Nov. 15, 2007, 8:08 PM: Major Changes at the Pod

Originally mailed Nov. 15, 2007 at 8:08 PM to 62 members.


Hi everyone.  Someone recently drew my attention to the fact that asking for money via Zaadz is not allowed.

I did a little digging and found this post from a Zaadz team member, posted Nov. 9th:

http://pods.zaadz.com/how_tos_and_faqs/discussions/view/203837

Quote:

2) Never send money or perform any commercial transactions on this site. If you encounter any member asking for money, let them know that it's a violation of our Terms of Use, and then please report them to us, immediately, so we can take appropriate action.

I assume this must be a new policy change which wasn't in force before, because I'm sure the Zaadz employees who joined my pod would have let me know long ago if the pod's activities were against the rules.

So, this means I'm going to have to change the pod quite a bit in order to make it compliant with these rules.

Due to the way the message boards are set up on Zaadz, it's not possible for anyone to edit or delete their own posts, so, none of you need to do anything to your posts on the pod.

I just wanted to let you all know what was going on.  I'm going to set about editing posts to remove requests for money, PayPal addresses and other means of collecting donations, and, upon request, I will completely delete posts (or edit them as you wish).


Anyhow, the above rules make it impossible to carry on with this pod on Zaadz, so, in the future, I might very well simply start a very similar Donations & Microdonations for Individuals & Groups forum on my own website.

It will probably take a while for me to accomplish this, but naturally, you're all invited once it's up and running. :-)  The address will be:

http://prosperity.astroblahhh.com/

Currently that address just redirects to the pod on Zaadz, but, in time, this will change.

The pod will continue to exist on Zaadz, but, unfortunately, no one will be able to post donation requests - which kind of defeats the entire purpose of the pod.  But, no matter, because we're definitely not limited to having the group on Zaadz.

This may be just the motivation I need to really learn how to program websites (instead of just talking about it but not getting around to it). :-)

I hope you're all doing well out there, and Happy Thanksgiving. :-)

Best wishes,
Apollia