Sara, please tell me why AS has not had a posting since MAy? Certainly SOMETHING has been going on, interesting enough for them to comment on, surely!!
If you do mean "News and Updates", then that forum is for both good news, and BAD news. Good news being some new service from AS. BAD news being that AS wasn't able to place snipes. Since AS doesn't often add new services, NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS.
Under news and updates...it just looks like they would have something to say..anything, bad, good, you know, just something to change the date. It looks like they left the room and forgot to turn out the light!
It would seem to me that a listing of eBay and AS outages would be a good feature for the NEWS AND UPDATES folder. This way people could check there when they allege that snipes were not placed, to see if there were any system-wide issues. The bright yellow bulb (when a new message has been placed) and a post entitled "eBay system outage" or similar would certainly call attention to the thread, especially since it is located on top of the other folders.
quote:Originally posted by Chatter163: It would seem to me that a listing of eBay and AS outages would be a good feature for the NEWS AND UPDATES folder.
Although this idea may have merit, I question whether it would be benefical. Having experienced some of these "outages", it seems that some people don't/won't take the time to read what has already been posted, whether it was posted by members or Sara. I'm not suggesting that others only want to let off steam, but those that "tend" to complain during outages are usually new to the forum. I'm not sure they know how the forum works, and perhaps they don't care.
Those that spend some time on this forum, learn about ebay's system's status page. For several of us, that's the first place we go when someone says their snipe didn't go thru and it's not during one of ebay's prime times. Heck, there's probably several of us that look at ebay's status page even when it is a prime time.
And one thing about outages: misery DOES NOT love company. Every forum gets "hit" by several people (sometimes the same person) in a short amount of time.
Sara is very good about posting when the problem is AS's, but even those often go unread.
Maybe they could put up a banner saying "This space available," rsmiller40.
Rick wrote, 'I'm not suggesting that others only want to let off steam, but those that "tend" to complain during outages are usually new to the forum. I'm not sure they know how the forum works, and perhaps they don't care.'
I think part of it might be that a newcomer is required to sign up separately to use the Forum. And all of us have to sign in at least once a day thereafter.
Well, at least those of us who sign out have to sign back into the Forum if we want to post anything. I guess if you never sign out you don't have to sign back in.
I only use one password and if that will not be accepted, they can forget it. Shoot, I'm lucky if I remember the site I am going to, nevermind the password!
