Now first of all, Unisound isn’t even a major label. It’s an independent label that will handle the publication of any album no matter how sucky it is yet this guy has such an ego that he believes he’s “made it”, when in reality he has not. Even his MySpace Music page show this as he has 1,000 to 2,000 hits for most of his songs instead of the 10,000 up-and-coming artists usually have. The only songs that have big hits right now are “I Look Good” which he is using to gain plays from people looking for Chalie Boy and Who’s That Girl which he has dedicated to about 13 girls. I’m not making this up, I searched on Google and these are the results that came up.

And the quote that he uses…

“I don’t usually do this but you’re so pretty, I have to dedicate my song to you “Who’s That Girl 2010″ on my page.  Only you fit the lyircs perfectly”

He’s supposed to dedicate a song to only one girl, looks like Charlie Check’m is as shallow as he gets, he’s relying on shallow girls in order to further his fanbase. They will do anything just to touch Charlie Check’m hot muscular abs and have relations with… Oh wait, Charlie Check’m never had a relationship, he’s still looking for the right girl and apparently it could be anybody. If I was a girl and I had to pick between a regular guy and Charlie Check’m, I’d chose the regular guy because he’s more reliable, more secure and more procreative then Charlie Check’m, who I suspect might have small man parts from acting tough all the time, it’s probably true though since he has big abs and he frequently threatens Gay People alot because they’re a threat to his masculinity.

Speaking of which, let’s talk about his “albums” or as I like to call them “a lazy and cheap excuse to copy songs from one album to another because he’s to lazy to even make entirely new songs for an album”. He has released 7 albums “Using the names Charlie Check’m, Charlie Boy (“so original”) and Charlie Roc (“super original”). And on his records, he unashamedly copies songs from past albums onto his new albums, thinking that they’ll sell millions and he’ll be able to hire a good “promotional team” with the nonexistant money he has. In fact, here’s a search in iTunes for the song “Controled by The Pussy”.

He has it on 5 albums, 5 ALBUMS. This guy is obviously trying to make his songs into hits and what’s the best way to do it, it’s by releasing a single and gaining buzz and actually making good music, not by putting it on 5 albums. If you put it on 5 albums then people will start to think that you’re just relying on this song in order to start your career, you’re just relying on this song which apparently sounds horrible and feels generic in order to make you famous. And if that isn’t convincing enough, he has a skit called Comfort Zone on most of his albums, it seems like he’s trying to be funny like Eminem but he apparently falls flat. That high pitched “character” is not your Ken Karniff, Ken Karniff is weird and funny and enjoyable, he just seems to be very annoying and a degrading stereotype as if black people talk this way. You sir have no understanding about anything my friend, including the record business.

In fact, you don’t even understand woman. Woman need somebody reliable, woman need somebody to help them with the housework, do equal work around the house and be a supporting father if they have children. Not have a man who has big abs and forces his woman to do all the work around the house while he just sits there and neglects his children. Hell he even seems like the obsessive type, he even posted his cell phone number to a girl he doesn’t even know. Normally a relationship works up to the point where the woman feels that he’s trustworthy enough to give him her phone number, but he’s really desperate. Desperate enough to give a woman his cell phone number and ask her to call him since he’s available 24/7 and for the fact that he’s a rapper so he has the idea that woman will be all over him.

So getting back to the albums, all of his iTunes albums have a rating of 1 and a half to 2 stars. Even his reviews say what is wrong with his albums. But this ain’t about that, Charlie has created fake reviews for his albums under the names “Peaches08”, “Flora2010” and “Ronaldo Anderson”, you can clearly tell it’s him because it doesn’t even go into detail about why the album is good, instead it just says that it’s banging and you should buy it. Here is a review from Peaches08.

“This album is most definitetely not your average rap album. Every song has a different concept. Lots of rappers rap about almost the same thing on every song but not Charlie Check’m. I enjoyed the comedy, the musical compositions, the punch lines and the animated flows. nice.”

