Community Spirit

New Community Platform Announcement

Summary: The discussion centers around dissatisfaction with changes made to a community platform, possibly by an online marketplace. Participants like sandypebbles and padi*0409 express frustration, describing the forums as disorganized and worse than before. Several users mention that what were previously private groups are now accessible to anyone, raising privacy concerns. padi*0409 criticizes the changes as unnecessary and destructive, and k1ooo-slr-sales reports being locked out of a group after removing private threads due to these changes. The overall sentiment is negative, with participants calling for a return to the original format.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/New-Platform-Same-Amazing-Community/ba-p/35635703

twyngwyn

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Posted 2 months ago·Last reply 1 month ago

45 comments

twyngwyn

OP1 month ago

Bevy is running the show: https://share.google/cfuTni2wwy3w9Xxqp

twyngwyn

OP1 month ago

Wait until casey comes back 🤯

sandypebbles

·1 month ago

502 Bad Gateway

nginx

sandypebbles

·1 month ago

So something else just left that actually needed fixing

padi*0409

·1 month ago · Edited

Well done eBay, you've spent 5 days and turned a forum that wasn't broken in the first place into a complete shambles.

You should be hanging your heads in shame.

I suspect a lot of regular posters will be pulling out of responding on the boards.

When a system is run by *** expect a circus to result..........

If you had any sense whatsoever you would can these changes and revert to the original format................Oh and fire the clowns that thought this would be a great idea.

sandypebbles

·1 month ago

Well said

Doing what they do best, destroying things rather than spend time fixing all the things that actually NEED fixing

And so jolly proud of themselves on the result

padi*0409

·1 month ago

Sandy, the other frightening "improvement" is that what were previously "private" groups are now readable by anyone that clicks on them.

Take note please Jane................

twyngwyn

OP1 month ago

I don’t have access…

sandypebbles

·1 month ago

Me neither apparently
Doubt I'd want to considering the trash heap they have made of the rest of the place

padi*0409

·1 month ago

It must be an ongoing "improvement" Sandy, they were readable for anyone earlier.

What a dog's breakfast...................

k1ooo-slr-sales

·1 month ago · Edited

I made an executive decision to purge private threads in a group I was in.

Having that content readable for anybody was untenable.

I am now locked out of that group for some reason . . . maybe it was because I reported one of the threads and told the mod the new boards are f'ked up.

rogevibe

·1 month ago

" dogs breakfast " ? my take : a mess or chaos caused by something or someone who's actions with gushing enthusiasm

sandypebbles

·1 month ago

And posts with numerous replies have a highlighted 'unanswered' banner

So helpful . Not

twyngwyn

OP1 month ago

Oh, the timestamp is hidden under the ‘minutes ago’….

orientalstyle_au

·1 month ago

Google search results to community posts all return a post not found error.

sandypebbles

·1 month ago

And I still do

Utterly God awful

I will be spending far less time here that is for certain

Horrible job with the changes

bidicus*maximus

·1 month ago

Not the same, "amazing community" at all.

k1ooo-slr-sales

·1 month ago

they screwed around again.

countessalmirena

·1 month ago

... and we still don't know what the new-look Community site will hold.

padi*0409

·1 month ago

@countessalmirena wrote:

... and we still don't know what the new-look Community site will hold.

Play to Play perhaps ? That would align with Buyer fees when buying from certain sellers on eBay......

I mean they're losing sales to other platforms, so that loss has to be made up somehow.

Runs and hides....................

countessalmirena

·2 months ago

As an aside… as a slight little bypass…

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7uhqbe

(French and Saunders are ABBA.)

countessalmirena

·2 months ago

Right… and to what am I comparing the results? (I’ve never googled ABBA before!)

countessalmirena

·2 months ago

Yes, I recently started doing it, but I noticed fewer results popping up. AI seemed to be punishing me. Did you notice this happening or am I the only one?

(One of the topics was re some French conductus pieces.)

domino-710

·2 months ago

Try ABBA..................

countessalmirena

·2 months ago

Without a place to interact such as Community Spirit, there will be fewer posters who would be here at all, let alone bother helping with replies on eBay issues.

