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Re: Most Active Groups

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:09:11 GMT

Oh My, haha, I'm glad you spotted this hanging out here with no closure. Yes we can !!!!

Not only that, but when I updated the Collective Wisdom description, it changed on the Groups main page immediately. That's some dev juju for sure !!

Blessings to you all the Fabulous Seven, the Team !
OM Bastet

Re: Most Active Groups

http://siona.gaia.com — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:58:14 GMT

a list by a randomly selected Gaia member on their top 5 favorite pods

You know, this might make a fun little profile widget. :)

Re: Most Active Groups

http://siona.gaia.com — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:55:56 GMT

But they are now, yes, OMy? :)

Re: Most Active Groups

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:25:18 GMT

Oooh I hadn't been there yet. Thanks for the screenshot, Nicole. I can see that I need to change the description of Collective Wisdom so something informative is displayed, and ask the Team to change it in this display. But our descriptions can't be edited yet, that isn't working --- yet.
Blessings, OM Bastet

Re: Most Active Groups

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:19:49 GMT

Yay! It's great to see the new Groups summary page, Meenakshi, and the Community Service groups featured.

Community Service Groups

Gaia Networking - Enhance Your Community Experience Share suggestions and brainstorm tips to enhance the community experience on Gaia Community. A community resource for,... See »

Gaia Groups Community - "The Mod Pod" This group is for cultivators and moderators of groups (a.k.a. "pods") here at Gaia, as well as... See »

Collective Wisdom: The Library of Community Threads NEWS : YES, You're in the right place. Former title of this pod/Group was Collective Wisdom: The... See »

Love,

Nicole

Re: Most Active Groups

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:38:34 GMT

Samme, it's happened!

Re: Most Active Groups

http://drane.gaia.com — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:34:40 GMT

LOL :)

Thanks, Dave!

~G

Re: Most Active Groups

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:15:01 GMT

Grey,

When I approached you about joining last year, you handled my Integral naiivite extremely well. I appreciated your advice to visit other links and first familiarize myself with Integral, and never once did I feel unwelcome or under valued.

With you as my experience, genuine listening and generosity on your part made the experience of not joining Integral a positive and memorable moment. If most moderators are like you Grey, then my feedback would be that any member who went away unhappy from a Request In Group, did so because they chose to be unhappy.

Dave

ps.."with me as your experience" I also applaud your excellent screening skills .. lol

Re: Most Active Groups

http://drane.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:10:49 GMT

I don't know that I'd say it happened to "many" others, but yes, when people approach us who know very little or nothing about Integral Theory and the work of Ken Wilber, we do normally ask that they read up on it a bit before joining the pod. But I've been a moderator for almost a year now, and we've probably only done that once or twice in that time.

Anyway, yes, it is a challenge to tell people that without just sounding elitist.

BTW, "small" isn't really a part of the Pod's vision. Tight and focused, sure, but not small per se. Growth is great as long as it's kept under control and doesn't compromise the Pod's focus.

Cheers,
Grey

Re: Most Active Groups

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:00:47 GMT

Indeed, cliques can be very negative, and it's hard for a semi-private group not to come across as a clique, especially if ... well. promised not to get into that again :)

love,

nicole

Re: Most Active Groups

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:57:21 GMT

dear deb,

i know adastra (Arthur) very well. i really sympathise with your response and know it happened to many others. at the same time, i understand and respect Arthur's vision to have a really small tight and focussed group there.

the challenge is when you are trying to do that, to communicate it in a way that doesn't turn people off.

Love,

nicole

Re: Most Active Groups

http://sherrilene.gaia.com — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:42:11 GMT

Deb, please invite me to the Grandmothers Pod! That's where true learning can be found! :D

Part of that granny Wisdom: "Spirit thinks there are better places for my soul to develop."

Turn away where there is resistance to entry; just move on.

GAIA Community is an innovtion without a road to follow; rules will emerge as the need expresses itself. I am certain that more thought will go into this issue now that it has been so eloquently raised and discussed within the community itself. It will lend to more openness and acceptance, I am sure.

Blessings to you all. sherri

Re: Most Active Groups

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:40:03 GMT

I do agree with your sentiments, Siona, but think you miss the valuable point that this discussion represents. I myself did outline a variety of experiences with membership here but didn't mention I'm also part of the Mod Pod and Ambassadors.

I can actually accept whatever anyone wants to do here, as you and Sandra probably remember, I've even gone to bat for the right of a group to continue to exist, that was very fringe and were forced private, which I totally understand and won't comment too much more on, except to say, they are better off that way and
I never visit there any more ;-}.