Yeah… This is obviously made by Charlie Check’m as the average rap fan wouldn’t have an idea about the “musical compositions” and the fact that it sounds like an advertisement. I laugh at the fact that every song has a different concept and rappers rap about the same thing because if we apply this to Charlie Check’m, then we learn that the concepts of the songs are laughable and derivative (almost every song is about the ladies) and the fact that he raps about the same thing, in fact I think he’s trying to build himself a fake fanbase here. Since nobody in the right mind would give a Charlie Check’m album a 5… They would think logically and give it a 1 because they have good tastes in music, they’re not shallow. And also the fact that I know it’s Charlie Check’m is because this reviewer reviews every one of Charlie Check’m’s albums and gives it 5 stars. Think I’m making this up, look.

This isn’t even manipulated in any way, all 6 of those reviews are for Charlie Check’m’s albums and they’re all rated 5. An iTunes reviewer would review other albums by other artists but not a fake reviewer, he doesn’t even make him or herself seem like a different person, the way he types, spells and uses grammar are all the same so you know it’s Charlie Check’m just by reading it. I’m a rapper and the only reviews I’ll get is honest reviews containing honest criticism and an honest score, I would never create somebody to review my own albums for me and give them 5’s, that’s be downright low and downright dishonest. And I’d never use some form or controversy such as being an atheist or hating gay people. Eminem has already voiced his disain for gay people and Christians, so it seems like Charlie Check’m has to use it as a base for his career since in his own mind, nobody has ever gone after christans or gays in rap albums, except Eminem but he’s ignoring those verses that say that.

mc chris is an atheist but he does not say it often. Why?, because he doesn’t rely on gimmicks, all he relies on is making music that he feels reaches out to his demographic, and the music he makes is good and enjoyable. Charlie Check’m however, uses atheism cause he knows that Christians will release press releases on this rapper named Charlie Check’m and give him more publicity. He even released an album called “Listen Without Fear” where he bashes Christians for being evil and hating people when they’re out of church. While I respect Christians, I don’t exactly believe with the whole “God is watching and he will save you” thing and the reason I’m an atheist is because I don’t believe that god exists and everything that happens is purely scientific. But I’m not going to diverge into that, because what happened next will shock you.

Yes, Charlie Check’m got banned from Atheist Nexus and AIM and got his name blacklisted and became a mockery within the atheist community to the point where even non-atheists couldn’t help but make fun of him. A google search for Charlie Check’m turns up a lot of these pages, and most of them are a laugh riot. Now getting back on topic, the theories about why their gay if you can even call that is because they have a “brain malfunction”, but I disagree about what it’s called because a malfunction implies that there’s a problem impeding with the operation of the product but it can be fixed, now a defect implies that the problem is in there but it can’t be fixed so it has to be replaced. Therefore I think the proper term is “brain defect” because it cannot be fixed according to Charlie Check’m.

And let’s not start over the factors. He believes that the brain takes different paths and then takes one wrong turn and it makes the person gay since their sexual orientation is all wrong (he thinks that a man thinking like a woman constitutes as a brain malfunction.) First of all, it’s pure logic that the brain is smart enough to make the right turns during development, there is only a small chance that the brain will make a wrong turn, only a very small chance and that chance can be upped by the environmental factors such as toxins and chemicals so the reason why more people are gay and the reason why we have things like Autism, OCD, ACD and others is because of the environmental factors.

I’ve engaged in a conversation with Charlie Check’m and even though I showed him my logic, he still believes in his logic and he also believes that he’s the arbiter and god combined. In that conversation, he said that gays were protesting against scientists because they are developing a cure that’ll make gay people normal and that’ll undermine their “political agenda”. Since when do gays have a political agenda, they know they’re weird, they know that they’re supposed to be attracted to woman but instead they are attracted to men. Some know their condition and want it cured while others are fine with it and don’t want the cure, so why do you think that gays can manipulate politics and science, why do you think that gays want to stop something that could also potentially cure Autism, OCD or ACD. If a Christian was a scientist then scientific progress would of stopped a long time ago.

