This topic is one that I wanted to discuss for a while now and since I am a blogger and social networker with membership accounts of over 150 social networks, I think I can lend a small voice about the topic.

I have found that a good majority of people online are fairly good to each other but every once in a while you wish there was more protocol for forum and blogging etiquette.

Blogcatalog had a recent discussion titled:

How do you rate Blogcatalog as the best social networking site?

http://www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/how-do-you-rate-blogcatalog-as-the-best-social-networking-site

I am a member of blogcatalog, I enjoy participating in the community and enjoy having some fun on the discussion platform so I responded to this discussion with this comment and rating based on what I have experienced there as a member of the community.

“This rating is for (the owner) to notice. The Blog rating system still has many flaws.

Members who don’t have blogs are still allowed to leave ratings for our blogs when they don’t have blogs of their own and most of the time they don’t even bother to participate in the community.

The excessive harassment and over policing of threads by a few annoying members needs to stop.

Some of these annoying members clearly have no respect for the creator of the thread and they show up to offer advice that no one asked for, especially the creator and then they want to start an argument with the creator of that discussion.

There should be an option to block these annoying members who clearly only show up to kill a perfectly good thread that is going fine until these few show up with their expertisis, especially when their expertisis wasn’t asked for in the original discussion thread header posted by the discussion creator.

This is most annoying when the creator is simply trying to conduct a flowing discussion thread and the owner should take steps to stop this _ullshit and harassment.

If members cannot simply contribute to the discussion and follow the rules asked for in that discussion by the creator, they should be either suspended or blocked from posting anymore to that specific creator of discussions once and for all.

I have had quiet a few of my discussions disappear out of thin air and when I asked you (the owner) the reason why those discussions were deleted you yourself failed to give me a decent answer and you yourself either didn’t know the answer or was playing a game with me.

If your Admins can clearly delete discussion threads and don’t have to give a reason why those discussions were deleted, I have a little issue with that.

If your Admins can suspend me with no valid reason, which I received 1 suspension a while ago and still no valid reason was given to me, I have a little issue with that.

I find some of your Admins to be most BIAS when it comes to arguments about some of the most annoying members here at bc under the guise of “doing good for the community”.

Your TOS has a major flaw since I was told that the certain annoying members is still allowed to troll and harass members on this forum for so long and is NOT GOING TO BE SUSPENDED FROM BC FOR GOOD, EVEN THOUGH ACCORDING TO YOUR TOS, AFTER 3 STRIKES YOUR OUT FOR GOOD.

There obviously is some FAVORITISM going on here and I would like to see this worked on as I was told that these annoying members are REGULAR MEMBERS JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IS BUT CLEARLY THIS IS NOT THE CASE HERE IS IT?

I hope to see this rating and the reasons why I gave my rating stay up visible here in this discussion without seeing it deleted by your ADMIN.

I also found out according to this bc discussion that our Private Shoutbox Messages to friends is not Private after all. This I find most outrageous. http://www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/private-bc-shouts-viewable-when-searching-alias-on-yahoo-wtf

The question was asked “how do you rate blogcatalog?” and I am responding to it. I am not looking for any answers back from you (the owner) (though I would appreciate them) as I don’t expect many changes to happen here at bc anyway but the question was asked and I as a BC Member responded to the questions asked about RATING AND HOW I WOULD RATE BC AN WHY in a timely manner.

The truth is (the owner) your network needs some cleaning up.
Jeunelle Rates BlogCatalog a 5 “.

As you can see I meant business and I gave a different view to their votes of perfect 10. Not too long after my comment was of course deleted. (a typical bc approach), I later dropped my rating down to a 3.

You see I have noticed that many of these social networks allow annoying members to TROLL the discussion forums for themselves for years and they continue to do so today because admin and the owners are turning a blind eye or simply choosing to ignore it.

If these annoying members can continue to act a beast on the forum, stalking and harassing  other members and manipulating threads for deletion the way they do, there are going to be members who leave that community and go to other communities and this has already happened.

The members get fed up that they are not being heard and they get dissatisfied with the service and they leave, even after repeated complaints to the Admin and the Owners, members are being treated as children and told to “GROW UP”,  “YOU’RE SUSPENDED FOR A FEW DAYS”, basically come back when things cool down.

