Sooo... Any poop to fling at ning?

[Lolagrrl of the Jungle]

Monkey Man and I are gathering material for our first podcast about ning. Since we chose ning as our first SN to review, we've been exploring the hell out of it whilst building our monkey army.
So far, my only real complaint is that I'm having a hard time actually finding ning members to join my network... I've already turned to my other social network to gather monkeys.
Anyway, seeing that most of you are new members to Ning... any insights you'd care to share? Poop you'd care to fling?

[Fred]

Onyx, dearest...while you're at it anyway, could you do some of my laundry too? It's not too dirty, just some monkey poo...

[Lolagrrl of the Jungle]

Ok... Here's some more poo to fling at ning... There's no way (that I can see) for me to move irrelevant content off of one forum and on to another.
For example: This thread is supposed to be for critique of this site's functionality so Bobness started another thread for generic Poo Flinging (wow... I never thought in my entire career that I would ever be categorizing poo flinging... Turd Polishing, sure. Poo Flinging, eh, not so much).

However, I see no way to move the content that does not pertain to Ning over to Bob's thread.... sigh.
This makes for a bitch of a time for a moderator. I mean, it's no big deal for us now, but I'll need to figure out a way to handle this once we start gathering more monkeys.

[Fred]

I set up my account here to receive email notifications only for specific actions...but it seems I get just about everything nonetheless, filling my inbox.

So there's some more poop on this particular social networking tool.

Fred

(who typed this entirely with prehensile toes)

[Lolagrrl of the Jungle]

Thanks for the input Fred and allow me to state my admiration for your mad toe-typing skills! =)

Yeah, I've noticed this too... It seems that there are two places to adjust your settings, on your personal page and on every thread or group you join. For example, down at the bottom right corner of this here page, there's a "stop following this thread" button... so it seems to me that you have to click this for every thread you reply on if you don't want updates.

I find this feature redundant and annoying so for that... FLIIIIING! SPLAT!
Take that ning!

[Lolagrrl of the Jungle]

Well that's because when I yelled, "DUCK!" your head popped up like a gopher and you said, "Where?!"
Good going village idiot!
;D

[Fred]

Tim,

We all know that you aren't smart enough to be the village idiot.

After you failed the third grade for the fifth year in a row, everyone in the community voted to put you in a cage in the town square for the amusement of passers by as well as a public health measure. For years, everyone was happy.

Now that you've got a hold of a computer, you keep making these posts elevating your social and political status. I'm going to talk to the Mayor of Simpleton about you if you're not going to mend your ways.

Sincerely,

Your Friend Fred
Pastor Deacon of the Church Assembled for Spiritual Hope

[Fred]

I confirm it, Lolagrrl. That's how Ning seem to have set it up. They should fix that. You expect that your "personal" controls are going to be the overriding controller of these types of events, and it's just annoying to have to chase after stuff to TURN IT OFF.

[Fred]

Not really a Ning poop, but this orange color scheme you choose for the home page is burning my eyeballs right out of their sockets.

Now, of course, I don't really mind such a thing. But my dry cleaning bill is going through the roof trying to get eyeball gunk out of my clothes.

So, either change that background burnt orange into something more amenable, or I'm going to start posting my comments WHILE ENTIRELY NAKED whenever I visit here.

You've been warned,

Fred

[Lolagrrl of the Jungle]

Fear not o nekkid Fred.... There are plans in the works to customize the entire site.
It's just that unless I can figure out a way to make a living while running this site, I gotta do real work from time to time. =)

[Fred]

BTW: Are the Ning developers going to be given the benefit of our collective wisdom sometime so they can fix the annoyances (thereby allowing us to enjoy the nice features)?

This kind of feedback by users is golden if they've a mind to pay attention.

Fred

[Lolagrrl of the Jungle]

I think I will do that.
One thing I do like about Ning is that you can request the source code and make all the changes/adjustments you want.... but of course, you have to be a programmer to do that and unfortunately, I am not one.

However, I think a nice poo-shaped mound of feedback may help all us non-programmer monkeys.

[Frank]

The tao of poo
See the poo
Be the poo
Fling the poo
I quote the great Monkey philosipzier Socrates.. " I drank what??"