And here I am, wide awake again.
It seems that when I'm physically feeling better, I can't sleep at all, and when my body aches badly, all I can do is sleep in 20 minute intervals every other hour, for days at a time until the muscle aches go away.
So anyway, I am really bored at this late hour, just blog hopping and forum surfing, when my other blog started getting slammed by spammers who post those nonsensical urls.
You know the ones, http://xhgeteiihjhxgsueipow.hgu
Yeah, they don't work, and they don't make any sense at all.
I think they post those urls in an attempt to see if the ip addresses get banned.
I'm not sure if that's the reason, but it seems logical to me.
Anyway, so I was going through the unpublished-waiting to be moderated comments on the other blog, which were mostly spam, when I came across a few comments that I never allowed to be published because it was replies that assumed they knew what I was venting about.
I read them all, and yes, I can see how they could be misunderstood, but only 1 person ever emailed me and outright asked me what I was ranting about when I had offered to answer what the rants were about to anyone who asked and just needed to know.
And I told her, and I even linked her to the actual forums that were causing me the stress.
She understood, it was all good after that, and life went on until the next time I ranted/vented about the forums again.
The forums were about cars, auto parts franchises , people who did cheap auto repairs, auto painting, auto detailing, cars for sale, and a sub-forum for sex and relationships, home businesses, work at home jobs for moms, a single parents sub-forum, and an all women sub-forum, on the huge network of forums that housed all of these topics.
I was the moderator of 5 of those sub-forums for about 1 and a half years, before I finally had to quit doing any of them because of the constant stress.
That network of forums and sub-forums went through moderators faster than a cruise ship full of people with e-coli and food poisoning, could go through 5,000 rolls of toilet paper before they reached port.
It seemed that every week there was a new moderator, or 10, and most of the older mods left in a final blaze of typing glory.
When I was posting to my other blog all of those rants, I was venting there so as not to go out in a crazed posting frenzy calling everyone immature idiots and a few other choice names, before I finally quit.
Things were bad and getting worse as each day passed, it would become apparent later on that another online forum had found these forums, and had created tons of troll names simply to come on and cause drama.
They were playing a game with us and the members of our forums.
The game was called how many e-fights and e-drama can be started before our user-name gets banned or a moderator blows their lid and quits.
It may have been fun for them, but for us it was a nightmare.
Our long standing members were messaging daily for some kind of help, begging us to ban certain user names, all kinds of nasty posts, and emotions were on high strung with no xanax to be found anywhere.
It seems that when I'm physically feeling better, I can't sleep at all, and when my body aches badly, all I can do is sleep in 20 minute intervals every other hour, for days at a time until the muscle aches go away.
So anyway, I am really bored at this late hour, just blog hopping and forum surfing, when my other blog started getting slammed by spammers who post those nonsensical urls.
You know the ones, http://xhgeteiihjhxgsueipow.hgu
Yeah, they don't work, and they don't make any sense at all.
I think they post those urls in an attempt to see if the ip addresses get banned.
I'm not sure if that's the reason, but it seems logical to me.
Anyway, so I was going through the unpublished-waiting to be moderated comments on the other blog, which were mostly spam, when I came across a few comments that I never allowed to be published because it was replies that assumed they knew what I was venting about.
I read them all, and yes, I can see how they could be misunderstood, but only 1 person ever emailed me and outright asked me what I was ranting about when I had offered to answer what the rants were about to anyone who asked and just needed to know.
And I told her, and I even linked her to the actual forums that were causing me the stress.
She understood, it was all good after that, and life went on until the next time I ranted/vented about the forums again.
The forums were about cars, auto parts franchises , people who did cheap auto repairs, auto painting, auto detailing, cars for sale, and a sub-forum for sex and relationships, home businesses, work at home jobs for moms, a single parents sub-forum, and an all women sub-forum, on the huge network of forums that housed all of these topics.
I was the moderator of 5 of those sub-forums for about 1 and a half years, before I finally had to quit doing any of them because of the constant stress.
That network of forums and sub-forums went through moderators faster than a cruise ship full of people with e-coli and food poisoning, could go through 5,000 rolls of toilet paper before they reached port.
It seemed that every week there was a new moderator, or 10, and most of the older mods left in a final blaze of typing glory.
When I was posting to my other blog all of those rants, I was venting there so as not to go out in a crazed posting frenzy calling everyone immature idiots and a few other choice names, before I finally quit.
Things were bad and getting worse as each day passed, it would become apparent later on that another online forum had found these forums, and had created tons of troll names simply to come on and cause drama.
They were playing a game with us and the members of our forums.
The game was called how many e-fights and e-drama can be started before our user-name gets banned or a moderator blows their lid and quits.
It may have been fun for them, but for us it was a nightmare.
Our long standing members were messaging daily for some kind of help, begging us to ban certain user names, all kinds of nasty posts, and emotions were on high strung with no xanax to be found anywhere.
