Smiley wrote:I can see where you are coming from Sluffy. But having sponsors on the site is the only way it can meet some of the associated costs in the interim. Its been a huge slog the past few months (working on the book) and then weeks on the site (way past midnight every night for the last 10 days). Many, many man hours of unpaid work.
To be judgemental of a site based on one of its sponsors is a bit unfair.
And to think, I was hoping to get you on-board writing some nitty gritty articles for the site - an invitation that is open.... as it is to all Wanderers fans.
I've no problem with you having sponsors, I've no problem with the company sponsoring you, I just have previous with the owner of that particular company who tried to fuck Nuts (and all the time and effort me and at least three others had put into getting it to the stage we could go live) because he WRONGLY thought I'd banned him from another forum I used to mod.
It was the first time I'd ever known someone take the internet so seriously that it crossed over from it being something and nothing on a website to become something real and personal enough to go out of his way and even spend money in real life just to get what he saw was some kind of revenge against me personally - irrespective how it would also piss on others who had put their time and effort in setting up Nuts and had absolutely nothing to do with them.
And I'll repeat yet again I wasn't the one to ban him (for attempting to poach people from the forum I was on to jump ship to the forum he had just set up behind everyone's back).
I'm grown up enough to let it end at that point but even for many months afterwards I received dogs abuse posted on his forums website (including claiming I was a paedophile) which he joined in with and never bothered to moderate or remove such comments.
Sticks and stones and all that but I simply don't wish to have anything further to do with him from that time on.
As I say I spotted straight away who your sponsors were but kept my personal views out of the way and still promoted White Love on here - as you, your fanzine and all of your sponsors companies are absolutely fine with me - and wish you and them (including Bernsteins) all the best.
It's just the individual who behaved at the time in the way he did, that taints things for me - and just me - and that's why I've I'll keep my nose out of things and let you all get on.
I'm not in anyway being judgemental about you, the book or White Love - just wanted to make that clear.
As for me writing articles for you, thank you but most people are bored to death of what I write on here so probably better for White Love's chances of success that I don't!
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