An Impassioned Plea
Published 1 year, 4 months ago in My life.Well after being frozen for the best part of 24 hours the latest batch of posts have just come through on the Nook.
This has been a repeated complaint from everyone who has used this site; Why does it take so long to release posts and comments?
I know that the nook team operates on a volunteer basis, but if the volunteers are too busy, maybe it is time to recruit some more ( there have been many offers of help from nook contributers). I know there is a lot of spam to sort through, but most people who contribute are logged on and have been contributing long-term. Is there really no mechanism for sorting the posts and comments with recognised addresses from the junk in the way my email account does.
When I first started coming to the Nook it was vibrant and lively but now it seems that all but the most dedicated have left due to this continuing problem. I am seriously considering not bothering anymore because:
A) there are so few people left to read and comment on the work I have put in.
B) it takes so long to appear, that any dialogue or commentary is seriously impeded or downright impossible.
The Nook has been an intrinsic part of my life this year. It has given me a wonderful social network that as a stay at home mother was out of my reach. It has enabled me to start writing and hone my skills. It has improved my spelling and grammar out of sight. It has given me a forum to voice my opinions and to argue my position. It has given me the opportunity to listen to others viewpoints and consider the world from their shoes. It has given me a new ipod but above all it has restored the self esteem and confidence that comes from being a valued member of a community. So it disappoints me greatly that something that has given me so much over the last year appears to be dying a slow and lonely death.
Once again Admin, is there anything that we Nook contributers can do to help restore this site to it’s former vibrance?
Would you care to discuss the problem with us so that we may be able to come up with a solution that you may not have thought of?
Posted Friday 24th August at 11:48am
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Well said ye of the golden touch.
john
I have to agree. If you post in the evening it probably wont appear until the following afternoon. This is OK (ish) for new posts but if you are responding to a post and it gets delayed then the thrust and parry of lively discussion gets lost in the ether and comments appear apparently out of sequence. I dont know the answer but unless its fixed it could become Nook’s fatal flaw !
Eloquently put gold (as usual), and it would be nice if admin actually responded because they seem to have a habit of ignoring these complaints. I too have got to the point of wondering is it worthwile persisting with Nook anymore.
Ahh Goldy,
Nook will evolve and grow or it will go away. Probably the only way you can contribute to that is by patiently posting and waiting and hoping - or by going away.
you should retain your self esteem regardless of this little online forum. I am sure you make a valuable contribution to any community to which you choose to contribute.
As for me, I’ve mostly gone away but I drop in from time to time and look around.
What has Nook given me? Hot chocolate.
Hmmm, I suspect lack of human resources may be the problem.
hum, hum … to err is human … gorky, he who comes from a country where patience is a pre-requisite for living
Interesting problem solving technique you’ve got there Fossil - put up with it or go away! How does that work for you in general?
Still I’m glad you enjoy the Hot Chocolate did you get some Rapidura sugar?
I would very much miss you if you decided to leave. I’m afraid, I’m a tad like fossil. I am just putting up with it. I was sad though,
that my welcome back post to you went to god!
But, I am the eternal optimist, and hoped with all toes crossed that with the bigger site…………..well……….I’m still hoping.
I merely suggest Golden1 that the best you can do for nook is to continue your support for it. I doubt very much that the makers of nook will employ nookers to administer nook.
If enough folk put up with nook’s clunkiness and support it nonetheless, the site will continue and evolve into something more ideal, where posts don’t go to god and rapid-fire debate is possible. If enough abandon it, it will go away.
Not so much a problem solving approach as a realistic appraisal of the situation. Generally works for me just fine.
Haven’t made it to Malvern yet and no-one else in the world appears to sell Rapidura sugar. You don’t happen to have an exclusive license on the stuff do you?
Oh dear Fossil - I have gone from Goldy to Golden1 in the space of about 4 posts. (hehehe I always knew I was in trouble when my parents called me by my full name.)
It’s just that I can see there is a recurrent problem with this site that most of us have complained about and I have made an offer to admin to try to help make it better. I don’t want to go away ‘cos as I already have said Nook really does fill a space in my life. I don’t believe that this is the best the site can be because it used to be better - or maybe that is just my imagination.
Anyway - I think you can get Rapidura sugar at some health food shops and organic places. Maybe when you see it you should buy up big.
Cheers Winnierose - I wonder if when we die we receive all the nook messages that went to God during our life.
Goldie, would you care for an arguement- friendly of course.
Pick a subject, any subject, i will endeavour to oblidge.
john
Thanks John but I prefer my arguments spontaneous.
Except of course with my Mother In Law (to be) with whom I like to argue with on principle (Principally because she says some very foolish things).