He also thinks that in the future when there is a cure for gayness, they’ll be two groups, the group who wants to stay gay and protest and the ones who used to be gay but are now straight so they hate the gays. I also think that gays will have superpowers strong enough to be able to lift the Golden Gate Bridge to Alkatraz and there will be a war that will happen exactly like the movie “X-Men 3: The Last Stand” which I thought was a good movie but let’s get back to the point, a cure would likely involve brain surgery and he does not understand the brain in any way. The brain is a complex thing and one mistake could leave you braindead. Now if I were a gay guy and I wanted to be cured of gayness, which priorty would be first. Would I take the cure and risk everything to become straight or would I not take the cure and stay as I am? I’d probably choose the latter because there is no way of knowing if the brain surgeon is experienced or if he’s going to make a mistake. That’s the reason why brain surgery is so controversal, just one little mistake and you kill your patient, just one. If there is a cure for gayness and while a gay guy is getting the cure, a mistake could happen. It’s just the fact that it’s a very risky surgery and it’s not going to happen exactly as Charlie Check’m says because people put survival over whether their straight or gay.

Which brings me to my next point, he recently released a video of himself saying his reasons to why Gay Marriage is bad on YouTube.

If you suffered through the entire 6 minutes of the video then congratulations. Here’s what I think, the whole thing with gay people trying to make gayness normal is as stupid as your theory that gay teens are stalking straight teens to seduce and have sex with them and make them gay. Look out child predators, things have gotten a lot more stupid. You realize that painting gay teens as sexual predators is homophobic right, in fact, here is one choice quote from his YouTube page from somebody named TimothyRed1990.

“I also support Charlie and most of his views. I was molested by a homosexual at age 13, and it’s a horror I’ll not soon forget. Keep homosexuals away from young boys and call it “garriage” and no one has a problem with what they do in their own bedrooms.”

Really? Cause homosexuals aren’t attracted to young boys, child predators are and since you were 13 you were molested by a child predator. It’s this kind of FUD that Charlie is relying on to spread his views. Not once have I seen or heard of a 15 year old gay boy sexually seduce and have sex with a straight boy, this is completely stupid. I don’t think there even is such a thing as gay teen predators. Charlie has since deleted the blog posts from his MySpace page but he did have quotes that he took out of context, they weren’t even about gay predators, they were about kids who felt unconformable around their gay friends, that doesn’t mean they’re going to have sex with them now is it? It doesn’t, I read the answers and the whole post, I don’t just look at it and think “Oh a gay teen must be seducing a straight teen”.I read it and I come to my own conclusions.

Anyways, trying to make gay normal is impossible because of the way we perceive normal, two men kissing and having sex with each other is not normal and never will be, two people who are in a sexual relationship with each other will never be normal, some adults will feel weird and kids will especially feel weird since they’re accustomed to what they see. Gays are not out to harm children and convince them that gayness is normal, this is a free country and we should have equal rights for everyone. No more X is different to Y because it doesn’t apply to everything. Bikes have 2 wheels and cars have 4 wheels but they’re both modes of transportation.

Gays are not trying to trick people into political submission, I don’t even know what that means. Last time I checked there were people who hated gays because what they saw was wrong and what they was wasn’t normal so they treated them badly. It’s not “like us gays or we’ll brand you a homophone”. Everyone has a right to their opinion, they don’t have to like gays, they don’t have to be in support of gays, they can believe and like anybody who they want. We’re not being forced to like them, we’re not being forced into politics, it’s people like you who make gays worse then they are in real life with your belief that gays have a political agenda, they’re not tricking us nor have they tricked me. I respect gays but I’m straight because I’m attracted to woman. It’s just like they say, “If you’re attracted to woman, you’re straight and if you’re attracted to men, you’re gay” There’s no political stuff in there.

Also he brings this up in the video but gays are not trying to take the identity of marriage. Seriously this guy thinks that if gays take the word marriage then society will collapse. Well in places where gay marriage is allowed, is the heterosexuals identity taken, is society in collapse? I say no because the only change that happens is that gays can marry other gays now. straight people can still marry woman and nothing has changed, it’s just one minor addition. Do you think that we heterosexuals are so stubborn that we refuse to share one word with other people, that we refuse to share the word marriage. It’s like a kid in kindergarten just refuses to share with the other kids, except it’s about gay rights. So where are you getting this, how will gays marrying other gays threaten the word marriage? I don’t feel it, it just doesn’t seem very logical.

