Miserable People Everywhere SUCK
Posted on Monday, August 27th, 2007 at 4:40 AM
It’s interesting how the only time I ever hear from people that are supposed to be offering support for newbies is when they don’t like something OR have something to bitch about.
I recently made an attempt to find out how many Picking Up the Pieces memberships were bogus so as not to have an inflated membership number. Well, my efforts resulted in managing to piss a few people off.
I realize not everybody is going to be happy and that it would be pointless to even try but can you believe after over a week of trying to get the group figured out and numerous apologies later that people are still crying about this?
I’ve got one person in particular that still wants to write to the group and make a public example out of me even after making the effort to start from scratch so that the newbies don’t have to put up with this shit.
Talk about miserable people with nothing better to do. You would think there would be even an ounce of forgiveness within them. But no, they would prefer to bitch some more and continue picking fights.
I don’t care what you think. If you don’t like my sites OR blogs then don’t read them. If you don’t like my online support groups then don’t bother trying to participate because it’s not like you did so in the first place anyway.
Yoshi,
I have found that the ratio of negative people to positive people in online communities is much higher than it is in the real world.
It just too easy for people to sit behind a computer screen and rant and rave about something that they don’t like. By adopting the “you can’t please everyone” mentality, you’ll save yourself a lot of heartache.
Plus, as you said, they are YOUR sites, so you reserve the right to do what you want! I publish almost every REAL comment (aka – not Spam) that gets written on my blog, but I have pulled the “it’s my party” card a few times and deleted comments that would have done nothing but create negativity.
- Aaron
Thank you so much Aaron for helping me out with my own little rant with some great advice. You’re so right! It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to and it’s not my job to kiss ass and make sure everybody is happy. Nope, it’s not! Thank you so much for pointing that out. BTW, it’s really kinda cool to know that you read my blogs. I have a lot of respect for you. ;)
Aww, shucks, Yoshi, I was gonna say the same thing about you! :) You’ve been helping out with the community for so long, even after I stepped out of the limelight for awhile, it was wonderful to come back and see you still doing great work.
So, the respect is mutual, and your site is in my RSS reader, so yer stuck with me now! :)