From the list of tribes I wanted deleted: Large, active tribes stayed. Small slow tribes (and the tribes that I'd emptied out myself beforehand) went away.
And then Warren (customer service) just happens to post this today, without mentioning specifics.
Which, going back to my TOU rantings, means that you can't put your creative content in a tribe with a moderator you trust to delete on demand. Because Tribe.net may choose not to honor the moderator's wishes.
Huh.
By the way, here's the response I got from Tribe.net's customer service before I posted last night.
Hi Liz,
Thanks for writing in, and I am sorry for the delayed response. We are removing your specified tribes, as well as your account, and I will be able to confirm the removal of all in the morning. Some of the tribes are taking a long time to delete, due to the large quantity of posts contained therein. Thanks for your patience.
But no follow-up after the "we're deleting now" message, just a lack of action -- without comment (although tribe employees have gone into some tribes and requested that people elect a new moderator... so it appears to have been intentional).
If I would've known, I would've cleared the tribes myself. Taking my ball and going home, as it were, was the strongest statement I could make, given the constraints of the current system. Turns out there are new, undocumented constraints.
Ah well. Ultimately I can't wish all of Tribe ill, since I still think really highly of quite a few people there. So they'll do what they do.
Posted by Liz at December 30, 2005 01:44 PM