So Charlie Check’m, horrible rapper, horrible atheist, egotistical and a retarded homophobe. What more do you want me to say, I’ve been in a debate before and I even gave him tips, which he took as some sort of reply because honestly, who’d reply to a guy trying to help. Anyways, you shouldn’t take anything Charlie Check’m says as serious because apparently those are for “Entertainment Purposes Only” and isn’t that what Eminem said when he replied to controversy when he released “The Slim Shady LP”, how much can you rip off from Eminem, if I sent your albums to Eminem right now he’d laugh at you and burry you so deep that you can never come up for air, even I can rap circles around you. Gays are not bad people, there is no one to stand up to gays because gays are not bullies, they are not evil, they are not oppressive and you will not be a hero for rising up to them, you will just be a guy with an opinion.

UPDATE 01/29/2010:

Looks like he has a new theory, apparently if the brain does not get too much or too little testosterone then this will effect the brain and the gonads which will be malformed for the wrong sex somehow. First off, testosterone only affects the growth of the body, it does not effect the parts of the brain which perceive the sex, it only effects the growth of the brain. The brain is usually smart enough to avoid mostly any defect and testosterone is not going to affect that. The gonads aka the “man parts” is absurd because it cannot be malformed if you’re gay via testosterone, it produces sperm and whether you’re gay or not, you can still reproduce. This is evidence that Charlie has no idea how to come up with a theroy, he just goes with what seems to be the most popular research. It isn’t even conclusive how gay people are gay, they say it’s in the brain but how does it work exactly, and what about all the other mental conditions?

The truth about gay people isn’t exactly solid, the only truth that’s valid is that gay people are attracted to men and not woman. Nobody knows how it works, nobody has any solid evidence and all they have to use is theories. Most people know it happens in the brain but not everybody knows what parts are affected or what makes them gay. Scienctists are still figuring that out and in a few years when it’s figures out what makes gay people gay then the truth is found. Otherwise there is no truth for now, it all feels like lies to me. Until a scientific breakthrough is announced, It’s not the truth to me.

Also he believes that gay people getting married is part of their agenda, a hidden agenda which has no ultimate purpose. I guess that it is to make gay stuff normal, or is it to make gay people touching a straight guys ass legal. See apparently Charlie Check’m believes that gay people can’t control themselves and they go after straight people asking them to suck their man parts knowing that they’re straight. He’s painting gays as people who can’t control themselves and people who can’t respect other peoples spaces when in actuality they are people like you and me, only the change is that they’re attracted to men instead of woman.

While I do respect people who have different opinions then mine, Charlie Check’m’s opinions just make me rage. He actually believes that his music is good and people actually buy it. I actually researched into this and it turns out that Charlie Check’m has to leave comments on the pages of many MySpace women to get them to listen to his music, this brings me to the point. He is very, very shallow. Most people would actually look for qualities in a woman but not Charlie Check’m, he just posts comments on MySpace pages saying how cute they are and how she is his true love. If you leave comments to woman saying that they’re their true love then you’re probably shallow.

I’d also like to say that all he cares about is that his music is being sold. This is one of the stupidest things to care about in the music industry, people should care about making the music good, making them music listenable more them one time and making the music timeless. Not just make songs that will make a quick buck. It seems like all people care about in the music industry is making a quick buck, like I don’t take the time to make music. I have autisim but I manage it because I don’t want to seem like a self-importent jerk who cares about himself. Charlie Check’m however is a self-important jerk who cares about himself.

If you have lurked around then you’ll know that Charlie Check’m spams sites with links to his music, especially “Yahoo Answers”. People hate Charlie Check’m to the point where they have made freestyle raps dissing him, seriously. The only people who buy his music are woman and producers who think they’re big time and can bring people to the top. No sane or smart person would dare buy his music, it’s just so horrible in any way and tell me, if you’re getting “sells” then why are you still living at your house with your mom. Your Barack Obama single sold like 10,000 copies then you should have $9,900 and if your albums are selling at the same rate as your Barack Obama single then you should have $50,000 dollars, so why are you still living with your mom?

Furthermore, if he is so focused on telling the truth then why did he block me and delete my comments, why did he effectively censor me while other people didn’t get censored. Probably because I left a message in the comments saying that he’s no better then the other guy. If you look at them, they’re praising him as the first guy to stand up for gays, many other people came before him, he’s not the first. And if you also observe his comments, you’ll see that some of them are mysteriously being deleted (from other people, not just by me). Guess like he’s not for telling the truth, I guess like he’s covering it. You heard me right, he is actually deleting not just comments but blog posts and videos that contradict any of his comments.

