kala get my nomination for her open heart and insightful blogs....
people.tribe.net/33sphinx_lovesongs

Oooh. Good question. I went to someone's profile that I knew had a star to have a look see....The only place I saw it was in their personal profile where it has the FOAF information ("You are connected to xx through:") and there was a star there.....hmm.

Hahahahahah. That's too funny, Pi.

The thought had definately crossed my mind a few times :D

It wouldn't be a good use of money.
Why?
I'm on the edge of leaving tribe which I'm sure will make a whole bunch of sneetchy type of happy.

So:
• tribe keeps going down: bummer, but I understand why...

• People rally around (including me - go check my blog - and yours too "pi" to see me contribute all my blog responses into yours) to say we'd support tribe financially.

• they come up with the star idea, it's ok I suppose to have it, so I try to see what's it about to ask a question in one of the moderated star tribes, and the mod of a tribe pulls elitist crap on me, insults, etc. I also get it from another tribe, that I have no star :-(

• FYI Until this morning I was still being sent nastigrams by that moderator, but I'm ok to reply defending myself, but it still pisses me off he's such an elitist jerk in control of his little club, putting down others who perhaps cannot afford membership. I can. I just don't want to have a "star" until this elitist shit enabling can be stopped, avoided, or removed.

• So I go to the tribe-brainstorm tribe asking to do something about it before more people get the nasty end of sneetch elitist attitude kicked in their face

• what do I get? Shit, abuse, insults. So I clarify every nit-pick and defend against insults, and this morning find I'm kicked out (without a warning nor explanation) for what I can only assume is defending myself against nasty attacks, even though I was answering every nit pick from that bunch of sneetches, and EVEN spending a while making a couple of alternative images for the oversize boxy-star that causes a minor layout problem.

Guess what.... The moderator of that tribe, who kicked me out without why, without warning, and didn't kick out the nasty sneetches who I feel viscously attacked me, is none other that Darren. The staff member, the guy who *IF* I were to donate, I would be paying.
I don't want to pay a sneetch.

So I'm part of the effort to bring about change, helping you "pi", yet all I get is "evil" thoughts.
Also why the F*K am I helping people who kick me out, insult me, make jokes about me, when I try to help?

THEN.... today in the Burningman tribe I reply to a message after Rhino's about the star based tribes, about the plain-bellied tribe, and YES it did tweek me a bit that Rhino didn't put the PlainBelliedSneetch tribe in his posting (and Rhino, it sounded like you were all for it, yesterday in our private message exchange), but ok, I understand maybe a mistake, so I cut/paste that tribe URL and turned out I did it wrong, I ended up pasting a URL to "join the tribe" - which I didn't know was even possible, so I get attacked by Dusty Nipples, I realize the error URL, repost the right one, but still she gives me shit, and she cuts me NO slack accusing me of deliberately doing it. NO apology when I apologized for my cut/paste error - Heck I even gave the right link afterwards.
F*K again, F*K.

I'm about ready to go - probably to facebook.

You can all be happy, save your cash for someone who wants to put up with this shit.

Does anyone here care?