Seems like only yesterday that I was a big tribe booster. I even wrote some tools to help them along in the very beginning. There were some rough spots, like when I got my identity swiped, or the former CEO called us a bunch of whiners.
Actually, looking back, I seem to have considered leaving tribe way more often than I remember.
And now, I have left. Just got email that they're deleting my account and most of my tribes as I type (a few will be left alive but unmoderated).
Why delete my tribes too, instead of just leaving? I talked this over with friends and thought about it a lot before making the decision. It comes down to this: If I'm fundamentally opposed to the new direction Tribe.net has taken, I need to not support the company. Which means not providing content for their advertisers, or places for users to be active. Most of my tribes were dead or slow. A few were quite active.
I have no doubt the active ones will be replaced soon enough. And probably some people will be upset to have their posts and their playgrounds gone. It's happened to me enough times over the years, certainly. But that's how the system was constructed. I can delete your words from "my" space, but I can't delete my own from "your" space. It's problematic. Especially in light of the TOU licensing stuff I've rattled on about in the last many posts.
And... it's not my problem any more. I'm gone.
Posted by Liz at December 30, 2005 03:00 AM