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Lee is a guy from Boratsville, Kazakhstan

This blog has been paved over to make room for a parking lot.

  • Created May 10 2009 •

    Well, I got my account unblocked, but alas, this is it. Five years of Stumbleupon and I believe I am done.

    I have been told that the core demographic of Stumbleupon is changing. No longer can we be free to tell it like it is. Now we must be all happy happy, joy joy, rainbows and unicorns and all that bullshit. If you're anything but a li'l ray of sunshine, you get flagged as evil/mean/nasty and Heaven forbid if people have to actually work to figure out what you're saying.

    Yes folks, I was mainly banned for being mean to a few people, but I was also banned for ROT13. Apparently, when you're posting a review, and again, if it's anything other than a "OMG I LOVE THIS THUMBS UP" review, people get paranoid and naturally assume that I'm posting in secret code to get around some kind of TOS or something, I don't know.

    Oh and another thing: I told several people to block me if they don't like what I have to say. Apparently if enough people block you, that gives SU the right to ban you as well. I figured a block would just be a harmless way for some thin skinned people to avoid seeing anything that might not be 100% flattering to their internet personas...who knew?

    Anyway, I was told that I could come back if I was nice and I pretty much told him that I couldn't guarantee that everyone would like what I had to say and so it'd be best if I just left instead. I am not going to "walk on eggshells" hoping that everyone would love everything I said, nor was I going to just deal with thumbs only so that the idiots I was thumbing down wouldn't know I thought they were idiots.

    So this will be the last blog entry and I'm not going to use this for any more reviews. I'm going to do something I normally never do and thumb up my own blog entry so that everyone on my subscriber list sees it and knows to unsubscribe.

    Also, I've had several people write me to say that I do all this for attention. Honestly I don't want to be ignored (nobody does) but I hate excessive amounts of attention. To me, this was pretty excessive:
    visitors That's more visitors in 10-12 days than I usually get in a month.

    Anyway, I'm going to eventually totally gut this blog so seriously, abandon ship. Women and children first.

    EDIT: I've saved off the last page of my blog to the hard drive. That part took me a couple of days because I didn't want to sit here and hit the right arrow key, ctrl S and enter over and over again.

    Now I have to go through the same tedious process of deleting reviews. The Thumbs will remain, as will any plain blog posts. Just reviews are going bye-bye.

  • ROT13

    Created Apr 01 2009 •

    I think I'm going to start posting my reviews in ROT13. If you don't know what that is, you can easily find out.

    The idea is simple. Most people don't care what I think, or they like to profess that they don't care what I think, yet they are disturbed by the fact that I have an opinion and care to express it.

    The great thing about ROT13 is that it would take a small amount of effort to decode it and yet it's easily more effort than someone who truly didn't care would go through.

    If anyone cared enough to decipher it and then wanted to send me a nasty email or leave a nasty review stating that they don't care about my opinion, I could easily tell them "bullshit" on the grounds that they had to care enough to decode it.

    There's an extension on Firefox that I'd use to make it that can also be used to decode it.

    I'm not asking anyone to go get this extension, I've already stated that I review mostly for myself. I'm just telling you so that if you're curious you can satisfy that curiousity.

    Oh and for all the people who are apparently mad that I'm using ROT13. Go fuck yourself, and when you're done with that, block/ignore me. Was that so hard?