A Good Cup of Joe

It’s amazing what a good cup of coffee/joe will do in the morning especially when you just want to go back to sleep. Yesterdays post really put me on a roller coaster ride. I went from being completely ok with it, to not ok, to ok, to a really deep sadness about it for about an hr or so. But it was during that time I remembered some thing’s that my friend Tara said in a message to me earlier that day about my blog post. She said…

“I think I think self-loathing and constantly reminding yourself of your ‘poor qualities’ can be a very slippery slope. There’s a fine line between identifying the qualities you which to change, than Identifying those qualities-and not letting them go. I think it’s pretty common that people tend to over-analyze themselves.“

Now I didn’t cheer up after thinking of this or anything. But it really became even more apparent that while I did identify the qualities I want to change, I was going to have trouble to let go of them. I then also realized that I really need to be careful when I look at myself to see who I am. There have been times in the past, where I looked at myself and then just I let everything get to me and really bring me down low because I was pin pointing every flaw about myself. And when I re-read my post I saw how close I actually came to doing just that.

She also then said this on closing the message.

” Anyway, I hope this helped, and I think maybe a bit more focus on the inner you can’t hurt. “

It was during that sad moment that I really started to look at myself and think of all the good traits and qualities I really have. I then decided that it would be best to write it down and share it but at that moment it wasn’t the right time to do so. I know focusing on the inner you is more then just finding your good traits and qualities. But for me it was where I started and was for the best in the end I think.

Here’s the thing Tara and I really haven’t spoken since Middle School and back then her and I were really good friends. But I read these things she’s saying just based off of what I said in my blog post and it’s just almost as if our friendship just continued on since then. She was just able to out of no where message me and say hey I read your blog and I just have some advice. Maybe I’m just reading into it too much, maybe not. But it’s just nice to know that a friend I hadn’t spoken to in years care’s about what’s going on in my life and what I have to say.

Now the sadness that I felt last night carried into the morning even after I got some rest. I’m not quite sure what happened after I finished getting ready. But the moment I put the sugar in the cup, poured the coffee and milk and then took a sip, it was almost as if that whole feeling went away. It could of just very well been taking that sip, a deep breath and relaxing that did it. But at the same time I wonder if there was more to it. I wonder if maybe the realization of my good traits and qualities just hit me and cheered me up. You see the moment I took that sip. I thought “I need to write about this”. Weird huh?

But it doesn’t stop there. An email between Tom Kang and I today just really took me by storm. I think it was just his sheer honesty, insight, and down to earth words and personality that sent chills through me. Literally I had a hard time reading what he was saying. I think I re-read it at least 10 times till I could actually truly take in what he was saying cause the first few times it was going in and I was saying “huh wait ah I don’t understand this I’m having trouble taking this in!”. I literally felt like I was this kid who had just learned to read and couldn’t make sense of what was being said. But then as I said when I finally was able to it was just like “Wow!”. Now as I said to him in my response back, I’m sure there were some things I probably missed and just don’t realize it. So I’m still going to be reading it over and over again. That ignited feeling when you just realized something and understand it is amazing.

So here I am about 3 hrs after I got the email from Tom, along with getting interrupted, a couple of times along with a small meeting. So what are these traits and good qualities I see in myself with out over-analyzing? I’ve decided to pick what I feel are my top 4 qualities/traits.

Well I’d say to start would be having an open heart and accepting people for who they are and where their at. I won’t deny that there are times I do struggle with this. But I do think it’s one of my greatest and strongest qualities/traits. It amazes me how there are just so many people in this world today that won’t accept you for who you are because you don’t fit their expectations or their idea of how some one should be, act, dress, etc.

The next one would be the ability to listen and to give the best advice I can. I sometimes may feel like I talk too much, but there are a lot more times where I find myself just listening, and not saying a word for a while. And then out of no where I just speak my thoughts, suggestions/advice.

