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Post by riversong1963 on Aug 8, 2018 0:14:21 GMT
I couldn't help it. I had vowed to not say anything anymore over there. But some nasty woman called my BFF "deceitful" because she didn't understand my friend's RAK offer. Yes, she was really nasty and hurtful over a FREE offer! Well, I went after her with both barrels, and the Nice Police stepped in. My account is apparently in jeopardy. No worries. I won't even be reading anything there again. It's very hypocritical. No one went after the woman who made the mean comment. It was only after I replied to her that posts were deleted. Typical. And this woman's post was signed with "GB," which I assume means "God Bless." They're certainly not her initials. Hypocrites, I tell you. I just have to use this again:
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Post by Linda on Aug 8, 2018 0:45:33 GMT
I'm sorry
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Post by jstblondie on Aug 8, 2018 1:23:58 GMT
I've looked around but haven't signed up to be a member.
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Aug 8, 2018 2:00:49 GMT
I hate when people do the GB thing UGH. I think they think it coves their asshole behavior.
Last week we got to take Spencer to the zoo for a few hrs he wanted to see the pandas they just came there this spring.
So we are lined up against the glass this lady ahead of us is taking a bazillion pics of the panda laying down right in front of her. Then proceeds to do selfies of her 2 kids with It. We patiently waited while I did a eye roll in my head lol.
So finally we think she's going to move along. There's tons of people behind us facing our back and even more to our side. She spots her hubby and other kid and calls him over. I'm like fuck that as they start to crawl over Spencer's chair and push their way towards the glass. They don't even care that the kid is being pushed out of their say.
I say excuse me we are next you had your turn they can't just cut in. They're my family she says. I said look we patiently waited while you took a ton of pictures we're not waiting any longer. She starts beaking off and I lose it so does his therapist and they move over just enough for him. In the mean time her little snowflakes are glaring at him and us. As we walked away her husband made a smart remark and then said GB I turned around and said why don't you go fuck yourself LOL.
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Post by AmandaA on Aug 8, 2018 2:29:27 GMT
Good for you canadianscrappergirl After everything you and Spencer have been through, you deserve a well placed f-bomb Hope the rest of his day at the zoo was fabulous and not ruined by those jerks.
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Aug 8, 2018 2:36:44 GMT
Good for you canadianscrappergirl After everything you and Spencer have been through, you deserve a well placed f-bomb Hope the rest of his day at the zoo was fabulous and not ruined by those jerks. Haha thanks it did feel kinda good. I apologized to his therapist she said it was hard to keep her cool when they practically crawled over him. We had a really nice time thanks so much!
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Post by dudleypippen on Aug 8, 2018 4:19:41 GMT
It never fails to amaze me how some people will lose their freaking minds over a RAK because of a sense of entitlement.
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Post by quinmm14 on Aug 8, 2018 5:07:36 GMT
How does somebody get all butthurt over a RAK anyway? People never fail to confirm my belief that there are some crazy ass ones out there.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Aug 8, 2018 6:20:33 GMT
People can be so unkind and self-centered. The world isn't yours. And you aren't the bright star it revolves around. (Also, sorry that lady was so nasty, canadianscrappergirl , I hope Spencer had a wonderful day at the zoo!) This board sometimes gets "called out" for being not positive enough, particulary by those who participate in other crafty boards/FB groups, but I always appreciate the balance we strike here: fair criticism of products and practices while being respectful of each other. Go Pea Refugees!
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Post by kiwigirl on Aug 8, 2018 7:40:47 GMT
As we walked away her husband made a smart remark and then said GB I turned around and said why don't you go fuck yourself LOL. OMG, you just made me actually laugh out loud, you go girl! I don't blame you one bit. People are so entitled these days it does my bloody head in. I am so glad you and Spence had a good day at the zoo I don't blame you having a go riversong1963, I would lose my shit if someone called one of my friends deceitful as well, that is not a nice word at all. You go girl too!
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 8, 2018 11:46:45 GMT
I completely admire those who will not just stand by when someone is being attacked, but will instead speak up and confront it.
I am all about that. But I gotta say I really want to know how it went down. What was the RAK and why did the lady think it was deceitful?
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Post by mikklynn on Aug 8, 2018 19:01:49 GMT
Good for you canadianscrappergirl After everything you and Spencer have been through, you deserve a well placed f-bomb Hope the rest of his day at the zoo was fabulous and not ruined by those jerks. Good for you! I swear, if you are in a wheelchair, you are invisible. DH uses one occasionally, if there is a lot of walking. I have gone off on people who literally step on him to get around him.
