Surprise, Surprise...

Jonathan - there is a problem with two sides on AR. One for consumers and one for the agents. The page you replaced was for the agents, so when you optimized it for consumers, I lost what I needed.

It was difficult not to be heard, but to be heard right. I can't blame AR for that, as it is easy to fall into the trap that we only here about the money and points. We are from absolutely yes to that notion to absolutely "no" and everything in between.

In this new thing one side was considered. The other was not even sensed.

i also want to say that you should not listen all this high horse crap that points are irrelevant. I honestly believe that AR outcompeted others by implementing the genius point system. It is what pushes so many of, makes us better organized...

Thanks for the comment, and we wish you and us luck.

Lane - I am not against consumers, but AR is a community of agents, and we can have space for us. This page was in certain way our page, and they tookk it away.

It is not "for consumers" or for "Agents"

It should be for both. And if it can't be done on one page, which it shouldn't, let's have two different pages.

I think we are all waiting. Thanks

Lois - I would actually be very surprised if Jonathan wouldn't.

It is like with McDonalds. When it came and conquered the world, everyone was in love. But then others started chipping pieces of their glory, and it was more and more challenging to hold the patrons loyal.

It is happening in social networking, and AR, though a great place to be, has to be better and better to keep the position.

It is the law of enthropy. In order to maintain status quo, you have to apply effort. If you do nothing, it does not mean that nothing would happen, this "nothing" will be deteriorating.

So, the choice was to allow it to deteriorate, or apply the effort.

Even though we were not happy, we wanted Jonathan to hear us, because we know that we are in that together.

Luckily, many understand it. At least Jonathan does. But we will see.

karen Anne - we shal overcome... some day - remember?

Karen Anne - I actually had a disk with songs by Joan Baez. Because of the songs, she was considered OK by our watching dogs, and they even produced one disk.

And in 1968 I graduated from the high school

Lane - you could mention this even before Jonathan dropped in (LOL).But we believe it. If not for that, there would  be no reason even to vent ourselves.

Jenny - nothing will change. There is a crowd of agents happily drunkenly screaming that they love a new look, and they love competiton.

The more we go, the less patience I have for happy crowds. They do not hear anyone. Get as much competition as you want, but why take what we used?

I am a curious guy and always go to the county and cities and see who is doing what in terms of progress on AR. I now simply can't do it.

I do not say that everyone does it or that everyone should do it. I simply do not understand why to give someone new stuff they had to take somthing from us.

Time that Jonathan told us to wait is elapsed. All I see is a bunch of featured blogs praising the change. Now they have the voice of the crowd to justify a stupid thing they did.

It is not a matter what they did, it is a matter how they did it. I am thinking of leaving AR

Karen Anne - I think the more people were "anti" American here, the more chances they had to be used by media there.

The whole propaganda machine was exploiting it this way. They did not lied outright, they distorted. And anti war movement they presented as anti-America movement.

Our heros were Angela Davis, and long before her even Lee Harvey Osvald, when he has "chosen real freedom" and came to the Soviet Union and spend some time there.

We also had a few bombshell singer, who would have something unflattering about USA and then they would get to tour the Soviet Union, and it was quite ugly...

When I read about the events of 1968 with the  government using force, is so foreign to todays America, that it is even difficult to imagine.

Not that nothing was happening in the USSR, but the information about it was blocked from the media and the country did not now about it. It is hard to believe, but they were successful of blocking information even about the events like Ashkhabad earthqualke, that took lives of thousnads and thousands of people and practically wiped out the city in 1949.

No word in any paper... ever

Tanks used against people in Dnepropetrovsk somewhere in the 60s. Not a word