You know what’s ironic about the one bad trait about my computer usage? That it also has it’s one positive out come. I’ve spent so much time on the computer over the years that I’ve learned to troubleshoot issues with friends and families computers. Now I’m still going to change the bad habit of my constant usage. But I’m certainly proud and glad about the one good thing that came out of it which is the ability to help others with technology.

And my final good trait/quality would be striving the extra mile to make sure something is done the right way or to help out a friend. I look at my past and how much I’ve done and the amount of time I’ve put into projects and to help friends and I see that I go that extra mile to make a difference. Now there are a lot of times where I do put my foot down because this some times can be taken advantage of. But for the most part I feel that the extra mile made to make a difference in such the smallest thing is priceless. It’s the smallest differences that can definitely make some ones day brighter.

Hopefully that wasn’t over analyzed or anything. Some of you may disagree with what I see are my good qualities/traits, but that’s fine cause everyone is entitled to their opinion and feelings. I know that this entry has nothing to do with coffee but I felt that the title fit because my realization and the over coming of that sadness occurred when I took a sip of that cup of coffee. Maybe I’m looking into it too much, maybe not. But I’m sure glad I over came that horrible feeling last night.

This will be my last entry for a couple of days. I really need a break from all of this writing and just jotting down my thoughts. I’m going to be in Connecticut for the weekend and I’ll pick back up either on Tuesday or Wednesday for my entries and will return to my usual schedule of not writing everyday. See Ya guys next week!

Changing for the Better

For a while there were many things about myself that I didn’t like. But it became more apparent today while I was driving in to work. Let me explain.

Last Saturday I had stayed over a friends house and I brought my hair gel cause I figured we would be going swimming and then I would just fix up my hair again. Well this turned out not to happen and I ended up not using it. When I left I accidentally left it at their house and I tried getting it back that night but they never responded to my text messages or phone calls.  Since then I’ve been trying to get it back and they didn’t even call me back after asking them to. It’s been two days since and I haven’t heard from them until today. Who knew trying to get in touch with some one just to get hair gel back would be so difficult!

So I am  getting ready and I called my friend and left them a very unpleasant voice mail as I was kind of annoyed/pissed off that here I am trying to get in contact with them. At this point it didn’t even have anything to do with the hair gel, I wanted to know what was going on that warranted them not contacting me for two days straight. I then sent them a following text message asking them to check their voice mail immediately as I figured that would grab their attention.

Long story short text messages were exchanged once I got to work, I told them to actually just ignore the voice mail cause I dropped a few words too many times and just explained what I wanted. I was told that there was no signal and that their battery died that night. We’ve since patched things up and got everything sorted out.

But it was in my car that I realize I’ve got a lot of bad habits and traits that I really don’t like. It kind of just became really clear in my head when looking at the other cars. I realized that I don’t get mad at the driver, for some reason I get mad at the car it’s self for when a driver does something stupid. Almost as if I expect the car to know not to do that and that it’s the cars fault. It’s weird I know but this is what just made everything click in my head. One of the bad traits I have could absolutely ruin friendships and that would be my anger. That was actually the first thing that popped into my head on my way in and the others just followed. I’m not quite sure why but I get really upset over the smallest things and I’m not quite sure why. Could the trust issues I have be playing a part? I mean really I wasn’t even upset about getting back my hair gel, it was the fact that I didn’t get a call back or anything for two days and yet I got so frustrated where I left a voice mail when I let my anger get the best of me.

But it’s not just the anger that I have trouble with. I also tend to just eat a lot especially at dinner. I’ll help myself to seconds, when I really shouldn’t cause I don’t need to even though my body is making me think I’m still hungry. Let’s do a comparison picture of me back in high school to me now.

This is me back in high school after playing DDR. I don’t know what I was thinking by taking a picture of myself all sweaty and posting it on my old blog at xanga. For some reason I felt the need to show off how tiring and sweaty you can get from playing DDR.  I look at this picture now and it’s honestly quite amusing, but at the same time I think “Wow I used to be that thin?” just based off of my facial structure.