He may seem like he supports gay marriage under a different name but most of the comments he posts contradict that message. Many of the comments he’s made include threats and generally homophic but also absurd things such as the gay teen predators I keep mentioning. There was even a MySpace post where he misquoted questions from “Yahoo Answers” and presented them in a way that seemed like gay people were coming on to them. There was also a few blog posts about how he portrays atheists as homo-loving-faggots and a post blasting the host of an atheist show which cannot be mentioned due to morality issues about how they treated him badly when in reality, it was him who was being bad. Here’s a link to the thread.

So in essence, he is doing the same thing he claims that homo’s are doing, covering up the truth and getting angry whenever he hears the truth. If he was telling the truth then he would not delete anything that contradict his claims, no matter how contradicting it is. But since he’s deleting stuff that contradicts stuff he said then it supports my theory. There was this one video named “Gays violating freedom of speech” about gay people’s freedom of speach and it said that the song “Christian and a homo” was based on a true story and apparently he saw a Christian and a Homo in his fantasy world and decided to make a song about it. I doubt that it’s true because mainly it ties into the theory that gays and christians have hidden agenda. Now if I can get a homo and a chrisitan onto my yard, then it’d be considered a true story.

Let’s get to the point, Charlie Check’m is ignorant (not about gays but about reality), shallow and troubled. He is everything that I hate, his logic is horrible, his theories are stupid and he can’t even face reality. I bet he hasn’t even lived one minute in the ghetto or on his own, all of his living has been done with his mom. He doesn’t know anything about girls, he can’t even choose one and he contradicts himself with every comment he says. The way he titled his video “Why Do I Hate Gay People” even contradicts his views that he supports gay marriage under a different name and he treats every comment against him as an argument, apparently he loves to fight and “debate”. He even does the same thing he thinks the homo’s do, cover up the truth. I don’t think that allowing gays to marry will harm the heterosexual identity, in fact it is still intact in the states where they allow gay marriage. All Charlie Check’m is is a mentally challenged guy who can’t process reality, he can only process fantasy.

Mostly he is insane, the reason being is that it’s censorship, meaning that anything objectable, or anything that could be harmful, dangerous to children or might promote terrorism is immediately blurred out or removed as soon as possible. I understand that there are many guides on the internet that show people how to do these things and mostly 30% or more of the internet is potentially offensive, but the fact that anything could be considered a threat to terrorism is partially stupid. The reason why I use partially stupid is because there are mostly some things that could be used for terrorism that we don’t know about yet but come on, we’re mostly prepared for a terrorist attack that hasn’t happened yet or possibly will not happen. I understand the safety of everyone and the thought of preventing terrorism once and for all and this might have a very, very small chance of working but I think the bill is stupid and the guy doesn’t have an idea how it works, though I do applaud his bravery.

Think about it, if a normal people were to be looking for a hospital of some sort, let’s say that they’re sick or that they need urgent attention. They would find that the hospital is blurred out for some reason, prompting some confusion as to why an average hospital would be blurred out. Or if they needed directions of a school of some sort, they would find it blurred and would also prompt confusion as to why the school is blurred out. I don’t know why a hospital or a school would need to be blurred out considering that as said above, it’s a top down map only and Street View does not allow you to view the campus or the back of a hospital. Furthermore if there were an impeding Terrorist attack, they would most likely be able to evacuate everyone safely and be able to defuse the bomb or shoot down the missile or whatever the terrorists might be doing. Also they would need blueprints of some sort because they would not know the interior or the structure of the building as Google Maps and mostly other map programs only show the roof.

Also, because the governor issuing the bill might not know that the bill applies to the US only, which means that the aformented things listed above will only be blurred in the United States and any other potential terrorist targets outside of the US will not be blurred. If the governor realizes that Google Maps may be used to plan Terrorist attacks in the US may be used to plan attacks in other countries such as Asia, Africa, South America, Russia, and other foreign countries. I’m not saying that I support the attacks on other countries but I’m pointing out a minor flaw in his bill. It would be that America is potentially safer and the other countries are even more vulnerable and valuable since it would be easier to plan out using Google Maps or any other mapping program that he might mention. Additionally, this would lead to some invasion of some other country or a crippling of another country of which a terrorist group could do for some reason or another.

