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If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. – James Madison

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  ind061 month, 1 week ago

  (2) AOL thinks that by stripping the site of features they are saving server space and thus saving money. Which also doesn't make any sense. (3) AOL is now featuring stories from Propeller on AOL news, one of my posts was featured and got almost 4,000 "reads" which is very attractive to blog owners. Never mind that that same post only got 70 or so votes when my normal average is about 120. This points to a fundamental restructuring of what Propeller exists for and it is NOT to support a community. Community means storage space and that means renting space on someone else's servers or buying servers of their own so if Propeller 2.0 exists as a "story farm" for AOL News it's possible that the less community there is the better. -As I said, just ruminations, and ones leaning a bit to the paranoid perhaps, but this is SO user UN-friendly you just have to wonder.

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  ind061 month, 1 week ago

  berkeley, that is the most articulate assessment of what's wrong with Prop 2.0 I've yet read. I believe the only thing you left out was page numbers and the edit feature. But really, with so much missing, it's hard to keep track. Of course, it remains to be seen if they respond, or if they do, how quickly. I hope JamesMarcus and Tom realize that an IMMEDIATE response to these concerns is an absolute requirement. At the very least friends' submissions should be returned within the week. Unbelievable that this was removed when members and scouts both lauded it as a fantastic feature. I also find the question of Beta testing perplexing. I have to believe they didn't do any, because if they did this ill-considered mess would not be here. But WHY? WHY would you not do Beta testing? Isn't that, like, a standard industry practice? Anyway, it was an excellent write up and they do insist they're listening...

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  tehranchik1 month, 2 weeks ago

  I 'expected' so much more.