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bladesparkSome people apparently would rather STRETCH to find a reason why something is against their rules, because they get some kind of orgasmic sensation from smacking down rule breakers, I guess, than have an OUNCE of common human decency and bend even half an inch in the direction of humanity and let somebody "get away" with something that hurts nobody in any way whatsoever when they're in real need.
And yes, I'm taking about pokemon collectors. I don't give a shit about the drama at this point. They've EARNED IT.
The owners have treated me like UTTER shit before this, but this is the frigging last straw. I forgave them following me to my personal journal to harass me, I forgave them hounding and attacking me and refusing to let me have peace until they'd forced me to grovel and apologize at their feet. I forgave them messaging me, finding my IMs and hassling me until I literally cried, even after I told them that I was so upset I was shaking and could they PLEASE leave me alone. I forgave them jumping on a misunderstanding and personally attacking me for it. I forgave them all that, because I thought all that *was* misunderstandings, or understandable emotional reactions.
But telling me I can't mention that I'm selling my vulpix because my money was stolen is a fucking dick move. It's totally okay for the big post I did a while back to go "I'm selling this stuff because I'm getting out of collecting," that's fine, but I can't say "I'm selling this because somebody stole from me and I need $200," NO, that's horribly against their eight pages of convoluted rules that I'm supposed to memorize and give a damn about, and which they constantly twist around to find a way to use against people. (Edit - apparently it's not IN the rules themselves, it in a supplementary rules post that I was supposed to go find and read. Guys, when your rules for a livejournal community are longer than some real legal documents, and are so long and convoluted that you can't even keep them in a single location, you maybe need to start re-thinking some of them, okay?)
I thought it was just them honestly not getting it when they said "You can't make custom plush posts more than once a month, but you can totally mention your custom plushes in posts about other things" and then slapped me down for mentioning custom plushes in all my other posts, because I put thumbnails of the customs at the top of said posts, and I thought that made them think that's all the posts were about. (Yeah, a HUGE post about collection photos, so big I put the ten giant photos and the pages of text under a cut, but it has one tiny thumbnail of a custom plush at the top, that makes it a post about customs, not a post about collecting. Fuckers. And can I say something about how really obnoxious it is that custom artists are treated like second-class citizens there, our posts restricted so we don't interrupt the "real" collectors and our stuff treated like it's less valuable and interesting than the official merch from fucking Wal-Mart?) But there's no misunderstanding here. This is a post with a picture of a pokemon, about selling a pokemon, and about somebody who's in a horrible situation and needs to sell it, and if that's really, genuinely against their rules to MENTION the horrible situation, fuck them. FUCK the whole fucking community.
I have left, I will not be back, and ANYBODY from that community that comes HERE and tries once again to dictate what I say in MY JOURNAL will be fucking banned and blocked. This is my space, and just like your prissy little rules let you be complete douchebags to people in your community, I get to be the same in my space, and I say that this post is my FUCKING SAFE SPACE TO RANT and if you try to ruin that by telling me I'm wrong to be angry, I will fucking boot you so hard you'll be burping boot leather.
And yes, I'm taking about pokemon collectors. I don't give a shit about the drama at this point. They've EARNED IT.
The owners have treated me like UTTER shit before this, but this is the frigging last straw. I forgave them following me to my personal journal to harass me, I forgave them hounding and attacking me and refusing to let me have peace until they'd forced me to grovel and apologize at their feet. I forgave them messaging me, finding my IMs and hassling me until I literally cried, even after I told them that I was so upset I was shaking and could they PLEASE leave me alone. I forgave them jumping on a misunderstanding and personally attacking me for it. I forgave them all that, because I thought all that *was* misunderstandings, or understandable emotional reactions.
But telling me I can't mention that I'm selling my vulpix because my money was stolen is a fucking dick move. It's totally okay for the big post I did a while back to go "I'm selling this stuff because I'm getting out of collecting," that's fine, but I can't say "I'm selling this because somebody stole from me and I need $200," NO, that's horribly against their eight pages of convoluted rules that I'm supposed to memorize and give a damn about, and which they constantly twist around to find a way to use against people. (Edit - apparently it's not IN the rules themselves, it in a supplementary rules post that I was supposed to go find and read. Guys, when your rules for a livejournal community are longer than some real legal documents, and are so long and convoluted that you can't even keep them in a single location, you maybe need to start re-thinking some of them, okay?)
I thought it was just them honestly not getting it when they said "You can't make custom plush posts more than once a month, but you can totally mention your custom plushes in posts about other things" and then slapped me down for mentioning custom plushes in all my other posts, because I put thumbnails of the customs at the top of said posts, and I thought that made them think that's all the posts were about. (Yeah, a HUGE post about collection photos, so big I put the ten giant photos and the pages of text under a cut, but it has one tiny thumbnail of a custom plush at the top, that makes it a post about customs, not a post about collecting. Fuckers. And can I say something about how really obnoxious it is that custom artists are treated like second-class citizens there, our posts restricted so we don't interrupt the "real" collectors and our stuff treated like it's less valuable and interesting than the official merch from fucking Wal-Mart?) But there's no misunderstanding here. This is a post with a picture of a pokemon, about selling a pokemon, and about somebody who's in a horrible situation and needs to sell it, and if that's really, genuinely against their rules to MENTION the horrible situation, fuck them. FUCK the whole fucking community.
I have left, I will not be back, and ANYBODY from that community that comes HERE and tries once again to dictate what I say in MY JOURNAL will be fucking banned and blocked. This is my space, and just like your prissy little rules let you be complete douchebags to people in your community, I get to be the same in my space, and I say that this post is my FUCKING SAFE SPACE TO RANT and if you try to ruin that by telling me I'm wrong to be angry, I will fucking boot you so hard you'll be burping boot leather.