I just got this gem:
"I donated to your "feel sorry for me account" in hopes you might post more than twice a week if we are lucky. ( note to self do not donate to this asshole and make sure to discourage donation to this site at all times) well nothing has changed. I make longer cry baby posts about my lunch not having the proper amount of bread to lettuce rati, than you make as a "shitty writer" I'll never donate again. ps this is not my name or email address."
What kills me isn't the absurd exaggeration of two posts a week, but that while it wasn't their real name or email address, it was their real IP address which linked directly to a user in this forum. Very disappointing.
I was going to message them directly, but thought I would reply to the person here, and anyone else who feels that way. I run this place by myself. Not just the articles (4,725 of them), but the entire site. This is on top of doing what I do for a living and enjoying a life outside of the site.
I've been doing it for over ten years because I still enjoy it. I don't do it for you or anyone else. I do it for me and I appreciate that others happen to enjoy it as well. As I have explained ad nauseum, I will only stop doing it when I no longer enjoy doing it. When the cost to run it starts becoming a lot more than it makes, it becomes un-enjoyable. So, I can either load it up with pop-up ads that most will block, or I ask for donations.
I thought asking for donations was the better way to go (which it has been at this point) but it seems some think my output should be up to their standards. Sorry to inform you, but you didn't buy me, dumbass. You just helped ensure the lights stay on.
So for the person who sent this, fuck you. Your donation wasn't based on reading any shit I write up and you know it. You are here for the friends you have made and to use the forums. Regardless, there are plenty of dead crime sites you can participate in if this one isn't up to your standards. Why you decided to send that is anyone's guess, but I do have one and would bet money that I was correct.
"I donated to your "feel sorry for me account" in hopes you might post more than twice a week if we are lucky. ( note to self do not donate to this asshole and make sure to discourage donation to this site at all times) well nothing has changed. I make longer cry baby posts about my lunch not having the proper amount of bread to lettuce rati, than you make as a "shitty writer" I'll never donate again. ps this is not my name or email address."
What kills me isn't the absurd exaggeration of two posts a week, but that while it wasn't their real name or email address, it was their real IP address which linked directly to a user in this forum. Very disappointing.
I was going to message them directly, but thought I would reply to the person here, and anyone else who feels that way. I run this place by myself. Not just the articles (4,725 of them), but the entire site. This is on top of doing what I do for a living and enjoying a life outside of the site.
I've been doing it for over ten years because I still enjoy it. I don't do it for you or anyone else. I do it for me and I appreciate that others happen to enjoy it as well. As I have explained ad nauseum, I will only stop doing it when I no longer enjoy doing it. When the cost to run it starts becoming a lot more than it makes, it becomes un-enjoyable. So, I can either load it up with pop-up ads that most will block, or I ask for donations.
I thought asking for donations was the better way to go (which it has been at this point) but it seems some think my output should be up to their standards. Sorry to inform you, but you didn't buy me, dumbass. You just helped ensure the lights stay on.
So for the person who sent this, fuck you. Your donation wasn't based on reading any shit I write up and you know it. You are here for the friends you have made and to use the forums. Regardless, there are plenty of dead crime sites you can participate in if this one isn't up to your standards. Why you decided to send that is anyone's guess, but I do have one and would bet money that I was correct.