08-13-03 @ 3:09 am EDT

This is a warning violet entry so beware. I'll try to keep the message succinct, if not the entry itself. Just to be polite to those of you with attention spans even more limited than my own.

DON'T WANT MAKEOVERS DON'T WANT HTML HELP DON'T WANT TO ENTER CONTESTS DON'T WANT TO ENTER PAGEANTS DON'T WANT ADVICE DON'T WANT LYRICS DON'T WANT GRAPHICS DON'T WANT MAKEOVERS DON'T WANT HTML HELP DON'T WANT TO ENTER CONTESTS DON'T WANT TO ENTER PAGEANTS DON'T WANT ADVICE DON'T WANT LYRICS DON'T WANT GRAPHICS DON'T WANT MAKEOVERS DON'T WANT HTML HELP DON'T WANT TO ENTER CONTESTS DON'T WANT TO ENTER PAGEANTS DON'T WANT ADVICE DON'T WANT LYRICS DON'T WANT GRAPHICS DON'T WANT MAKEOVERS DON'T WANT HTML HELP DON'T WANT TO ENTER CONTESTS DON'T WANT TO ENTER PAGEANTS DON'T WANT ADVICE DON'T WANT LYRICS DON'T WANT GRAPHICS DON'T WANT MAKEOVERS DON'T WANT HTML HELP DON'T WANT TO ENTER CONTESTS DON'T WANT TO ENTER PAGEANTS DON'T WANT ADVICE DON'T WANT LYRICS DON'T WANT GRAPHICS DON'T WANT MAKEOVERS DON'T WANT HTML HELP DON'T WANT TO ENTER CONTESTS DON'T WANT TO ENTER PAGEANTS DON'T WANT ADVICE DON'T WANT LYRICS DON'T WANT GRAPHICS DON'T WANT MAKEOVERS DON'T WANT HTML HELP DON'T WANT TO ENTER 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HTML HELP DON'T WANT TO ENTER CONTESTS DON'T WANT TO ENTER PAGEANTS DON'T WANT ADVICE DON'T WANT LYRICS DON'T WANT GRAPHICS.

I'm taking it off violet now so it's easier to read. In case you couldn't read that, it said "DON'T WANT MAKEOVERS DON'T WANT HTML HELP DON'T WANT TO ENTER CONTESTS DON'T WANT TO ENTER PAGEANTS DON'T WANT ADVICE DON'T WANT LYRICS DON'T WANT GRAPHICS," over and over. The rest of this entry IS considered violet but I'm making it this color so everyone can see it better.

I hope it's very clear now? It seems there's some confusion over what I want to use this journal for. I don't have this problem on such sites as the original site that hosts Skew (Writing.com), where people can't leave notes on journals. I do have this problem elsewhere, where people randomly and all too frequently create journals for the sole purpose of running contests and pageants and makeovers and review services and whatnot. (Oops, that's what I forgot to include above, reviews...well, you get the picture.) Seems I continue to get notes from people whose attention spans are too short to even glance at my journal's main page where the VERY FIRST WORDS, in bright bold red, say I'm not interested in CONTESTS, MAKEOVERS, REVIEWS, and related things. I even kindly provide a link to my entry, "Diary Reviews NOT Available Here," where I further outline my thoughts on this matter. All it takes is one click to get to my main page to see what my journal is about (so people who insist "How could somebody KNOW she wasn't interested in HTML/advice/etc....?" have no leg to stand on), and another click to see that entry if a party is so inclined. Two clicks. As much as it would take to leave a note asking me if I'm interested in HTML help or advice or lyrics or whatnot.

The problem is too many people are too lazy or whatever to bother looking at a diary's main page. So I'm not sure what I should do. Should I be forced to dump a disclaimer in EVERY single entry of mine just in case so it's not missed?

