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Loopywafflehead ([info]loopywafflehead) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2005-11-21 10:22:00
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Tiny lj_maintenance drama
Brad Fitz posts to lj_maintenance to inform AOL users why they're not receiving comments.

There are over 300 comments. Most of them are about how much AOL sucks or to inform Brad that other email services have the same problem, but there are a few gems in there. You've got AOL makes you gay on page one. Page two brings pigeonhed complaining about... something. It's not clear what he's angry about but whatever it is, it's definitely lj's fault. Page three brings us iwanttobeasleep who says That's what they get for using AOL. I have no pity for them. Ouch! Talk about a heart of ice! Alice23Kate on page four doesn't like people disagreeing with her, or calling her a comment whore, except that no one did. Plummet2misery throws in a random "you suck... i think your weird/racist too". Page five is drama free right now, but give it time.

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[info]puipui
2005-11-21 11:34 am UTC (link)
See, now, if it had said "connecting to gheyness" then that would've been a different story.

Still so bitter. So very, very bitter.

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[info]qem_chibati
2005-11-21 12:05 pm UTC (link)
Dare I ask why you are so bitter?

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(Anonymous)
2005-11-21 02:24 pm UTC (link)
In a previous wank, someone was all like "zomg 'ghey' isn't offencive!! 'gay' is!!1"

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[info]loopywafflehead
2005-11-21 02:42 pm UTC (link)
Yep, it was this one.

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[info]rachelmap
2005-11-21 12:59 pm UTC (link)
I'm not paying, and I haven't noticed any problem.

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[info]rachelmap
2005-11-21 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Oh, yeah. that. Meh. I figured things would be fine once they got settled, and if they weren't I'd drop the sysadmin a line then. I swear, some people think servers are these magic boxes that always run perfectly and dont have to be confugured and what-all. Me, I was expecting LJ to be down for the better part of a day, so I'm [pretty satisfied with how smoothly it went.

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[info]loopywafflehead
2005-11-21 02:41 pm UTC (link)
Whoa, you were able to decipher that? I'm impressed!

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[info]msmanna
2005-11-22 12:07 am UTC (link)
If I was paying for this shit I would be hauling you through the courts for refunds.

Wow, this person needs to unclench.

What makes it all the funnier is that in the past, when LJ *has* been out of action for a prolonged period, they've been extremely good about giving extra time to paying users as compensation.

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[info]aerobot
2005-11-21 01:43 pm UTC (link)
Wank involving AOL?

I am shocked, simply SHOCKED by this revelation.

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[info]loopywafflehead
2005-11-21 02:39 pm UTC (link)
But I'll bet you didn't know AOL made you gay! I don't know what happens if you use AOL and you're already gay, though. Does it make you extra gay? Do you end up straight? These are important questions!

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[info]annabelle_lee
2005-11-21 04:14 pm UTC (link)
Well, I'm not feeling any more manlier today than yesterday and I don't have a sudden urge to worship teh cock, so no. Too bad; I could've had an orgy with all those straight girls that pinged me to cyber and logged off when I said I was a girl.

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[info]loopywafflehead
2005-11-22 08:26 pm UTC (link)
*adds to list of AOL's crimes* "Prevents people from having orgies with girls." The UN needs to know about this!

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[info]sabinelagrande
2005-11-21 09:42 pm UTC (link)
All I know is that if you terminate your service, you get knocked back to bisexual.

Or at least that's what I'm going to tell my parents.

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[info]v_digitalwytch
2005-11-21 10:39 pm UTC (link)
Hell, I'm wondering what it makes you if you work for AOL.

And yes, I do work for them in Tech.

Say what negative you can about them, but Sweet Zombie Jesus, they really treat thier employees incredibly well and as far as the software goes, as much as we wish there were more computer savvy people out there, the sad fact is there's more folks out there who just want that 'Intarweb' and to grasp the basics is beyond them so they need software that's going to make things so they comprehend it.