More importantly, the plan of blurring out parts of a map is considered censorship to some. Let’s say that you liked something, something that was enjoyable, influential and risky, something that was released long ago. Let’s say that you saw the same thing a few years later, your favorite parts of the book are either changed, toned down or removed entirely. That’s what censorship is like, forcing people to remove or change the things they say in order to appeal to people who are either overreacting, are offended or believe that what they’re saying aren’t right at all. Mostly this feels wrong because people are going to be in a uproar because the government or a bill forced Google or Yahoo to blur out or remove any offensive, inappropriate or classified content, people feel that the way the internet delivers content is screwed up because companies and groups are confused by how they should deliver it and how it might cause an uproar or something.

I appreciate what he’s trying to do but I don’t think this bill is ever going to work. For one, it’s forcing companies to censor their content which people will complain over because the internet is supposed to be a free way to express opinions, two is that how is this going to help prevent terrorism since mostly Google doesn’t have any serious terrorism planning abilities, the blurred out areas are going to be obvious to terrorists, and it’s limited to companies located in California, which means that a company like Microsoft will have clear shots of those areas and it may be used as a terrorist tool itself, and it only covers the US which means other countries are not covered as described above, also the terrorists could use paper maps and phone books to find out places to strike. Three is that it’s poorly planned out, I mean if he truly wanted to prevent terrorism, he would want to take the issue to the United Nations and let them make a decision of whether to blur their terrorist targets or not.

I’m not saying that I support the bill, but with the emphasis on censorship and the fact that it’s poorly planned, I don’t think that it will ever work out. I personally think that there is no probable way to stop terrorism without causing a panic or some controversy but I think that some places are properly prepared after 9/11 to be ready to face this threat should it ever become a reality again, though I do hate the censorship that did come after 9/11 what with shows cutting scenes that involve buildings crashing and all that and that was a major blow for TV shows and media altogether. But I don’t think that maps should ever have to blur out anything just because it might cause some potential harm, mostly all censorship has done was sprout up paranoia and other kinds of fear because what they’re hiding or what they’re doing to free speech or it could be inappropriate for children or whatever insane reason there is and it’s brought no good for everyone except the people who think that it’s right.

Okay, he says he understands that he understands bug fixes and taking the time to make sure it’s ready for mass consumption and the entire thing was created to show a community that they’re ready for Windows 7 and they’re apparently proud of it. Really, this doesn’t make any sense. If you wanted to create a group that shows people that are truly excited for Windows 7 then you’d probably create a Facebook group on it or join some Windows forum or create an IRC chatroom titled #windows7, that would of make tons more sense then this publicity grabbing site there is. Really, there should be some community to release Duke Nukem Forever, that’s being developed for a long time and should of flown a long time ago, that way the game would be released and Duke Nukem Forever would finally not be identified as vaporware. Seriously creating a community with the basis that you want to release Windows 7 now is stupid, instead you should of been entirely honest and just said that you were just excited for Windows 7.

Honestly, releasing a product now would be utter chaos, just look at the premature release of Windows ME, there were lots of flaws, bugs, and most importantly lots of crashes and BSoD’s which drove people to the near brink of insanity. Windows Vista was similar due to the fact that there were lots of incompatible hardware and software out there, people had to buy much more powerful hardware due to the higher system requirements and the 7 confusing editions. If Windows 7 were released now, then it’d be a nightmare for everyone to see that Windows 7 has disappointed everyone who believed in it. Software needs time to perfect (though I do say that they’re capable of making it to RC faster), to make a perfect experience for everybody, to make it sell and to make it exceed everyone’s expectations like every release of Mac OS X.