This is me after the ADEMA Concert last August and I’d say I haven’t changed much since then but maybe put on some more weight. You can completely see the difference in my face and my shoulders I suppose. But still I don’t like it at all one bit. Oh and the guy next to me is Kris Kohls of ADEMA. Him and I talk from time to time and stay in contact, but what is really cool is the fact that he’s in this mainstream rock band and he’s a Christian. But what’s even cooler than that is he’s a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu artist and has a world title if I’m not mistaken?! I could be wrong. But never the less how awesome is that a Brazilain Jiu Jitsu Martial artist who can kick your butt, is also a Christian and in a mainstream rock band?!

I know some of you are thinking “why are you so concerned you look fine!” to me I’m not. It’s one of those self conscious things and I can’t help it. One of my friends told me if your going to work out and lose weight do it for yourself, but if your going to do it just so girls can be all “Oh look at him!” you might as well not even bother. Those aren’t the exact words but that basically sums it up. I thought about it for a bit and decided I wasn’t going to. But as I laid in bed on Monday night with my laptop resting against me I really felt kind of disgusted with myself cause I could see how much weight I really put on. It was pretty much to the point where I got up, put my shirt back on and climbed into bed. I felt so much better about myself after doing that cause I couldn’t see what weight I had put on. So I’m making it a goal to change that aspect of me as well cause it really does bother me.

Another one would be the amount of time I spend on my laptop. If you were to stay logged in on AIM and Facebook for a Month straight I’m sure you’d see that I’d be signed on everyday for 24 hrs straight. Now of course I’m not using AIM, Facebook or the web for 24 hrs straight, but it certainly does tell you how much time I spend online. My bad computer habits is what hurts me the most in school so this needs to change right away if I want to stick with my schedule I came up with. But it not only has to do with school but also with the continue temptations of going to those sites that can not only harm your computer but yourself as well. When I say harm yourself, I mean in the sense of mentally and what not. Sure everyone has bad temptations but out of everyone I know, excluding some who are right up there with me, it can be really bad some times.

Another one would be is buying things I don’t need. Video Games would be a perfect example. When I got my first job at Walgreens the only thing I ever bought was food and Video Games. Had I not blown away my money on all those games and food I probably would be doing better financially at this point in time. Currently I’m doing really well with not buying the latest game. In fact the last game I bought was Mario Kart Wii which came out back in April or May I believe. This Holiday season though is going to be tough cause the whole buying gifts thing comes into full swing.

There’s much more then this and so for now I am going to list my top priority changes I want to make with in the next few months and with in a year. I guess we could include this in my Chapter 2?! Not quite sure honestly.

Things to Change in Myself

Anger Issues
Trust Issues
Losing Weight
Watching how much and what I eat
Time Spent on Laptop
Resisting Temptations
Studying More
Controlling how much I spend
Saving Money

One Week Till College

September is just around the corner and guess what I can’t for? That’s right college. I know I know me being excited for College? Having been on Summer Vacation since May it get’s really boring after a while of just going to work every day. Plus my summer adventures have been some what lacking. Plus I’m really set on doing 10x better in school this semester. My first year at RV I didn’t do well at all and last year I did better but not where I could have been. So when I registered for classes back in July I thought about my schedule and how I can take advantage of the time I have outside of class.  Below I’ll list my schedule and between each day I will describe how I’m using my time.

Mondays- Classes All Day

Film: 9:00am – 11:50am
Math: 1:30pm – 3:20pm
English: 6:00pm – 8:50pm

Between film and Math I have a chance to grab lunch. So I figured I’ll do that but at the same time get whatever work I need done for that class before Math. Then between Math and English I have a three hour gap which is plenty of time for me to get my Math work done. Then once I get home from my English class which will be around 9:10 – 9:20. I grab some dinner out of the fridge, and work for a good 2 hrs and be in bed by 11pm.