I stuck it out as long as I could, I was getting paid
to mod the
forums, that's another sign of how bad things had gotten. They never
used to pay their mods, so when things went bad, the mods just up and
quit, and they had to find new mods very quickly.
So they started paying some of the mods of the tougher to control sub-forums so that we wouldn't all just up and quit too.
I was stuck at home for my health reasons already, recovering from my first spine fusion, doing some paid blogging here and there, and these forums were paying me, and I needed the money, so I stuck it out as long as I could before finally stepping down as one of their mods.
The place drove me insane, but the money was really good, I had bills and rent to pay, food to buy, shoes and clothes for the teens to buy, so quitting and losing that money sucked.
When I quit being one of their mods, I lost $400 per month in income.
Ouch.
Someone asked me once why I even post on forums, how can I stand it because a lot of people are really immature and it's nothing but e-drama all of the time.
My answer was and still is pretty simple.
When you are stuck at home for health reasons for years and years, you can no longer work outside the home, your kids are at school all day long, you crave human interaction, adult conversations, and forums provide that for me.
Forums provide that for a lot of people, they post from home all night long, and then they get to work and post on the company time and dime.
Over the last 4 years that I've had this blog on this hosting provider, I've posted a pretty big amount of posts for the various forums that I was either just a member of, or I was being paid to moderate.
Just do a simple search for the word 'forum', and tons of my posted entries come up as results.
114 posts where I blogged about things that were subjects on forums, or other forums where I found out how to do something online, get help with browser or computer issues, etc etc etc.
So when people started assuming that they knew the "ONLY" forum I could have possibly been blogging about, I chuckled.
I am still a member of 7 active forums, and I only moderate two now, one is for paid blogging, and the other is a music forum.
Neither one pay me.
Forums help me pass the time when I'm bored and lonely, or have insomnia like I am having againtonight,
er, this morning, uh, today, they provide me with entertainment,
laughs, blog worthy subjects to post about, and instant interaction
with other people.
And sometimes those forums actually save someone's life.
And there was a time when a post on a forum saved my life, when I was feeling exactly the same way my friend was the night my posted reply saved hers.
So these silly forums, this internet is serious business, this blogging thing where we share small bits and pieces of ourselves with the world, can be a really cool thing.
It can be fun and entertaining, it can be serious, and it can be all e-dramatic, but just don't go assuming that you ever really know anybody because of a few blog posts.
Don't ever just assume that the blogger's life that you are reading, is blogging about the same e-drama that you are, and so you start some more e-drama over it.
If you ever really, just absolutely, need to know, just ask me, just email me and ask.
I'll answer you honestly.
So they started paying some of the mods of the tougher to control sub-forums so that we wouldn't all just up and quit too.
I was stuck at home for my health reasons already, recovering from my first spine fusion, doing some paid blogging here and there, and these forums were paying me, and I needed the money, so I stuck it out as long as I could before finally stepping down as one of their mods.
The place drove me insane, but the money was really good, I had bills and rent to pay, food to buy, shoes and clothes for the teens to buy, so quitting and losing that money sucked.
When I quit being one of their mods, I lost $400 per month in income.
Ouch.
Someone asked me once why I even post on forums, how can I stand it because a lot of people are really immature and it's nothing but e-drama all of the time.
My answer was and still is pretty simple.
When you are stuck at home for health reasons for years and years, you can no longer work outside the home, your kids are at school all day long, you crave human interaction, adult conversations, and forums provide that for me.
Forums provide that for a lot of people, they post from home all night long, and then they get to work and post on the company time and dime.
Over the last 4 years that I've had this blog on this hosting provider, I've posted a pretty big amount of posts for the various forums that I was either just a member of, or I was being paid to moderate.
Just do a simple search for the word 'forum', and tons of my posted entries come up as results.
114 posts where I blogged about things that were subjects on forums, or other forums where I found out how to do something online, get help with browser or computer issues, etc etc etc.
So when people started assuming that they knew the "ONLY" forum I could have possibly been blogging about, I chuckled.
I am still a member of 7 active forums, and I only moderate two now, one is for paid blogging, and the other is a music forum.
Neither one pay me.
Forums help me pass the time when I'm bored and lonely, or have insomnia like I am having again
And sometimes those forums actually save someone's life.
And there was a time when a post on a forum saved my life, when I was feeling exactly the same way my friend was the night my posted reply saved hers.
So these silly forums, this internet is serious business, this blogging thing where we share small bits and pieces of ourselves with the world, can be a really cool thing.
It can be fun and entertaining, it can be serious, and it can be all e-dramatic, but just don't go assuming that you ever really know anybody because of a few blog posts.
Don't ever just assume that the blogger's life that you are reading, is blogging about the same e-drama that you are, and so you start some more e-drama over it.
If you ever really, just absolutely, need to know, just ask me, just email me and ask.
I'll answer you honestly.
