As the photo shows, This is my “Last Waltz”. I’m making my “Exodus” (good timing around Passover), so “Goodbye Mr. Chips”.
“The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things” *(1)
Why am I moving to another website? I have been wronged by Newsvine staff, and even if I were wrong, they were wrong to ignore me. I was personally attacked on Newsvine, more than once, and notwithstanding my complaints, many times repeated, I was totally ignored.
“ It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
even you don’t know by now
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It’ll never do some how.
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right.” *(2)
How many emails did I send when another Newsviner outright called me a liar only because my opinion differed from his, and then later even admitted that he did. I sent the comments to Newsvine staff, and they ignored me. Over and over I complained and they ignored me. Months have gone by. Was this not a breach of the Code of Honour? Does the Code of Honor not say:
“Above all else, respect others. Address issues and arguments and refrain from making personal attacks. If you see something disrespectful or inappropriate, report it - rather than further inflaming the situation.” *(3)
I did what the COH directed. I did report it and I reported over and over again starting two weeks ago when another Newsviner on another seed called me a “goat-@!$%#er” using a cleverly worded expression when he referred to certain persons being goat-@!$%#ers, and finished with the expression “not unlike you, Buzz”. Now tell me, is that not calling me a goat-@!$%#er? and used other abusive language and expressions when referring to me, like “douche”. As I see it, using an expression like “a piece of @!$%# that should be flushed down a toilet” and then finishing up by saying “which is not unlike you [name]” is tantamount to a direct personal attack and therefore the perpetrator should be suspended for a violation of the Code of Honour. Does the User Agreement not say:
“Prohibited Conduct
The following non-exhaustive list describes the kinds of illegal or harmful conduct that are prohibited on our Site. You agree not to:
- upload, post or otherwise transmit any User Content that:
- is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, known to be false and presented as truth, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; “ *(3)
(The underlines are mine to point out the offence of which I complained)
“I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road, Lord, Lord, An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way” *(4)
Eventually I became concerned about how many times I had to email staff, to no avail, no response whatsoever. The omission of a duty is as bad as committing a wrongful act. Would I be paranoid to think that it was their scheme to frustrate me so deeply that I would personally attack them? I have noted elsewhere that they are considered Newsviners themselves and therefore protected by the CoH same as we are, and there is an even stricter requirement not to harass the staff. I began to feel they intended by ignoring me to build my frustration to the point that I would be deemed to be harassing them. This would give them an excuse to ban me, and I must believe now that their deliberate inaction was meant to lead to that end.
“Times a-gettin’ hard boys, money’s gettin’ scarce,
If times don’t get no better boys, I’m bound to leave this place,
Take my true love by the hand, lead her through the town,
Say goodbye to everyone, goodbye to everyone.” *(5)
I enjoyed managing and contributing to the group I started – Classic Cinema. I think that group was an entertaining benefit to Newsvine and its members. As well it was a pleasure to post photos of my adventures in China on Newsvine Photographers, besides jumping into the fray on many other topics. What incensed me the most, however, was the hatemongering on political seeds/articles. Some of the comments were so vicious they were sickening but such comments were allowed to stand by Newsvine staff. I see an ulterior motive in it. Such controversial seeds/articles lead to hundreds of comments and I must assume that the more comments that are posted, the more advertising dollars can be earned. Therefore Newsvine staff is faced with a conflict of interest. Why would they tone down the comments and thereby reduce the action, which would reduce the income? They probably get paid from that income. Perhaps they even get a percentage of it, which would explain why they pay no attention to people like me. After all, I am not sufficiently prolific to attract high numbers of comments. You may think I’m thin-skinned, but frankly I’ve borne enough to disgust most people.
“To Everything
There is a season
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven” *(6)
But because I happen to be a responsible person, I did not wish to leave Classic Cinema without a manager. I want to thank those of you who volunteered to take over, and I can tell you that I have appointed HollyKI and bitemore to co-manage Classic Cinema. I know they will do a good job with it, and maybe draw more interest to the group than I was able to do. Although I will email NV staff of this, taking into consideration that they ignore me, I wonder if they will bother to respond to my request for replacement?
“I've sung this song, but I'll sing it again,
Of the people I've met and the places I've seen.
Of some of the troubles that bothered my mind
And a lot of good people that I've left behind, saying:
So long, it's been good to know yuh…”; *(7)
Once in a while I might return to throw in a comment or two (if staff have not banned me due to this article, so I hope you have read it quickly because I am concerned that they may not tolerate criticism), but I am not the only person who has left Newsvine because of dissatisfaction with the manner in which we have been treated, and the philosophy of allowing such hatred and insults to permeate the comments. I am not so egotistical as to think that I was such a benefit to Newsvine, but then…
“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” *(8)
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known” *(9).
*Quotation Credits: (1) Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll: (2) Don’t Think Twice – Bob Dylan; (3) MSNBC – Newsvine CoH and UA; (4) Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - Woody Guthrie; (5) Traditional – adapted by Lee Hayes: (6) Ecclesiastes – The Bible - adapted by Pete Seeger; (7) So Long It’s Been Good to Know You - Traditional – adapted by The Weavers; (8) Rhett Butler in the film Gone With the Wind – novel written by Margaret Mitchell; (9) Sidney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Log In | Register
Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:21 PM EST
Continue reading this entry ...
Seeded on Fri Sep 2, 2011 6:54 PM EDT (Yahoo!)
Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:51 PM EDT
Fri Apr 8, 2011 5:44 PM EDT
Seeded on Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:35 PM EDT (Yahoo!)entertainment, broadway, comedians, classic-movies, the-marx-brothers, vaudevillle, slapstick-comedy
entertainment, bbc, england, movies, colin-firth, bollywood, pride-and-prejudice, jane-austen, novels, classic-movies, keira-knightly, laurence-olivier, jennifer-ehle, greer-garson
Seeded on Mon Oct 4, 2010 8:21 PM EDT (thefilmyap.com)entertainment, humphrey-bogart, film-reviews, classic-movies, lauren-bacall, silver-screen, dark-passage
Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:21 PM EDT
