[bksvol-discuss] Re: hello i am an ungrateful blind person whining about a problem on a nearly free service that turned out not to have affected anything
- From: "Ixchel, Jackie" <starsandhearts2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:11:42 -0400
Hi,
Jamie, please don't leave. A lot of people will miss you. You are a
great volunteer and the list is a way to vent so no one blames you for
doing so.
Jackie
On 4/21/12, Alyssa <lyssassong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please don't quit Jamie.
>
> I know I barely post here now that I am busy with grad school... But this
> subject made my mouth drop. Not cool at all. Yes, we do need to report
> problems. I've experienced similar ones in the past. In my opinion, I
> personally like running things by others first before going to staff
> directly just to make sure it's not something on my end.
>
> *hugs*
>
>
> -Alyssa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamie Yates, CPhT
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 7:24 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: hello i am an ungrateful blind person whining
> about a problem on a nearly free service that turned out not to have
> affected anything
>
> First of all, I'm not a person without sight. I'm not even a Bookshare
> member. I spend my free time VOLUNTEERING for Bookshare, which benefits me
> in no way at all.
>
> I could be spending my free time doing a number of other things. So there's
> no need to thank me, either, for my hard work over the last at least six
> years as a volunteer. Maybe I won't do it anymore.
>
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Ali Al-hajamy <aalhajamy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Oh, man. I hate it when I think an activity which required me to do
>> absolutely nothing labour-intensive failed on this here Bookshare
>> thing, and then I find out later that it actually went well with a few
> minor problems.
>> That's the worst. Which is why I then send a querulous, pointless
>> complaint to a mailing list full of people who (a) already know this
>> issue exists, have discussed it many times before, and, so far as I'm
>> aware, learned to just deal with it, and (b) don't have the
>> connections or resources to fix it when I want it fixed, that, of
>> course, being now now now, right this second, in fact, who needs to be
>> patient and wait for the engineering team to fix things that are
>> higher up on their list of priorities first when you can just be loud
>> and obnoxious and get what you want now, because that solves all of life's
> problems in UHMERIKA!
>>
>> PS: I went ahead and changed your subject line for you. There's no
>> need to thank me.
>>
>> On 21-Apr-12 14:37, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
>>>
>>> At 4:39 this morning I tried to submit a book. As usual I got to the
>>> final step, where you can put in comments and that's the last step.
>>> It hangs. It hangs. It hangs. At 5:04 I got a notice that the site
>>> was having difficulties and I should try later.
>>>
>>> Except if I wanted to submit a book LATER, I'd be doing it later. I
>>> wouldn't be doing it at 4:39 in the morning. Later I'm going to be
>>> sleeping. So when I get up today I start to submit the book again.
>>> Good thing I checked my submissions list. It's listed there as being
>>> submitted at 3:38 a.m. And at 6:17 I got an email saying my book had
>>> been submitted. How was I supposed to know? The page never refreshed
>>> to say hey your book went through.
>>>
>>> I wish if the site was having difficulties it would say so on the
>>> FIRST step. Not on the LAST step. Then I wouldnt' bother to spend so
>>> much time sitting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting to
>>> see if it's going to go through, because you cannot move off that tab
>>> either, you have to stay active on the Bookshare tab or, in my
>>> experience, it takes even LONGER to submit, or won't submit at all.
>>> So much for the modern windows multitasking, right? Bookshare needs
>>> to catch up with the times.
>>>
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