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Advice Line: Part One
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Jan 12, 2009 3:57 pm
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A Message from Mollena Williams, Senior Editor, ALT.COM
CROSS POST THIS.
Get the word out that we need to choke off the sewer at the source.
I'm one person with a workload that has now shifted to include trying to find a way to kill trolls.
You can help
1) Post a link to this AL post. Remind people that feeding trolls is a great way to keep the BS moving.
2) KEEP REPORTING. II know it feels like it is going into a black hole. I feel that way too. But it isn't. It is just a matter of all the Whos in Whoville yelling for a while longer.
Thanks folks.
~Mo
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Advice Line Nightmare & A Late Night & A Little News.
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Jan 11, 2009 5:02 am
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OK, insomniac here.
The Advice Line situation is, IMO, the biggest (readily actionable) fire.
I spoke briefly with my new Manager (who fucking rocks, btw) and he agrees that we need to prioritize it.
We're furthermore looking into several options involving moderators.
On Monday I am going to see what can be done to nuke the gross polluters.
I hadn't been much of an AL person in the past few years, as it wasn't great for my blood pressure. But as you can see by my profile, I was up in the mix a while back there.
But this matter of several douchebags practicing douchebaggery with fucking DOZENS of accounts .... that shit I take personally.
On a side note: there are over sixty responses to this thread and I have read them all. My boss is reading them, and we have a compiling thing happening. It'll take a while. But know that someone who does give a fuck is trying, and I'll do the best that I can.
A couple quick hits...
The cupid blocking thing: ain't gonna change. You can't "Buy" your way past a person's stated preferences, man. I,for example, won't involve myself with a smoker. Why should a Gold Member smoker be able to contact me? So, that right there I will not champion.
The matter of "Fake profiles": "WE" don't have legions of people fucking sitting around writing these. A lot of them are spammers and some of them are unscrupulous affiliates. When I find them I nuke them. If you see one lemmie know and I'll personally vet it. Saying "just weed them out" isn't as simple as it sounds, really. And in light of Legal Issues About Which I may Not Speak, let me ASSURE you it would be highly unwise for my employer to fuck around in this particular arena.
But...well...yeah. Things are coming down the pipeline, and some good things are going to happen. Not as fast as I'd like, but as I said, I care. I really like ALT. I think my decade plus tenure as a member speaks to that. I think the fact that I am committed to working from the inside is further proof of my commitment....and my masochism 
*sigh*
Oh yeah...if you want a way to contact me real-time, I'm on Twitter too, and that might be a helpful channel for any of you who use it. I can be more limber there in terms of communicating, especially during business hours.
Thanks, guys.
I do truly appreciate the outpouring of CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. It is a miraculous gift.
Peace
Mollena
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Thank You for The Feedback & One Piece of Good News.
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Jan 9, 2009 3:45 pm
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OK!
SO, um. A few folks have a few things to say
It feels kind of weird to have my day-job smush all over my blog, but hey, I'm all about porous boundaries, right? And I held out for a while there, didn't I 
We are logging in all of the suggestions and comments.
Of course, there are going to be things I have no capacity to address.
And, let's be frank. There's gonna be some shit that's just Greasy Corporate Fuckery, and we're all gonna have to live with it.
I've been living with it for well over 10 years.
SO, I fuckin' feel ya.
BUT we did get one thing snuck into the most recent release, based on your comments. Specifically on Vossainto's  plaintive cry to not have her points fucking .
SO the default for sending e-mails will NOT REMAIN ACTIVATED and you need to opt in for "Reply Receipts" from now on.
SO.
Victory!!
Please cross-post, if you cross posted the original post.
And if you didn't why the heck not?!?!
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On ALT Issues.
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Jan 8, 2009 11:14 am
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Howdy!
Thank you for the feedback thus far. This has been an opportunity for me to do some specific investigation in certain areas, and see where we might be able to address certain issues. The most substantial concern, that of CS issues, is one of the thorniest, as I we're looking at an outsourced resource and I don't even have the wherewithal to contact them personally without many filters and hoops.
