We of the Anti-2% Movement are one of the larger groups currently fighting for reform on Gaia, but even so we are still fairly small in size. The general consensus is that the administration, or moreover C.E.O. Craig Sherman, are not hearing the concerns of their loyal users. People who've supported them these past years through the stages of development. I myself will have been a Gaian for 4 years in December of this year. That's 4 years of support for this community. There are several others with such longevity on the site..
What I'm getting at is to affect any sort of change, we need to look past our central cause for now and concentrate on the administration in general. After all, they are the ones we need to reach. Gaia's most valuable asset is it's users, or so they would have us believe. Yet there are so many groups who're opposed to their actions lately. I say, despite our differences of opinion, our goals are the same.. we want to reach the administration. If we put aside those differences and combine our efforts with these other Gaian groups and organize we can make a pretty effective stand.
Think of it as the Gaian Civil Revolution, a large number of Gaians "log-out" for an undefined amount of time. Gaia has a record high of users online.. why not aim for a record low? And then continually stage "log-outs" until we get a point across; We're pissed off. That achieved, we can get their attention. Then provide our adequate and more effective goldsink ideas directly. If a few of those ideas get implemented, THEN we can have a justifiable reason for the Marketplace Taxation to be removed in the eyes of the administration. As it is now, they see no justifiable reason to remove it, regardless of dissent.
I dunno, it's just a thought. Organization is key to change is the point I'm trying to make here.