So, speaking as an insider, it wouldn't've taken much for the lj_maintenance people to email the AOL postmaster in advance to let them know about a move and get it all fixed once they had the new IP address.

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[info]msmanna
2005-11-22 12:16 am UTC (link)
Hey, an AOL Tech person!

I have a virtually computer-illiterate friend [1] who uses AOL. Her mail crashed and died and she lost years of correspondance. She was completely distraught, because it included mails she'd been sent by a close friend before her death which she didn't have saved anywhere else. The AOL help desk people were *amazing*, and did some techie magic, combined with walking her step-by-step through everything she needed to do to recover it. So from what I've heard from her, you rock.


[1] I once had tremendous problems getting some text documents to her in self-extracting zip format. Turned out that when I said 'find the file in Windows Explorer and double-click on it' she was actually trying to extract the files by opening the zip in Word Perfect.

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[info]v_digitalwytch
2005-11-22 04:18 am UTC (link)
Pretty much we'll do all we can to solve the problem and in the rare cases we can't, since we know there's a lot of 'passing the buck' going on with getting bounced around when they call some places, we'll make sure they've got the right info to tell who they have to go next to get that end fixed.

I've done tech support before AOL, and the company really does care about it's customers.

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(Anonymous)
2005-11-22 12:04 pm UTC (link)
I only wish AOL's billing department was as caring and friendly as you say the tech support is- they kept charging us for almost a year after we quit, and we had to threaten them with mentions of our state's class-action lawsuit against them before they finally stopped trying to make us pay for services we were no longer receiving.

On the other hand, the tech support really DOES sound better than the awkward runaround I had with Dell when my CPU curled up and died of heatstroke this summer thanks to a defective fan part.

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[info]damien
2005-11-22 08:25 am UTC (link)
My icon would like to marry your icon.

If that doesn't work out, could I snag it for livejournal, with credit of course?

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[info]loopywafflehead
2005-11-22 08:22 pm UTC (link)
My icon is very flattered!

Of course you can take it, I can't remember offhand who created it, but it should be in the keywords. :)

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(Anonymous)
2005-11-21 02:28 pm UTC (link)
if youre homo then why the hell do you use that icon

... no words

this is the Internet, not church

Cause, you know, the church is *so* pro-gay.

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[info]loopywafflehead
2005-11-21 02:46 pm UTC (link)
I was laughing so hard at the first comment you quoted. It's so unbelievably stupid it's funny.

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[info]beandelphiki
2005-11-21 06:50 pm UTC (link)
I'm an idiot too, because honestly, I wondered the same thing.

...But that could be because I instantly lost interest in his icon the second I realized that the suckee was supposed to be female. That's the answer! I assume everyone else has gay secks on the brain, too.

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[info]loopywafflehead
2005-11-22 08:27 pm UTC (link)
It wasn't till I read your comment that I realised it was a girl. I'm feeling very silly right now. *blushes*

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[info]prettyveela
2005-11-21 03:02 pm UTC (link)
What's funny is that aol was getting slammed for sucking, but yahoo and gmail users were having the same problem.

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[info]annabelle_lee
2005-11-21 04:30 pm UTC (link)
What's funnier than that is that in the case of yahoo, you really aren't losing your comments. They just get rerouted to your spam or bulk folder and since you don't know, you delete them yourself.

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[info]coffee_mug
2005-11-21 05:01 pm UTC (link)
I use yahoo & haven't noticed this and I do check my Bulk-folder. So unless Yahoo marks them as such spam that it doesn't get through ANY filters, they just haven't arrived.

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[info]annabelle_lee
2005-11-21 05:24 pm UTC (link)
I should've said that was my experience, then, since I haven't seen other problems like that happening before. Sorry for the generalization.

Here's a wet noodle/chainsaw/torture device of your choice; please to be proceeding to lash me to your heart's content, ma'am.