And so it goes.
We're looking as ways to present these concerns to management n away that is actionable, supportive and productive.
In the meanwhile, feel free to add concerns ot the previous applicable post.
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From the dustbins....
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Jan 7, 2009 1:47 am
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Oh shit.
Yeah, OK, so I'm not a fucking poet. I leave that shit to the professionals and those overcome by hubris.
But a looooooooong time ago, back when I was a lil-behbeh pervert, I was involved in an online relationship.
Yeah, OK. Pick your jaw up off of the fucking floor. It is all true.
I met this...person...right here on ALT. This was over 10 years ago. Back when merely possessing a vagina could reap you a premium membership on the site. Any of y'all remember those days?
I was diligent about meeting the Master of my Dreams back then! I went on a few dates, and wound up "involved" with a "dominant" who "collared" me online and yeah there are quotations there for a reason. After several months of the online thing, we were supposed to have met. He wasn't all that far away, in Northern California. A distance I found entirely reasonable. But weeks stretched into months and then eventually I met some real perverts and...well...I went to this Truth Or Dare Party and the rest is living history.
But I took a stab, once, at my then "masters" (gag) "command" and wrote a poem.
I got a wild hair up my ass just now and dug around trying to find it, and find it I did.
Resistance
My thoughts, unfurling, like the serpent's tongue
Darting to taste the air, the pathway split.
Choose what I will, too soon I am undone
Whether I dare rebel or dare submit.
"Resist you must!" The clarion cry within
"Revel in strength, fully express your power
To give yourself so freely tastes of sin
How piteous is it to kneel and cower?"
Then, gentle as a breeze on summer's night
Upon the heels of strident battle cry
Comes comfort's quiet voice to ease my plight
And whispers truths that I cannot deny
Desire to please, to kneel, to serve, obey
Consumes my heart so surreptitiously
Turbulent night reveals the clear-eyed day
And peace I find in loving slavery.
And even as I sigh in sweet release
My heart is torn, and on that blood you feast.
I am bemused by my naivete...and I remember how proud I was of it, and how deeply submissive I felt to this man, some guy I'd never even met...some dude who'd managed to take advantage of a person just feeling their way into a new life
I wonder.
I wonder at how much changes, and how much stays the same.
I'm embarrassed because I really hate that purple prosy over-the-top imagery that pervades kink poetry. I wonder how I could have imagined and filled in so much without the benefit of reciprocity.
I don't even know why this came to mind, or why I'm posting it.
Must be my attention-starved inner masochist? Perhaps. Maybe the thought of people rolling their eyes and snickering and silly poetry satisfies some desire for debasement.
But fuck.
It IS a sonnet in iambic pentameter, beotches!!
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Complaints about ALT? Send them my way ASAP! 4: 30 PM [PST] DEADLINE! [ONGOING]
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Jan 6, 2009 1:29 pm
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POST OR MESSAGE ME BEFORE 4:30 PM PST!
I'm putting together a hit list of bugs and "Wish List" items.
This WILL be presented to some of the Big Bosses.
Please post below anything you think would be a fix to ALT, or something that has been crippled for a while that still needs addressing.
ANd if you see someone has already listed your pet peeves, feel free to reinforce by seconding, thirding, etc.
Please link to this post, and cross post it, but keep in mind I have to have this together by 4:30 Pacific Time.
Go forth!
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I so rarely...
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Jan 1, 2009 7:56 pm
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.....contact someone on this (or any other) dating site that when I DO break down and do so, and it falls flat, I feel like a total asshole.
That is all.
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Happy New Year....thank you, old year.
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Dec 31, 2008 10:46 am
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Rather than focus on "Resolutions"" and such. I like to focus o what I would like to leave behind me as the calendar shifts a number.
I would like to put down the burden of self-judgment, and frame my actions in the light of love....unconditionla love, compassion and joy!
Welcome, 2009, and thank you,2008, for all that I have learned.
Love
Mo
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To link to this blog (Mollena) use [blog Mollena] in your messages.
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