Tuesday – Work All Day – No Classes

9:00am – 3:00pm

This ones simple right? I do assignments for class at work. Being that I sit behind a desk all day waiting for something to go wrong hardware wise I have quite a lot of down time to get things done and out of the way. Then when I get home I grab a snackand work till 7:00pm because that’s when Jeff’s mom comes to tutor me for math.

Wednesday – Work and Classes

Work 8:00am – 12:00pm
Math: 1:30pm – 3:20pm
Intro To Mass Communication 5:30pm – 8:20pm

Get some more class work done at work. Again a lot of down time there. And then I have a 2 hr break to get more done. I’m thinking I’ll sit in the quiet study upstairs and get work done. Then once I get home which will be around 8:40 – 8:50 I’ll grab a snack again, and work till 11pm and then head to bed.

Thursday – Work and Class

Work: 9:00am – 3:00 pm
System Analysis & Design: 6:00pm – 9:50pm

Do more class work through out the day and even between my three hour gap. I’m thinking I’ll just head straight to the college to get more use out of my time.

Friday – Work All Day

Work: 9:00am – 3:00pm

I do more class work especially for my System Analysis class and even afterwards as well. I won’t be going out until all my work is completed. This goes for weekends as well.

Many of you who know me think I won’t follow through with this because of the way I’ve taken school in the past. But I promise I will. If I ever want to get out of school and want to pull off good grades I have to! With that mentioned does anyone know how to get rid of a cough that won’t go away? I’ve had it for three weeks straight and it just won’t budge. I originally had a Sinus Infection and that’s now gone. But the cough that came with it is still here. Any advice? I really don’t want to miss any classes because of it.

Starting New: Not the easiest thing!

The past few days, better yet weeks haven’t been the greatest. Some of you know what’s been going on in my personal life recently, some don’t at all. Before I begin I want to give a heads up on what I’m going to be talking about. There’s a positive ending to this though!

Note/Warning: This may seem like a bashing post on individuals, place, etc. But it isn’t, it’s actually a some what continuation off of the Baptism entry I wrote a few months back. Plus this is just something I need to do, to start that new chapter or to start new to put it to a close. Plus it also connects to today. It’s also pretty much a crash course of what took place in a year.

As I’m sure many of you know I went to Alliance Bible Church aka ABC (now StoneCrest) during highschool. I loved it there like you had no idea. I guess it was because of the friendship I had with Mark Barnish. I had done the website for the youth group for 4 – 5 years straight and it became a great service to everyone and helped the parents out a lot from what I’ve heard. Well towards the end of my Junior year Mark had announced that after the Missions Trip in England he would be leaving the church to go start a daughter/sister church in Swedesborough, NJ. This was heart breaking news for me as well as many others, but had faith everything was going to be ok. The Missions Trip came and I had a great time over there, plus it would be one of my last greatest memories with Mark. The time came for Mark to leave and the new Youth Pastor took over.

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I’m leaving names out for the current youth pastor and others out of respect and for privacy. If you know who it is, then I hope you understand. If you don’t but would like to know, I’ll make an exception if you email me, or contact me on Facebook

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Things seemed like they were going to be ok and that nothing would change. But little did I know what would happen in a year. My Senior year became really busy, and I got behind on updating the website. But I eventually did it in a timely manner and that soon stopped.

Around the end of my Senior year I had told the new youth pastor some thing in confidence. It was nothing bad just something I figured he should know about. From that day on things changed. I started getting emails asking for the login information for the website server, etc. I was slowly starting to be shunned, and I was taken off the website with out being told they were giving it some one else to do it. In October of 2006  our web host found out and he was quite upset about it considering they were getting free website hosting because I helped run the company but also because I was working on the site. So I typed up a formal letter and handed in explaining their options. While typing this up, being quite upset, the youth pastor came outside the sanctuary asking what I was doing. I tried explaining while I was rather upset but I couldn’t find the words. He walked away but then turned around and in a loud tone, basically yelling at me explaining is frustrations and then claiming that this was the wrath of God and coming out of him. That was when things really also started to go down hill.

