Dead Webmaster Day

sorry, but I am no artist, so you have to deal with this plain text rant.

Tuxedo Mask dot Com is temporarily closed, and instead this lovely rant has
been put up. Feel free to read it if you want, or just bookmark this site
and check back tommorow.


Hi! Kaitou Ace here. You may or may not know me, but this is my site, I do
the layout, the content, the graphics, and I pay for it also.
Lately I started thinking (after getting my 8th flame today), what do I get
out of it?
Hmm you say, aren't there banners here? He must make money.
Nope, fraid not. This site costs nearly $300 a month to keep up. On a good
month, I am lucky to get $230, and there hasn't been a good month in quite a
while now.                                                               
Satisfaction and enjoyment from running the site?
I'd like to think so, but people keep working hard to prove me wrong.
Each day, I get on average 5-8 flames, telling me to go and do obscene
things with myself in a fairly explicit manner. I have people who seem to
feel that because they have a computer and an internet connection they can
flood the message board, attack the chat, try and trick passwords from
people and eject users from chat. After the amount of time and effort, not
to mention money that goes into this site, it kind of feels like after you
invite someone to your house they spit you in the face, break a few things,
laugh and leave.
Then these people feel that as soon as they are bored of the game, they
offer to call a "cease fire" and we all go back to normal. Till they get
bored again of course. Of course I should go along with it, because why the hell
should my pride get in my way? After all, they are being generous and offering
to stop harrasing me. Wow.
I have people who feel that because they don't like how the chat is ran they
can "rebel" and break as many things as possible on my site, and cause as
many people to leave as they can, because, hey if you let them into your
house, you must also accomodate their every wish and whim.
I've gotten tech support emails to the tune of "Hey a**hole, _____ is
broken, why don't you fix it" I've been harrassed on both AIM and ICQ about
the site, or just something people don't like on it. In most cases they send
me a message full of curses from a newly made up account and go offline. The
funny part is that 90% of the time I don't even know which imbecile in
particular is cursing at me at the moment.
Even people who agreed to help me on the site also don't see a need to actualy
listen to any of my requests, unless asked by someone else.
So you must be wondering, with all of that, how many emails does he get 
that say how much people like the site?

one
a week
on a good week

This is a simple message to the people who feel the need to flame me or curse
at me because they don't like something:

Hold down the "Alt" key
now press "F4"
Do that every time you have a problem with my site.
In fact, do it everytime you have a problem with another persons site that 
you are going to flame them about.
This is a simple invitation. No one is forcing anyone to stay here.
If you don't like it, close that browser, or hit the back button
and move on.

To be perfectly honest, I am worn out. I am annoyed, and I am tired of
arguing with people, of putting up with every two bit l33t script kiddie who
wants to get off by being able to boot people.

Therefore Tuxedo Mask dot Com is temporarily closed. This won't last long,
at least not this time.

I just need a short break.

Thanks for reading, the site won't be down for long, I just had to do this.

Kaitou Ace
webmaster@animeglobe.com