Monday, October 5, 2009
User has been deleted.
Just as an update from what I have been told user Italcub973 has been deleted. I don't know if it was action taken from the website owner or by his own doing.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Hello,
Well this all started about a week ago on a popular "bear" chat and information site.
On this site their is a feature that randomly selects a paying member of the site and makes them the "star" of the day. This essentially will show your profile pic for a few minutes outside of your region to all members.
My profile mentioned (I have since had my profile deleted.) my HIV status.
Among many very complimentary replies to my profile I received one very nasty message. I do not know this person and have never had any interactions at all with this person before this unprovoked message basically stating that I should be punched and am a loser with AIDS! I unfortunately did not save the first message and responded back with, "we are all entitled to our own opinions."
Here is where the adventure begins and is documented with saved screen shots.
Message 2 received from Italcub973
(The text in green is my response.)
I didn't reply back but I also won't lie, this hurt me a lot! I fully understand the stigmas associated with being HIV positive but choose to not lie about my status just to be liked.
I posted this image as one of my profile pictures so everyone could see what kind of person Italcub973 is.
Today Saturday 10/03/2009 I get this message from Italcub973
It appears that Italcub973 did not like that I chose to share his words of wisdom with me with other members of the site. I did not reply back, I moved on from the previous week and wasn't going to succumb to troll bait a second time. I do have to wonder what provoked him to review my profile again? I did get many positive responses from members applauding my decision to post his well thought out response, maybe some chose to directly contact Italcub973, I dunno.
Well, not only did I receive the above message from Italcub973 but also this message from the site webmaster!
(Once again my response is the green text)
The text to the right side of the screen is my complete response to the webmaster as I couldn't capture the entire reply box all in one image. I do have seperate screen shots of continued text just for my records though.
I sent this reply back to the webmaster as shown above in disbelief that I am being treated as the one doing something wrong. I at this point also requested that he cancel my membership as this is complete BS! (BTW, Italcub973's profile still is active on the site as I am writing this.)
Finally, the webmaster replies back to me, very diplomatically I may add but totally way off mark in my opinion as seen below.
As of now, my profile on this site is gone. I will be sending this link to friends and I welcome all to forward it and let it be known that this site apparently cares more about making money than doing what is right.
Well this all started about a week ago on a popular "bear" chat and information site.
On this site their is a feature that randomly selects a paying member of the site and makes them the "star" of the day. This essentially will show your profile pic for a few minutes outside of your region to all members.
My profile mentioned (I have since had my profile deleted.) my HIV status.
Among many very complimentary replies to my profile I received one very nasty message. I do not know this person and have never had any interactions at all with this person before this unprovoked message basically stating that I should be punched and am a loser with AIDS! I unfortunately did not save the first message and responded back with, "we are all entitled to our own opinions."
Here is where the adventure begins and is documented with saved screen shots.
Message 2 received from Italcub973
(The text in green is my response.)
I didn't reply back but I also won't lie, this hurt me a lot! I fully understand the stigmas associated with being HIV positive but choose to not lie about my status just to be liked.
I posted this image as one of my profile pictures so everyone could see what kind of person Italcub973 is.
Today Saturday 10/03/2009 I get this message from Italcub973
It appears that Italcub973 did not like that I chose to share his words of wisdom with me with other members of the site. I did not reply back, I moved on from the previous week and wasn't going to succumb to troll bait a second time. I do have to wonder what provoked him to review my profile again? I did get many positive responses from members applauding my decision to post his well thought out response, maybe some chose to directly contact Italcub973, I dunno.
Well, not only did I receive the above message from Italcub973 but also this message from the site webmaster!
(Once again my response is the green text)
The text to the right side of the screen is my complete response to the webmaster as I couldn't capture the entire reply box all in one image. I do have seperate screen shots of continued text just for my records though.
I sent this reply back to the webmaster as shown above in disbelief that I am being treated as the one doing something wrong. I at this point also requested that he cancel my membership as this is complete BS! (BTW, Italcub973's profile still is active on the site as I am writing this.)
Finally, the webmaster replies back to me, very diplomatically I may add but totally way off mark in my opinion as seen below.
As of now, my profile on this site is gone. I will be sending this link to friends and I welcome all to forward it and let it be known that this site apparently cares more about making money than doing what is right.
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