The guilty party this time said oh, they STARTED to read my entry but it was SOOOO boring and generic that they skipped the rest and left me their Spam note anyway. You see, when I went to them and asked them to please not do that anymore, I bothered to bite my tongue and be polite about it. I may have sounded frustrated and annoyed, but that's only because I was. I figured, it's probably a teenager who thinks they are doing a good service; don't bite their head off, Tehuti. They're just trying to be useful. So, I restrained myself and tried to be polite. I pointed out what they would probably feel like if they got such notes in their e-mail all the time--wouldn't they too be annoyed? I even suggested a better way for them to target an appropriate audience that did NOT involve randomly notebombing people who probably aren't interested in their service (as they would have known if they had clicked to my main page--one click would have told them).

Rather than take that one click, they decided to use that click to leave me a note asking if I wanted HTML help or whatever. *sigh* Wasted click. It could have been put to much better use, and then this wouldn't have started. I wouldn't have felt forced to leave that note, since I'm always getting stupid Spam offers like that and always seeing them on others' diaries, and I wouldn't have gotten a completely snotty response in return. I was polite, if angry, but this person showed their immaturity in their response. Well, at least I tried to hold my tongue. They didn't even bother taking the courtesy of looking at my main page and seeing I am not interested in such things. See how MY being courteous gets me nowhere? Seems other parties have no interest in being courteous. They even said they will SPAM anybody they like--"Just DEAL with it."

Like, er, fer sure! Just deal with Spammers leaving notes on my PERSONAL JOURNAL. Mm-hm. I DID deal with it, in case they didn't notice, by politely asking them not to do it anymore, and suggesting they try another approach. I get a snotty response, so, here is my violet entry. (As violet as it is.) I was polite before but not anymore. The moment somebody bites me, I will bite them back. They asked for it.

(By the way, it says THIS on my diary's main page on this other site as well...please read through the Rules of Skew to see for yourself. The warning was there all along.)

I'm guessing I will just be forced, on this particular site, to leave disclaimers at the beginning AND end of every entry, because such users (who, despite their vast numbers and repetitive methods--how many advice and HTML and such diaries do you really need on a site limited to 6000 diaries??--hello?--do make up only a minority of such sites, THANK GOD) are too lazy or Spam-inclined to bother clicking to my main page, or to even bother reading to the END of the entry...though they can sure scroll down there to see if their note shows up big and clear. Oh the agony!

I AM NOT INTERESTED IN HTML HELP, ADVICE, MAKEOVERS, LAYOUTS, LYRICS, MUSIC, GRAPHICS, REVIEWS, CONTESTS, PAGEANTS, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT. PLEASE BE COURTEOUS AND DO NOT SPAM ME. THANK YOU!

Aw. See that? Even when pissed off and in the midst of heavy sarcasm I can still make myself be polite. I have to toss in that "please" and "thank you" just so *I* am not seen as the snotty one. Well, my entries asking for other users to be courteous enough NOT to Spam me were posted long before somebody else decided to get pissy, so we know who started what. For God's sake...this is a PERSONAL JOURNAL. PERSONAL JOURNAL. PERSONAL JOURNAL! Do you see me asking for frigging advice or layouts or LYRICS? (Anybody who even glances at a few entries in passing will see I have no trouble finding my OWN lyrics. To anyone else needing lyrics help I suggest you head over to...GOOGLE! That's right! GOOGLE is your best secret weapon!) When I want a new layout, I go and decide what I want for MYSELF. *I* do it! If I can't figure it out, I go and ask somebody who I KNOW will know how--which is not some random wannabe web designer on some diary site. I usually don't even bother with such complex layouts anyway because you know why?--MOST OF THEM END UP LOOKING LIKE CRAP. That's right--I don't have to be polite anymore. I don't find it very attractive to have to scroll WAY over to the side just to view the contents, or to push Mute just so I don't have to hear some blaringly loud music, or to grind my teeth and click back just so I don't have to wait for huge graphics--many of which OVERLAP important links--to take FOREVER to load, or to stop using the mouse because of the stupid-ass comet cursor, or whatever. I have a 56k modem and an 800x600 screen resolution. HELLO! I don't need advanced hyper-graphics on a PERSONAL JOURNAL. See my Diaryland version for the most advanced I want to get with Skew. (Oh, sorry...that would involve another CLICK. I know, those are hard.) I don't want music, if I want advice I just ASK for it (and from people I TRUST, NOT from total strangers who are not in my situation and know nothing about me), and if I want to enter a damn contest, which I DON'T, I know how to just find such a diary and leave a note MYSELF. There are so many damn similar diaries set up on the site in question that you don't even have to dig far before you find one. So no, I don't need help finding them, I don't want to find them, my journal there is just a frigging BACKUP, and if they had bothered to use that precious click to get to my main page they would have found that out already.

