DocAndersen
There are a few things that I want to clear up.
When someone reaches out to me, either with issues or problems, I go to the person they are having issues with. I do not send complaints and other authors to the admin team. My personal belief is to reach out to the author in question and let them know others are frustrated or concerned. That was a rule I developed long before I was on Niume. It is a personal rule, not a site rule, and by no means would I expect anyone to do what I do. However, based on the reality we are facing, I am no longer handling things that way. Effective today I am going to gather feedback for authors, contact the author but also send them to the admin team; I did so this morning for the three authors that I have been contacted about by many other authors.
The next step for me now is (and I have as of this morning) sending the issues raised to the Admin team.
The next thing beyond that is I am going to publish the names of authors that other authors felt were being a bit much. (I won’t publish the names of the people reaching out to me, only the offending author). (that includes me by the way if I offend someone that hasn’t offended me first).
If you can’t handle a disagreement in public, don’t send nasty comments to people in the PM system. I also sent those to the admin team.
The reality of Virily today is the admin team doesn’t respond to issues or concerns as often as they did. Not that they were great in the past. But that at least when we had the support chat they would respond in 24 or 48 hours. Now, they do and don’t respond very often.
I did send the new account question to the admin team as well, I have heard back on that issue either. My question was simple – since it is not listed as a no-no in the FAQ, it has to be ok. But will users who’ve put 2-3 years into their profile and ranking on Virily have their existing account merged with their new account? It seems only fair to me that their now useless older account gets moved into their new, and create enabled new account!
Fairness is really important to me as a person.
I was able on my quest today to reach 30 posts read. I see that there are still a few I haven’t read on the new post list, so I feel like I have a shot at hitting four days of 30 or more posts read.
No one is required to read, comment or to interact. If you can and want to, please do! Do what you can do!!
Thanks for writing this post.
you bet, trying to keep information in front of people!
You’re a real rebel worthy of all respect, my dear friend
Thank you for the kind words and friendship! The feeling is mutual!!!
I’m glad it is, dear friend
i have a really dark idea about why the site is having issues. I am going to research that.
I hope I am wrong.
I totally believe you can make it, dear friend …. I hope you’re really wrong
thanks, i am worried about the future of our site.
You will believe that I thought about it already … that it will be over once
all things come to an end, eventually
my apologies to all I just realized my four poll questions did not publish.
Will add them to today’s post!
fair is fair but is account merging feasible?
Well now are you asking for an ethical or a technical perspective.
Ethically/morally of course!
Technically depends wholly on what the actual issue that caused the problem was.
purely a technical question. can’t think of any ethical barrier…
Then it becomes an identity issue and I suspect that may be the issue causing the outage in the first place.
thought the issue was no create button and then no posts being validated
the create button was missing (is missing) for a number of users (1/3 or so of the active users).
posts were still moderated, just slowed down as the admin team was dealing with the first issue.
seems like the former has been resolved
for some not for all (create button issue).
that issue is so confusing
i have two theories but I am keeping them to myself.
neither of them good, then…
neither are good.
I am focused on happy thoughts now!
go to your happy place…
My happiest place is out of the water for the winter.
may you remain happy all winter long
Thank you for sharing some information about the issues in this site.
i’ve been doing that for 4 years now. Well just over 3!
Thanks again for all your help, effort, support, etc. I try to think about it as little as possible because all this upset doesn’t really affect my health well. I don’t even count how many days I can post anymore.
i understand that. I also know that the only way we will get this resolved is to keep the issue fresh in the mind of the admin team!
As I said before, I hope you succeed. I don’t feel too good about what I did. Let them just allow me to post to my old account and delete the new account immediately.
Honestly, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, YOU DID NOTHING WRONG!
yes I meant to internet shout. If the admins hassle you, I will stand with you and fight!
Thank you sooooo much for your encouraging words. I really had a “bad conscience”. I’m feeling a little better now.
it is an honor. I try to help all that ask. some reject help because they cannot be helped by others.
those, like you that help me, are the ones I always try to help as well!!!
Until now I have seen so many things you can do here.
it is a sad reality at this point.
Maybe it all makes you tired, but we admire you.
personally, i think the burden is on those that have not been able to create for 18 days.
for me the burden is more frustration with where we are.
Is that possible because you show so much care, and always try to be fair, try to show the situation on both sides so that many people “depend” on you and at the same time makes you like a punching bag?
yes, you are correct. That happens often here on Virily.
If I become part of the burden, please forgive me.
i do not now nor have I ever imagined you to be part of the problem.
So you have gotten no answers yet? All a guessing game here it seems.
i got a response on the Alex L, Alibb issue with a promise that would get fixed. Alex’s was fixed haven’t heard from Alibb yet.
So some communication. I also sent in a lot more information to the admin team.
Greetings, dear friend ….. thanks again for all your hard work
i will not give up!!!! I am so glad you are back I have missed you!!