So, this fuckin’ guy has a web site devoted to a radio game show called “You Can’t Win”. I’ve driven some of you nuts trying to answer some of the questions.
The show is a daily show. It runs between 9:30-10:00a.m. monday through friday. Hearing answers and, possibly, clues, is an important part of trying to win the game. If you miss a day, you may be screwed for a while.
So, this guy has a web site dedicated to the show, and keeping up with the answers. There are alot of people who use this web site to try to win the show. At least, they would like to use it. You see, even though he has it set up as if it is a daily web site, the fuckers goes days, and many, many times, weeks, without up dating it. Recently he went over 3 weeks before he updated it.
Then he went a week, and by that time the 5 questions had been answered and they were on to a new series of questions.
But my real rant is of the guy who runs it. Allegedly he was/is a Marine. None of the Marines I know aren’t as big whinny sissy bags as this guy seems to be. He has gotten tons of e-mails, including from me and some of my friends, asking him why the fuck he never updates his site.
His response was a whinny diatribe, ranting that he does the site only for himself to look at and enjoy. No one else. Get off my back, I never expected anyone to look at this site. When he replyed to my e-mail I could actually imagine the tears streaming down his face.
Who? Who the fuck makes up a website and doesn’t expect or even want anyone to look at it? It sure isn’t formated to look that way. To him I say: take a shit, or get off the pot! Up date your web site God Damn it!
:DBy the way, I won “You Can’t win” on 02-18-98 and I’ve been going crazy trying to win it again!!
I have an amateur site. It takes A LOT of effort to maintain it (and money too). I get a lot of nice emails from people thanking me for creating a site about something that is dear to them.
I also get one once in a while from people complaining about spelling, grammar, the background colours and whatnot. I get emails from people that want me to email them things, even when somewhere in my site I explain that I have a day-job that is totally unrelated to the internet. That pisses me off. It is free, no sign-up, no pop-ups, no free-sites thingies. All paid from my pocket, to the few ones that complain (as opposed to constructive criticism) I say: Create your own frigging website!
[sub]Actually I reply in a nice way, even when in reality I’d like to choke them[/sub]
Oh, oh, oh! I forgot to add: Both myself and a couple of people I know offered to help him out on days he couldn’t update the site.
You wouldn’t believe his response. The guy is just strange.
I agree with Mighty Girl. I have several web sites, and try to update them when I can. But the fact is, they are a labor of love, not my job. One site in particular offers up a lot of information (and I am frequently told it is valuable information). I put a lot of work into that site. I feel bad because I don’t write back to everyone who emails me, and yeah, I ought to update it. But I think I’ve contributed a lot to it already. And, dare I mention, it is all free to the viewer?
I did some research before I started this site, and found that others had covered the same topic, but charged for it. I’m doing it for free. (And, if I do say so myself, I think my information is of better quality than some of the sites that charge or are selling something). So I don’t stay awake at night feeling guilt because I haven’t updated it lately.
pk: The guy sounds strange. Could anyone update the site, or is it something that this guy feels uniquely qualified to update?
Running a web site can be a thankless job. What kind of email do you get?
-Spelling & Grammer pedants. They can speak better than you and they want you to know it. Unfortunately their writing is painful to behold. Suing six levels of sub-clauses per sentence doesn’t impress me, it makes me think you’re a insufferable know-all.
-Those who can’t be bothered reading the site and want you to answer their questions personally and summarise for them.
-Those who can’t read and take you to task over stuff they simply didn’t understand. Sarcasm is just one big whoosh to some people.
-Crazies who think you might like to read their 50 page rant on a completely unrelated topic you’ve no interest in.
-People who think they can do a better job and want your permission to lift entire pages off your site for their great new Geocities site!
-Moaners about updates and broken links.
So, pkbites, you think you can do better with the help of others? So what’s stopping you?
Maybe he doesn’t want help updating his site. Maybe, just maybe, he gasp does it for himself and not other people. Like he said. Maybe he enjoys the programming or design aspects.
Again, do it yourself if you don’t like his site. You aren’t paying for access. Fucking jackass.