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[info]coffee_mug
2005-11-21 05:45 pm UTC (link)
It's okay. Just wanted to point out not all of us Yahoo users are dumbasses. ;D

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[info]annabelle_lee
2005-11-21 05:56 pm UTC (link)
Owch. I guess I get what I deserve. ;)

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[info]mistressrenet
2005-11-21 05:28 pm UTC (link)
Same here. And there was a big delay on my gmail account the other night, not a spam error.

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[info]o_o
2005-11-21 06:12 pm UTC (link)
Heh, I am getting the notifications for my paid account just fine, but my free account isn't feeling the love.

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[info]coffee_mug
2005-11-21 09:01 pm UTC (link)
deskriminashun omg!11

I'm not minding. I just hope that the people I'm leaving comments to about their fics are receiving the comments.

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[info]plazmah
2005-11-22 03:32 am UTC (link)
I use Yahoo too and started checking my Bulk folder... nada. I don't know what's going on any more. But it's okay, it's just comments.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2005-11-21 06:53 pm UTC (link)
Mine all got re-routed to bulk, but I never really empty my bulk folder, so they were still there and I just flagged them all as not-spam, which seemed to fix things.

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[info]ladysorka
2005-11-21 07:48 pm UTC (link)
Are. Are.

*kicks gmail in the nuts*

One or two of them are getting through but not all by any means, and they're not going into my spam folder either.

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[info]mael
2005-11-21 09:14 pm UTC (link)
Apparently hotmail is being a bitch too.

But hey, I possess the powers of the might Refresh! I'll be fine.

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(Anonymous)
2005-11-21 11:35 pm UTC (link)
I have Comcast, and I was having a similar problem. Only about half the replies actually made it to my inbox in recent times.

-Seiberwing

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[info]xanos
2005-11-22 02:47 am UTC (link)
Hell, I use my website for e-mail and I'm not getting most of my comments. The ones that are showing up are showing up in weird order. I'm just using the recent_comments.bml thing to check.

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hereforthewank
2005-11-21 03:03 pm UTC (link)
Word to pigeonhed. I usually get disproportionally pissed off when free services I make frequent use of don't run 100% perfectly smoothly too. Also, I completely agree that cussing at the techs is the best way to encourage them to fix any unanticipated problems that might arise. Good show.

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[info]isobelsomething
2005-11-21 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Wank wank wank in the comments - I'm surprised! That never happens!

And is anyone experiencing slow load times for all LJ pages, or is it just me?

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[info]kadath
2005-11-21 08:20 pm UTC (link)
Slow load times, and my email comment notifications are coming in fits and starts, or not at all. I'm only whimpering about it a bit.

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[info]spleen
2005-11-21 10:28 pm UTC (link)
Sllllooowwwww loading, yes indeed. To the point where pictures and some other shit time out. Gnah.

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redwarrior
2005-11-21 11:34 pm UTC (link)
Upon reading this, two words have eaten my brain:

VAGINA YOGURT.

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[info]crysiana
2005-11-22 11:05 am UTC (link)
...maybe it's an antidote for venom cock.

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[info]loopywafflehead
2005-11-22 08:23 pm UTC (link)
Whaaaaa? I missed that, who said that and where?

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[info]komorebi
2005-11-24 06:43 am UTC (link)
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/845160.html

Voila, venom cock.

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[info]caoilte
2005-11-22 12:29 am UTC (link)
The only thing that bugs me is the slow loading time, but they should work that out soon. If not, then I have to question the competence of their team, but not just yet, as they're bound to have SOME issues. When it's still doing that a few weeks/months down the road, then yeah....I'll be wanking along with the rest of 'em.

That said, I dont get notifications, so I don't miss 'em. I turned 'em off cuz I was getting too many and I don't like that. I'm no longer a slave to my email. *hurrah* *is a recovering email addict*

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(Anonymous)
2005-11-23 02:22 am UTC (link)
What amused me was the gay guy complaining about the relative bacteria infestation of vaginas. Has he realised what comes out of arses yet?

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