We've heard you and we are working over the next three months to improve our user interface and user experience. We've heard you and are attempting to address your needs and suggestions. Thanks for the input! -RQB
Great! We have also asked our social media community, inlcuding Twitter followers, to give us feedback too - especially regarding them engaging in the group discussions.
Yes, I'm noticing the lack of discussion you speak of going on. I have been wondering about that. I don't know if people don't check on their discussions or what. I am a yahoo grouper. It is free, except that you have to put up with the advertising. On yahoo, you join groups of interest, and then you are supposed to chat. Well, the same thing happens, people end up staring at one another. (cyberly speaking)
One thing here is the people are likely to not speak the same language. As such, they may be afraid to respond and look like a doofus. Eventually, they lurk until there is a string to jump in on. It may be that people quit looking because so much nothing has happened before. As soon as there is a little action, people will look, then there will be more action.
To get things rolling, group owners have to generate discussion. One group I am involved in has a thought for the day. The owner picks a good saying and then puts one up every day. You could do the same thing with a word for the day. It is just a conversation starter.
For example, Funambulist:(fyoo nam'byuh list) - A tightrope walker
or
"It was a bold person who first ate an oyster"
~Jonathan Swift
See, stuff like that. If stuff like that fails you need a person like me. I'm a writer, and I don't care if people think I'm crazy. I will talk to myself until the cows come home, serious. After a while you lurkers are going to get irritated. If you don't then I'll have to bust out the swear words. That will irritate you, I am a master cusser. We have to learn it in plumbing school.
"There is nothing better for generating discussion than an irritating person."
~Castor Nox Bellator
If the swear words fail, and I don't think they will, there is a final weapon I don't drag this one out lightly because it is just so erm... aggresive. I will do it for the sake of generating disscusion though. I will bear the derision and angry cyberstares and start a topic about lesbians. (I apologize pre-emtively)
"If at first you don't succeed, get a jackhammer"
~Captain No Beard
"A cat will always blink when struck between the eyes with a mallet"
~unknown
Truthfully, I am more stuborn than ten normal people. Yall should give up now and start talking.
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Great! We have also asked our social media community, inlcuding Twitter followers, to give us feedback too - especially regarding them engaging in the group discussions.
Yes, I'm noticing the lack of discussion you speak of going on. I have been wondering about that. I don't know if people don't check on their discussions or what. I am a yahoo grouper. It is free, except that you have to put up with the advertising. On yahoo, you join groups of interest, and then you are supposed to chat. Well, the same thing happens, people end up staring at one another. (cyberly speaking)
One thing here is the people are likely to not speak the same language. As such, they may be afraid to respond and look like a doofus. Eventually, they lurk until there is a string to jump in on. It may be that people quit looking because so much nothing has happened before. As soon as there is a little action, people will look, then there will be more action.
To get things rolling, group owners have to generate discussion. One group I am involved in has a thought for the day. The owner picks a good saying and then puts one up every day. You could do the same thing with a word for the day. It is just a conversation starter.
For example, Funambulist:(fyoo nam'byuh list) - A tightrope walker
or
"It was a bold person who first ate an oyster"
~Jonathan Swift
See, stuff like that. If stuff like that fails you need a person like me. I'm a writer, and I don't care if people think I'm crazy. I will talk to myself until the cows come home, serious. After a while you lurkers are going to get irritated. If you don't then I'll have to bust out the swear words. That will irritate you, I am a master cusser. We have to learn it in plumbing school.
"There is nothing better for generating discussion than an irritating person."
~Castor Nox Bellator
If the swear words fail, and I don't think they will, there is a final weapon I don't drag this one out lightly because it is just so erm... aggresive. I will do it for the sake of generating disscusion though. I will bear the derision and angry cyberstares and start a topic about lesbians. (I apologize pre-emtively)
"If at first you don't succeed, get a jackhammer"
~Captain No Beard
"A cat will always blink when struck between the eyes with a mallet"
~unknown
Truthfully, I am more stuborn than ten normal people. Yall should give up now and start talking.
Wayne/Castor/No Beard the shipless