Let’s face it: these boards are not humming and buzzing with a huge crowd. It’s just enough to give helpful information based on personal experience and/or dissecting eBay policies and announcements to help fellow eBayer who could do with a hand.

That leads me to a suspicion that I hope is nonsense. AI-generated board answers.

If that happens, it will be disastrous (in my view). AI content is obvious. It doesn’t work on Facebook groups etc where AI responses stick out like a sore thumb. The eBay chatbot shows how unhelpful and frustrating non-human responses are… AI gets things wrong and can’t properly self-correct.

I can’t express just how annoying I find those stupid AI “answers” on google. I do a great deal of searching online for a wide variety of information or research or sources, and while I can’t stop my eyes from absorbing that summation at the top of the search results, I look at the search result links to get things started with research etc. In that brief glance, I can spot dubious AI hallucinations, and it doesn’t take long before my search proper turns up information contradicting the AI result, or confirming that the answer is highly debated, and so on.

AI will do the same for eBay issues; in fact, it does.

Anyway, I hope that my speculation about the new transformer super-duper eBay Community boards is way off base. Human experience is a growing and valuable asset, and intrinsically I doubt that generative content based on outside-in data-gobbling of a static period or periods of posted experience can substitute adequately for the real thing.

domino-710

·2 months ago

When doing any search one is able to ' bypass ' - do away with - not even see AI - by adding to your search at the end - -AI.

That is minus AI.

sandypebbles

·2 months ago

Thank you for the tip about -AI

Sick to death of the useless and pointless AI (automatic idiot) spam on every Google search I do

I did not know about -AI, so thank you 👍

twyngwyn

OP2 months ago

PayPal & Payments will go …..no longer relevant……Groups too are rarely frequented….🤔

sandypebbles

·2 months ago

Well, one plus side, no more people dragging up a thread from 2013 saying how they don’t like the letter p or the number 72

On the other hand, no more threads from members no longer with us too 😔

twyngwyn

OP1 month ago

Note - Community Site will be ‘read only’ from June 11 - June 15

sandypebbles

·1 month ago

Indeed, that is why I did not start a new 4 day music challenge

Not much point when nobody will be able to post anything

kopenhagen5

·1 month ago

Is it read only for 5 days ?

While they redesign the site ?

Or is it more permanent ?

*casey*

·2 months ago

"this new community space is built to help you get even more value from every interaction"

Press 1 for AI, press 2 for eBay Help, press 3 for accurate information from other members

the4masters2013

·2 months ago

Press 3 would be the most useful! Long time members know heaps more and are accurate....

twyngwyn

OP2 months ago

https://share.google/tTufiJGxZPTi8W1rs

countessalmirena

·2 months ago

Lack of detail, insufficient clarity…

Are they trying to drive people away?

mtnlane

·2 months ago

Away from 'Community Spirit' ?

I suspect so countessalmirena 😠😠😠

sandypebbles

·2 months ago

Well, if eBay are saying it will be better, you know it is a big ol' crock pot of carp

mtnlane

·2 months ago

In an effort to create a more streamlined experience, some existing activities will not be available on our new platform.

Wouldn't it have been great for them to tell us exactly WHAT EXISTING ACTIVITIES would no longer be available on their new platform?

Lack of definitive information from eBay has always been the bane of this site🤔🤔🙄🙄🍄🍄🍄

twyngwyn

OP2 months ago

And take copies now, if you want anything prior to 2023….

sandypebbles

·2 months ago

I'm thinking things like community spirit most likely

*Sends eBay another bird

mtnlane

·2 months ago

That is exactly what I was thinking sandypebbles 😠

imastawka

·2 months ago

@sandypebbles wrote:
I'm thinking things like community spirit most likely

*Sends eBay another bird

They tried to rid the boards of Community Spirit a few years back.

But they quietly asked for opinions and didn't expect the blowback from members. Most members didn't know Community Spirit was in danger.

I don't think they're bothering with opinions this time around and will do as they please.

pnc75

·2 months ago

As they always have!

twyngwyn

OP2 months ago

from the U.S. boards:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Oh-oh-eBay-sellers-better-read-the-following-what-could-possibly/m-p/35637208#M2701106