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Post by riversong1963 on Aug 8, 2018 23:38:57 GMT
I completely admire those who will not just stand by when someone is being attacked, but will instead speak up and confront it. I am all about that. But I gotta say I really want to know how it went down. What was the RAK and why did the lady think it was deceitful? Well, basically, my friend was offering 2 stamp and die sets as a RAK. She had a list of 7 and told people who were interested to PM her with their 2 choices. She would pick a winner at random. A few people misunderstood and thought there would be multiple winners, and that all the sets would be given away. Instead of just accepting that it was a misunderstanding, like a few others did, this one woman accused my friend of playing "games" and being deceitful. Her exact words were a Shakespeare quote: "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." I came back at her and got hand-slapped. She's been nasty to other people on the forum before, but no one ever really calls her out. When I did, she apparently reported me to the mods - or maybe someone else did - but I think it was her, because she never replied to me. That's what happens when you confront a mean girl. She goes crying to someone about how mean YOU were.
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Post by stinkerbelle on Aug 8, 2018 23:46:18 GMT
That's what happens when you confront a mean girl. She goes crying to someone about how mean YOU were. ugh, one of my pet peeve personality traits! if you can dish it out, you'd better learn to take it in also, READ before you speak!
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 9, 2018 0:04:23 GMT
this one woman accused my friend of playing "games" and being deceitful. Wow. For someone with such literary knowledge too bad she can't read a simple sentence. Loser. signed, someone who frequently responds to threads here without reading the details but hope I am not that stupid and nasty unless I am literally trying to be.
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Post by LisaDV on Aug 9, 2018 1:07:32 GMT
Sorry that you got your hand slapped. Hopefully the other lady got hers slapped as well and maybe a hooked on phonics book so she could learn to read. canadianscrappergirl , I'm glad you and Spencer had a nice time at the zoo in spite of the incident. Oh, and I'm originally from the south or close enough to, so we don't use God Bless after snide comments. We say "well, bless your heart," and then make the snide comment. I guess it's a difference from the north and south.
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 9, 2018 11:34:43 GMT
I guess it's a difference from the north and south. I never heard this in the north either! All God Blessing references are primarily a southern thing, except for sneezes!
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Post by gale w on Aug 9, 2018 17:34:18 GMT
When I first got soft banned (I guess that's what it is, since I can still read, even the demo forums, but can't post) I was devastated. I was a regular contributor and it was one of my first stops of the day. I had almost 10K posts since 2004. I had never been snarky or unfriendly to anyone. Now I really don't care anymore.
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Post by riley on Aug 9, 2018 20:22:57 GMT
Sometimes I wonder if they keep track of people who didn’t love the Misti (or some other sacred cow) and then build a case on top of that. Otherwise I can’t figure out their formula although I’ve read their rules.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Aug 9, 2018 20:36:41 GMT
I wouldn’t be too upset about leaving a forum where I was treated so shabbily. This is why I dumped the Scrap Gals, I couldn’t take the hypocrisy. Of course, now I think I should have just stayed so I could pass along the “whatthefuckedness” but you live and learn.
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Post by riley on Aug 9, 2018 20:57:20 GMT
I wouldn’t be too upset about leaving a forum where I was treated so shabbily. This is why I dumped the Scrap Gals, I couldn’t take the hypocrisy. Of course, now I think I should have just stayed so I could pass along the “whatthefuckedness” but you live and learn. LOL, yes I would have appreciated an insider over there on Scrap Gals. I might not miss posting on SCS because I mostly just read product review info. This forum is funnier and much more entertaining. Not so many goodie goodie types.
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Post by riversong1963 on Aug 9, 2018 22:40:15 GMT
Well, my last post is still there, but I haven't been banned. I used to contribute a lot there. I even started the original PIF thread about 3 years ago. It went very well, until some people started getting greedy, taking but not giving back. One person started begging for birthday presents and other things. She still does. That wasn't the original purpose of the thread, so I gave up hosting it. Someone else took it over and apparently insulted someone, so now another person has picked it up. You know what they say about good intentions. I never seem to learn. I defend people who don't speak up for themselves, and I get in trouble. It's not the first time, but I'm making an effort to make it the last. OK. Pity Party over.
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Post by annaintx on Aug 9, 2018 23:21:24 GMT
When I first got soft banned (I guess that's what it is, since I can still read, even the demo forums, but can't post) I was devastated. I was a regular contributor and it was one of my first stops of the day. I had almost 10K posts since 2004. I had never been snarky or unfriendly to anyone. Now I really don't care anymore. I had to reset my password the other day to see some stuff and I thought of you the whole time, Gale, remembering your whole thing with them and how none of them would answer your emails or help you out. I think it's slowed down there quite a bit TBH.
