a Bit Of A what the Z? pondering and will ya cast a prayer for some in your spare time situation

Yep here I am doing it again.  Forgive me and think about me in your nightly prayers kind of post here if this some how pisses some of ya'll out there off. 
Okay there..... got that out of the way in a hurry I s'pose.
So my thoughts for this eve are simply this.... maybe a few this's and that's but here it goes anyways :)
1st of all there was once this thing called the zibbet Ning community....and the last time I looked it is still there.
But when I used to look quite often it seems I found this kind of 'splanation from the heads at the top when peeps wanted changes made to the hub environment.  The powers that be kind of said things like..... "The hub is a Ning platform and we don't have control over those changes."
Okay so flash forward to uhmmmm what? A couple of weeks ago...when a Zibbet forum member was uploading more of his blog posts to the front page of the Ning Community Hub.
Now granted..... just as I always say here.....
my blog posts are my thoughts and mine alone. At the same time... I am posting these thoughts here on my blog far away from the Zibbet hub and forum.... and those who have found me and my thoughts regarding Zibbet have mostly found those by finding me on other media...( as the last time we looked....)
hello?
I am not in the Zibbet Community any longer right?  And even though most out here would agree that I got the mute and boot because of my own personal thoughts that I state far far away from the Zibbet Community.....
well gee....some folks they do link things there....
(or did.....until a few days ago)
right there on the front page.
Thoughts like
someone was ungodly for groping their breasts and please avert your eyes (when the link was actually about a mother breast feeding her child).
thoughts like.... if you don't believe in the ONE and ONLY true God....well not much hope for your sorry ass kind of stuff.
Just truly truly truly
a butt load of judgmental stuff....
that yes indeedy......
everyone here has a right to their own opinions.
But.....question was....
did those opinions really belong on that front page of that Zibbet hub?
Especially after so many out here in cyberland are well aware of those who were muted and booted for not going along with Andy's plan.
The thing is that not much of it at all really makes a difference.
The controversial poster actually had very very few views in that ghost town of a Zibbet hub until a few people actually saw what was being linked to the seller front page that any new buyer would land on.
Then a short lived thread on Etsy (because very few on Etsy are interested ) anywhoo those with experience spoke about the goings on and the Zibbet listings continued to fall.
They are still falling.
Even dinosaurs and chicken little would indeed agree that the sky still seems to be falling over there at Zibbet. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to key in on that theory.
Facts is facts aren't they?
Strange thing that suddenly did happen though....
is that you know the Ning platform that those honchos always said they had not much control over?
well kind of strange that this Christian blogger dude who was posting his blogs and caused a bit of a controversy when those flames were bursting out of his head...
yep..... didn't take long for that Zibbet Ning hub to 
uhmmmm......yep......uhmmmmm
imagine this for a second..........
the Blog page is no longer seen when you land 
in the Ning community.
Wow!  Someone was able to change that up in a hurry 
jeepers creepers jump all over that why don't cha and get er done yep yep yep.
Now getting back to all of that judge others "so -called" professional and unwelcoming kind of behavior still going on over there.
One of those kind Christian folk recently stated this

Yes, the times we are in makes it difficult for us believers. 
whilst referring to this so called situation.
And I've just gotta say
that these are my feelings (as a God fearing Christian the last time I looked)

If you truly believe in something....
nothing is really that difficult.
Perhaps certain difficult situations result when believers are not believing in what they should be investing their time in.????
here's a clue....

The last time I looked.....
Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson considered themselves "us BELIeVERS"
and we all know how that deal worked itself out right?

Sometimes.....people believe in the wrong things.
And just because they do not know they are wrong still does not give them the right to judge everyone else.

That's just my 2 cents on the most recent 
"WHAT The Z?????"
Hope ya'll have a beautiful Sunday tomorrow.

Peace ya'll whether or not you spend a part of the day sitting on a church pew. :)
I still have faith that God loves all of us.
Yep....
count me in as one
who does believe in the 
beauty of man kind
key word
word
...............

