Dear $s,

I've had enough.

This ad shit, and your utter refusal as a group to admit that you did anygoddamnthing wrong in handling it, is the last straw.

$spyed promised ad-free pages for subscribers. And delivered! For an entire year! Great.

...until about a month ago, when the ads mysteriously reappeared. I ignored them for a few days. I figured it was a bug and they would go away.

They did not go away.

I opened a help desk ticket, which was completely ignored for a month.

Some people in the forums began to express concern. $hexentanz said she would look into it and tell us when she knew what was going on.

Which she never did.

$lolly said "a statement will be made soon." Three weeks after that, nothing.

Various people began to note various $s, asking for some kind of status on why they weren't getting a feature they paid for. The answer was always the same: "I'll be talking to Angelo about that." "You should ask $lolly." "We're looking into that." That was all the information anyone ever got.

Instead of contacting the BBB or any of that shit, I decided to just let my near-dead subscription run out, and renew it when I was sure I was going to get what I goddamn well paid for.

And now here comes $spot with a big hot topic regarding the advertisements on dA. Great, I think, he'll say something about this.

He didn't. Not a word until someone asked about it in the comments... at which point he explained that he had turned them back on a month ago when he'd been given his position as VP of advertising or whateverthefuck.

With no notice. With no explanation. Just hoping we wouldn't notice that we weren't getting a feature we damn well paid for.

His excuse for doing so?

$spyed had made "a minor mistake" and the ads were never supposed to have been removed.

What. A. Crock.

So now he's temporarily turned them off, because subscribers are pissed and rightfully so, but says he's going to turn them back on when some mysterious project is completed.

Whatever.

If you have a $ in front of your name, chances are my opinion of you currently ranges from "neutral" to "negative" to "go fuck yourself with a rusty chainsaw dipped in ebola and coated in angry bees." I find it extremely difficult to believe--yes, even more difficult to believe than $spyed going "Whoops! Oh shit! I just accidentally gave subscribers a feature! Aaa!"--that none of the other $s knew what $spot had done.

If they didn't, there needs to be some better communication among the core staff. If they did... well, if they did, they were flat-out goddamn lying to us with every "we're looking into that," and the only thing they were "looking into" was how they were going to bullshit their way out of this.

I don't do business with companies that bullshit their paying customers.

I have 4.8GB of web space that will never be dirtied by goth crackwhore porn ads that would be considered policy violations and garner the creator a no-notice ban if submitted as deviations--seriously, people, I appreciate a good tit pic now and then, but ferfucksake THESE GIRLS ARE NOT HOT, THEY ARE JUST SKANKY. JESUS WEPT.

chaobell.net. That's where my shit's going from now on. I've had it and I'm outta here.

(Edit, after yanking all my shit except scraps off my gallery: $spot just made a post in the Status forum claiming to have shitcanned all the goth crackwhore porn ads. Hm. My opinion of him still involves a chainsaw and angry bees, but maybe we can leave out the ebola. We'll see.)