Post by Ohhmm(bligo) on Jul 30, 2014 20:39:26 GMT -5
First, there was the knot. I wasn't really on the knot, I was a stupid beebee still planning my wedding when the nest was formed. Once that happened, they kicked all the elders over to the nest, and had giant ads up that yelled "Because After The Wedding...You're Married!!!1" at us incessently. They wanted us to be all
Nah. It was more
People were MEAN, y'all. You guys who aren't Titan level or so don't understand. The MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE GONE TO IVILLAGE girl definitely didn't understand. Good clean fun. The Nest's formatting SUCKED. Always did. Most likely always will. The Err Bear has nothing on their shit (and Patrick KNOWS IT, dammit). We would be thrown through complete site overhauls that always spectacularly exploded into a whirl of nonfunctional shit.
One day, we had had efuckingNOUGH, Theresa, of their shit. The site didn't work. They had pulled this format out on the knot, what, six months ago, and it STILL wasn't working properly, so they promptly switched the nest over too. And it crasssssshed. And it burnnnnnnned. And it dieeeeeeeeeeeed.
We took our toys and stomped off to the bump, to a board that WASN'T EVEN ACTIVE, MOM - Connect With Pampers.
Some Pampers-related asshattery ensued. Mostly, we continued talking about the same meaningless bullshit we usually discussed.
And then. THEN.
A post was made by Nest Kathleen, titled, "To New Posters". It told us to go away home and to "stop ruining the experience" of "regular posters with legitimate questions". She did NOT LOCK THE THREAD.
(those are assponies, for those poor fools not in the know) We flipped out. How DARE she? We WANTED to go home. Our home didn't WORK.
Also, it was the fucking PAMPERS BOARD. THERE WERE NO REGULAR POSTERS. We quickly deduced that the mods only gave a shit because this was a sponsored board. Our rage turned to the resident Pampers Pusher, Heather At Pampers. A troll was made.
@scottydeux thought I was THE REAL HEATHER and started nailing me about Pamper's stance on animal testing. I replied with some off the wall answer about our new Mother Goose campaign, because THE NEST AND PAMPERS LOVE ANIMALS, and this happened:
I still apologize for that. I also apologize for continuing to bring it up. Hellfire continued to rain down, like Pampers contents after strawberries.
Posts were being deleted left and right. Someone got banned for saying she liked the smell of Pampers. My Heather+At+Pampers troll was SHUT DOWN. But even when I admitted I was the Heather troll, even when I got in A RAAAAAAAGE and stomped around, they wouldn't ban me. I decided to test this and went back into the To New Posters post.
That post, with most of our snark, AND that picture in it, remains there to this day. I was never banned. KathLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN. EllieArroway started this board for CEP. We found out and rushed over. Everyone immediately began hitting on Patrick, who was all, "pssh, 10K of you, like I even noticed." A nest mod then sent one of OUR mods (pixy0stix?) a PM telling her all about how this was all the vendors' fault, and they had a shitton of problems with the knot rollout but LYK THEY TOTALLY TOLD US THIS WAS FIXED THIS TIME, OMGAH WHEW KNEW??
pls come back
We sunk our heels in further. papie, whoever that bitch is, refused to come, wandering around in the cold.
We demanded JUSTICE. In an effort to make ourselves known, elle bought stock in the nest (while it was tanking) so she could properly bitch them out. She made the most AWESOME wikipedia edit to the nest's page, describing the events.
The nest had it removed.
She put it back.
They removed it.
She put it back.
They removed it.
Everyone began adding shit.
Two mods from wikipedia came over to yell at us and tell us to CUT THAT SHIT OUT, WE'RE NOT LETTING YOU KEEP IT UP WITHOUT LINKS TO MEDIA ARTICLES.
The Nest Mods were running around incessantly, furiously deleting any links to this place, all SHUT IT DOWWWWWN, SHUT IT DOWWWWWWWWWWWN, WE'VE REALLY FUCKED UP NOW-A-OWWWW
A year later, several former nesties got invited by the nest to a focus group. They went, because they offered wine and cake pops
And were told that EVERYONE, top down, got fucking FIRED from the nest after The Migration, and pretty please can we come back?
And that, kids, is why May 9th is an international holiday.
Last Edit: Jul 30, 2014 20:42:18 GMT -5 by Ohhmm(bligo)
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
Post by sparkythelawyer on Jul 30, 2014 21:13:57 GMT -5
Oh! I am remembering that I had written them about it all, to be all WTF? And Nest Whatshertits wrote me back that we were all being MEANY MCMEANYPANTSES and we needed to learn how to PLAY NICE and BEHAVE and I was on vacation with no access to my laptop and couldn't even post it here for everyone to laugh at it :-)
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
What happened on the pampers board was absolutely HYSTERICAL! I still laugh about it.
I would also like to add that I was a serial lurker at the time, and I spent most of that work day in a complete panic because I was afraid everyone would disappear and I would have no idea where you all went! I was refreshing various threads every thirty seconds, hoping you wouldn't all disappear to a super-secret board. Thank you to everyone who left breadcrumbs at the other place. I would have been so sad if I had gotten left behind.