OCCUPY GAIA :: SAY NO TO BUYING GC

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Cecilia Davidson

Butterfly_kisses7

So isn't that kind of an example of putting words into a person's mouth?

i believe you misquoted me and may have meant another user.

So ... Want to try that "put words in others' mouths" thing again?

No I wasn't misquoting. I quoted the post I was responding to.
Again I will try to reiterate that I felt they weren't condemning the employees, but more or less the higher ups business tactics. That's what most of this is about. Their current business tactics needing to be modified. No where did anyone say "Oh this person should get fired". So again, agree to disagree.

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******** Gaia and their Cash. Everything has a limit. They pushed too hard, and they pissed everyone off.
Add me Flop.

[Ariel Yardena Davidson]

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Cecilia Davidson

Butterfly_kisses7

So isn't that kind of an example of putting words into a person's mouth?

i believe you misquoted me and may have meant another user.

So ... Want to try that "put words in others' mouths" thing again?

No I wasn't misquoting. I quoted the post I was responding to.
Again I will try to reiterate that I felt they weren't condemning the employees, but more or less the higher ups business tactics. That's what most of this is about. Their current business tactics needing to be modified. No where did anyone say "Oh this person should get fired". So again, agree to disagree.

No. You misquoted me because i didn't say ANY of the things there.You're thinking another user.

Sorry, but if you do in fact say a company deserves to die off, you are condemning people to unemployment, both innocent parties and guilty.

The end.

[from love to pain]

[******** Gaia and their Cash. Everything has a limit. They pushed too hard, and they pissed everyone off.
Add me Flop.Thanks dear. It's the truth.

[selila12]

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Add me, please! 3nodding

[Bearitt_Creations]

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x3rubiachica3x

Yes, please put me on the list. 3nodding
Does this include boycotting the daily GC vids?

And also, we should get some pretty graphics going on for this thread. whee

No, the GC offers I think are still okay. Gaia NEEDS money to be a successful business, I'll give them that, so viewing their advertisers stupid little videos is the only financial support I'll be giving them.

A friend of mine made one main banner, but I want some smaller ones to start putting in signatures and spreading the word.

Sorry, but this made me laugh. smile you'll stop buying the GC but you'll still use the free stuff they give you? To me this seems like a backwards step for what you were trying to promote.

The only reason to stop buying cash is so you don't spend it on the GC items, thus promoting gold shops, but you'll still collect it to spend on the items anyway?

Or am I just misunderstanding your intentions?

[Butterfly_kisses7]

Cecilia Davidson

Butterfly_kisses7

Cecilia Davidson

Butterfly_kisses7

So isn't that kind of an example of putting words into a person's mouth?

i believe you misquoted me and may have meant another user.

So ... Want to try that "put words in others' mouths" thing again?

No I wasn't misquoting. I quoted the post I was responding to.
Again I will try to reiterate that I felt they weren't condemning the employees, but more or less the higher ups business tactics. That's what most of this is about. Their current business tactics needing to be modified. No where did anyone say "Oh this person should get fired". So again, agree to disagree.

No. You misquoted me because i didn't say ANY of the things there.You're thinking another user.

Sorry, but if you do in fact say a company deserves to die off, you are condemning people to unemployment, both innocent parties and guilty.

The end.

A broken tag from where I removed the person's response you had quoted. Your response was running into mine. Sorry, but quote trees aren't always friendly to those who are on phones. stare
So I try to cut out the part I'm not talking about.
My original response was to this: "the thing here is that the person who said such is actually saying "Gaia employees deserve to not have jobs."
Did you or did you not say the bolded section? I believe you did.
So YES, I was talking to you.

[from love to pain]

Cecilia Davidson

No. You misquoted me because i didn't say ANY of the things there.You're thinking another user.

Sorry, but if you do in fact say a company deserves to die off, you are condemning people to unemployment, both innocent parties and guilty.

The end.

Since I was the one who actually said it, and this has gone on way longer than I thought it would, here's my two cents.

If a site gets out of control with how much money it wants its users to spend, it does indeed deserve to die.
The consumers, us, are unhappy and unwilling to spend that money they need with how they're going about it, and any business who doesn't work with its consumers fails.

