Ning Gift Store Application To Be Removed
A few weeks ago I posted a blog about the Gift Store Application potentially being removed. After being reviewed by the Navy, a decision has been made to move forward with removal.
The Navy can't accept money - nor were they- but they didn't want you to believe they were somehow making money off of N4M members. As we currently can't chose to only offer free gifts or control the cost of gifts that we create, we will be disabling this application until further notice.
In my previous posting, I mentioned that removal of the Gift Store will cause all current gifts to be deleted from the site including those that have already been purchased. We apologize for this inconvenience and hope that Ning offers more flexibility to customize the Gift Store in the future to and provide us the option of only offering free gifts to those that want to participate.
Elle
The Navy can't accept money - nor were they- but they didn't want you to believe they were somehow making money off of N4M members. As we currently can't chose to only offer free gifts or control the cost of gifts that we create, we will be disabling this application until further notice.
In my previous posting, I mentioned that removal of the Gift Store will cause all current gifts to be deleted from the site including those that have already been purchased. We apologize for this inconvenience and hope that Ning offers more flexibility to customize the Gift Store in the future to and provide us the option of only offering free gifts to those that want to participate.
Elle
Tags: admin, gift store, gifts, ning
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Comment by Colleen on November 2, 2009 at 7:53pm - That is fine with me. Whatever keeps the Navy in good standing both in practice and principle.
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Comment by Judy -Chris' Mom on November 2, 2009 at 8:13pm - I received one of the gifts and thought it was nice, but I understand the position the Navy is taking on this. I like that we can go on here without being bombarded with advertisement.
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Comment by AblueOK on November 2, 2009 at 8:42pm - I think the thing was dumb anyway
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Comment by carol on November 2, 2009 at 9:19pm - I'm fine with it being stopped.
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Comment by bonnie on November 2, 2009 at 10:38pm - It's ok by me.
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Comment by Dixie Banner on November 2, 2009 at 11:12pm - I will have to agree with the Jag for the site is a social networking network not a commercial enterprise.
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Comment by P'nut & JAM on November 3, 2009 at 12:04am - I did get many of the ribbons that meant a lot to me from friends who knew I am having surgery on Monday. In the future if you do it again maybe they can all be 'free' so we can encourage our friends when they are going through rough times--just a thought.
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Comment by andrewsmom on November 3, 2009 at 8:27am
- As a brand new member of Navy for Moms, I was not sure how the gifts worked.--seemed complicated. That being said, we can always offer words of encouragement to each other as a gift; for example, hints about how to soften the blow of children missing at Christmas and other holidays; complimenting each other on our childrens' victories; sending birthday/anniversary greetings; sending inspirational or funny "Thoughts for the Day"; I would consider it a gift to be able to read a mom's blog about her son/daughter---sort of getting to know them personally and having others getting to know my Andrew in the same way. Sometimes, these kinds of "gifts" are the most valuable of all. Susan (aka Andrewsmom)
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Comment by Paula S. on November 3, 2009 at 10:01am - No big deal... kindda dumb in my book... had fun with my free one. Reminds me too much of FB.
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Comment by Navy for Moms Admin on November 3, 2009 at 10:30am -
P'nt & Jam - That's what we would like to be able to offer. Just free gifts that members can send as encouragement if they chose. However, we have little control over this application at the moment as Ning, the company who hosts our site, created it and launched it in our community.
Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts on this!
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