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Post by artisticscrapper on Aug 10, 2018 1:38:26 GMT
Good for you riversong1963 for standing up for your friend. And why is it that the board admin didn’t do anything about the nasty person’s post in the first place? Is it one of those favoritism things because that would suck. I’ve looked around at the board but since I’m not a card maker I’ve never signed up. And honestly there’s way too much MISTI for me. Not ny favorite company.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Aug 10, 2018 6:29:23 GMT
LOL, yes I would have appreciated an insider over there on Scrap Gals. It's pretty quiet in that group at the moment. I just scrolled through and out of the 20 posts that have the most recent activity only 4 or 5 of them have more than 12 comments. Apparently the big discussions are what colour papers should I use with this photo, what mini ink pads should I buy, and "riff with Tiff" which is one of the new weekly regular posts (and has everyone sharing what they're planning to do before summer finishes). I think there's still a few of us on the inside so never fear, when the crazy flares up we will dutifully report.
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Post by peachiceteas on Aug 10, 2018 6:32:43 GMT
Well I’ve never visited that forum but it sounds like a horrible, judgemental place with admins on a power trip?
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Post by cbet on Aug 10, 2018 14:09:44 GMT
Well I’ve never visited that forum but it sounds like a horrible, judgemental place with admins on a power trip? Sad thing is, it didn't used to be that way. Back in the day, the boards moved wicked fast - if I looked at a post in the morning before work, it might be on page 4 by the time I got home, and people were (in general) pretty nice. The site was started by a Stampin' Up demo for her downline, and it growed and growed! I learned more from that site than anywhere - techniques, what tools to buy, what tools to avoid, what company had a good deal, what companies to avoid. Then they started with the member companies, and it was screwy - if you posted about great customer service by a company that wasn't a member company, it stayed in "General Stamping" where everyone could read it. If you posted about great customer service by a member company, it got moved to their forum, where only the people who followed that company were likely to read it. Why would a company pay for the privilege of having fewer people read customer raves? Then came the admin they have now, and the MISTI - now, there are threads on the first page of general stamping that haven't had a post in 3 days. And there isn't the free sharing of info - both positive and negative - that there used to be, because no one can say anything bad about a company. The terms on the site say no negative posts about a human, but they've already established that negative posts about the MISTI are considered negative posts about Ileana. It's become all MISTI, all the time and it's just not fun to be there anymore.
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Post by scrapnnana on Aug 10, 2018 15:09:00 GMT
Well, my last post is still there, but I haven't been banned. I used to contribute a lot there. I even started the original PIF thread about 3 years ago. It went very well, until some people started getting greedy, taking but not giving back. One person started begging for birthday presents and other things. She still does. That wasn't the original purpose of the thread, so I gave up hosting it. Someone else took it over and apparently insulted someone, so now another person has picked it up. You know what they say about good intentions. I never seem to learn. I defend people who don't speak up for themselves, and I get in trouble. It's not the first time, but I'm making an effort to make it the last. OK. Pity Party over. Wow, that's a shame that your kind efforts were treated that way.
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Post by quinmm14 on Aug 10, 2018 15:43:46 GMT
Well I’ve never visited that forum but it sounds like a horrible, judgemental place with admins on a power trip? Sad thing is, it didn't used to be that way. Back in the day, the boards moved wicked fast - if I looked at a post in the morning before work, it might be on page 4 by the time I got home, and people were (in general) pretty nice. The site was started by a Stampin' Up demo for her downline, and it growed and growed! I learned more from that site than anywhere - techniques, what tools to buy, what tools to avoid, what company had a good deal, what companies to avoid. Then they started with the member companies, and it was screwy - if you posted about great customer service by a company that wasn't a member company, it stayed in "General Stamping" where everyone could read it. If you posted about great customer service by a member company, it got moved to their forum, where only the people who followed that company were likely to read it. Why would a company pay for the privilege of having fewer people read customer raves? Then came the admin they have now, and the MISTI - now, there are threads on the first page of general stamping that haven't had a post in 3 days. And there isn't the free sharing of info - both positive and negative - that there used to be, because no one can say anything bad about a company. The terms on the site say no negative posts about a human, but they've already established that negative posts about the MISTI are considered negative posts about Ileana. It's become all MISTI, all the time and it's just not fun to be there anymore.Maybe they should consider renaming their site.
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Post by basketdiva on Aug 10, 2018 16:14:16 GMT
I agree about slow the place is. I generally look at the daily challenges and gallery for ideas. I used to participate in the PIF but after the 4th time of never getting any notice that the package was received, I stopped.
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