As I said before I handed it in and the person who currently runs the new website flipped out on me and told me this was BS. I was sat down with a week later and told that I will no longer be working on the site (Ironic cause I was pulled off the site without any notification before this meeting) and that they will be going to a new webhost. Things remained rocky for about 2 more months. I had decided I wasn’t going to go to the new years celebration and spend it with friends. After new years I hadn’t heard anything about the youth group so I asked my bassist and he told me they had been meeting for two weeks already. What else was I to do but respectfully ask him to explain to the youth pastor I didn’t know and that I will be coming next Sunday. I found out later that week from my bassist that apparently that night the youth pastor said “That’s BS he knew”. Now whether that is true or not I’m not sure. But I decided from that point on I’m not going back to the youth group or that church for that matter.

I left only to return one Sunday cause I was invited by the lead pastor to check out something they were doing for college students. Ironically I was never called after meeting up about it. It was after I left I really started to depend on my friends. And it was these event’s that took place, that really caused me to stray away from God, better yet my faith I should say. Still I kept pressing on and stayed away from the church for months and stayed close to my friends. It wasn’t till Spring 07 when I got involved in Liquid Church. And since that day I’ve really struggled with going every Sunday or going at all. I mean who could blame me after what I went through in the past year?

Fast forward to now and I still am. I’ve been off and on because of school, but still ever since what happened it’s been like this even when I don’t have school during the summer. I never really struggled with it in the past as much as I do now as it’s so hard for me to trust people after going through something like that. So my faith and everything has just been at an all time low for a while now but hitting high peaks every now and then.

But what’s making it harder now to trust people is the fact that basically all my friends are gone now. My best friend is up at UConn in Connecticut, my one friend won’t even really speak to me and they aren’t going back to school at all, and another friend isn’t going back to school till next spring. What about my other friends? They are all out of state so I only have about 3 friends in state that I went to HS and College with. So where do I turn to now? Well after today’s message, I decided that it’s just time to move on. I figured I might as well start at school, and make new friends there.

As for the whole relationship with God thing and church. While I’ll be starting new, it’s really going to take some time. No one has any clue of how much of wreck my life has been till now. Well except maybe one person which would be Jeff. I know that this was only a crash course of what happened in my life. But if any of you want to know the full details, I can tell you. Just ask and I’ll send ya a message on facebook or via email.

But with all the bad things that have occurred in the past year or two. I wouldn’t trade anything for the people I have met during them. A perfect example would be my band members, we’ve been through so many ups and downs with line up changes were still together and really good friends. Plus meeting people like Michelle, Jeff, and Mike Leahy are other great examples.

With that said I’d like to leave you guys with some footage from the most recent small gig my band played. The audio quality is decent. I blame it on the camera being to close but that’s ok. Enjoy!

Original Song: Procrastination

Check Out the rest here!

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=BriggsMullen

Mixx Apology: A small inside look to Super Mixxers

Two days ago I wrote a blog post titled “Do You Hear Me Mixx?!”. There were some valid points I made and a whole lot of information that I had wrong. Do to my post I made Mixx look like an unwelcoming place, made it look like that the people behind Mixx don’t care, and slammed everyone behind Mixx which was really unfair to them.  Though yes that entry brought some attention to the issue at hand, it also really brought negative attention to Mixx it’s self and Google Alerts manage to pick that entry up and send it out. Even though CyberPhoenix had his Super Mixxer status revoked, I went about this entirely in the wrong way.

With that said I want to give my sincerest apology to the Mixx Team. It was wrong of me to post such an entry with out having my facts straight and I really should have come to you guys first. Myself and many others truly do appreciate all the hard work you guys put into the site and all of the new features you guys implement. I’m sorry if I made you guys feel like that myself or others didn’t in any way. So I’d like to take this opportunity after having a discussion with Kerry about some of the things that were false and misinformed about and make things right. But I also would like to take this opportunity to apologize to a user on Mixx that was mentioned in that post.

