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- Posted: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:33:00 +0000
iTsunayoshi Sawada
I highly doubt the CEO will show himself. He doesn't even bother to dress up his avatar or show himself on the site. As far as I'm concerned, he's just milking this site for money without really realizing the consequences. Either that or he just hates the site and wants to bring it down, in which case he's doing a fine job. *shrugs*
Sisky might be a familiar face to most but she isn't to me, and that's maybe why I don't feel put to rest with this thread. Either that or I just can't force myself to look past these events, because I see what's really going on and it bothers me. I can't sit by idly and watch this happen, I can't accept it. And yeah, people can tell me "mind your business" but maybe I care about this site and hate to see it go down this path. This is my home. And each day, it starts to feel less and less like my home, and it scares me. I'm not opposed to change. Gaia has changed in the 9 years I've been here, and I've welcomed all of it. But this is not good change, this is harmful change.
But I don't think it matters anymore. We can riot, we can act out, we can raise our voices and protest until the cows come home. I don't think we're going to change anything, because I think management is set in their ways and unwilling to change.
Sisky might be a familiar face to most but she isn't to me, and that's maybe why I don't feel put to rest with this thread. Either that or I just can't force myself to look past these events, because I see what's really going on and it bothers me. I can't sit by idly and watch this happen, I can't accept it. And yeah, people can tell me "mind your business" but maybe I care about this site and hate to see it go down this path. This is my home. And each day, it starts to feel less and less like my home, and it scares me. I'm not opposed to change. Gaia has changed in the 9 years I've been here, and I've welcomed all of it. But this is not good change, this is harmful change.
But I don't think it matters anymore. We can riot, we can act out, we can raise our voices and protest until the cows come home. I don't think we're going to change anything, because I think management is set in their ways and unwilling to change.
I can't look past them, either. This site was a part of my childhood and has had enough impact on me to be a part of my life to this day. Like you, I've watched this site grow throughout the years. I've accepted most changes with a shrug of my shoulders, but this is too much, too fast. There have been a few of us who have seen this coming (you are undoubtedly one of them,) and we've constantly been told we were wrong. We aren't. We haven't been. I'm not going to pour rose water over a festering pile of dung and try to say the s**t's not there.
This is kind of breaking my heart. i know things change, I really do. Forums change. They evolve. But many have managed to keep a grasp on their core purpose. Gaia doesn't really seem like a community anymore.
I don't know what compelled them to hire this CEO. I don't know what is compelling them to keep him around, now, after so many of these major screw-ups. He obviously knows nothing about Gaia, its community, its past, or the wants and needs of the users. Well, maybe he does and just doesn't care.