Hi Letty,
I'm glad a special person directed me to this site as well. I feel much more at ease here.
I doubt I'll ever go back.
Yes, dlk. Live, laugh, love and be happy...what if I've been blue now I'm roamin through fields of flowers...rain may glisten but still I listen for hours and hours. I'm just a kid again doin what I did again singing this song.....
oops...wrong thread. Thought I was back in a musical production.
Smeg is really getting around.
The Bunny has a lot to answer for.
MOHAMMED ALI --- "floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee"
ABUZZ -- "floats like a house brick, stings like a bread stick"
I came from Abuzz. Finally disabled my account recently when I didn't want to be tempted to post there again. To think the NY Times used to have ads encouraging people to join Abuzz. Somehow, I don't think it worked quite as expected.
Yes...d'artagnan and John. All things must come to an end...
Daddy has a harbor seal
Twas on Abuzz we met
And tho I rarely visit there
I owe it that one debt
It is good to see you SealPoet. I've missed you and your rhymes.
Hey, boomer,
You and Morganwood. Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end...
I still post on abuzz, but I think Ill wean myself since it appears that abuzz is now mostly populated with lunatics. I wish the art lines here were more give and take as they were on abuzz. There seems to be (at least to me) that "a hall monitor is watching on a2k'. When I see posts on threads that are almost half contributed by "moderators" or "forum guides" I fear that I must watch myself. On abuzz, we had some very spirited discussions that could get loud and violent but it did not deter from all sides having fun. I miss that.
THIS IS NOT A CRITIQUE OF MAJOR PROPORTION. Perhaps, as I get more familiar as to what are the meanings of some of these titles youve given yourselves, I wont be so intimidated. I have been comfortable with the "colorful" language at abuzz, when it was within the bounds of good taste of course. Here, I feel we are trying to be too polite(or are being monitored ).
AM I WRONG?
Hiya farmerdude,
I think there's a bit of chicken-and-eggness there; to wit, the people who tend to be especially active are the ones who were asked to take on guiding responsibilities. The mix will likely change as more people come to A2K from Google or word of mouth or whatever. From what I understand, the site is still quite small in comparison to where it's going.
I don't think you have to worry about being "monitored". I think everyone who's experienced Abuzz is cognizant of what can happen when the cat's away, or more to the point, when the cat's kicked the bucket, and that this site wants to keep things a little more sane. Sane doesn't have to mean sterile, and I've seen plenty of "colorful" stuff here.
No, it doesn't go down on weekends as it used to, however I haven't received an Abuzz e'mail update in weeks!
I came here from after finding there were some good reasons to be worried about privacy in Abuzz. Don't miss it -- it had become a bloody and intemperate place with the spammers and nasties. Nothing like the humor and native intelligence one finds here in A2K!
the only thing i dont like about A2K in comparison with Abuzz is that -
well, at Abuzz, I would save the threads that I'd started, you know, in case it'd break down again and needed some backup and by ways of - personal archive thing - if i'm gonna spend so much time writing, reading, discussing and smiling at a place i dont want it all to dissappear when the site eventually goes down, i dont throw away my letters either after all. i realise thats a very old world attitude. anyway, i decided that keeping mail accounts full of e-mails containing individual posts wasnt the most economic solution so i started saving the threads in a folder on my harddisk instead. click save as - html only - there you are, entire thread in one file.
here that doesnt work - you'd have to save every single successive page of a thread separately, or think about which you want to keep, which not, et cetera. thats a pity.
i also miss this automatic update thing that used to work on abuzz - for a while at least - once you clicked it the page would check for new posts automatically and renew itself with a soft ding when it found any. that was really cute, and allowed for a wholly different kind of posting, more quick-witted and chat-like. probably annoyed the hell outta some other people.
and, believe it or not, i miss the ratings per post. damn the smileys, but with the ratings per post - you'd ignore the negative ones, while the positive ones showed you that somebody had actually read and appreciated your post even if no response to it appeared. and before the loons took over they also showed who the silent majority was behind when a really fierce discussion took place. i took heart from that sometimes.
i'm being off-topic again, ain't i? ;-) anyway, that just bc reading the posts here youd almost think abuzz was hell incarnate (or, err, invirtuate)
You can view the topics on one page if you wish (at least up to 500 posts per page). You will find the option in your profile.
The automatic updates thing is easy to do, I can create that feature but it would bring the same problems that it did on Abuzz (posts out of order database corruption).
I have not come here from Abuzz -- I've come here AND I am at Abuzz.
They've got some problems -- and I suspect they no longer can be solved without a benefactor coming along and throwing a bunch of money at the problem.
I hope this doesn't become a them and us situation. Both sites have a use - and quite honestly, I've made some very important and meaningful cyber friendships over there.
Right now, they are suffering from a couple of spammers who are truly screwing up the site.
WHATEVER YOU DO - do not institute that bloody rating system. It sucked!
frank--There's a rather large group of Bostonians (I included) who became real life friends because of Abuzz. That site will always have a soft spot in my heart because of that. Those folks, many of whom can be found here, have made the past three years of my life richer for their presence. Also, coping with the 9/11 aftermath was made easier for me because I had Abuzz to turn to. I've made friends across the country and around the world whom I may never have met if not for Abuzz. I don't think any of us who were there during the earlier days of Abuzz will ever think of a2k as "us." I prefer to think of a2k as the site Abuzz wanted to be. Many thanks should go out to Craven and Jespah for this labor of love.
I'll second that TerryDoo ;-)
that's true, if it wasn't for afuzz i would never have known how wacky bostonians are.
LOL Pueo!
Love your new avatar ;-)
