What about us?

Question

Hello everyone, I am not exactly sure what is going on here on Spanishdict, but apparently some people are "leaving". It seems Heidi (whose threads were really useful to me) is leaving the site, and suddenly everyone is planning to leave with her. A few days ago, Lazarus also said he would leave with her, although I haven't been here long enough to see him in action, I've heard he's legendary.

My question is, if all the really good Spanish speakers are leaving the website, what will happen to us who are not so good? We rely on the help of all the "expert" Spanish speakers of this website to help us improve, if they all follow Heidi, who will help us Intermediate and beginner folk?

I'm just saying, I know that Heidi was a huge asset to this site, and I'm not sure of the details, I hear she is leaving, and not in good terms, but does that mean everyone else must up and leave? Shouldn't they stay to continue her legacy? This is my opinion, let me know what you think. (I hope I haven't offended anyone).

• Haven't you already posted an almost identical thread? - rabbitwho Feb 14, 2012
• No i haven't. - lydianish1 Feb 14, 2012
• good question, what you should ask yourself though is why the management is doing nothing to make the natives stay;) and nothing is being done, trust me;) - Heidita Feb 14, 2012
• but then, why were the natives here to begin with? to help people learn Spanish or to make friends with the management? Isn't it the cause that's more important? - lydianish1 Feb 14, 2012
• we were all here to help, not be insulted by the management, read my thread, lydia;) we are not "just leaving" we were insulted , so we are leaving....end of story - Heidita Feb 14, 2012
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Answer 1

I have wondered about the same thing myself. I sense I can help with some, easy things being asked, but that's about it. We need people here who know the language and can help us beginner/intermediate folks with our questions. I want this site to continue as it used to, with or without those who have left. I wish to have back "word of the day" and "picture of the day" soon. Those were good motivations towards practising Spanish writing.

• i didn't know that Word Of the Day is gone too!! How sad!! Hopefully this is all temporary. - lydianish1 Feb 14, 2012
• I hope so too! - inridk Feb 14, 2012
• Inridk the site will remain and questions will be asked and answered ,but the "quality" is gone . - faliron Feb 14, 2012
• let's be optimistic... - lydianish1 Feb 14, 2012
• We may be in the same boat with those sites where students with little knowledge correct each other's input and poke each other in the eye all the time! :- - Lector_Const Feb 14, 2012
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Answer 2

Sadly some of the best members are leaving the site and will be sorely missed, so what next? Well we can only wait and hope that the site continues to be the best learning site on the web.

• How??? - faliron Feb 14, 2012
• By trying our hardest to make things work. we have to put up a fight before declaring defeat! we can't just stand by and watch everything fall to the ground, i've really grown fond of this site, i've at least got to try. - lydianish1 Feb 14, 2012
• You didn't grow fond of the site, you grew fond of the people on it. The site management have made it clear we are not welcome, we are going somewhere else. We will have just as much awesomeness and help just as many people somewhere else. - rabbitwho Feb 14, 2012

Answer 3

Here is a thread with some opinions on this topic.

• Thank you!! - lydianish1 Feb 14, 2012

Answer 4

All the people who are leaving are unpaid, they gave their time for nothing, often with no thanks from those they helped.

I am sure that if the management prefer to use paid Moderators they will be happy to pay Spanish speakers to do all the work the Heidita, Cogumela et al have done on the site for nothing.

• And the end result will be more money, less qualify. - territurtle Feb 15, 2012