhaps we'll never know.

Hard drive went in the old system? That's what you got told, eh.Strange how the rest of the site was completely unaffected apart from the community area, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's a Jedi?

Cheers!