Am I being ignored or banned?

[ikarus 1]

As another member mentioned, most likely the response you get is the right response, so members don't continue posting answers.

If you were banned, you wouldn't be able to post. Period. Banning means that---you would be prohibited from posting on the forums. Given that your question made it thru the forum, you're not banned.

As far as being ignored----I took a look at your posts, and you got at least a response to your question. Then i saw your questions and a few of your questions are trivial. Furthermore, you can look at member's data and answer your own question.

Take a look at the following questions you have:

How long from filing AOS to biometrics appointment?

When will they receive our package?

What’s after sending all the AOS docs?

How long does it take?

I had the same questions and all I did was look at different people who had filed, and i looked to see if they had a timeline; I also did searches and looked at the guide material on the site; if members had a timeline, i entered that into a spreadsheet, and after gathering about 15 entries, i had a very clear response to my own questions related to dates and times.

There is also a search functionality that you can use before posting a question.

I have posted questions, and 100% of the times, even when i only got one response, I was satisfied with the response. Then again, I use the search functionality a lot, and I analyze the search results to come to a conclusion for my answer. When all that fails, then I post a question. I just don't simply come and post a simple question that can be answered by looking at data on the site, or by using the search functionality---unless of course, the data is too old.

Edited February 9, 2009 by ikarus

[Waldo 0]

If you ask where the car rentals are at our airport as your standing under a sign pointing to car rentals you'll get a response you wont like but here people are nice and they just take their mothers advice to not say anything at all.

[rouguewave 7]

Is it me and only me? When I first started with visa journey, which wasnt such a long time ago, I would start a new topic w/ a question and I would get a billion of answers right away! and I'm not lying. I would post something new and in less than a minute i would get atleast 5 answers. Lately I post a question and I barely get a response. Maybe just one and sometimes just plain none. Is this normal? Am I being ignored or is the system not letting other people see my questions? Is anyone else going through this? (I know this may be a dumb post but couldn’t help making it lol)

MGG,

Back in Feb 2007, the VJ Board of Directors created and populated a "VJ Welcoming Commitee" (VWC) who's responsibility it was to troll around looking for questions posted by New Members. The reason for this was so that New Members would feel welcome, supported, relevant, and in some cases important because they posted a question that so many people responded to. Not surprisingly, it worked. The benefit to this for VJ was people kept returning to VJ over and over again, long after their immediate need (VISA support) had passed. This allowed VJ to accumulate more Internet Posting Points (IPP) which could be translated into cold, hard, cash through the WWW Helper Incentive Plan and Interchange Policy (WHIPIT) and helped support the VWC.

With the economic downturn in the US, it has simply become too cost inefficient for this to continue. The income realized through WHIPIT no longer covered the expenses incurred by the welcoming comittee. As a result, in Aug 2008 the VJ BOD voted to suspend the VWC over time by having them no longer respond to members from particular countries, based on Geographic density of population. Nicaragua, as the least densely populated country in Central America (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua) was first with a scheduled drop date of Jan 1 2009.

If you started noticing that people weren't responding to your posts after Jan 1, I suspect this is the reason why. They simply couldn't afford to any longer.

Frank

{Overblown Fabrication Alert!!! }

Edited February 9, 2009 by rouguewave

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Is it me and only me? When I first started with visa journey, which wasnt such a long time ago, I would start a new topic w/ a question and I would get a billion of answers right away! and I'm not lying. I would post something new and in less than a minute i would get atleast 5 answers. Lately I post a question and I barely get a response. Maybe just one and sometimes just plain none. Is this normal? Am I being ignored or is the system not letting other people see my questions? Is anyone else going through this? (I know this may be a dumb post but couldn't help making it lol)

MGG,

Back in Feb 2007, the VJ Board of Directors created and populated a "VJ Welcoming Commitee" (VWC) who's responsibility it was to troll around looking for questions posted by New Members. The reason for this was so that New Members would feel welcome, supported, relevant, and in some cases important because they posted a question that so many people responded to. Not surprisingly, it worked. The benefit to this for VJ was people kept returning to VJ over and over again, long after their immediate need (VISA support) had passed. This allowed VJ to accumulate more Internet Posting Points (IPP) which could be translated into cold, hard, cash through the WWW Helper Incentive Plan and Interchange Policy (WHIPIT) and helped support the VWC.

With the economic downturn in the US, it has simply become too cost inefficient for this to continue. The income realized through WHIPIT no longer covered the expenses incurred by the welcoming comittee. As a result, in Aug 2008 the VJ BOD voted to suspend the VWC over time by having them no longer respond to members from particular countries, based on Geographic density of population. Nicaragua, as the least densely populated country in Central America (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua) was first with a scheduled drop date of Jan 1 2009.

If you started noticing that people weren't responding to your posts after Jan 1, I suspect this is the reason why. They simply couldn't afford to any longer.

Frank

{Overblown Fabrication Alert!!! }

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE! Thank you for a delightful answer!

[CarlaM 0]

What??????????????? So that means my posts weren't that interesting??? and I got a bunch of replies because people were being paid to make me feel important??? Anyway, It worked I'm still here

Is it me and only me? When I first started with visa journey, which wasnt such a long time ago, I would start a new topic w/ a question and I would get a billion of answers right away! and I'm not lying. I would post something new and in less than a minute i would get atleast 5 answers. Lately I post a question and I barely get a response. Maybe just one and sometimes just plain none. Is this normal? Am I being ignored or is the system not letting other people see my questions? Is anyone else going through this? (I know this may be a dumb post but couldn’t help making it lol)

MGG,

Back in Feb 2007, the VJ Board of Directors created and populated a "VJ Welcoming Commitee" (VWC) who's responsibility it was to troll around looking for questions posted by New Members. The reason for this was so that New Members would feel welcome, supported, relevant, and in some cases important because they posted a question that so many people responded to. Not surprisingly, it worked. The benefit to this for VJ was people kept returning to VJ over and over again, long after their immediate need (VISA support) had passed. This allowed VJ to accumulate more Internet Posting Points (IPP) which could be translated into cold, hard, cash through the WWW Helper Incentive Plan and Interchange Policy (WHIPIT) and helped support the VWC.

With the economic downturn in the US, it has simply become too cost inefficient for this to continue. The income realized through WHIPIT no longer covered the expenses incurred by the welcoming comittee. As a result, in Aug 2008 the VJ BOD voted to suspend the VWC over time by having them no longer respond to members from particular countries, based on Geographic density of population. Nicaragua, as the least densely populated country in Central America (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua) was first with a scheduled drop date of Jan 1 2009.

If you started noticing that people weren't responding to your posts after Jan 1, I suspect this is the reason why. They simply couldn't afford to any longer.

Frank

{Overblown Fabrication Alert!!! }