Most of this message is directed at the harassing trolls. The very end is respectfully directed at tech staff. Thank you!
Look... I don't know what all is going on here. I got on here because of my interest in knives. This website was recommended to me, and I sat here next to someone watching them read and lusting over various knives. I knew many of you just from what you posted here well before I got on here. I've been checking out this website almost daily since September of last year. I thought this forum was for ADULTS who were serious about knives...so I recently joined after acquiring a few knives because I wanted to learn more about knives. I wanted to share my knife pictures and meet people who shared similar interests. You all probably have jobs where you drive somewhere and nobody knows who you are except family and friends.
My job is online. But because my job is online, you feel that somehow I can't possibly have a hobby or an interest that is also online? When I filled out my information here, it asked me for my website. It asked me for a signature. I have just as much of a right as everyone else to post my website link. I see numerous people here with links to their websites. I also have a photo album. This place gives me the option to have that. I have a blog. It gives me the information to share that. I have not gone around posting my youtube videos in the actual knife forum. I did post a Vimeo video that was not monetized..as you can't monetize with Vimeo Plus..because someone was talking about kids and knives. I was talking about how my youngest son recently took an interest in knives and that he had an SAK. I posted the video because his photo was on the front of the cover. However, another member displayed dislike for my having posted that, and so I apologized at once and removed it! I also emailed that member privately and apologized to them privately. Though that member kept harassing me even after I removed the video, apologized and did what I could to make it right.
As for my youtube videos, I have posted one on my blog because I did a blog post on survival, and the video I posted had to do with survival and events that will happen. I am very passionate about what I do. In other words, what I do is not a job to me, it is my heart. I did not come here to gain youtube followers. I have plenty of youtube followers and I don't gather that I would get tons of followers on my end times prophecy news youtube channel from 'Blade Forums' to be honest. I also paid for a basic membership and then two days later paid for a gold. I know the rules here and I am not going to pay money and then risk being banned. Secondly, I have spoken little about what I do.. you all have obsessed over it! Look, you have three or more threads you have started about me. Who is making the big deal? Who is the one going on about it? Not me. I start a thread about women and knives, for example, because I feel more women should get into knives too as a hobby.
I try to talk about knives and women and knives in the thread I start, and there are those of you here who did nothing but come to harass me for no reason whatsoever. I was even overly kind and courteous to you..even humbled myself before you and changed whatever had offended you, wrote to you privately apologizing if somehow I offended, though in truth I had done nothing wrong at all. I haven't even been here but a week, if that, and you have done nothing but harass and humiliate me to the maximum for no reason other than "i have photos of myself" (in comparison to my blade photos, very few) and I have a youtube link in my signature. You are liars. You harass me because I am new and I am a woman and you do not like new people stepping on what you feel is your turf, especially women. This makes you feel threatened somehow. Well, I have news for you. I paid just like you did and I have every right to be here! I have come here peacefully to enjoy my hobby. I would kindly ask you to go about your business and leave me alone. There are many wonderful people here and wonderful topics to discuss. I get enough of this type of crap in my work. It is the last thing I expect from someplace where I paid the money..and then some (as I mentioned, I paid for two memberships) to come and enjoy myself! This type of BS is not enjoyment. This is worse than the trolls I have to put up with in my work. You are the ones bringing up my work constantly and my ministry..I am not. You bring it up in your attack of me. I tried to play back with you the other day, thinking you were just goofing off, and then you went too far. I have tried to be kind and courteous.
You are apparently people who are looking for trouble, who are filled with hatred, and who want to run 'certain' people you deem as a threat. I have had a lot of views to my profile and to my threads. You can't handle someone else getting attention so you have to claim it's because I'm a 'whore' or a 'troll' or other terrible things. How awful! You do not know me at all! The only attention you can seem to get is bad attention. Why don't you all do something good to make a difference in this world..and then you can get the right kind of attention instead of having to resort to spewing hatred, rumors, false things about people, and so forth for attention?
I'm sorry to rain on your parade..but I'm not going anywhere. I love this place, I love knives..I ordered over ten knives today and can't wait to share my photos of them! Get over yourselves and go do something worthy in this world besides hating and destroying. In the end, you will have to answer for this to someone greater than yourselves. You are the one you have to look into the mirror at every day. I can't imagine being filled with such hatred and animosity and looking into the mirror...what I would see looking back. I would not be very proud of myself. You can call me whatever you want.. but I refuse to make my time here about my work or what you feel my work is about or your judgments on my work. I will only say that my work is my heart...it is my joy...it is what I believe..and my passion. So are my hobbies. This is one of them. So back off and leave me be. If you are honest people and you were telling the truth, you would not have all these threads bashing me as you do. If you feel I am here for attention, then why are you giving me so much of it? Think about it. This is the last you will hear from me in your garbage talk groups. Karda is a good person and has tried to help people. You are the ones clearly in the wrong. Good day.
THE BELOW DIRECTED TOWARD TECHNICAL STAFF:
I am editing this comment to add a few more things. Karda has been nothing but nice.. When he sees someone abusing someone in ways that go against the forums rules, he is trying to keep the best interest of the site in mind by correcting and warning those who are doing this. This forum is very large and many respectful people and conservative people frequent this forum. There are many paying members here who see the trash posted on the front page under What's New. My advice, if it matters, if you are going to keep this part of the forum (WC/AND THE LIKE) would be to at least make it to where none of the posts show up in places where anyone can see it. Maybe somehow (hide it more....???) make it to where a person has to go to it intentionally because much trash does show up on the What's New page..very offensive stuff. Regardless, as a new member, I only see him as one who is trying to maintain the respectfulness of the site and keep it in order with what it's really about...knives. This website also has a lot of big names in the industry who come here and also subscribe. In truth, people should not be permitted to grossly abuse others, threaten their livelihood, or their lives in any fashion. I do not think anything bad should happen to anyone (Karda) who values the place in which they are volunteering their time in order to make and keep that place (Blade Forums) a safe, respectful, professional and honorable place where people can share their interests, grow their knowledge, and meet people of like interests. Furthermore, there might be many big names in the industry who see this type of garbage and will want nothing to do with it because of the people who are abusing their rights on this forum. That is my opinion and I am sharing what I think and feel as a new person and an outsider looking in (as I am only a recent addition). As I mentioned, I nearly left after subscribing because of the gross behavior that was performed toward me and the constant harassment I was enduring for no given reason in the regular blade forums sections. Karda was one of the main ones who always comes to help people when he sees something wrong going on. Thank you.