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Friday, August 17, 2007

Down Talk

Yeah. So basically I had a page about Domestic Violence and someone told me that they couldn't deal with it anymore, blah, blah, blah. We were kind of running it together. So, I told this person that if I deleted my main profile from the site, I would let them know and then they could decide if they wanted to take it over again. Next thing I know, they're trying to get me to change the main email and whatnot randomness and I'm like, What?!?!?

Then, my page disappears. And I'm really bewildered now. So, I take a couple days after the whole 'change your email login scenario' and write and say, My Domestic Violence is a Crime page has disappeared. You didn't delete it, did you?

The response I received, however, totally peeved me because of the 'down talk'. You know what I mean. It's the whole, basically you're an idiot so let me speak down to you in a way that your feeble mind will understand. She used the word 'reiterate' for sobbing out loud!

I replied with, I didn't ask you to take it over. I said that IF I deleted my account, I would let you know and THEN you could decide if you wanted to take it over or not.

So, basically, my page is probably warped beyond all recognition because bitter folks only read what they want to read and they get angry and jump the gun and then they misinterpret everything because it's leaning in the direction of their bitterness and is, therefore, making it far worse than it really is.

Or, they take over a profile and destroy all the hard work of its creator just to prove a point.

Yeah...like that.

So, that's the bee in my bonnet today.

Here's the 'down talk' letter with the 'reiterate' in it for your reading pleasure:

We took over the page just as you asked and have found a new moderator for the page. She's a Christian woman who suffered at the hands of a crazy man and has been delivered and has a ministry for people who have been involved in DV. She is a great woman and this page is exactly what she wanted and has been praying for.

So, to reiterate, we took it over just like you asked and she has been contacting these precious people who desperately need help. God used you to plant the seed and water it and now God has brought the one who will reap the harvest.

Please give us the necessary info in order for her to completely take over. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much. Enjoy your trip to AZ and be safe.



Whatever.

Oh, it vexes my soul!

2 Comments:

  • At 1:55 PM , Blogger april penny said...

    Down talkers annoy me. That really stinks.

    Thanks for your comment. Normally, I don't have any problem at all figuring out what to write about, because I'm the only one who'd read it, so who cares...? But once I decided that I would write something with the intention of trying to get it published... I had to come up with an idea that no one would ever dream of rejecting, because getting rejected is S C A R Y. The whole thing is probably stupid, because if I write something with the sole intention of not getting rejected, I not only probably will, but it would crush me when I did. So I guess I need to get over my fear and just write. God loves me even if I get rejected. ...and maybe He'll give anyone who rejects me a good zap or two... or not. It's a nice thought... :-)

    Yikes... this is a long comment.

     
  • At 2:17 PM , Blogger Jewelle Leigh DragonWrites said...

    Thanks for your comment and sorry for the delay in acknowledging it. :) I really appreciated your honesty. Yeah, rejection stinks. And it is painful. When my novel was rejected, I doubled over and cried. Yeah. And, since then, I have not submitted it to publishers...and that was years ago.

     

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