May 18, 2008
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Open letter to Xangateam member Natalia
(Message I received from Natalia) .......... we're working on giving you a more accurate way to measure true status. and, to be honest, my numbers went down too! if you'd like to know how close you are at any time, let me know and i'll look it up.
(My reply to Natalia)....... I appreciate your quick response,Natalia. But I see a lot of people on here who were within 15 or 20 points of earning their True badges that are pretty hurt and upset by these changes. You should not be taking points away from members that were rightfully earned under the criteria established at the time they were earned. If you are going to apply these new standards to not yet True members accounts retroactively, you also need to apply them to True members accounts and remove their badges if they would not have earned them under your new guidelines for measuring status, whatever those may be.
I myself was at 86% and now you show me at 62%, thats a big cut. What do we not yet True members have to look forward to now? Should I keep this account and post more and more often and eventually work myself up to the point that I am at 96 or 97%, at which point the Xangateam can decide to arbitrarily change the way they measure status and drop me back down to 40 or 50%?? I think not.
Right is right and fair is fair Natalia. Put our accounts back to the the percentages they were at and apply the new status measurements from that point. Lets be real here, everyone that has a True badge today earned them under "your" old status measuring standards and many would not have them if you applied the new rules to their accounts.
Thank you, Harold
Comments (15)
@SaadiaOnline - Oh, I am most surely a TRUE Kentuckian-You cut me, I do bleed BLUE!!haha. Glad your allergies aren't that serious, I would have been worried about you all summer!!
@buddly47 - very good point. San fran is very liberal.
@ME_ondisplay - And don't fret about the hair,ink or any of that(he lives in San Francisco,right). It's the heart he is interested in, and I believe he will love what he finds in yours.
I agree. Once I am there and we are spending time together it will be fine. I will come back next monday full of awesome stories for all of you. I am sure that I will be beyond glad that I went. But I am a virgo, so I have to freak out about every little detial until then. Suck.
@buddly47 - You're right--it's totally NOT about the badge. It's about keeping your word and playing fair. But still, they don't deserve one moment of your attention. I think you need to start your own badge--maybe the state of Kentucky??? Oh, and tell Karen that I'm not that allergic. I used to carry an epi-pen when I was younger, but my symptoms aren't as bad as they used to be. I have a very minor reaction now, thank goodness.
@buddly47 - Oh,by the way, if you're allergic to bee stings,Karen says you need to carry an
"Eppi-pin"(prescription required). Could save your life in an emergency.
@SaadiaOnline - It's not really about the badge,it's taking away what some members had already earned under the same measuring system that all current true members were judged by. But you're right, screw 'em! I'm not here for a badge, I'm here because I have friends like YOU !!
It's total bullshit and anyway, you are the true-est of the true, Bud. Some stupid badge isn't going to change anything. Screw them!!!
@ME_ondisplay - I agree!! Xanga should not have the right to take points away that were earned by the standards in effect at the time they were earned. It's bullshit!!
God that sucks.
@ilsurvive - edited and put the reason she gave me in above.kinda sucks.
I see some people asking WHAT happened (there on the chatboard), but I don't see that it has been explained (the reason), or if perhaps it is just a mistake and they'll fix it. Did I miss on the board where Natalia addresses it?
@buddly47 - I had no idea! I'd heard they cut the value of the surveys, and commenting on the welcome wagon for "xanga credits", but I hadn't heard this. Let me go and read the chatboard.
@ilsurvive - A couple of days ago. Check the Xangateams chatboard. All the not yet True members got a big cut in their status.
I missed this all!
What happened? When did they make the changes?
Where do I read about it?
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