When your "date" went by the user name of "Buffalo Bill", that should have tipped you off right away, doc. So, how WAS the bottom of that well, anyway?

We will never know!

OMG! How much is it going to cost me?

Awww, not much....well not compared to the price of your dignity. Well, you wouldn't want them published all over the net, would you??????

Can't manage it all in one hit? Well I'm quite happy to take it in weekly/fortnighly installments....say, how about a weekly conspiracy thread that provides as much amusement as this one has. Deal?

Yeah, yeah, I know, I need to get a life. Trouble is, my motivation to go much beyond button pushing and a few mouse clicks, using my overly furtive imagination, is somewhat thwarted by the Tassie winter playing havoc with my arthritis. Oh well, it may very well have it's advantages.....

Yeah, I can see it now: job offers to co-write and produce sci,fi/espionage stories from influential people in high places who've been monitoring my activities here; the CIA/MI5 offering me a high salary and free reign to extract information from double agents, etc, by means of imaginative technology and devious means.


(starkers is awoken from dream state by wife wanting job done)

Yep, I've seen that error before. it's caused by those pesky web developers trying to implement upgrades to the site. yep, it singles certain individuals out- those who are trying to create a new blog site while the site is being updated.

Shucks...that all it was? No religious, political filters? No spy gadgets or software to single out individuals with shady connections/allegiances for 'special' treatment?

Damn, if this is official, then that means the mirth and intrigue of this thread has been carboshed. You sure, KarmaGirl? I mean, really, really sure?

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted....but there's always one in every crowd, so I'm sure another conspiracy theory will arise to provide amusement....we can only live in hope.

BTW, Brad, at least for a while you gave 007 a run for his money.

Yep, I've seen that error before. it's caused by those pesky web developers trying to implement upgrades to the site. yep, it singles certain individuals out- those who are trying to create a new blog site while the site is being updated. I'm sorry that our free site (JoeUser) didn't meet your expectations. I'll promptly refund the money you paid to join JoeUser........

You mean I paid Starkers for nothing? now you tell me! I am out umpteen gazillion dollars for nothing!

I am miffed! I am insulted! I am stupid!

Starkers, I want my money back! LOL

After all the mental anguish . . Stardock should double his refund!

Triple, even. Brad, can youhelp this guy out?

Wow! You were all correct! I have my blog! Yippee!

I'm so sorry I wasted everyones time and effort. I was clearly way off base here. My old computer, my new computer, my friend's computers and the local library computers were mucked up somehow. It has since resolved itself proving what a moron I really am. I'm not really sure what happened. I guess they just fix themselves now days.

You all have further shown how much "classier" you are than myself. I wish I had such strong character traits but, alas, I do not. You have refused to lower yourselves to the level you claim I'm at and that is admirable.

I guess it was common knowledge. Everyone knows that the joeuser/stardock e-mail was little more than a ploy to make idiots, (like myself), send requests asking for assistance. There never really was any "monitoring" of it......I apologize. I missed the memo.

The fact that I had been bringing this issue up for over 2 months before my "rant" is irrelevant. I understand this now. I also understand that it makes perfect sense for others to get blogs when I could not. It was just timing, computer problems and upgrades. My medications tend to make me forget what year it is so you'll have to forgive me for not thinking clearly.

So, when all else fails, and you've tried every other avenue, just shut-up. Customer assistance is just a phrase used to attract fleas. I know this to be true for both Joe User and Stardock. A quick glance through the forums will show how futile it is to try at all. I get it now. You can benefit from my mistakes.

I have never been proven so totally wrong in my life. I'm ashamed. I have put my tin-foil hat in with the other recyclables. I'm going to have them prescribe me some new medicine. I've been imagining all of this for months. Go figure.

I actually considered using my new found blog access, for a nano second. But I realized that I am among intellectuals, prophet's and scholars. The world is your Oyster and you have it all figured out. I could do little more than post questions hoping to recieve some of the crumbs of your supreme knowledge. That would, of course, continue to irritate you. You would most certainly put me in my place. Just like so many other times and, so many others.

I will pass.

So I apologize. I mistook months of being ignored, for being slighted. All things considered, I never really had a beef. I'm just a moron in a tin hat.

Brad, you sure showed me. I hope you can respond to each and every complaint within the same 2-3 month time frame. But, then, you never really did respond. That's o.k. I've learned my lesson. Don't bother now, I'm a moron. I haven't been able to open my e-mail for months so I wouldn't get it anyway.

Most humbled by your divine wisdom,
TheGuyPc

TheGuyPc ...I see it's taken just over a week to compose a response...so eloquently sarcastic and vitriolic and all... however....have you in fact succeeded in creating a Blog?

Was I right from the outset... #11, June 30....ie..."you were simply doing 'it' wrong"?

If so, you 'really' should think more about 'contrition' rather than 'sarcasm'.

There is one common denominator in all those computers you personally tried...that failed to create a blog.   Perhaps therein lies the problem....

Brad, you sure showed me. I hope you can respond to each and every complaint within the same 2-3 month time frame. But, then, you never really did respond.

He's the owner and CEO of the company.  How many CEO's do you see answering tech support?  I'm amazed we see him in the "public" at all.  I guess it's damned if you do, damned if you don't, eh?

