As far as gathering off-site to bash gaia...guess what, I actually LINKED to and QUOTED my complaints I made against the admins. That's where it
started for me, actually, and I was continuing it. Maybe we gather there and push it further there because we don't have the same freedom here to say what deserves to be said, and do what deserves to be done.
I've been meaning for a while now to compile all these complaints, suggestions, and direct harsh criticsm into a post for the site feedback forum. But for one, i've been too lazy, more concerned with my real world, and put off from the idea that it will probably just get locked because the unruly masses will make it spiral into an ignorant flame fest. I typed some of this out now and in the past few days through posts and comments because, hey, I never can resist a good argument once it's started.
I hardly see why this all amounts to cowardice; I would love nothing more than for the admins to hear my criticism and take my awesome advice. I can't access the admins even if I want to. Their public face is that they value your feedback and all that s**t, but the older mods - especially you green names out there - will tell you you're not supposed to PM them unless it's critical, such as reporting mod misconduct, and you're not supposed to use the feedback form, again, unless it's critical; missing donations and the like.
Cowardice nothing, i'm trying as hard as an average user can to get myself heard. What about the other day when I posted in VO's journal, trying to get my criticsm straight to the source. Here's a link....I'm full of this concrete evidence stuff:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/journal/index.php?mode=view&p=2428837#2687534 . Shortly after that was posted, he added the addendum, and I later found my bat glitch reset. So I think he noticed my post, and I couldn't be happier he did.
I criticized that they've banned people for their mistakes, which in turn was developer negligence. I criticized that we, the users, aren't ruining anything for anyone, and by saying we are, they're shifting the blame onto us.
I think that's dishonest, poor practice, and frankly disgusting.
It's not about the damn jack links, it's about how that's an example of the same thing I've been going on about and WILL go on about until they heed it: "Their site, their responsibility". Along with the good, they make broken systems, they make inadequate systems, they make poorly planned systems, and this being the case, it's all their fault when it falls apart. I've been ranting as long as i've been here on various version of this point.
In the grunny event, it's all their fault it turned out how it did. They made the system such that the strategy revolves around exclusivity, so
no s**t the users are going to all naturally discover that strategy and employ it. I could've told you that. People on the base level with employ all strategies available to them. I'm know i'm a ********' armchair psychologist here, but it also happens i'm right.
The ToT-ing event is the height of stupidity in all of this, because it shows how the admins are put up on a pedestal, like they're not even normal people, they're something holy and gracious, above it all........until we criticize them, then we get the bleeding heart story reminding us, "hey, don't talk smack, they're normal people too y'know". The workaround has been there at least since last year, they had a whole year to fix it, they didn't, they failed, all their fault the drama surrounding it happened. Your site, your responsibility, fix your broken systems ahead of time. Why is it us normal users don't get a break on a goddamn thing, but when admins fail to fix something minor ahead of time, given a year to do it, they deserve a pat on the back for their hard work? Don't go one step further to even shift the blame onto us, saying we're wrecking it by sharing these links that you screwed up on.
But most of all, why is it i'm a bad guy for saying this stuff?. Why would I criticize a site? Doesn't that show I care? Sure, I get a kick out of it, too, i'll admit.... but I don't go expending so much effort to criticize, say, some random kid's shitty geocities page that gets 3 hits a year. I say this stuff because I think it actually matters and needs to be said. I'm trying to say this to elicit postive change. It just happens my opinions are unpopular, and coincidentally, the harsh reality. s**t, I wonder how that works, huh?
Contrary to this cowardice stuff, i'm stepping forward and saying the things it seems few others will. I don't apologize for how nasty my opinions seem, I don't apologize for any of this, it's my tough love. I'm trying to get things changed by showing you they're NOT WORKING.
It's more of this mod-elitism bullshit: I don't have a colored name and extra buttons, so somehow i'm not trying to help out, too.
On a final note......
And sure, they bash the s**t out of mods, but everyone knows it's from an underlying desire to be one.. right?You've GOT to be kidding me; If I was in the clique, I couldn't speak so freely. Besides, there's no way they'd mod someone like me: to me it looks like they surround themselves only with non-threatening people. That's a better way to secure your power and avoid too many challenges to your skewed ideas, opinions, and practices.
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