Freedom of Speech (Just watch what you say)

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I guess this all started here. And here. And here. And here.

EDIT: and everything ends here.

Yup. That's right. 3 or more people decided to devote 4 posts over 2 blogs to bashing teenage boys (newsflash: most of us do what you did every day, but we find better things to post about). The funny thing is, they didn't really outwit him. They just ganged up and decided that they had defeated a *gasp* couple of kids. And they keep patting each other on the back for it. You can see that in their posts. I also saw some of them bragging about it in the SB.

Ahh, yes. The SB. This person used to frequent the SB, until they voiced an "unpopular opinion". Rachel is an admin at a blog traffic site that you and I may or may not use. You can read of her exploits with "the other" Carrie here.

Anyways, back to the SB. One day, I'm just chillin' in the SB, Tapeworm style, and i see this: (click the pics for a larger image)



Yes, the admin for this system is saying that. I admire that kind of professionalism.

Oh yeah, I started this post by trying to make a point. I was sick of hearing about what they did to 2 kids. I was blogsurfing, and just happened to come across that blog that definitely does talk way too much. The 4th post of them getting together and bashing people (much less than) half their age was too much for me. I said what I had to say (which you've already seen if you followed my links in the first place). Funny how I never mentioned a specific person. In fact, the first generalization I made can be applied to much of the blogosphere. Ok, I lied. The second one I made was directed at a specific person.

For some reason, Rachel decided to make this a matter that involved the blog service we have in common. She comes into the SB and announces "TicklesTapeworm what the hell is your problem?" I remember well what happened to buddhadharma, so I didn't let Rachel goad me into getting myself banned. I replied with something close to "lol, yeah, this is the best forum to discuss that. I don't have email or my own blog or anything". She really had no choice but to agree with me. Still, she had to be right, and insisted that I had brought up that comment I made in the SB (the closest I came to that was mentioning that I might have some new "friends" that night, which proved to be true ;) ).

I wanted to see if I had done anything wrong, and wanted to protect myself from getting into trouble in the future. I had simply asked for a link to see the Terms of Service, because I wasn't able to find it from the main page. This is the response I get:



So, first she threatens me and ends it with a smiley, insults me, and then lectures someone for stereotyping others. This is definitely a woman I want running my services.

Then, back at that blog that talks way too much, I see that they've decided to bring my girlfriend into it. And they're calling me gay. These gals just ooze maturity.

Remember how Rachel said she was going to stop people from winning any blog battles? She wasn't kidding.



Hmm. web divas, cherry, toomuch, biologisvensk. All of Rachel's little pals. I find it somewhat fishy that Rachel, cherry, toomuch and web divas hadn't voted in any of the previous blog battles, and they didn't vote in any battles afterwards either. It's just too bad that toomuch wasn't bright enough to vote for the right person, and inadvertently caused that beautiful blogger Carrie (my Carrie) to win. You know you suck when you can't even cheat right.

Oddly enough, I saw people from AZ, NV, and NJ on mine and Carrie's blogs for much of the evening. I have no idea what the person from NJ is lurking here for, because I really didn't include them in the comment I made at that talky blog. They were involved in the initial incident, but at least had the good sense to blog about something besides talking down to kids.

It gets better.

Sometime around 8:30 PM PST, someone managed to get Carrie's blog password, logged into her account, and deleted her blog. It just so happens that Carrie's blog password *used to be* the same as the one she used on the aforementioned blog service. It also just so happens that an admin with access to Carrie's info was mad at me (or us). I'll let you do the math on that one yourself. I find it odd that someone from AZ was the last person on her blog before it got deleted...

By the way, you may notice that Carrie's blog is up. Thank god for backed up posts.

So I go back to the SB to kill time while Carrie fixes the blog. You can see the events that transpired in the following photos.



See? Not everyone in the SB hates me. Or do they...



I love how she throws that figure at me. And how many of those 35,000 are SB regulars? I know bandy and PureMood are...

And this is pretty much where we're at now. I haven't been suspended yet, nor do I care to be. I like this blog service, but one of their admins is making my experience less than enjoyable. I plan to re-enter the battles with this post. Hopefully I can open up someone else's eyes.

You might ask "Tickles, why don't you just report it to the blog service?" Well, I'll tell you why. It doesn't do much good to complain when the person you're complaining about handles the complaints. :D

EDIT: It has since come to my attention that Rachel says the day of the battle and final shoutbox threat she only logged in to approve blogs. Who entered her in the battle then? And who was that in the SB? I'd really like to know.





If she was only approving blogs that night, why was she spending so much time on Carrie's blog, through 2 browsers, right up until the point it went down/was deleted? Again, I'd like to know.

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