CyberPhoenix I know you and I have our difference’s a lot of them in fact. While I don’t think I did anything wrong just calling you out in the post, I do know for a fact I did not handle it properly. I shouldn’t have gone and just blatantly down vote every submission you made to try to make a point and that I should have only down voted the ones that didn’t have an appropriate title or description. Instead I should have just reported your comments, contacted the Mixx Team to discuss the issue, and left it at that. I hope you can forgive me for my actions of yesterday, and again mean while we don’t see eye to eye on the Microsoft issue, I do know that we both think and agree that Linux is a great Operating System.

So let’s clear some things up, I will be taking excerpts out of my previous post to clear the big issues at hand. Then following that I want to talk about the inside look behind Super Mixxers.

For the past 7 -8 months I and many others have been reporting this one specific member. We’ve reported him for revenge voting, hateful comments, spam submissions and spam comments.

This statement I made turn out to be absolutely false. Yes Brian and I did some reporting in the past. But the actual reporting of CyberPhoenix by a ton of other users apparently didn’t occur until my last blog post. He also was not reported non-stop like I had previously believed.

If digg banned him, you guys should be doing so as well as he is not contributing in any way and I’m sure he was banned for the same reasons for what he’s doing over here.

This statement should have never been made. If Mixx was to ban him because digg did, then many of the users like Greg who came over from digg for example would have been banned by Mixx.

After having him banned for about 2 days all of a sudden he was let back on to the site.

This information here really needs to be cleaned up once and for all. Yes for months I was under the impression that he was banned for two days. It turned out he was not after all. I’m not sure what happened those past two days as Brian and I did see the “Sorry never heard of the guy” error message. It could have just been a slight hiccup in the system. But I want to make it clear the CyberPhoenix was NEVER banned!

I believe those were the biggest faults in my previous entry. Again every one needs to know that the Mixx Team DOES listen! When they say they are, they aren’t lying. Just please trust me on this even when they don’t say anything about the issue you blogged about or sent a bug report on. They are working on it!

A perfect example of this would be my blog post back in February titled “Dealing with Spam on Mixx: Spam is a No No”. I had listed several issues that I saw on the site and the Mixx Team patched/fixed them with in a 7 day period and others took a bit longer to fix but were patched/fixed by July and one just recently. So remember they are listening! You may not see the results immediately but they are working diligently! We just need to be patient. If you are wondering what issues these were here is the list Kerry typed up:

1.  Use report this (we removed the limits for supermixxer to report bad content to us)
2.  Don’t send Mixx mail to 100s of people (its now impossible to do this unless you resurrect a previous thread)
3.  Need a “report this” link on email  (we now allow people to limit site mail to getting mail from people YOU are following –in other words, people you chose to communicate with)
4. Block user link in Report This form–at least I think that is the suggestion (this is a good one and something that we have not done, but we now offer the ability to block a user, and you don’t even see their comments)

Like I keep saying they are listening! Just be patient! If you blogged or sent feedback or something and want to know if they will be working on it. You can send them an email and ask. I’m sure they will gladly respond, but do keep in mind that other requests and features may take priority over yours. So again remember patience is key!

A small inside look to Super Mixxers

Well here is the topic everyone has been waiting for. While talking to Kerry the other day I asked her about Super Mixxers. I wanted to know mainly about the decision making of revoking the status, but what I got was an inside look so to speak on Super Mixxers. Being one I find it honestly rather interesting about what I had found out. Also please bare in mind that this is the first time anyone will really be getting the inside look. No one has really asked about it, and Kerry was more then happy to answer my question with out revealing numbers or anything of that sort.

So before I begin let me take a step back and just cover what exactly a Super Mixxer is. There are some people that read my blog and don’t use Mixx so I think it’s important that they have an understanding of what one is.

