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Post by Bryony Marsh on May 18, 2019 6:18:56 GMT
I suppose this is inevitable on the modern “free” Internet: everybody wants to sell you something. One giant, global hustle. Nowadays, hosting can be free, and is a lot simpler. So why do we put up with the abusive relationships that we have with established sites of all kinds? Because they have footfall, I suppose. I can’t think of anything else.
Personally, I’ve been much, much happier since I quietly suspended my Facebook. I didn’t flounce out, but I knew it was time to abandon that particular rat race. I know that people who maintain an active presence on all the various sites sell a lot more books... but it just doesn’t suit my personality type. Mad hermit / introvert, here.
Ah well. Enough Saturday morning introspection! Best wishes –
Bx
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Post by Chrissy on May 18, 2019 22:40:35 GMT
Well, I've "flounced out" (by my own admission) of a couple of sites, Bryers: it made no difference whatsoever except... it did my soul the world of good. Flouncing isn't necessarily bad, that's all I'm saying. Apart from this (takes me back a few years and often sums up my approach to the world): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohN0KIyP8m0
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Post by monique on May 21, 2019 21:28:36 GMT
I never posted on FM, nor read anything there. I did post on TGstorytime, but the content there went more and more against my grain ... even though "what if" got more than 80K reads there and very nice comments, but that was three years ago. In the beginning of 2016 quite a number of authors I knew left the site just like myself.
There are some on BCTS who post on TGS, too, like Portia, Andrea and some others, but I do not feel comfortable there any more. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't perhaps put some teasers there ...
Monique.
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Post by Chrissy on May 22, 2019 5:18:58 GMT
BC isn't flawless... given my reasons for leaving FM, staying with BC would have made me a hypocrite. I've many human failings, but I like to think that hypocrisy isn't one of them.
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Post by Tanya on Jun 2, 2019 19:00:09 GMT
I keep posting on FM because I haven't looked or found anywhere different, though I'm certain what I write isn't meeting the expectations of FM's many readers.
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Post by Sam on Jun 4, 2019 7:43:34 GMT
Not been looking at FM or BC for a while to be honest
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Post by monique on Mar 3, 2020 9:47:29 GMT
Big Closet, well, for a while I felt all right posting there, but over the past months I got more and more disgusted, felt the same excuse my French: TRASH, that made me leave TGS, invading Big Closet too.
The one thing that really made me blow a fuse was, that when I vented my frustration, Erin too the piece off. Well, that was the last straw. I'll take all my work that I did not contract to Doppler Press off and leave the site to drown in its problems of indecision. There should be a limit to what is allowed. To hit a site, where people meet, who have to suffer from religious persecution with a piece that glorifies a religious bigot in the context of anything LGBTQ+ related, is a blatant insult to peoples intelligence and feelings. That didn't trigger Erin to take it off, though.
In my piece I only told about a lot of stuff, that "Christians" have done over time, from the initial lies and distorted scriptures of the Concilii at Nicea all theway to today, all of it well documented around the world or experienced or witnessed by myself since i was able to think. Nothing but the truth as I see it and that the so called "faith" makes me sick to the stomach.
I am not talking about people like Angdrea Lena here, whose true spirituality shines through the usurped words of the Christian beliefs, she was indoctrinated with.
I am talking about all those, who excuse the atrocities or even take part in them, as I describe in Viper and Viper II.
So I am leaving Big Closet and I do not think I'll ever join another site like that.
As the Xiaolong said in Viper: The Dragon Queen is angry (inside me).
Monique.
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