NursingLink

Seriously? What new point system? Where do I find out about this? Totally right dmazment...the way you describe it sounds more like a job than a site used for enjoyment, peer interaction, and elightenment. 

In all honesty, I have received less enjoyment out of it as of late. I'll take partial responsibility, but then a portion I place on management of the site for adjusting-adjusting-adjusting -forever rearranging things (some good, some less than good). Then again, I make the choice whether to log or not, no one's holding a gun to my head.



I would llike to appeal to the management at NursingLink.com to please slow down the disruption a bit and stop the drastic changes at warp speed. Just let some dust settle would you?

p.s.  I guess they do not want tme for a memeber.

"Reputation Scores Update"  go there, for some reason doesn't allow you to comment, but start a new topic so I started this one

okay, i found it. it is buried b/c thee are no replies and it is goiing to the bottom.

I am so done with it all. I have contributed a great deal to this site with significant nursing information and not just the break time junk. (I am not saying that the break time and goofy things are not needed). I am saying I spent hours with researching topics, writing topics and making attempts at having educational and professional discussions on here. I feel like going in and deleting every significant topic, news article, and training article that I have contributed but I will not. Instead, I am out of here and over to all nurses and med central. I hope to see some of the friends that I have made here on the other sites. I fully expect that this one will be deleted by the powers that be.

Well it is now obvious that goofiness is more rewarded on this site than anything significant.

vwoods, that's how I was. Loved it during school, didn't even know about the star thing until about a year into it. I don't try to get stars, I like reading all the info out there. I like seeing everyones views and also to find out that nursing seems the same and we are all going through simular situations. I liked the rah-rah, when I needed it. Now I just need a job as an RN, I never thought it would take time to get an RN position.

   I wonder if a few members are having difficulty finding the right words to express their anger and exasperation over the new point system.

   The problem would seem to be that the next level up is now further out of reach, though that may not be the case.

    Apparently, the problem has been far more basic and understandable for a long, long time. Here's a site that offers you a form of credit--points--for the things you do. Submit a news article, receive points; make a new friend, receive points; and so on. Where else in life do you get recognition for all the things you contribute or accomplish? Certainly not your job.

    For many members, the activity is fun and gratifying. The points are a measure of accomplishment, a source of self-esteem and pride.

    Of course, members are liable to grow vexed if for one website-programming-glitch or another they don't get the points they were promised for their efforts. At some point, when the site's bugs persist at diminishing their scores--sometimes radically lowering the totals--these people are likely to get hopping mad.

    Evidently, it's taken a year or more for the site's operators to respond to the kinks in their site's arithmetic.

    Good Lord, arithmetic errors, and a year or longer of inattention to them--how could people not get mad?

     Moreover, now that the site's operators have finally responded to the site's problems with addition, they may have created a new glitch:  apparently they've blurred the boundries among the various kinds of contributions so that one member's busy-work and quantity can overtake another member's thinking-work and quality.

     Whether the new bug is real or imagined, it's certainly sucking the fun out of participating on the site for some members.

    Evidently, thousands of new members of Nursing+Link have already abandoned the website. (Scroll through Currin's "List of Friends"; she has over 4000 friends; you'll find page after page after page of unrecognizable names on the list.)

    No doubt many more will follow. You can't promise people something for their efforts and then jerk them around when it's time to make good on your promise.

lunarcaustic: thank you. that is what I am talking about.

mashell4: thank you as well. I feel like I have been kicked. I have spent a lot of time and effort with the topics on this site. I have loved it but as stated above, it is the pride.

 Well, I am fairly new to the site and no really familiar with the point system. I joined because I thought it would be a great site to network with established nurses and others like me who are striving to get to that point. It's really heartbreaking to see some of you considering leaving the site. I am taking and intro to Healthcare class and I just gave the entire class the site address because I though they would benefit from reading the articles on specialties, requirements, and to talk to nurses who have been where we are today. Please reconsider or maybe suggest another site where we could meet again. 

Can some one explain what we need the points for and why do we need them.

Martini wrote, "Can some one explain what we need the points for and why do we need them."

    For the site's operators, the points are a way to induce members to continue visiting the site:  the more hits the site receives, the more attractive it becomes for advertisers to invest money for space on the site.

    For the site's members, the points probably just started out as fun. Eventually, they become gratifying, and a way to measure achievement-- especially to members who exert themselves at contributing to the site.

    Whether you or I care about the scores is almost immaterial. Plainly, they matter to some people.

    But here's the rub. Sometimes, veteran members would log onto the site and find enormous, unexplained subtractions from their scores; they would also be denied credit for some of their latest contributions, at least apparently so. According to some veterans, it took over a year for the site's operators to adjust the bugs, or rather, defects with arithmetic. Then, once adjustments finally came, old boundries blurred, some scores changed significantly, and some positions overturned. Some members felt cheated, and justifiably so.

    Throughout this time, members in general stumbled over additional defects on the site. Some of the complaints were valid, others not.

     Currently, one defect prevents me from doing what I basically visit the site for--adding more questions to "The Game." After sending three e-mails about the problem, the site's operators responded, basically, that they don't fix defects on this site unless the defects also occur on some other of the dozen or so web sites that they operate.

     You and I form the foundation for the potential revenue on the site. I think the site's operators should be much more accommodating about fixing the site's defects. I also have a lot of respect for anyone who exerts himself to make a real contribution.

sap- you are so right. Some people take things way too seriously. I'm here to have fun and enjoy myself. Good grief! Lighten up!   and lunarcaustic- I liked your questions. I wish you would continue with them.

The site is here for all of us to get whatever it is we want from it. It has nursing articles, information, friendship, games and fun. Take what you want and leave the rest for others to enjoy. If you don't like the games -don't play them. But stop all this whining.  Enough already!

Charlita said it well..........take what you want and leave the rest for others. It's almost like a "buffet".

I feel like everyone is making a big issue over the games and silly things people post. It's serious business all day, when I get home and I'm free, I like to chill and do something fun. This site allows you to do that.

For people who post the articles all the time, that's wonderful. I enjoy reading a variety of things.  I just don't think your a better person because you post an article......................some of which are already posted with a link to get to on AOL. Often these topics are already on the nightly news too.

Lets all be friends and professional people and stop making some people on this site feel insignificant because we aren't top posters. We are all put here for certain things. Some people do the searching and others do the work. I'm 20, young and vibrant and like making friends and meeting people with the same interests. Lets just remember what we are on this site for. STOP THE COMPLAINING. It's like TV...if you don't like the program, switch the channel.

I really could care less about all these points everyone is talking about. Points aren't getting me anything in my career and in my studies. This is make believe. It's not like you can save up your points like "green stamps" and purchase a television set!!! LOL