A Thousand OJar’s?

I invited 6 people to a teleconference to begin a dialog about the future direction of OJar. There were many more I would have liked to invite but I wanted to get a good mix of individuals into a very small group. Old-timers, newbies and a few “trouble makers” in the hope of getting the…

A short note to update everyone. Things may seem ‘quiet’ but Juggernaut has been working on a new concept to enhance OJar. He has taken ideas from the existing site, ideas from some other sites and has really come up with some new concepts that are very exciting. Imagine elements of myspace/hotornot/blogging/wikipedia combined with things…

Well it’s time to reveal what we have come up with in our discussions to improve OJar. 1. To save bandwidth costs everything will be in black and white. As technical people know that will immediately save 30% of our hosting costs with reduced bandwidth usage. 2. To save moderating time, anyone that uses the…

This isn’t about OJar changing but I am hoping this will answer a riddle for some. Why do some people create trouble on a forum? Kids scream, “Mommy look at me” when they don’t feel the love. People going through a breakup/divorce need love so they assume that any attention is a substitute for love….

Let me start by saying that using this blog is helpful for me because it will be used to create the slides needed for the first conference call. In this post I will describe the problem which I call the ‘OJar Paradox’. Stated in the most simple of terms, “those that need help the most…