Silver Lining Pending …

I didn’t know it at the time but the stress involved with hosting Gold Shows raised my level of frustration even higher, adding to what I had already been dealing with as far as being harrassed daily for the last year and a half, every single shift I worked. Since the site refused to help or do anything about it, I was forced to suck it up and deal with it myself. Blocking rude members became the norm in my room. Am I just a magnet for rude people? I highly doubt that. Did I piss someone off enough for them to want to pick at me, constantly, trying to drive me offline or insane (whichever came first)? More likely. In fact, I was threatened to “stay offline” months back, by someone who was failing miserably to get me to leave on my own. Admittedly, I’m an internet hoarder. I save everything! Copied and pasted from my Blogspor blog last year (dated jan 21st, 2011), read what this ‘member’ wrote. Not just the rudeness, but look at what they wrote at the very end, prior to me blocking them. I let them go on to see just how far they would take this or what sort of slip-up I could catch. I’d had enough, at this point, figuring if I just kept blocking after one rude word was typed, I’d never be able to amass enough proof of harrassment. Here’s what they wrote:

Friday, January 21, 2011

Last Night

Interesting dialog here with a ‘member’ last
night who came into guest chat. What do you guys think of this? I use audio, so
you can’t see what I was saying in response but this is his portion of the chat
and it pretty much speaks for itself, of the conversation.

igetmoney has logged on

igetmoney:
hey sexy

igetmoney: whast up

igetmoney:
hello

igetmoney: sorry messed up tryin to type fast

igetmoney: it means i get money……..alot of money

igetmoney: i am rich

igetmoney: i
was born into a life of riches

igetmoney:
hello

igetmoney: fuck that sucker punch

igetmoney:
shut up wit that

igetmoney: u want this money?

igetmoney:
ima send u some yes i do

igetmoney:
how much do u want?

igetmoney: how much?

igetmoney:
fuck u bitch get naked

igetmoney: fuck ur mouth shut up get naked

igetmoney:
because ur a ho

igetmoney: a internet ho

igetmoney:
ima get off ur shit now

igetmoney: i take everything back ur so sexy

igetmoney: u
are i swear

igetmoney: did u forget about me?

igetmoney:
yes u dirty ho

igetmoney: i love your smile

igetmoney: do
u still love me?

igetmoney: no i will beat ur ass soon

igetmoney:
stay offline

igetmoney has been blocked

The above is just one small example. I have hundreds of others.

This has caused me a lot of grief and frustration over time. I was already leery of everyone that entered my room with something rude to say. Recently, thanks to Gold Shows, their rudeness was all out in the open, for everyone to see and not just me. In the beginning, those Gold Shows were great. How can they not be when you have the volume necessary to maximize use of the feature? That volume started to decrease rather rapidly, however and it got to the point where it was next to impossible to get a Gold Show started because there simply was not sufficient traffic in my room to allow for my goal to evenb be reached. I toyed around with the settings, trying different prices, time lengths, but to no avail. It didn’t matter if I was charging 1 Gold or 20 Gold - the room just would not fill up and as a result, I had to cancel a whole bunch of Gold Shows. Obviously, I didn’t want to be right about this but I had predicted this from the get-go. The fact that it happened was no surprise to me. The coward harrassing me was privvy to some of the features of this Gold Show and while in guest chat, would use those to their full advantage. For example, the fact that members were able to see the other members’ chat. This gives them billboard advertising to post whatever they like and have everyone see it. I’m sure you can imagine, based on my example above, what was posted.

 

I know my harrasser will stop at nothing to get me offline (they have made that painfully obvious). These games will stop and I will breathe easier just knowing that they are where they deserve to be. It shouldn’t take too much longer.

In the meantime, I’ve gone back to hosting with the more ‘civilized’ format, which doesn’t allow members any billboard advertising. Their messages to me are private. Now, if only I could gain some traffic to my room. If not, I will be posting my resume soon on here and use every last bullet in my arsenal to change the face of this entire industry! I will not stand being treated this way any longer.