This speculation makes a fair bit of sense, considering the dearth of well-considered posts. CH staff have never been adept at writing anything. Witness their now-abandoned cookware “reviews”. I would go so far as to say most have shown themselves not to have deep knowledge or curiosity about food and cooking. Droids write droid posts–it may be as simple as that.
Aloha,
Kaleo
Just ask her to contact you at your CH email address. Then unload…
There used to be good CH staff (who drew a paycheck from CBSi), including Jacqueline (spelling?) and Dave - they were Houndish and contributed valuable information to the community, as well as being paid employees.
Today it’s a hard call: I don’t get the sense that the visible paid staff (marssy, pat, Deborah, VIPg) are Hounds or even terribly interested in food. But that’s a hard call - they might be posting under different names for all we know.
It does look like they’re bringing on some outside, paid writers for features / articles.
There’s absolutely no need for them to be particularly interested in the subject. They do specific jobs that are more about general management and their skill should be in those areas. I would rather they knew their craft than knew one end of an onion from the other.
CH email address? I didn’t know I had one…
Type it in your profile.
I leave a “tinyurl” link to HO instead.
You don’t. I’m pretty sure K means whatever email address you use on CH.
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I leave a “tinyurl” link to HO instead.
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LOL - it took me awhile to know what a tinyurl was!!
Lots of people have more than one email address.
I had a good laugh just now. Someone posted (on a feedback topic @ CH) and one of the questions asked if they were concerned about the lack of new posts. The response was to say that they don’t share site statistics. I wasn’t sure for a second if I’d tuned into the presidential debate by mistake.
I am living proof that not only won’t CH share their stats, but they will suspend anyone who keeps track and publishes the numbers.
Shouldn’t that be in the CH Hara Kiri topic, wherever that may be?
That was my post, I think. My list of problems led to a long back-and-forth with Marssy, and ended up with me trying to navigate the site for the first time on a smartphone. With no AdBlock in place, I now see what others are complaining about. While scrolling past ads, I accidentally tapped one, and now my phone probably has a tracking cookie from some egg merchant in England.
Apologies if this particular shenanigan has been discussed elsewhere.
I’ve just been having a nosy at CH’s “feedback” board. What they seem to be doing is closing threads which are complaining about the new design, saying that they want to collect all issues on a single thread. The shenanigan is that they are not merging that new thread into their collection thread. Effectively, that is burying a whole raft of complainings. I can only conclude that any report to senior management would be based solely on the collection thread - very substantially under-reporting the complaints. Shabby and disingenuous.
Technically speaking, the “feedback” is for the moderators and designers to take notice and address issue. Basically, it is a mailbox for them. Now, on this issue, they just don’t want your feedback anymore.
Why, that doesn’t sound like the new CH at all.
To paraphrase someone else’s parting words to CH, “Come meet the new boss / Same as the old boss… .”
I cant even go over there anymore, I am past being angry about it.
Now its just sad.
Though, It has freed up a lot of my time on the internet.
The latest CH bug post is priceless. Can’t wait to see if it’s still there in the morning.
" mc michael about 1 hour ago
There seem to be content bugs.
I can’t find a 20% traffic increase. What’s with that?
I can’t find a 5X increase in content production. What’s with that?
I can’t grasp the vision. What’s with that?
Is Georges still there? I miss his updates.
Still there as of 3:35AM PST.
Pretty funny that debug posts are ignored, while they ruthlessly ferret out dissenters elsewhere.
