LiveWorld Transitions Out of Community Center Business And Reconfirms 2013 Guidance

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LiveWorld Expected to End Contract with ebaY

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So it would seem the top 3 possibilities are:

#1: The real thing. Lieworld will end it's contact with sleazebay

#2 It's posturing for a renegotiation of terms/cost etc.

#3 It's building a platform for a Big Lie.

(look up the term on wikipedia, then recall other infamous Big Lies from eb-pp etc. eg: Moving equivalent amounts of PP funds to a non-interest bearing accounts blah blah...)

There exist several other possibilities as well. No doubt there will be impact if for whatever reason this turns out to be the real thing. Until then, why not have some fun with it.

Here's one to add your own captions:

Just wondering what the odds are? This has the potential to turn really greasy, possibly morbid, and thoroughly entertaining. ;p

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LoL! Looks like sleazeybay will still be sending undercover liars, posers and/or staff members to steer and/or seed conversations on their crooked forums.

Here it seems like some sort of mistake made by a pink pretending to be a casual n00b?

Is selling dishes a bad idea?

How can anyone trust an outfit like that?

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So it looks like ebay forums will survive, and be moderated by "Lithium"

eBay Manager Speaks About New Community Platform

I don't have time or the inkling to track down every little thing, but does it seem as though there may be something peculiar about the situation? Wow, Is there some sort of moderation/paid liar service "good ol' Boy" network or what?

Bryan Person

Director of Customer Success at Lithium Technologies

Bryan Person's Overview

Current

Director of Custom Success at Lithium Technologies
Founder at Social Media Breakfast
Public speaker at BryanPerson.com

Past

Social media evangelist at LiveWorld ...

From the lips of Lieworld

''our LiveWorld moderators or community managers are acting as agents of the brand on the brands digital property, and that not explicitly disclosing that they are paid by LiveWorld is much like a part-time employee/contractor from the brand itself wouldnt be expected to state so''
Bryan Person, March 5, 2010
LiveWorld Social Media Evangelist

So I'm not sure what the situation is but it seems as though they simply are changing the name of the the street, all the players and the game shall remain the same? iow, looks like # 3 ^

How ebaY is that?

At least there won't be any pink slaps. Now you can get blue-boinked, blue-bleeped, blue-balled etc. I'm sure there will be one phrase to stick.

Friggin' hilarious!

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Here's a discussion thread about the new forums.

I was at ebay offices yesterday

At least that's the way is started out. Then it devolved onto something which would make the average reader turn tail and run from sleazebay as fast and as far as their feet could carry them. You'll see what I mean. Enough to make you run for the air travel sickness bags and Dramamine.

Not even sure why they don't just 86 the forums completely? They don't really help a thing.

Ebay hasn't been a social site since the days of on the twos.

-- Edited by budnonymous on Tuesday 18th of June 2013 09:10:02 PM

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ebay.com main site makes announcements:

eBay Community Forum Update

There was also some type of outage with LiveWorld, which lasted several hours, yesterday morning. With all ebay forums, possibly all forums hosted on LiveWorld servers. Ebay forums were unreachable, they redirected to liveworld main, login, maintenance, or error page. News links, and screencaps, timeline etc are in the comments at the above post.

Scale social media in realtime? Mission Impossible indeed.

I'm wondering if we shall see any more irregularities before the end of the contract?

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eBay Forums Still Down, Slated to Return on Tuesday

By Ina Steiner
EcommerceBytes.com
July 09, 2013

snip:

In informing users of the migration, eBay had said the forums would be placed in read-only mode "for a few days, starting Monday, July 1."

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Over one full week at this moment.. so much for a 'few days' and seamless transition or whatever other buzzphrases they use. They always were better at making thing vanish, so no surprise. Keep an eye out, we could still see some fun stuff.

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Well it looks like the new forums are up, hosted by Lithium. Too bad no fireworks.

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Oh and btw, it looks like Lithium prides themselves on turning the clients' communities into walking talking advertising and unpaid customer service reps, thereby saving these mega corporations untold amounts of money.

Plenty of info out there, starting with a wikipedia page, where you see the phrase venture capital etc used.... so this is all about wallstreet parasitism. They don't see you as people, just data and dollars.

The image on the right is from a pdf "Lithium at a glance" linked from the wikipedia page.

So get ready ebaY people.... you're welcome to list your things and put up with all the stress and BS, but you're not even guaranteed item visibility or any real meaningful 'protection'.

But they sure do want you to perform the company's chores for you, (for ZERO pay, you might get a shiny cyber-badge or a kudo thumbs up lmao) because lord knows, ebaY can't or won't.

You're also still welcome to buy there, from mega corps, SLAPP happy shill artists, no touchy members, and diamond darlings.

-- Edited by budnonymous on Wednesday 10th of July 2013 06:54:54 PM

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Not really fireworks, but for some folks this may be a really bad thing.

Wed July 10 2013 15:50:18

eBay Users Report Privacy and Photo Problems with New Groups

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One more thing... I was checking out some vids on Lithium Technologies youtube channel. I found this.

Is this person also in some ebay related videos?