Hi,
Sure. User 5838. Feel free to PM/PQN/whatever.

The site is interesting, but I definitely agree that you have to be careful there. I recommend, and in the strongest possible terms, that you turn off Public Quicknotes unless your middle name happens to be drama. The message boards can be interesting but you definitely want to be careful what you post there. A lot of the people on there are pretty nice (I actually met one woman in person that I first talked to on the site, though it involved a nearly three-day Greyhound bus trip each way). There are, however, a relatively small group of people who really make their voices heard and who are more than a little condescending to those people who are perhaps less skilled in certain aspects of daily living than they believe themselves to be. I remember one woman who asked for tips on frosting a cake evenly. There was one girl who at the time went by the username Friendly Philosophical Rachel, who responded by asking why the original poster didn't just frost her cake rather than post about it. She posts similar things in a lot of other topics. There's another girl who lives in the states but considers herself Greek despite having nery a drop of Greek blood in her veins. Pretty much any topic she posts sparks whole new waves of drama simply because se posts these supposed facts but no evidence to back them up. Then when others knock holes in her statements she gets defensive. One particular view she's expressed repeatedly was that the blind or otherwise disabled should be forcibly sterilized if they know there's a good possibility that should they have kids their disability or watever will be passed onto them. So be ready for drama if you decide to really interact with the Zone.

because in my view, the zone is poorly moderated. I have seen a lot of nasty threads over there filled with a lot of folks with a lob of time on there hands who want to cause drama.

I am on the Zone. My username is The Hated One, user ID 14732.

If the zone is poorly moderated, why do community leaders kick anyone just for making such a small fuss of things?

Instead of having us talk about how bad the Zone is, why has no one bothered to take action? If we just sit here and talk about it it will not do us much good, will it?

They are trying to modify their terms of service right now, not sure how well that will work out for them. They are not well moderated, I can say that much. You just have to live with the goons and roll with the punches.

If moderation cracks down on incivility, you'll get people crying that they're being oppressed. ... That's an optimistic appraisal.
It'd be easier to close it and start a new one with a different atmosphere.

They actually did have a better community for a while. It was calledBlinknation. Occasionally someone would attempt to start something but the mods would quickly put a stop to it, so it was a place you actually felt welcome. Unfortunately the site was hacked into several years ago and is only partially back online.

i signed up for an account like 2 years ago and never even signed in apart from making my acount. lol. between a few threads i read via third party sites, and all the condescending talk about it on here, i'm glad i never used it. lol.  i think something should be done about it too, but don't know what.

That was in 2010, like in Mearly spring. The hacker found the password for the server and the admins configuration pannel. The last message they posted was: "I rule this system", before they started deleting accounts. Raina and the others got together on the phone to discuss what happened. I have been on the zone for a while before I was ticked off for no apparent reasonn, which led to further complications I tried to resolve, but to no avail.