Sweeping the dirt under the carpet doesn’t make for a clean house, not when the problem is an internal one and the dirt is coming from the dirtbag.

This never truly cures the disease. A case of “swine flu” maybe?

I have watched quiet a few members leave for Facebook and Twitter because they simply had enough of Networks who harbors trolls, stalkers and bullies. They have had enough when they are not respected by the admins and owners when they as members voice concerns or complaints about bad service within the community.

If you go out to dinner at a fine restaurant and you had terrible service at what is suppose to be a great restaurant, you can bet you will give it a lesser rating than you would have before, just as I rate these social networks.

There is an stifeling air flowing free within these communities and that is really too bad because these communities could of have become something great but not if you continue to kill the creative spirit within the community.

I have noticed that anytime there is some fun going on, just some normal fun, a few of these annoying members show up to kill the fun and drive away the creative spirit of the forum that was once flowing free before they showed up with their nasty case of  “swine flu” making me want to wash my hands immediately so that I don’t contract the sickness too and become like them, boring, old and dried up like a Sea Hag that’s been out to the beach a little too long.

Great ideas always flow free in a community which simply remembers not to thread on the creative spirit within man.

It’s too bad that some of these monsters within these communities don’t know what forum and blogging etiquette is.

It won’t be too long before I hear from some of you “whiney supporters” who defend these forum cockroaches with your hate mail but you’re on my turf now.

There are some who hide within these communities pretending to be “Miss goodie, goodie two shoes”, “little miss kind-hearted community helper” but when you take the time for a deeper look, you see one big ass ugly cockroach who is fed and entertained by you while it hides deep in a dark corner looking like a friggin trapped raccoon.

Some give up trying to rid themselves of an infestation of rats and cockroaches and just let them run around the house after a while and some people are like cancer, spreading their fowl disease slowly when your not paying attention.

Thank God there are still some who have that can of Raid or a Rat-trap to snap it’s head off.

Some of these network bullies pride themselves on trying their best to “save face” in the community but just let them try  that crap in other communities and you can be sure they get kicked out of Twitter, Stumbleupon or Wordpress.

Some have a nasty history of cruelty and rudeness which they try to hide when they want to “save face” in the community.

What’s amazing to me is how long some of these bullies can be allowed to continue their “superior crusade” that they are better than everyone else while going out of their way to try to discredit others and reporting comments to get them deleted, silencing their voices and don’t somehow expect to see it take a outside of the community approach.

Some of these bullies are approaching “old crone status” and trying to compete with others way younger than them in age. Trampeling over others by insulting them and trying to discredit them, going out of their way to compete on the forum playing a game of “I’m the best and I know more than you” childish bullshit.

Some of these networks clearly harbor some of the world’s most craziest nutcases around who should be in a psycho ward. Displaying signs of mental illness and acting a bitch on the forum at all times while calling others “attention whore” when they in fact are the true “attention whores”.

“Look at me, I reign supreme, there is no one like me in this community because I am the only one here who offers helpful tips to the newbies”. “I sit a Queen and no one can challenge me” …..BULLSHIT AND GET OVER YOURSELF.

What’s even more amazing to me is when members take the time to offer helpful suggestions to make the communities better for most to be satisfied, a one-sided view is predominant and other side is completely ignored. No wonder so many after a while move on to other more promising networks and yet these same networks believe they can compete with Twitter and Facebook, I have to laugh, especially after their failed marks and scores in forum and blogging etiquette.

When people are pissed and when you try to silence people from speaking by deleting their comments, they will find other ways of getting their voices heard even if it means having their say outside any of these social networks because outside of your little communities is a brave new world minus you flaky old dried up bitches and fucking idiots.

As a member of any of these social networks I have a right to rate them and I rate them according to what I see.

I would love to hear from you members.

Have you ever experienced this kind of bullshit on social networks and forums and what was the outcome?

Do you see any improvement in some of these social networks after complaints and suggestions?

Are these social networks complying with the laws to update their Tos and privacy policy and work to protect their members from these stalkers, trolls and harassers?