A Super Mixxer is some one who is given “Special Abilities” that other users don’t have. A Super Mixxer can flag a story as Breaking News, mark duplicate submissions or similar articles as related, and endorse a site if the content is great and meet’s their expectations of quality content I guess you could put it as. I want to clarify that Super Mixxers are NOT moderators of any sort. They simply have more features that’s all. I would look at Super Mixxers as Advanced Members on a website or forum. You know the sites that offer certain features to their valued and quality users.

Now with that out of the way let’s truly begin. To put it in Kerry’s own words the Super Mixxer status is an automatic thing. You simply have to be a member for a certain amount of days, achieve a certain amount of karma points with another time frame without getting “in trouble”. But not only that you also do need a diversity score related to your comments and source of submission. What does Kerry mean by getting in trouble you ask? This means having items removed for spam, bad comments or submitting too fast. The best way to tell if your in trouble is if you have a CAPTCHA appearing during your submits. If you see this take a step back and try to figure out what your doing wrong. If you don’t know contact the mixx team at feedback@mixx.com they will gladly answer your question and tell you what’s up. Don’t be shy they wont bite!

So how does Mixx go about a misbehaving Super Mixxer? It’s rather simple honestly.

1. They usually warn the user that is in trouble. The Mixx Team feels if they were good enough to make it through the fairly-high bar, that a warning usually solves the problem right away and the user corrects their behavior.

2. They also consider context as well. Let me quote Kerry on this as she explains it best.

” Don’t know if you are a football watcher, but I swear it seems like every time, the refs see the 2nd punch thrown and the guy who was retaliating is the one thrown out, but hte guy who starts it walks scot free.  We want to make sure that we don’t do that on Mixx. That we understand the context of what the conversation is before we just go banning.  We have a lot of back-and-forth on Middle East politics. Drop in the middle of one of these conversations and you might be like ‘DAMN how can these people still be on the system?” but do the research and you realize their are faults on both sides and that there are actually people who enjoy the conversations, even if they get heated. So understanding the context is important. “

3. If the user is out of bounds then they revoke the Super Mixxer status and let them continue on. Mixx likes to give their users the oppurtunity to prove themselves. If they stay on good behavior or “keep their noses clean” as Kerry put it the Super Mixxer status and badge returns. However if they don’t the status and badge will not come back. Also Kerry stated that if they continue to get VALID reports then they will boot them like they boot others.

So I hope this gives everyone some insight on Super Mixxers, how you become a Super Mixxer, what are the signs to your status being revoked and much more. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the Mixx Team. They are pretty much an open book and will answer any questions you have.

Again the email to contact them is feedback@mixx.com, and they will get back to you as soon as possible usually with in minutes. I also want to thank the Mixx Team for being very understanding and professional about what happened the other day. Thank You Kerry, Kori, Will, and Chris for being very professional, you guys rock!

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Do You Hear Me Mixx?!

Mixx and company I really want to start off and tell you guys how much I love everything you do to make Mixx possible. Your work is astounding and greatly appreciated, but I have just one little problem.

For the past 7 -8 months I and many others have been reporting this one specific member. We’ve reported him for revenge voting, hateful comments, spam submissions and spam comments. Yep I think you guys know who I’m talking about.

CyberPhoenix

http://www.mixx.com/users/cyberphoenix/

What happened?!

Now I’m not quite sure what’s going on here. Months ago, we reported this guy and he eventually got banned. It took some time because we understand everyone deserve some time to shape up. After having him banned for about 2 days all of a sudden he was let back on to the site. I’d like to quote the Joker from The Dark Knight. “What happened?! Did your balls drop off?! ” It’s like one day you have no problem with getting rid of him. Now you guys wont even touch him.

I say this all in a comical way of course. But still there is truth behind this. You had no problems with doing so in the past and now you won’t.

So my question to you guys is why?! Mixx did just fine with out him for those two days and I’m sure Mixx would still be functioning and having the same quality content today from others. I really wish I didn’t miss the night Kerry was on Social Blend because I really want to know what the hell is going on.

