So it’s been a week since I asked to have my content pulled and… it’s still there. No reply to my emails either.

What the hell? I mean, seriously. This goes so far beyond slipshod it’s ridiculous.

I guess I’m not worthy of a response. Yeesh. I am so glad I don’t bother over there anymore, although I did go back to comment briefly on a post attacking my older work.

See, on FDL, if you’re a lowly community diarist, you’re not allowed to even critique other people’s work on the site without a talking to from Rayne, the supposed editor of the Seminal, who won’t return my emails. But if you’re a front-pager, you can do it in a slippery, disingenuous, fact free manner, and that’s all right.

Poor Nathan Aschbacher was pulling his hair out in the comments over the whole thing.

I never did post those pictures, because I’ve been doing other stuff, working in real life. Honestly, it’s so refreshing. I liked having people read my stuff, but there are just so many trolls in the FDL commentariat… ok, a quick primer on writing diaries for FDL.

If you want a ton of people to agree with what you’re saying, criticize Obama without any concrete plan to oppose his agenda.

If you want endless argument and belittling from front-pagers, suggest not voting Democratic in the upcoming election. That will have Phoenix Woman on your thread shouting nonsensical horseshit about Nader and German Communists and how not voting Dem will lead to Hitler.

If you want to be ignored or attacked as a bigot, write something from a strongly atheist perspective. FDL may not look it, but it’s a very, very religious crowd overall, and they do not appreciate having their sacred cows questioned. Peterr and Glenn Smith in particular show a great disdain for atheist positions, and Peterr won’t even accept the fact that America has massive religious discrimination written into the tax code. Which is a complete denial of objective reality, but hey; he is a pastor. Goes with the territory.

It got to be so damned boring. Write what they want to hear, and you get lots of attention; write something the mob disagrees with, and you get knee-jerk reactions and vitriol. It felt less and less about informing or discussing than it seemed to be about venting. I started to feel like a cheap date, every time I put up a diary about politics. Circle the wagon, criticize Obama, and then what? Go back and vote for him anyway? How is that productive?

So I’ve been working around the house, catching up on chores, and man, everything is just better and easier without the hassle. I’ve been putting off finding another place to post. I like writing, I like being read, but yeesh.

I guess I’ll send another email about my stuff today, and then chill. Got other stuff to do, after all. You can see the antics of my last post here on Flickr though. Note how the mod will lie about deleting my comments, change them to say something else, and censor any criticism of their censorship itself, while leaving attacks on me up and untouched.

Almost like I hit a nerve somehow.

Yeah I know I said I’d get those screengrabs up, but I’ve been busy. Trying to get Wicked read in time for the play tomorrow, and it’s slow going, because honestly, Maguire is a pretty lousy writer, one of those authors who thinks that every joke they come up with is hysterically funny, so why not repeat it a few times with minor variations, etc.

Still no word from FDL. I sent multiple emails, and nothing was done and no answer given. Man, I’m glad I got out when I did; imagine running a money making website that way, where complaints sent to the official contact email don’t even get responses, let alone action! Oy.

I mean, I slack off here, but it’s just a personal blog. At the ZRC we pride ourselves on always, ALWAYS getting to any official requests, aka sales, within 1 day. Period. Literally rain or snow, sleet or hail. If the post office is open and the roads are passable, by the dark gods of weather you WILL get your package shipped within 1 business day. Period.

So I know a little bit of what I speak here, when I say that this is bizarrely lazy user service. Bizarrely. I can only imagine that the official contact page has an outdated email; it didn’t get bounced, so the account is still active, just being ignored?

Like that makes it better, I know.

*shrug*

Anyway, next week I’ll find some other place to blog. Honestly, I left Dkos over people being stupid, but at least there nobody screwed with my content.

Well, it’s officially been over twenty-four hours since I sent a polite request to the editor of the Seminal, FDL’s community-oriented sub site, asking to have my writing removed due to abusive moderation that included, amongst other things, youtube-spamming my comments section and censoring legitimate discussion, as well as taunting me each time the censoring was done. I’ll be putting up screengrabs tomorrow, but I have to get to bed soon here, as I have a real life.