Greetings friends and Gathering masses. For those of you who don't know (even the ones who do), I'm doing something a bit different than I have in the past when it comes to my posting here. I decided to forego my usual humorous take on the world we live in to conduct somewhat of an "experiment" here utilizing the members of Gather who are willing to participate; which is strictly volunteer if you're so included to help me out.
I was up until 1:30 AM compiling statistics as they came in, slept a quick four hours and was awake once again at 5:30 AM to continue gathering information. My project will continue through tonight, so you still have a chance to lend a hand. Basically, due to various issues on Gather raised by some members, I thought I'd try to figure out not only the direction Gather is going, if at all possible, but what my role in the future should be here on this site.
After spending part of the prior day "invesigating" some of Gather's features and reading much of the information provided to users, I came up with a crazy idea I put into action. I began mid-evening and will continue to run my "experiment" for a 24 hour period. If you'd care to read the details of what it's all about, I invite you to check out the post located on my homepage entitled, "Here We Go Again - It's Always Something". That should provide a little insight as to what I'm up to and will hopefully accomplish.
Once posted, I proceeded to pose 20 questions to the readers of Gather. The answers will be enjoyable to see, but more important will be the response to the overall "experiment" itself...the amount of views, comments and ratings. You still have ample time to get in on what's happening as all twenty questions remain on line through my home page or your publication notification E-mails. I'm asking you to take a little of your time to go to each post and add your answers to the ever growing lists that have already come in. Please feel free to answer all or any you'd like...there's no requirement as to what capacity you participate, but I'm hoping you'll do as some members have and complete my "unscientific survey".
I will not be posting any further articles, nor will be reading, rating and commenting on anything until my project is complete...and this will be the final word you hear about my "experiment" until it's concluded and I compile the statistics and come up with the results of several theories I have. Again, I thank those of you have already taken part and want to let those who will be answering the questions during the course of the day today that I appreciate your cooperation as well. Until I "speak" to you again, I wish you all happy Gathering!


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Charles D.
Good luck with your survey. I'll miss your funny articles.
I WILL be interested to see what you come up with from all of this.