I was doing a little system maintenance earlier today and thought I had shut down all open programs. About 5 minutes into disc defrag I get an IM on Napster, apparently some turd had logged on when I didn’t notice.
Turd says “what the fuck!!!”
“Excuse me?”, I reply
“biotch you messed my song”
“I’m sorry, I’m running disc defrag right now, please try later”, I reply
Turd replies “Well then just Fuck you then, biotch”
I couldn’t believe it. After all he was downloading my songs! He should have been happy he found the song. All he would have to do is add me to his hotlist and pick back up when I was back online.
The only other IM’s I get are usually something like “cool song, Huh? Enjoy” That’s ok, a little silly perhaps but at least polite.
Can anybody give one GOOD reason why there should be an IM on Napster?
The IM feature is nice - like Karl said, you can find some good stuff that way. You can also get some weird people popping up. Is it just me? Am I the only one that gets these nuts? “Hi. Thanx 4 the tunes. I’m lonely. R U Gay?”
Uh, yeah, ok pal, whatever. I’m just going to close this little window now.
Mermaid, I agree. I have a cable connection with a router, so I am nice enough to leave my computer on all the time with Napster running. However, connections are known to drop, and God forbid, some of us even do maintenance weekly like defrags or reboots. It’s one thing if someone has 5 minutes left on a download, but if you’re pulling a .80 with 2 hours left on your 28K, see ya buddy. And then I get a nastygram.
I’ve had times when the cable co. reset me, or the Napster servers fucked up (like that never happens). Then the message pops up: “FUCK YOU ASSHOLE. I WAS DOWNLOADING”
I write their name down. If they EVER download again…CLICK! They’re gone. Stupid peckerhead pricks.
The funniest part of your story is that I would believe it if Turd’s name was actually Turd. The other day, “DJ_Shitpile” downloaded from me. Yesterday it was someone named “corprophagic”. Where do these names come from? Corprophagic? Am I supposed to believe that you actually eat shit???
Oh, and if someone called tiggeril “puta”, I’m guessing they know some Spanish. (puta = pussy) Stupid jerk. Like tiggeril sez. Jeez, don’t share your folders if you’re going to get pissy about it.
I was so pissed I really didn’t think to get his nam, started with an A I think.
I once got an IM from someone asking if is ok to take song,yes? I’m like uhm, sure. Request was repeated.
I finally said, you know I don’t need to give you permission. Just double click on the song you want.
I have found some really great stuff by putting someone on the hotlist who has a song I like and just looking at their library. Weird stuff too. Rawhide, ghost riders in the sky, a whole kettle of Phish (can’t resist a good pun)
I personally wish they didn’t have IM in napster. Those “how old are you?” and like IM are really tiresome. They do have several chat rooms anyone can use. As far as rude IM’s anyone can get cut off, etc. It’s just part of the wonderful world of cyberland. People should just chill.
If you don’t want people to download something, it’s easy enough to move things to a separate directory. If you don’t want to share, you don’t have to.
So…
If you DO have Napster open, and people are in the middle of a file transfer, you have to be really callous to start a defrag.
That’s the opposite of sharing access.
I think you were in the wrong here, and should realize it’s a simple case of the Golden Rule at work. Don’t waste other people’s time on broken downloads if you don’t like them yourself.
You make me sound like a heartless bitch. I thought I had closed Napster, but apparently this person must have logged on just as I was signing it off, Napster will stay on and allow a download to continue even if you don’t have a window open. I didn’t realize there was a download in progress until he IM’d.
My reaction was to his harsh response. I apologized and told him I was running defrag and to please try later, I don’t think that was unreasonable. His download was already dropped. It would be unreasonable for him to expect me to close defrag, and reopen Napster just to let him restart a download, dontcha think?
It’s not even a matter of not liking someone, I love every one until they start calling me nasty names like stingy callous time-wasting biotches. Then I might just tell them to go fuck themselves or maybe not, depending on my mood.
I play nice with every one and I love to share. Come on by sometime and check out my library.— cindismojo @ napster. It’s not much, about 1,000 songs but you are very welcome to them. IM me (nicely) and I might respond. Or I might not.
When I’m wrong I say so. When I read your post I thought you had misspelled “putz” and it was the first time I ever thought it would be appropriate to use the “wally”.
I guess my ignorance is showing, I really didn’t know punta was a word. Now according to my handy “Increase your vocabulary and impress the shit out of your friends and co-worker’s” manual, I need to find a way to work this into a conversation 10 times.
Like I said I have no punta of that and that’s how I like it.
Remember the Motto----Use a word 10 times and you will own it.
Another reason for me to not use Napster… I hate random IMs
'Sides, you’ve never lived until you’ve embarked on a massive, Internet-wide hunt for an elusive, random Mp3. Scouring porn sites, hiking through Warez, peeking at Little Bobby Joe’s Basket-Weaving Homepage, trudging through piles upon piles of dead links and circuituous paths, and then finally, finally, FINALLY finding that “Zoot Suit Riot” or “Particle Man”… only to find out that the file is corrupted.
That’s the way it was in my day… we had to log on to the Internet uphill, both ways, buck-naked, in the snow, while eating a piece of our little brother for breakfast. Times was tough, then…
I have only had one or two of the annoying or disgusting IMs on there. I have, however, gotten to talk to people with similar music tastes and gotten some great recommendations on things I otherwise would have never heard of.
I like them too. I hate it when someone leaves me with only half a song or im missing the last 15 seconds, it just ruins the song kinda… so when i have to turn off the computer for what ever reason, and somebody is downloading from me, i like the opportunity to say “sorry man, i gotta go” and normally people are happier knowing that im not just some dickhead who doesn’t want people downloading from him.
so yeah, i like it, but if someone bitches at me with it, i do what my mommy told me, and ignore them.