"KIND"

Lot's of Speakulation still going on in the ole Zibbet Hub not much of a mystery why that is still happening

Yes....some out there are still watching the falling listings at Zibbet and are obviously realizing that the number of listings are not falling due to humongous amounts of items being sold there....many people are still realizing that the venue is in fact not at this time for them and perhaps never will be.
The elusive rebuild is still ...well....for lack of a better word...elusive.
One of the recent newsletters had a link for Zibbet sellers to purchase a "light box" in order to improve their photos...while at the same time Zibbet has done nothing with the fact that the minute you upload your photos to the venue that they get more fuzzy and are not nearly as nice looking.
I was telling a friend awhile back that I thought it would be easy to copy and paste some of my Zibbet listings over to eBay in order to try and strum up a bit more traffic. Well imagine my surprise (not) yes nothing about Zibbet really surprises me anymore.... I am past the point of that... (I think)....but when I tried to simply right click the images from the Zibbet venue and upload them to eBay....I got the message that the images were too poor to load...they would in fact not load and I tried several times.....
then I went back to find the images in my files...and I have a ton of images and I seriously felt like I was playing some sort of strange "Where's Waldo?" frustrating game in looking for the pic that went along with the listing ...but guess what?  When I managed (after a long time I might add) to find my original images....they immediately uploaded to the eBay venue.
It was then that I finally realized that there really was something to the talk that the images on the Zibbet venue look very poor and blurred and so much talk that the pages look ancient and way behind the times really does have merit from anyone out there with on line experience.
But they keep saying that it will all be fixed in the rebuild and even if the pics when loaded on their venue currently are not so top notch....no worries....
keep working on better pictures because that will lead to more sales there.
And it really is a joke....
albeit one that may leave a bad taste in so many seller's mouths who put so much time and wasted energy into the venue so far.
But never say never....
they have a Pastor as one of the Ceo's and hey...what better person than a bonafide Pastor to bring some miracles to the venue? I mean really...things and people can always change...and maybe this elusive rebuild will be the end all save all redemption that many are looking for now that they have seen whatever is happening there is not quite up to par.
All we know so far is that when the mass exodus last Fall happened and so many newbies purchased those $79 yearly premium accounts....many are waiting and wondering just how many of those are willing to shell out another $79 or more when their premium is up for renewal..unless they actually see some sort of improvement and rebuilding going on over there. (I myself paid over $200 for a life time account...after paying yearly premiums and remember seeing something when I got in on that "last round" of lifetimes that there would be a refund on the yearly premium already paid....and honestly never checked to see if that had happened(a refund on what I had already paid that year)  but I really should check to see if I did get that refund on my Pay Pal account...because it was something that had been promised there right?)
The thing STILL going on in the forums these days is still something that is in no way shape or form in my opinion making newbies want to stick around and spend some hard earned money and take their account from freebie to premium. Especially when you have conversations like this in a thread titled "Respect" someone said this...


"Yes, a number of folks were banned for swearing and personal attacks on others.  The violations were clearly seen by many in the Forum.  It is no mystery as to why some people were banned -- they failed to show respect."

an obvious speakulative LIE----^^^^  (to so many out there )....many see the one who made this statement as being one of the big problems in the forums...if there was a so called "respect" kind of rule...the person who made this statement and the others there who speak this kind of lying speculative slanderous speak ---would have surely been banned long ago had they not had the pat on the back and encouragement from Andy---wink wink....
thank goodness there are still some people there who are not afraid to speak up and are still not totally censored...this reply to the lie above is what many out there truly believe..

It actually is still a mystery to me why some were banned and others were not. I saw a minimum amount of profanity ( other than one here recently) but did see a number of personal attacks and people told to leave if they weren't happy. The people left and the attackers are still here.

yep....this poster was spot on.....too many of the attackers are still there. Maybe Zibbet plans on fixing this in the elusive rebuild that is just around the corner as well?

Kool-aid.....cupcakes.....glitter...anyone? Or would it be in your best interests to take advice from the wiser ones who have been there and done that....keep your mouth closed and your eyes and ears wide open....wink wink ... and yes...Respect has always been the key.  In my opinion... some out there simply have no idea how to use that key to unlock the door. And they might indeed always be out there knocking but you can't come in. Respect will indeed get you in the door. And honesty plus integrity will keep you inside once they let you in. That's how it works in reputable proven places..... sadly.... Zibbet in my opinion so far has not proven anything --other than saying that they will fix that in the rebuild.

