Operations Suspended: Headquarters Moving

Collecting and Trading operations are temporarily suspended due to Headquarters relocation.  HiveMind Headquarters is moving from Thurmont, MD to Fairfield, PA.

I know, it's supposed to be a Borg ship, but this was cooler...

New location will consolidate Collecting Operations into one space of about 19' x 14', which is close to the total of the two previous spaces.  Stay tuned for images of the new setup in a couple weeks.  Automotive operations will also be located completely onsite as well.

Inventory transfer is currently in progress.  Infrastructure and communication setup will commence around Nov. 14.  Further transmissions will be very limited until then.

 
And please fill out the survey if you haven't already ~ thanks to the 36 respondents so far.

Borg At The Door

Census Drones are still cruising through your cyber domain.  Please take the survey if you haven't already.  Only 22 responses so far.

 Take the survey here 

Thanks! 

Victory Is Ours!

I think the bots have finally been turned back!

Reader levels for all posts have returned to normal levels.  Even the Bot Decoy post has only one read this week.  When I check the Stats page, the top ten most-read posts only have teens and single digits next to them now.  The surge has come back down in the charts too:

Just today it looks like only three of my list pages were opened, instead of all of them by dozens of readers.  I'd put up the other charts, but you guys know what I'm talking about....

I hope the casualties were light in the Bot War.  I do not have final reports on Borg ship deployments or battle damage, but it appears that we have defeated the dreaded enemy.  Thanks to our brave warriors for preserving the blog domain.
 

Bot decoy

Check out my 800th post below or at the Older Post link.  I'm making this post because the 800th has 8 survey responses, but over 500 readers.  This post will take the brunt of the bot attack and leave the previous one to a reasonable number of reads, maybe.

800th post

In honor of my 800th total post (around 700th card-centric one), I had grand designs on going back and doing a retrospective of the blog through the years and reinvigorating some of the series I had started, as well as remembering some of the post ideas that I lost along the way. 

But I've been over a month contemplating all this and haven't been able to actually pull it off.  It's taken me since January 20th of 2023 to manage 100 posts.  I used to do 150+ in my prime, but that's been years ago now.  And with the overrun of bots inflating the reader numbers, I fear that our little platform is doomed to corruption.  And I really can't come up with a lot of original ideas.  Do I keep going with the same old thing?

So I crafted a little survey to see what you readers think.  Is it worth continuing?  Or should I just fire up the warp engines and head back to the homeworld?  I'll still read other blogs, but more and more I just don't know if I have a lot to contribute. 

 Take the survey here

I included some standard questions about what you collect, mostly for my own curiosity.  I'll post the results after a good number of you respond.  Hopefully, I don't get a lot of non-human answerers.  Please only respond once.  Thank you!