Comments on: In Response to “Susy”

By: Susy Balaz

Susy Balaz — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:05:42 +0000

Hi I was just looking up my blog so I could tell people what look up and yes you can spell Susy S-u-s-y sus being the sound of sooz and Y pronounced as a long e. I have been spelling my name this way for 50 years. Hope you got your comments from the other Susy fixed up have a great day.
Susy

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:34:28 +0000

As someone who has been around the business side of the Internet for 15 years or more, mostly from the marketing standpoint, I can assure you that there are companies much bigger than The G.O.S. and even INN who have “forgotten” to renew domains or had them swiped in a moment of neglect. As in multi-million dollar corporations with full time website management/creation staff. And yes, the work involved in bringing the site back, the domain back - it is outrageously expensive, time consuming and frustrating.

I am a happy subscriber to GOS - and I love reading INN. Kirsten does an outstanding job producing the magazine, and I have an inkling of the amount of work that must entail with realistically what would amount to relatively small financial rewards in compensation. She is, however, human. And things happen. Only those who live in iron clad houses should cast stones.

Regarding INN - thank you for the work you put into it. I enjoy reading it. I enjoy the extent of your prose - but then I am also one who panicked at the thought of having only 5 pages to fill with my essays in grade school. As for the comments - I would not ignore them. I might consider editing them if they get too verbose or mean-hearted. But it is somehow important for a site called “Independent” needlework news to provide “both sides of the story”. And yet, it is your site, your work, and therefore you should be able to retain some comment editing (at least shortening) abilities.

Keep up the great work. Please !

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:52:54 +0000

Amen. I would send a response, and if it is a fake e-mail, I wouldn’t publish the comment. If a person isn’t willing to stand behind opinions they write publicly, I wouldn’t give them the public venue.

By: Red

Red — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:53:38 +0000

I don’t know…you might tell me to climb a tree as well, but hear me out before you do. I like your Needlework News. You are entitled to your opinion and choice of what you want in your blog. I have the option of moving on to the next blog if I choose…and I have… a number of times…but I come back to read the Needlework news. My heartburn lies with two things.
1-Your title says Needlework News…All the time.
It’s not really “all” needlework…but that’s your choice. I only suggest you focus on Needlework on INN and move the personal stuff back to your other blog. I am only speaking for myself because I’m here to read about the industry. Last I knew, Tom Brokaw wasn’t telling everyone about his arthritis between stories of Iraq and the econcomy when he was doing the news. Sorry if I offend. Perhaps a re-direct back to your personal blog so that those that care will go over there to read your more personal items.
2-You wrote….”they aren’t interested in promoting the stitching industry in any way by lifting others up, or by making anyone feel good by thanking them for what they do”.
I moved on in a previous entry of yours when you targeted Thistle Needleworks because I felt that how a shop conducts business is their individual choice and you focused on she “got ticked”…well with all it takes to keep a brick and mortar shop in business, I don’t think someone who self-professes to be the CNN of Needlework News is promoting the stitching industry with comments such as you made about Thistle Needleworks.
Blogs are just that…what the author chooses to write about and if a reader doesn’t like it…we move on…as I do. You have a great concept on focusing on the Needlework News, but like I learned in Broadcast-journalism classes…stick to the facts…be careful of editorializing and stay on track of the topic and I think you’ll find less resistance and more favorable comments.

By: ro

ro — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:05:21 +0000

i love inn and support you totally. as my dh says don’t let the —– get you down. keep up the good work,

By: Cyndi

Cyndi — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:04:28 +0000

Already my link to TGOSM works by forwarding to the new one. It must have been a terrible, panicked time for Kristen to deal with the problem. Too bad YOU had to be the target of nastiness.

As a high school English teacher, I don’t know what I dread most - horribly brief essays that needed a lot of revising/addition to make them adequate, or the long, long ones that think that by saying a lot of nothing they could bs their way to a better grade. I’m assuming, however, that yours, of course, were excellently scripted, precise, and full of the great supporting details we harp on and on about!

By: Kerri M.

Kerri M. — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:27:52 +0000

I wanted to leave a few words of encouragement for you. I love your INN and have learned about so much going on in the stitching world. Plus, not being a blog site, I can check in from work (which I should be doing now)

I have joined some of the groups you recommend and learned much more than what is selectively printed in magazines. I appreciate you trying to be objective and report what you find out independently.

Keep your head up. I call people like “Susy” energy suckers! Their sole purpose is to drain the happiness and joy of others into their own black hole of an existence. Avoid them. Post their comments since it is a free society and with email vs in-person communication, it is open to interpretation or sometimes mis-interpretation.

I have enjoyed Kristen’s work since she used to publish the newsletter of free charts. This too shall pass and be resolved successfully. She has done an amazing job of opening my world to so many talented designers. I will keep sending prayers and positive thoughts to her!

Keep smiling, stitchers are a generally wonderful, generous and kind hearted lot!
Kerri (Katy, TX)

By: Allura

Allura — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:50:32 +0000

I’m going to quote a standard of usenet at you: Don’t feed the trolls.

In this case, I might have edited their post for the relavant portions and snipped the nastiness. Or just rejected it on the grounds of being a troll. You don’t have to put up with trolls. It’s your sandbox.

By: Lady Periphaeria

Lady Periphaeria — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:57:54 +0000

My two cents: there are always people who do that, it is just the price of being famous.

In my opinion you should accept their comments, so no one can say that you censor them, but don’t be bothered by them.
We all have opinions, and right to voice them out, but we also have the right to let them be and even ignore them. Best way to end the tomato throwing is to stop it before it begins.

When it comes to TGoS’ issue no one can say what exactly has or should have happened, no one but Kirsten, and, I believe what she says. Noticing how successfully TGoS has acquired subscribers (I can’t name one person who doesn’t order it) you can deduce that Kirsten does work hard and diligently.
Where Susy seems to go a bit lost is that there are several methods to handle the domains, in my case my host renews mine without extra cost or hassle as long as I keep my hosting with them (If you change the host I can recommend mine (huge server space and monthly bandwidth)). In some cases you have to handle it yourself… we can’t know what the situation is, and that is not our thing to judge anyway.

(By the way, when we had to write an essay at ninth grade, tops five pages… Mine was 30 pages plus five pages of sources and diagrams. (I got A even I exceeded the limit…))