No need to "experiment" in compassion, better to live it with understanding of what that means. All perspectives are welcome, as far as I'm concerned. I learn so much when everyone is as honest as they've been here.

Sandra, you pulled up a memory from when I was about 8 yrs old and the clique in my neighborhood turned even my younger sister against me, ouch. I don't remember whatever role I may have played to cause that to happen. Guess I'll take that into deep meditation over the next few weeks.

Deborah

>>> on a funnier note Siona, someone recently wrote me that they thought I was your mother, I thought what a nice compliment, but told her your mother is much more interesting, though we both love the wild places for living our lives.

Re: Most Active Groups

http://yhd52754.gaia.com — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:18:20 GMT

Grey,

I stumbled on this conversation tonight. I had an experience with Integral that really turned me against it. I'm not sure it was public-invite-only at the time. It was probably a year or more ago. I had become aware of the existence of Integral, through some blogs to which I was referred, and searched for it and tried to join. You were not the moderator at the time - I think it was someone perhaps named Adstara (which my memory may not be spelling correctly). Anyway, I received a huge amount of reading homework from him and told to come back and re-ask to join after I read it.

Now, I can tell you that I only wanted to be able to learn more about it by being there but that whole un-welcoming and perceived elitist reaction did turn me against Integral in general. I thought "integrating" the diverse aspects of myself made good sense. Anyway, since then, I read what I come across and simply accept that door is closed to me because Spirit thinks there are better places for my soul to develop.

Moving on in this discussion, I was invited to and do belong (as far as I know) to Diving Deeper and have posted some writing there but just don't have the time presently to do more writing - though writing has been precious to my heart and soul for over 30 years and I think the world of Sandra.

I belong to a Grandmother's Circle which is totally invitation-only and private. The original creator had her reasons but it isn't flourishing, though I consider it a good and valuable idea generally, we just don't seem to know what to do with ourselves, the wisdom, love and caring such a group could represent to the community at large.

The pod I cultivate is totally public and I could never think of it being otherwise. It even made it onto the most active list once (someone had to tell me because I just don't really care, it is what it is and if it is helpful to even one other person, then it will have been worth the considerable amount of work it requires). I think status is meaningless to me but important to others.

I do think a "broader" list of categories could be very helpful to new comers. I still remember how bewildering it was for me to try and find my way around Zaadz, a year and a half ago, when I was still new.

Deborah

Re: Most Active Groups

http://pcegl.gaia.com — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:11:13 GMT

Sandra..I am happy to hear they are working on the 're-join' glitch. I removed myself from the pod awhile back, as I was not participating due to time constraints. I do have the intent to re-join someday and hope they do work on the problem.

I do feel it it is important for DD to be semi-private for the writers. As Sandra stated, it is a 'vunerable' process and critiques can be felt very personally. I thinks its best to allow the writers safe space to explore their craft. There are plent of pods that are public for folks to join if they don't want to be in DD.

Re: Most Active Groups

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:42:43 GMT

That is good to hear, Chris. I obviously respect the work that goes into this site as well as the individuals behind it, but I have been a little distressed over certain aspects of the group system for some time now. Just aspects, though. Not all of it. It all helps to shape the community. I doubt I have all the answers, nor do I care to come across like that, but I do have some ideas that can only help those who are going to be making changes. So why not present them, uh. Anyway, I appreciate the response. Domo arigatou gozaimasu! :p Seth

Re: Most Active Groups

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:04:59 GMT

That's great to know, Chris,

Thanks,

Nicole

Re: Most Active Groups

http://chris.gaia.com — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:17:39 GMT

Hey Seth,

We're looking at some getting in some substantial improvements to groups by end-of-year, and I'll make sure this gets a serious look (along with the other points in this discussion). There's not a strong love of tags in general around here, and we're reviewing better mechanisms.

And if you find something that in fact looks erroneous, can you ping Matthew in the Support pod, and we'll get a ticket to repair the thing. That of course goes for anything.

Muchos gracias!

Chris

Re: Most Active Groups

http://singerseeker.gaia.com — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:39:29 GMT

Excellent thoughts Seth! From a dev point of view don't know what it would entail but what you say about the search and the word being in the name shines for me. Thanks,

Love,

Nicole

Re: Most Active Groups

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:22:17 GMT

Ok I’m starting to appreciate the difference between the tag search and the group search. It seems each group has a limit of 25 tags that it can be tagged with. To me that’s excessive and makes the whole tag system a mess. How about reducing that number to something much smaller, like 10, or 5 even. In doing that does it not help to open the community up while organizing it at the same time? Plus just think of the extra care that will have to be taken while selecting the tags for a group. I’m just throwing this stuff out there. Cheers! Seth