Did anyone else totally read that in Zep’s voice? Because I totally did.

I’ll start from the beginning, which actually begins in March of 2008, when I first joined Entrecard, to a few weeks ago, when some significant changes were made on my account.

For a little info on what I do through Entrecard, I visit about 600 sites per day to drop 600 cards; I have two blogs that I regularly drop on, though the main site that I advertise and use is this blog here on comatised.com. My other blog was a technology blog that my family reads, and it’s almost abandoned now. I drop on the 30 most popular blogs in the following categories:
All
Blogging Resources
Computers and Internet
Cooking and Dining
Entrekids
Graphic Design
Health and Medicine
Humor
Lifestyle
Mixed Bag
Parenting and Family
Personal Diary

Those vary from the two blogs that I drop on, and occasionally, I will gain 50,000 Entrecredits and do a mass advertisement every two to three months. In my travels through Entrecard, I noticed some sites were down, some had no widgets, some had database errors, and some were redirected to advertisement sites. All of those are against Entrecard’s TOS. Soon, I began reporting these sites through the “contact Entrecard” box in my profile.

Last month, I received an email from the head of support, Andrew. He had noticed how pro-active I was in reporting sites that violated TOS, and offered me a position as a support admin. With that came the ability to warn or delete users who broke the rules of Entrecard. I emailed him back and told him what my conditions of a warn vs. a delete would be: If there was a simple human error in a website, such as a database error or internal server error, I would warn the user to fix it within 72 hours. If there was no widget or the site redirected to an advertisement, I would delete the account. In doing so, I would inform the user that their account could be reinstated and restored once the error was corrected, if they chose to continue to use the service.

Andrew agreed that this was a good plan, and granted me access as an admin. Since then, I have warned several users and deleted a few.

I always comment to them when I warn or delete them that their account can be reinstated with all information restored if they correct their account’s error and wish to continue to use Entrecard. I also inform them of why their account was deleted or warned. In more recent comments to users, I have told them that warnings do not stack up, especially if it is a database or internal server error, and once the warning is gone, I personally cannot see these old warnings.

I did not post about this on my blog because at the time, I knew how people react to authority figures. Let’s face it. People act differently when their boss is in the room or a police officer has just pulled them over. Much like children behave differently when the teacher is out of the room or a substitute is teaching. I didn’t want that treatment.

Rest assured that Andrew reads all of my support comments, and if he felt that I was doing a poor job, he would have revoked my privileges by now.

I don’t make the rules of Entrecard. I just enforce them. I volunteer my time enforcing these rules because I want the community to run smoothly, at least for the top 30 most popular sites in the community. I believe that Entrecard is beneficial to bloggers for a sense of community and exposure.

That being said, I did not join Entrecard to make friends or be liked. I joined because I wanted my Alexia points to be boosted. Making friends and being liked is just the icing on the cake.

Still, if anyone feels to extract revenge on me or justified by stealing my personal pictures, calling me filthy names, posting lies about me, then by all means, please do so. It shows that you have a very small mentality and are severely disturbed. You broke the rules of a community that you voluntarily joined and continue to use. I’d also like to say that your definition of a “friend” is wrong and skewed. When I posted that I was having severe low blood sugars, you never commented. When I posted that I’d been in a car accident, you never commented. When I posted that my teeth were causing me such severe pain that I could not eat for several weeks, you never commented. Yet you called yourself my friend? That’s hilarious. That’s not a friend. I’ve posted nearly identical entries in my journal and real friends commented on the situations.

When people lie about me or post ridiculous things about me on the web, I generally don’t care. I’ve been online for over a decade. I’ve had sites since I was 19 years old. You don’t have a web presence that long without pissing off someone. When people lie about me on the web, it doesn’t bother me. I won’t be contacting this person’s host. Let their entry stand. Let the world see, for themselves, that this person is a liar and a thief.

Just because others might be wondering: If you want to find my dirty laundry, the internet is the last place to look for it. It’s not there. In the eleven years that I have had a site, I’ve learned that the internet can only regurgitate what you feed it. Everything I have posted on my site, publicly, or in my journal, are things that I am not ashamed of. If I were ashamed of them, I would not have posted them. I’m not stupid. This also includes pictures. If I thought I was so hideous, I wouldn’t include photos of myself on the web. I’m not ashamed of how I look, what medicines I take to control my nerve damage or my emotional state. I’m comfortable with me, and I like me. Maybe when this person learns to like themselves, they’ll see that I’m not the one with the problem in this entire ordeal.

Thank you to Matt, Tara, Cedric, James and all of my Facebook friends who thought this was hilarious and posted such funny comments on my wall. I love you all.

I would also like to take this opportunity to say that if you got the “banned” notice on Recycled Frockery, please send an email to support@entrecard.com and tell them, or fill out the comments box in your profile. You will remain anonymous, as in Recycled Frockery will not get your information to abuse like she did mine, but they need people to come forward and help them investigate this woman for breaking the rules of the site. I also support Matt’s comments and discoveries in this fully. I’m actually proud of him in response that he did not use any racial slurs. He did, however, leave out “vengeful” in his lists of faults, but somethings are best left for the surprise effect. He also left out that I have thanked this person for helping me in the past, but she can’t tell the truth. It wouldn’t make her look good enough in the eyes of the 1-2 people who actually do visit her site. Darren taught me to be a cold-hearted bitch. I can’t thank him enough for this!