Yes, this would mean people losing their jobs, and that sucks, though I am NOT saying that's what I want like you want to go around telling everyone (hence you are indeed putting words in my mouth).

However, there are a ton of kids and high school-aged people on this site.
What the ******** is Gaia teaching them? That they have to spend money to look good and be awesome.
They're convincing kids to be ultimate consumers, and if Gaia keeps going the rate it does, I hope it dies, no matter how many jobs are lost.
We don't need any more things in society teaching our kids these awful habits and traits.
I would PREFER that they change their business model from greedy back to social, but if that's not going to happen, well...

And on another note, I'm pretty sure a majority of Gaia "employees" are volunteers who don't get paid, and the some of the lower ones who do get paid very little.
This still is a FREE social media site, so how many people do you honestly think are on their payroll, hm?

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ninnypoo001

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Add me, please! 3nodding

Will do!

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day dream2

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x3rubiachica3x

Yes, please put me on the list. 3nodding
Does this include boycotting the daily GC vids?

And also, we should get some pretty graphics going on for this thread. whee

No, the GC offers I think are still okay. Gaia NEEDS money to be a successful business, I'll give them that, so viewing their advertisers stupid little videos is the only financial support I'll be giving them.

A friend of mine made one main banner, but I want some smaller ones to start putting in signatures and spreading the word.

Sorry, but this made me laugh. smile you'll stop buying the GC but you'll still use the free stuff they give you? To me this seems like a backwards step for what you were trying to promote.

The only reason to stop buying cash is so you don't spend it on the GC items, thus promoting gold shops, but you'll still collect it to spend on the items anyway?

Or am I just misunderstanding your intentions?

I only ever spend my GC on Phin Phang first of all so I can get a tank to make myself and other users gold.

I'm not sure if you've ever done GC offers, but it would take weeks, if not months to afford the majority of these amazing items.

And like I said, Gaia does need money to survive. I'm not going to give them mine, but advertisers are willing to if I watch a two minute video. THAT is how Gaia should be going about getting more of their money instead of trying to bleed us all dry.

So yeah, I think GC offers are okay. Find ways to pay for yourself, Gaia, don't expect us to do it because we can't afford it at this rate.

I'm sorry if you think that's silly, but it's honestly just practical.

[sodium]

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And on another note, I'm pretty sure a majority of Gaia "employees" are volunteers who don't get paid, and the some of the lower ones who do get paid very little.
This still is a FREE social media site, so how many people do you honestly think are on their payroll, hm?

Woah. Okay. Where exactly does this assumption come from because you are flat out wrong.

[from love to pain]

sodium

from love to pain

And on another note, I'm pretty sure a majority of Gaia "employees" are volunteers who don't get paid, and the some of the lower ones who do get paid very little.
This still is a FREE social media site, so how many people do you honestly think are on their payroll, hm?

Woah. Okay. Where exactly does this assumption come from because you are flat out wrong.

Are you a Gaia employee?
Do you know other Gaia employees?

From all the mods and forum assistants I've ever talked to, they were all volunteer.
I've never actually met a single person on this site who gets paid, so what else should I think?

[piggyzhou]

sodium

from love to pain

And on another note, I'm pretty sure a majority of Gaia "employees" are volunteers who don't get paid, and the some of the lower ones who do get paid very little.
This still is a FREE social media site, so how many people do you honestly think are on their payroll, hm?

Woah. Okay. Where exactly does this assumption come from because you are flat out wrong.

And where is your proof that she is flat out wrong?

*is not on either side because she honestly has no idea, just interested in seeing some data*

[Bearitt_Creations]

All Gaia Cash is optional, Gaia is not forcing anyone to buy or use it. Sure you have to click through the announcements but that's really about it. Also people make their own choices, buying GC is a choice. Gaia isn't teaching anyone anything really, just providing options to get the items they create.

If someone wants to spend money on pixels, that's their choice. Saying their business deserves to die because people choose to keep spending money on items really doesn't make sense. You buy things in real life right? Would you want your stores to close down because people kept buying the items that are priced higher than you can afford?