Letting you know I've disconnected from you because I find your generic comments annoying, not only on my articles, filling my feed, but on all of the articles I visit.
"Letting you know I was here...
Paying it f♥rward t♥day!"
Stop it!
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he he he
She may disconnect from me as well, I leave a "generic" comment to content posted to my groups. If someone wants to be that petty, no great loss.
You will find some members that are not very fond of generic 'copy and paste' comments. FYI, pasting the comments you have across the community does violate Gather's Terms of Service (TOS). So, perhaps you're fortunate that someone only pinged you instead of reporting you.
What is the point of having a TOS if there is no consequences?
Gather typically takes no action in this regard unless the activity is reported by members of the community. Therefore, when you see generic comments pasted over and over again throught the community, you may report the member using the Member Support form.
no more "generic" commenting for me...
thanks for the comments, y'all!
....because she wanted to speak her mind and thought you, as an adult, could handle it?
Perhaps she just had a bad day. If not just delete her and move on.
could be she is feeling a bit grumpy today..... sometimes hormones ....... and life, do that to a person :>}
because I prefer CONVERSATION, intellectual intercourse, ranting and raving, rather than generic comments. I don't need your cheap points!
Have a nice one.
grrr
actually, it was you who left it for the "world" to see and then published this post, drawing attention to it.
I let you connect because I thought you were going to be involved in the discussions.. not some point whoring rampage. You put that on almost every article I visited today where there was serious discussion going on. And if you are going to be public, so am I.
And no, I knew nothing of the group. I didn't report it, but it probably will be now by someone. It's against TOS, It's annoying, rude and out of place unless you want to do it in private with just your friends.
I'm not here for the points. I am here for the discussions, and friendships.
top of the page.
LOL... That's just the funniest thing I've read all day, what an a hole...
Jody Swaney, Jan 22, 2009, 6:18pm EST
lori, pings are public... anyone who visits my profile can read them... i just thought it was a nasty thing to live publicly on someone's profile... especially someone who just came by to show support.
debra....
"point whoring rampage"
LOL!
now THAT is the funniest thing I have heard all day. i don't CARE if someone reports me because i wasn't doing anything wrong.... i didn't KNOW it was against TOS...
if you are here for the "friendships," then why would it bother you that someone was just trying to be a FRIEND and help you out?
i'm sorry that i offended you with my misguided goodwill... you can trust that it will never happen again.
for real??????? Why are some people just so freakin' petty???? *sigh
Because this is supposed to be an adult site. "Social networking grown up." Does anyone really think generic comments and saying a bunch of nothing "to help out friends" is grown up?
Not picking one way or another but perhaps before you joined you may have spent some time reading the TOS and known what you were getting your self into.
I have seen a rise of copy and paste comments...big sigh.
You can delete the ping.. I believe. If not..I think I can do it, if you'd like.
Okay, you made a mistake, and didn't know it was against TOS. but I'll let you in on a secret, Gather staff will blatantly tell you that it is your responsibility to read and know the TOS when you register. No excuses. (I've learned they change it occasionally, without announcing it.)
I made ONE comment, in a ping to you, letting you know why I was disconnecting. YOU wrote an article (seeking support?) You asked for it. Now you know.
I get the impression that you are familiar with the "pay it forward" thing. Can you explain it to where my simple brain might understand? Makes no sense to me whatsoever now!
Thank you for the conversation on your thread. Sorry it couldn't happen on mine. Such is life.
Take care.
I never copy and past comments. And all who wish to leave generic comments on my articles will be welcomed. By generic from me, I mean such as "interesting article" or "thanks for the information" and similar brief comments.
It is a violation of TOS and if this is all you see in your feed it does get rather annoying.
I have gotten to the point that I am disconnecting from people that just do games and generic stuff.
Nothing against the person but its just not what I am here for.
i just don't understand why someone had to be kind of nasty about it...
Like Lori said, it's scamming the system when people do this... and all of us suffer for it. It is not helping. It causes Gather to cut back on the value of the points to even it out. That's what I heard... but not sure if it's a fact.
If this hurt your feelings so badly then why enhance that with this thread? Oh thats right MORE POINTS.
Gather get xx amount of advertising dollars..out of that they pay salaries and other operating expenses..whatever is left over is divided between the members in the form of points which can be redeemed for GC or paypal payments.
So your pointless whiny thread should get the same amount of points as someones well thought out one?
And you should get just as many points for leaving thousands of generic comments when others go thru and think and have adult conversations? Nope dont think so.
I do think that pings are an entirely different matter. They are a more personal way of staying in touch with another member. So, to my way of thinking, they should be held to a higher standard.
Yes, Lori, that was nasty. Someone called me a "douchebag" once. I have to laugh at such silliness. What is going on in people's minds??????
I think if that's how someone wants to spend their time gathering (by leaving the generics), then that's up to them. However, I chose to spend my time conversing, and reading what's happening around the Gather-verse.
I was -briefly- a part of the PIF group, but my comments were always specialized towards the content of the post. It was never just a "Paying it forward" type of comment. For an even shorter time, I added the paying it forward to the end of my actual comment, but I felt like I was telling the person I was only there because of that.
The true meaning of paying something forward isn't in drawing attention to one's self, but to give of yourself to someone else, in the hopes that they in turn will give of themselves to someone else in the future.
Another thing that should be added is that on discussion threads, you are only counted for the first visit/comment. So, no matter how long the discussion is among a group of friends, they're not racking up points between them.
from my article posted last week
"What annoys me most are posts and comments that serve no purpose other than point-whoring. "
I get rid of connections who do this. It fills my feed with "nice pic" twenty times in a row.
I do the same for those who play word games. I just don't want to see it on my feed.
As for the rest.. I don't read those types of articles.
I'm actually working towards making connections with those who produce articles with interesting topics and great conversations.
People don't have to be "perfect". I can read an article full of typos, as long as the message is well thought out and understandable.
Debra W, Jan 15, 2009, 12:10pm EST
seriously, how old are you? ive got 2nd graders who can talk for days without repeating the same thing. (and the one 2nd grader who belongs to me just read this and whispered, "yes! alright!" in my ear.)
Just my observation.
I think I would want to know why someone suddenly quit on me.
So you agreed to be legally bound to the TOS, but never actually read it?
I enjoy silly comments on my articles. I enjoy thoughtful comments on my articles. Hell, I even enjoy mean-spirited comments on my articles. They all imply that someone actually read what I posted and it inspired them to an action.
But I fall into the "hate generic comments camp". It's lazy. Comment because I said something you felt was interesting. No because you want me to spam your articles with generic comments too. And it IS annoying as all hell to view my "friend" activity and see nothing but four dozen "Jane Doe posted a comment " Just stopping to say hi!" Frankly, it clogs everything up and makes it hard to find actual interesting stuff to read.
Voted sweetest reply of the month Jan 2009
Also that pay it forward crap is an instant boot from my list. It's annoying, self serving and a way for people to say "look at me! I'm doing good aren't I special?"
"paying it forward" isn't about shouting it from the mountains. . . that group is entirely backwards of the intent of that phrase.