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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Can we dial up the positivity on this board?
Not to be critical, but it seems like our daily updates are full of a lot of grumbling. I don't know about ya'll, but I think you get back what you put out there a LOT of the time - so grumbling just creates cause for more grumbling.
Maybe we can change up the 'Moody', and 'Terrible' updates with just MONDAY! or TUESDAY!
or even just Monday Dailies.
I dislike opening up the board and having Moody & Terrible - negative words - being the first thing I see. Sets the tone for how I feel about the place.
Re: Can we dial up the positivity on this board?
I'm speaking only for myself here. I spend the majority of my time in my house, all alone working so when I have social time I don't want to spend it getting the silly things off my chest that I vent about here. When I finally get out of the house I want to be positive and enjoy myself.
Also, I like the daily themes. I really don't see any of them as being all that negative and it actually gets people posting. Life isn't all puppies and rainbows and I'm glad that we all have a place to gripe of we are having a crappy day.
I agree that some of us need a place to vent. I'm in a position where I spend most of my time out of the office, so I don't have coworkers to vent to. This place is my safe haven to say you know what, there are things that suck about today, get it out and move on! Plus, I think if you look at any of the "grumbling" posts, you'll find a lot of encouragement all around too.
And yes, many many people in the world are moody on Mondays. I enjoy my job but I'm far from a happy ray of sunshine when the weekend is over. It's ok to acknowledge this.
I do think that a little more positivity on the board wouldn't hurt a bit....but maybe a better way to do that, rather than creating a post that is grumbling about the grumbling (not that there's anything wrong with that
)....maybe we could all make a conscious effort to start some posts that ask for everyone to post about the positives in their lives too. I do agree that when you shift your focus to the positive, things really do get better. (Although I get paid to say kum-ba-ya things like that....)
I have NO co workers that I can talk or vent to. I'm the ONLY female in my company of 17 people and so sometimes, yes, I use the boards for a grumble or vent.
I also don't feel like the boards are overly negative on any given day. I think we all balance out the daily suggestions of offering the option of it being more of a question. Moody Monday is a question; Terrible or Terrific Tuesday gives you the option to vent on either end of the spectrum; Wednesday Woes doesn't always mean a bad woe; Thankful Thursday is a great chance to speak positively; Finally Friday/Weekend Plans is generally upbeat and happy b/c people are looking forward the array of (or lack thereof) cool things they have going on. I would also agree w/ WoW that the daily "themes" gets a few people posting/talking and I like to see some kind of interaction. I really enjoy reading people's gripes or super awesome news b/c I feel like I sort of connect with them.
Lol - how can I forget? I think I started that one before lovey picked up doing the daily bit.
Now I'm wondering why quite a few of us seem to have no place to vent other than this board...