Wow, FutileGesture, have you been reading my emails?
I think that my site is pretty decent. I have invested many, MANY hours and $ in it. The content is 100% original, in two languages and impossible to find anywhere else, not even in print. Luckily most people like it, most tell me they are grateful that I’ve done it.
I don’t mind the critics, actually it is a great help having people tell you when you have broken links or blatant mistakes, I am grateful for that. I encourage visitors to send me their suggestions and reply to all messages, either by email or on the site. What I really hate is the people who feel like bitching, the nerve! GRRRRRRR… A few nice words go a long way.
I run the online version of the longest running local punk zine… we’re closing on seven years and fifty issues, if that tells you anything.
We’ve got a message board with 800+ members, most of them local punk kids and scensters, and you wouldn’t BELIEVE how pushy some of those motherfuckers can be…
“Dude, we need a chatroom. Put one up.”
“Can you make it so I can edit my posts? I just know you’ll want to make an exception for me.”
“Can you change the colors??? My boss is starting to catch on.”
“I tried to hotlink one of your images on my site and I got this instead. You’re such an asshole.”
There are people who spend every waking minute on that fucking board, and they act like they have some god given right to have me drop everything I’m doing to run over and wipe their asses for them. They don’t pay a dime, but my hosting costs have been steadily rising.
I do it for me, and nobody else. I’m glad so many people find it fun, but the minute I don’t feel like doing it anymore, I’m pulling the plug.
It’s part of the reason I never try to bother Tuba et al around here. I know what at pain in the ass people can be.
I’m with everyone else who has no idea what you’re complaining about. You reqire someone else to listen to a radio show, maintain a web page on a daily basis just for you, enter into e-mail discusiions with you - all for free. And when he doesn’t you say tell him
Sorry, but slavery was abolished over a hundred years ago.
Why don’t you go fuck yourself?
Lots of people have personal web pages. Guess what? They are personal. That means they are not a public service. If I want to run a web page, I don’t take instructions from someone I’ve never met.
Why don’t you run a web page? Why don’t you update it every day? How would you like to get
If you don’t update this rant every single day for the rest of your life, then you have absolutely no reason to complain to us or anyone else about someone’s personal website.
Hey, I bet if the SDMB wasn’t updating your wonderful posts:rolleyes: or it was down for a really, really, really long time, you would not be happy about it. And guess what, shit bag? You don’t pay a dime for it, do you? Would you start up your own boards? Probably not.
If a regular (non cable) broadcast television station went off the air right in the middle of a show you was watching, I bet you’ld bitch to high heaven! But you don’t pay for regular telvision, do ya? Whatcha gonna do, start your own tv network? Bet not!
I’m usually in school when You can’t win is on. I know all about that web site. I want to win a bunch of CD’s one day. I even sent him an answer to a question once, he never posted it, and it turned out to be the right answer! If the guy is going to pretend to have a serious web site about the show, he ought to up date it at least every once in a while. I think he went over a month once. I sent an e-mail asking if the site was closed down and I too got a bitchagram email. Fuck him!
You know, there are places (such as http://www.ezboard.com) that will allow you to run your own message board for free. That way, you and all your pals can post answers to questions to your heart’s content without having to worry about harassing some poor sap who probably has better things to do with his life than update his website every fucking day. The difference between this guy and a TV station or a high quality porn site is that the latter two get paid to stay on the air.
No, I would not be happy, but guess what? I won’t be bitching about it, cause I don’t pay a dime here. I am a gasp guest. I also cut yards of slack to the mods here, mostly because I am a mod in another board full of people who think it is mighty fun harrassing the mods (who get paid didly shit for the job) and I have a site where people don’t pay a dime and don’t even get the usual nuisances of the internet.
I haven’t established this rant as a “daily” rant, now, did I. But just in case, here it is.
The sad thing is, in the begining I used to email the guy and not only give answers to questions, but also tell him how much I liked his site. The fact that I really like it is why it’s such a drag when it’s 3 weeks undated. I actually got off light. Some of my friends told me he really bitched on the web site about people complaining. Hey, he owes us nothing but…!