Was I right from the outset... #11, June 30....ie..."you were simply doing 'it' wrong"?

No, actually, I've been working on the blog I could get. I did nothing wrong. Don't you think it a little "odd" that I would do the same thing "wrong" for some... 3 months? Can you re-create it now? Did my friends channel my idiocy and do what I did? Did my "cookies" somehow mysteriously transfer themselves to several other computers?

You insult me. Skinning, and things concerning it, I know squat. But don't pretend to tell me this was my fault. My computer(s) did exactly the same thing time and again. I get pissy and it's fixed. So, read what you want into it. But you are telling others, who have had the same problem, the same thing. You insult them, as well as me. Just because they don't want to be subjected to this shit, doesn't mean they aren't watching.

As for me, check it out for yourself. Link This is what I've been doing. Take a look at the top 10 most popular. Hummm, imagine that! The mental case that can't even manage to get a blog on Joe User is in the top 10? No! Top 5?

Then, check out my blog. Look at the tutorials that I offer to people who want to customize their blog. Go ahead and see how many "conspiracy theory" posts you can find. Maybe make a post or, even several. Ask people what they think of me. Hell, post in my blog. Shit all over me. I don't delete criticism. Life is a journey and I'm the fool on the hill in a hand built coaster.

I'm sure this will be painted as my lame attempt to prove you all wrong. What-TF-ever.

There was absolutely nothing I could have done, or said, that would have resulted in anything other than what transpired. So, call it what you want. I have tried. I have been shit on for everything from changing my username, to being so stupid as to not be able to create a blog. Had I not been a Stardock AND WinCustomize subscriber, you all would have taken me to task for that as well.

No, Jafo. My lack of response...for a week at a time....was not any acknowledgement of guilt, or stupidity. Quite the contrary. I was busy learning. Brad was on vacation, you were on a power trip, others joined right in...in the end, it's still MY fault isn't it? I was making friends...helping others...you were trying to make me look like an idiot. MEMO: I don't think it worked.

This is akin to telling a patron at WalMart, the reason they couldn't flush the toilet was that they are a moron. Then, putting up a sign, for all to see, and bitching when it isn't responded to in a timely fashion.

Go ahead, you smug prick. Have a "look about". See what dirt you can dig up on me. If you think you can find anything that I will not admit to openly....you're a liar.

The fact remains......I was unable to get a blog and, others were too. You couldn't re-create it. So apparently I am such an idiot that it outweighs your self-proclaimed intellect.

I will equate all of this with dog shit. I stepped in it and, you were all there, all too ready to point out how it was my fault. Even though it was your dog.

The title of my post was "Joe User is Joke User". A re-read of this article would support this claim. If no other, the last page (at least), was little more then a back slapping, bar whore chorus of self congratulation, obscenity, slander and arrogance. (I know who isn't included in this. Thank you)(I'm not going to mention you by name for obvious reasons)

But, you have definately proved me wrong here. You showed everyone how wrong I was. Proof, beyond all doubt. I have floundered in the wake. I am humbled. Whatever.

You see what you want to see. I will see what I do. In the end, I'd pit my friends against yours, any day of the week.

I have re-considered though. I am going to post here occasionally. Then, I will probably ignore you. If you complain, I will accuse you of all kinds of things that are completely unsubstantiated.

I never took a beating in the school yard. (Which I've been accused of...(real maturity in action there) I'm not going to sit down for one here. So, get over yourselves. I doubt that you can. A little check on the WWW tells me that you've seen people like me before. Just not so persistant. Persist I will. And, when Brad throws the breakers, after cashing out, we'll see who is laughing and, claiming a "conspiracy" then.

THE GUY PC - THAT IS MY USER NAME! COREY JAMES 66 WAS MY PREVIOUS USER NAME! I WAS CENSORED BY DR. NICK FOR POSTING A LINK. YES, A LINK. AND EVERYONE TRASHED ME FOR COMPLAINING...SO I CHANGED MY USER NAME! I APOLOGIZED FOR CALLING DR. NICK A "SNOT NOSED KID" I MEANT THAT. IS THIS CLEAR? N.T.- KISS MY IMAGINATION!

JAFO, keep on doin' what you do so well. It will serve it's purpose...trust me on this one
THEGUYPC (Look familiar?......Anyone?)(Uh huh! That's what I thought)

One of the main things you need when you blog, and respond is a sense of humour.

I guess guypc you have two options, you can carry this little chip around on your shoulder, and not forget about it, or you can forget about it, be grateful your problem is solved and get on with it.

Continuing to stomp your feet, and throw your toys out of your pram, even after the problem is solved is pointless.

And on that note.....welcome to JU

OK...so it's a 'no', then....You didn't get that blog to work in JU.

A simple 'no' would suffice....

The mere fact that you aren't exiled for being an ass should prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the crew here is good natured and even handed. I personally would have locked this and given you the ming the merciless treatment the moment I read it.

Monkey asses don't bring the quality of a site up, and while laughing at them can be fun, I don't think the entertainment value is worth the skid mark it creates on the forums. He's got a JU blog, so the probability that he'll be exiled eventually just skyrocketed. Why suffer the moron-a-thon in between?

Evidently. Grist for the mill, imho.