BACKUP! All versions of Skew aside from the Writing.com version are BACKUPS! Okay?

I really hate wasting my limited Net time posting an entry that has already been posted. It's sad how one has to continually do this if they don't want to be notebombed by diarists with attitude problems. Well, I can bet that a lot of such diarists running contest and advice and HTML and whatnot diaries will see this entry of mine and get pissed off. As well you should, because I am HOPING most of you are courteous enough not to notebomb or Spam others' diaries with ads for your own...how would you like it if I did that to you, about my own journal?...and if you DO Spam others' diaries anyway, I like to hope you are at least courteous enough to say, when I should ask you not to do this, "Sorry, I won't bother you again." Rather than get all pissy like the last person did. For the most part, when I have told Spammers on diary sites to leave me alone, they have been polite enough to honor my request. This time I was told "I will SPAM anybody I like," so yes, I am getting pissy now. To everyone else running such diaries, I would like to try COURTESY one last time and ask that you at least consider this. If you must keep Spamming others' diaries, at least do not throw a hissy fit when people who have clearly asked not to be Spammed politely ask you not to do it to them again. All right? Because if you throw a fit when politely asked not to do something, you end up looking like a baby throwing a tantrum. Have you ever seen those little children in stores who, when denied a sucker or a piece of candy, throw themselves on the floor screaming "WAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"? That's much what this note sounded like to me. (And would you seek advice or help or whatever from a diarist with an attitude?)

I cannot stop such people from ever Spamming everyone; I never hoped to, though I HOPED this last person would at least be courteous enough to back off away from MY personal space without pissing all over it. ("DEAL with it," as they would say--works both ways, person. I already DEALT with it when I asked not to be Spammed; this is me having to DEAL with it yet again. I suggest THEY deal with it, now.) Well, politeness didn't work with this person, but I hope it works at least a bit with the rest. It's not a perfect world and you guys will keep Spamming and there's nothing anyone can do about that. I just want to ask that you at least try to make your notes worthwhile--READ the entry you are noting. If it's too "boring" or "generic," then don't leave a note, okay? If you do leave a note, at least show you read the entry and offer a real comment. BEFORE plugging your own service. Trust me, people are a LOT more likely to visit you if they sense you really DO care about them enough to read at least ONE entry before Spamming them. Trust me, it works.

I'm sure you guys get Spam e-mails. Ever notice how the ones which say "Hi, [insert your username here]! How ya doin'?" get noticed more easily? Sure, when you open them up, they're ads for refinancing or penis enlargement or whatever. But because it looked like the sender was really TALKING to YOU as a person, you're more likely to open them up. Think about that. Think about it very hard.

(And as I was saying already, would YOU want to seek advice or help from somebody who says your diary is so BORING and GENERIC they couldn't actually read it? Doesn't that tell you something? For God's sake, if you're running an advice or service diary, you do NOT want to tell your potential clientele that they are boring! Although I didn't really mean it, as I'm tired of such diaries on such a limited site where there are always people who want to start ACTUAL PERSONAL DIARIES, I wished this person luck; that got me the comment that I am too BORING to read. Well, I take it back. Some service diary. If I had friends on said site I would tell them to boycott it, but hopefully this person's words speak for themselves.)

Whatever happened to "The customer is always right"? Mm-hm. If your customer tells you they're not interested, please go away, and you respond with "Well, DEAL with it! I'll bother you if I want!"...do you think they're going to go around recommending you to others who MIGHT be interested? I think not.

