Posted by CASSIE on January 18, 1999 at 12:00
This is WAY out of character for me, but I'm cheesed-off. I don't usually complain, but...
I got an email today that began to get me a little riled. I haven't even thought about Alori's in months. I used to post there all the time until she had trouble with her URL and server. I've been mainly posting here for the last year or more but today I got an email from someone who said he used to read my stuff as long ago as when I was posting at Alori's he was looking for some of my original posts from that site. She used to have my stories on a story board along with some others.
I tried accessing the site today but found out that it is almost entirely a pay site. Since I don't have an Adult Check ID anymore (because it is WAY lame) and I didn't want to purchase access to her site, I couldn't find out if my stories were still posted there. I clicked on the "stories" link but it just brought me to more advertisement for a paid membership.
I guess I might be inclined to join just to get my old postings back. But it doesn't look like anything has changed at that site in over a year except that you have to pay for it now. And everything I hear from others agrees with that assessment. When I got on her site, I was bombarded with banners from completely unrelated sites and even her pages were filled with ads.
To make matters worse, she even has a narrow frame at the bottom of one of her pages that, if you scroll way way way down, reveals an entire list of pornographic words... in French. I might not be a web wizard but that's an obvious, sneaky attempt to get search engines to call up her page when a certain key word is entered.
Most of the time I'm pretty polite to people, but this really miffs me. It seems like Alori has taken our interest and, rather than simply make some money at it like Patches and Wet Set, has decided to purposely rip us off. It is highly deceptive with her links that lead to advertising rather than what they say, the billions of pop-up banners and the hidden key-words. I don't mind the fact that sites like Patches and Wet Set require payment for the good stuff even if I can't afford it. Someday I will and as long as it is worthwhile I will be happy. But mean-natured and deceptive practices to get our money make me angry ESPECIALLY since some of my own material may be on that site... material that has always been meant to be freely accessible by anyone interested.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, if you have any of my posts from Aloris, could you re-post them here or on the pooping board or email them to me? Thank you so much. If you should be unfortunate enough to have purchased a membership from Alori, would you check to see if my stories are there?
Any help is a HUGE thanks. I love you all (ironically, that's what Alori says on her main page).
CASSIE
Email: cassievale@hotmail.com