He’s been reported non-stop since that day and for whatever reason he is still not being banned for pure violation TOS and the Agreements he accepted to signing up. How come when other users are blatantly doing the same thing and we report them,  they are removed immediately? But with CyberPhoenix he sticks around? I know I’ve just started to report him again recently. But come on I know he’s been reported non-stop by Brian and other people as well.

A Super Mixxer Still?!

Also why the hell is he a Super Mixxer?! If I’m not mistaken but if you violate any of the TOS, abuse your Super Mixxer Powers, etc isn’t this ability suppose to be revoked?! He’s clearly proved he should not have this ability. He marks unrelated topics as related and he marks his stories as “Breaking News” when they clearly aren’t. It’s sickening to see this continue.

One Spam Comment Removed. Are you listening?!

I know you guys are listening to us. Today some one on your side removed his spam comment after myself and many others reported it and asked for it to be removed. Please don’t stop there. Delete his other comments as well. He leaves spam comments on unrelated topics as proven below

“He does that ALL the time. He posted like a 200 line comment spamming one of my submissions that had nothing to do with my post. My post was an article criticizing KDE4, Mixx seems to ignore his comments and reports against them…same goes for his stories“

Source: http://mixxingbowl.com/forums/index.php/topic,749.msg12695.html

Do You Hear Me Mixx?! This user needs to go! Do You Hear DarkNemesis and everyone else?! They are sick of him! We know you listen, now let’s take it up a notch and get rid of another user that does not belong here.

Spam on Mixx is a No No

Remember my helpful article on spam?

Yeah this one right here

http://standardsdt.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/dealing-with-spam-on-mixx-spam-is-a-no-no/

Remember it?! If not take a good read for why this community cannot tolerate anyone like him. We can only do so much with reporting. But us the community need you guys to take action against people like him.

This user used to be on digg. Do a google search for CyberPhoenix and you’ll find his profile from digg will show up as a cache on either the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd page. Now if you try visiting http://digg.com/users/cyberphoenix his account no longer exists. If digg banned him, you guys should be doing so as well as he is not contributing in any way and I’m sure he was banned for the same reasons for what he’s doing over here.

I’ve Declared War against CyberPhoenix

In the end I’m declaring war against this user if you guys aren’t removing him. I’m reporting every single piece of crap he submits, every comment he leaves, down vote every submission he makes till my fingers are bleeding. And even still then I will be clicking away and typing away. I’ve reached my limit with this user. So I ask Brian, Greg, Joe, Julie, Honest_Ape, DarkNemesis618, gbarberi and all fellow mixxers to start reporting the hell out of this user if he is not removed. I also ask for other mixx users to stand up and inform the staff and everyone if he has revenge voted you, left you spam comments, has been hateful, etc.

CyberPhoenix you better watch out cause I’m about to make your life a living hell.

Mixx I love you, but…

Mixx I love you dearly, but it’s time something is done. And I’m doing something about it since our requests for him to be banned aren’t being listened to. I will no longer stay quiet and I will make this guys life a living hell if I have to. I know the rules and TOS of mixx and I will stay with in them. But this has gone on far enough and I’m starting to feel like our requests for reporting him and requesting him to be banned are going ignored like digg ignores it’s users. Please for mine, yours and everyone else’s sake just hit the ban button and be done with him.

If Chris, Kerry or some one wants to talk to me about this please feel free to contact me. But I’m done with this BS, and I will do whatever is possible in my power to make this user go away, even if it means I have to be vocal about it.

Sincerely,

Dave Tarantula
http://mixx.com/users/standardsdt

::Edit::

If you agree with any of this at all vote it up here at mixx. Many thanks go out to loup.dargent for submitting this!

http://www.mixx.com/stories/1875450/do_you_hear_me_mixx_standardsdt

Check Out DarkNemesis681’s post on this issue and more at

http://blog.darkernemesis.com/archives/2008/08/Come-On-Mixx/

If you also agree with what he has to say, vote it up here at mixx. Again many thanks go out to loup.dargent for submitting this!

http://www.mixx.com/stories/1875570/darker_nemesis_come_on_mixx