YOU ARE FILLING MY GROUPS WITH RUBBISH and.....GUESS WHAT?

I think its makes you cool. (in my book anyway...rofl)
Not sweating the small stuff can be a great thing.

It sounds OK to me.

I used to be very diligent about moderating my groups and removing off topic content. But I wound up spending hours on the project and then feeling really bad about hurting people's feelings.

Thanks Karen, this is so nice of you. I try not to post to the wrong groups but it is hard sometimes since the group description is not listed on the posting page.

funny, I thought you were mad at first...LOL

I try to do my best, but the list is so convoluted that I make mistakes sometimes!

thank you for letting it slide!

well although it is cool, why have a theme, it defeats the purpose

Ha, I thought you were going to be mad too!

nice!

I agree with your outlook. Although the groups are posted with specifics in mind, there are times when the topics they support are vague. Also, as a member becomes more active on Gather, they join many groups. There are times when I just go by the group name to decide whether I post there or not. There is no malice meant if a post I make is not on topic, just an error. A simple notice to the writer to ask that they PLEASE, yes, be polite, post pertinent articles there in the future. I was banned from a group because they felt that I was blogging there. Guess what...isn't Gather a big blog??? Also, before I submitted my first articles there, I went to the site to make sure what types of articles were being submitted there. I didn't just post randomly and I didn't post everything I wrote, just some things.

Anyhow, I think that all the bickering does have to stop. I know it takes all kinds, but sometimes the meanspirited people take control! Especially on Fridays it seems!

I agree, it's too exhausting to keep track of everything.

I can't keep track of who owns what group lol so I hope I am a good group-ie :D

Although I try to keep track, accidents happen, and I have the same problem with my group. As long as it is not offensive to my group, I will publish it.

You're GREAT! Thanks for being understanding!

Thanks for the heads up. What are your groups and I will try to be more diligent in my assigning my articles to appropriate groups. Sorry if I am one of the ones who has put my "rubbish" in one of your groups.

Karen, I hope I'm not one of those who has unintentionally cluttered up any of your groups, but if I ever do and you happen to notice, I have NO problem whatsoever being told about it. I try hard to keep stuff on topin in my few groups, but they are each for pretty narrow topics. And one of them is for people with ADD, so you KNOW we gotta try to keep that one clear! LOL! We're confused enough as it is, thank you very much! :-)

Thanks, Karen.

Good for you, Karen. But I was really hoping you were going to vent about the rubbish. There is a lot of it, and it slows me down.

I am just getting the hang of Gather so I'm sure I'm posted articles that weren't relevant to certain groups. I try to check the boxes that let the article be submitted ONLY to certain groups but it seems some of them go out to everyone. Any tips on this?

I don't mind the occasional slip ups when posting but I have some people continually putting off topic articles in my groups so I created a group just for anything.
Anything you like From what I can tell it has helped alot.

Good attitude! :) So long as a group isn't overrun with unrelated stuff, I suppose...

That said (and there's a dose of irony here), I need to decline this from the PWotW group, and I'm sure you know why. :)

I agree with you, we're not children. (at leat I don't think so) bickering over who put what where. I love your group. definately a 10

You have a great attitude. I come here to de-stress, not to regress and re-stress.

What a great attitude you have displayed. It is refreshing to hear that someone does not judge someone else for making a comment that might not belong in that particular place. Thank you very much for your kindness to everyone.