A Few thoughts About Andrew's Reply On The Zibbet Disappointed thread

I've been hearing a few discussions regarding what Andrew had to say about the disappointment on that "Disappointed" thread.  And here's my take on the deal.
First of all..... and let's just make this one simple.....
 because to quote a quote from one of his threads 
 I do recall him saying something like "It's That Simple".  
Okay when a statement like this is made....

Zibbet, unlike some other online marketplaces, has not been funded by millions of dollars, making it easy to build a huge engineering team. No, Zibbet has been built from basically nothing, with a very small team that works extremely hard.

I do believe that many people get that..... the investors did not invest....something happened during that momentum phase where Zibbet did have lot's of attention and should have been able to Capitalize on some sort of funding--( as a matter of fact there was one article that many referred to at the time where you were talking about your Angel Investors)....
but it seems as though the potential investors weren't impressed with what they saw....or maybe they are like everyone else out here..... still waiting for the elusive rebuild that is still just right around the corner.
But consider this for just a minute.....
how long would it actually take for ya'll to change that Gawd-awful template on the front page where despite current odds..."hopefully" potential new buyers might land?.... You know---the one that looks so outdated at the top? .....how simple would it be to simply pretty that up for starters? (Seriously...isn't it time for that gal in the 80's striped shirt to retire?)   Does it really take a big team of experts or millions of dollars to simply do something that simple? ( Change a couple of your pics at the top of the page?)  One who has been there for any amount of time might begin to wonder just how hard is it to do some of the simple things that just keep getting pushed on the back burner.  
To simply state that you are fiercely trying every day to improve while at the same time no one can see whatever it is that ya'll are fiercely doing.... simply makes even the most die-hard believers start to question 
Not---- "What is REALLY going on?"
but instead "What is REALLY NOT going on?"
Forgive me for stating that so simply.

Next the statement that said this 
To those who have criticised constructively (large majority), thank you. We listen to what you say, and we want you to keep on talking to us about your needs.

A lot of people are evidently learning that they are wasting time talking about it....... lot's of talk and no apparent action on the head honcho end. And here's the simple bottom line on that one..... the Premium sellers actually have very simple needs.... to list things and work hard on a venue where they can actually sell things and make a profit for their time spent there.  Their job is not to keep promoting a venue and selling those yearly Premiums for you.  Your job Andrew and Co. is to make it worthwhile for your members to keep promoting your venue so that you can sell more of those Premium accounts.  Simply wanting to be something does not make it happen.... I know that I have witnessed a lot of sellers on that venue who have indeed worked very hard just like you stated ya'll are doing..... but let's face it---the site is getting more like a ghost town with tumble weeds rolling around.

This following statement is really the one that caught my attention and inspired me to comment here.....

To those who have criticised destructively (small minority), thank you also. Your opposition and disbelief in our ability to deliver has become like a red rag, and drives us to prove you wrong.

now to me....this is a bit of BS in my book at least. (And if he was a female I might think maybe he was evidently on the rag when he sounded so childish and pouty with this statement ) Why would what Andrew calls a "small minority" indeed be the driving force to prove the "small minority" wrong?  
To me the driving force should have been there from the get go... to make the site the best that it can be.  Sad to see that this type of "CEO think from the top"......a "small minority"  is what get's them truly motivated. ???? hmnnnnn...
Well.... I guess all I can say about that one is that if a "so called" few naysayers is in fact the thing that finally has gotten ya'll to actually do something instead of just talking about what's gonna happen one of these days.....

I'd say Cheers to red rags 
and many sellers on Zibbet out there should be thanking those RED RAGS  as well if this is what has finally put Zibbet in some sort of forward drive mode.
Instead of trying to prove someone else wrong.... wouldn't the first step in the right direction be to simply prove yourself right? I mean it really is that simple.  One would think so at least.

Actions do speak louder than words though don't they?