Hi tt & t~

I attempted to express my concerns to the tribe.net Company Blog but after trying to sign in I was told that that site is only for employees. So I sent my complaint directly to that site, but I don't think they received it. This is a concern that has bothered me here since I came on tribe.net five years ago. So here is their and my communication. Feel free to tell me what you think about this peculiar problem on this social networking site that I haven't encountered on others (Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, LinkedIn, etc.)

Will
Hi Tribe.net Company Blog~

>Will,
>We use the company blog as the one communication channel from the company to the users, so it is limited to employees. We are actively >monitoring brainstorm, bug reports, gold star tribe, tips and tricks, and the FAQ pages, all of which are effective means of communication.
>You are also welcome to message me directly.
>>This message is from your network on tribe.net. Set your inbox controls to determine which tribe.net members may send messages directly to you. Messages from people outside your network will not be forwarded to your e-mail.
>Would you like to Ignore this person?

I contacted you as a longtime tribe.net member who is concerned about the poor use of English in many of your communications which reflect badly on all of us. Your latest announcement is a typically egregious example of this, with no less than four glaring mistakes. I've reprinted what you sent out with corrections in brackets. These examples show that one can't just depend on some word processing program's "grammar and usage" guidelines, but must be written by someone who is both intelligent and knowledgeable about proper English usage:

"Mature" Flag
You will notice the reemergence of the "Mature" flag. We had problems with our Google ad feed with [which] left us with three choices:

1) run without advertising until the money ran out,

2) enforce content censorship to make advertisers happy, [or]

3) build an internal system to direct sensitive advertisers away from their unhappy places.

We chose the last [latter]. The mature flag does not change the content visible to Tribe members. The flag is to help ensure that Tribe can both support it's [its] unique community and remain viable.
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Mon, November 24, 2008 - 11:47 PM permalink

Sincerely,
Will Penna