Anyway, to continue my request (oh horrors, I hope I have not BORED you off yet!)...if you STILL cannot bring yourself to read the entries you're about to Spam (maybe you just don't have time...I understand that, even if I don't agree...I just don't see the point to Spamming people you don't even bother to read, but maybe I'm old fashioned), and have to leave a note anyway...then if the person you Spammed comes to you to ask that you not do it again, at the very VERY least, just accept it, and either say "Sorry, I won't do it again" or don't say anything at all and take your service elsewhere...okay? I know this is not too much to ask because for the most part, when I ask service diarists to leave me alone, I have bothered to be courteous about it, and they have honored my request. Most of them don't bother replying to my comment, but at least they don't come back and bitch at me in my OWN personal space. How immature. I know that I myself am immature, even by posting this entry over a stupid note, but at least I don't throw hissy fits at people who POLITELY ask me to back off. Thank God this person isn't on the writing site; I bet if they got one bit of helpful criticism they'd blow a gasket. Sheesh. With some people, "please" and "thank you" and even helpful suggestions for reaching a better userbase don't do diddly-squat! Sorry I bothered. Even if THEY aren't.

So yes, this is Tehuti going ballistic over a random note. I wouldn't have HAD to go ballistic if a certain person had proven what a good service diarist they are by actually LISTENING to what I had to say in the first place, and then deciding accordingly. How useful is somebody who gets all pissy while trying to provide a service which isn't even needed? I hope this person does not ever think of taking up door-to-door sales...I'd hate to be the one to have to tell them I'm not interested. What sort of big flashing glowing neon sign would I need to put on my door in order to scare them off before they stop by?

One more time, just in case I was so BORING it was missed:

DON'T WANT MAKEOVERS DON'T WANT HTML HELP DON'T WANT TO ENTER CONTESTS DON'T WANT TO ENTER PAGEANTS DON'T WANT ADVICE DON'T WANT LYRICS DON'T WANT GRAPHICS (NOR REVIEWS)

I wonder how many more times I'll have to say this before it finally gets through. And it's a lovely thought that, just because somebody was pissy toward ME, just by posting this entry a lot more people will probably be pissy toward me. I hope they at least have the decency to bitch about me in their own journals rather than leaving me notes about it. Because it is my journal and I do not care to hear it. I have DEALT with it here in my personal space, so they can go DEAL with it in their own, and never the twain shall meet. (I know this is too much to hope for, though. Tonight's note proved that. It's sad how some people don't believe in courtesy anymore. I hate being so vindictive here, but I'm sick and tired of people stepping all over me when I TRY to be polite. Yes, it gets tiresome. Sue me for being human.)

I'll be temporarily disabling notes on this entry on the other diary site; chances are this entry will be missed anyway. No big deal. I can't stop notes on my other entries though. So, notes of agreement and POLITE (operative word: POLITE!) disagreement are fine. Pissy rants like the last one I got for my efforts will either be deleted or further bitched at--by now, probably the former, because I'm just sick unto death of all this. I might make myself look bad in my violet entries, but I like to hope I make certain others look bad as well. (Or rather they make themselves look bad. I said "please" and "thank you" and got "Just DEAL with it" in return. Ah, immaturity.)

Tar until a better entry comes along, hopefully soon...

Entry edited to add: This was originally posted around 2:22 AM. Before posting it, I asked said diarist to leave my diary alone and I'd do the same for them. After that they left yet ANOTHER condescending note, which I have deleted. I'm not taking their bait and stopping by their diary again. But I AM going to stop cowering and post MY entry on that site now. I was hesitating for fear of OFFENDING anyone, believe it or not, but why should I care? They don't care about my personal space enough to leave me alone even when asked to. I'm not lowering myself to their level and invading their space again. But I sure as hell am not going to shut my mouth just to be polite anymore. Because like I said, apparently common courtesy and actually being HELPFUL mean diddly-squat to certain people.

So, here goes the entry...