The site has even got some publicity due to the because of the avidness of the Windows fan and the impossibility of releasing Windows 7, and most of it seems to be making fun of it. Even though he does not get the idea, he still appreciates all of the publicity he’s getting and even posts it on his website. He’s even proud of a mention on MacBreak Weekly (if you’ve gotten a mention on a Mac specific podcast, that means they’re really taking you “seriously”) and “Microsoft” is reaching out to interview him… I’ll take this with a grain of salt because when Windows 7 is released which is to most people late 2009/early 2010 and after his 15 minutes of internet fame are up then Kelly Poe will go back to obscurity and this will be just another internet meme by 4chan but will instantly spread across the internet within a few weeks, which is what may happen due to the fact that releasing stuff now will likely be the new internet catchphrase mixed in with lots of products we wished got released.

So that’s it in a nutshell. I want to say a few words before I end this, why does he ™ everything. It’s not a big problem but it definitely isn’t required. I use a lot of words without trademarks at the end generally because it doesn’t matter whether it’s at the end, because nobody’s going to sue for a word that’s being used in a general context. They’ll only sue when it’s used in an inappropriate and infringing context. Also he’s trying to start a community about people excited about Windows 7. To me, a community is where people can hang out, make new friends, talk about anything, share stuff with them and have a good time while doing it. Mostly all I see is a petition for people who want Windows 7 released now and the only thing that resembles a community is that Facebook group page a fan created. If he’s serious about making a community then he’ll have to rethink everything and take down that stupid petition in the first place. I appreciate what he’s trying to do but I don’t think it’ll work.

This revolved over an auto-bury feature being discovered after Mike Venon, the person formally known as nitmeh3, acted out on Digg after he noticed that his submissions were being automatically buried (full story here). Then it was discovered that he had 3 blocked accounts before and to apparently prevent any damage to the Digg community, his posts were being buried. I don’t get how this works exactly considering that he might be reforming himself, if anyone knows how this works, comment below! So after talking to a few of his Digg friends, who were trying to give helpful advice but instead he decided to let his anger take over and sent an obscene message requesting him to ban him, which they delightfully did. They also offered to reactivate his account should he choose to calm down or discover that he was acting foolish all along. I know that some of you remember that I might of acted stupid, angry and blind a lot of the time but as a guy who’s blogging about this situation, I have a lot to say about him.

First of all, getting banned from Digg 3 times was very stupid, I don’t know what he did (go out on some user, go out on Digg, or break the ToS), but attempting to come back means even more trouble if you got banned previously. Seriously, if you’ve been given 3 chances to fix your behavior or learn from what you did and you break those 3 chances then that means you’re probably not going to learn your previous mistakes or you have some serious issues going on down there. Even though this guy has been given restrictive terms (IE, not being able to digg upcoming stories and not being able to be featured on the front page) but still, he’s angry because he’s unable to cope to the restrictive terms of his 4th chance to be a member on Digg and even after talking with many of his fellow Digg users, with many of them telling them to just “Let it go, it’s nothing major, who cares if you’re on the front page.” but unfortunately he decided to let his anger get in the way and as fate would have it, he acted very childish.

Also he’s doing a very, very, very stupid thing. Instead of realizing that the way he might of been acting might of been a sign that he needed to change. He sort of developed his own views against Digg and has created what he calls the “Digg Ban Rampage”, a sort of unnecessary uprising against the evilness of Digg and their “overmoderation” of users. I’ve been on the site for a while and I have not felt someone telling me what to do or forcing my words to be altered in a way that wouldn’t offend anyone. Mostly this restriction is mainly in their heads, unless I encounter some sort of “overmoderation” then I think they’re crazy, seriously. Their gaming the system in a fruitless attempt to get Digg to notice them and to get their vengeance for being “wrongly” banned and to make Digg users realize that Digg is not really what it seems. Also they posted a really ineligible but readable image that was obviously made in paint. It’s obviously NSFW but it contains a very crude message about sticking something inside the rears of Digg moderators.

Look, the only way that you can bring change is if many of you email Digg support, email Kevin Rose, just show your general support. Not by doing this, not by doing what they’re doing currently. I think that Digg’s staff would treat you better if you acted better or acted appropriately or better yet, if you just would of not gotten in trouble at all. Because if you constantly get in trouble then they might stop treating you a bit seriously and treat you like a user who might get into trouble again, and that might be very, very bad for Digg. That goes for the users who are even on the rampage, you’re not getting anywhere. You are going to disrupt the experience for many established users, you might even drive away new users who’ll think that Digg is a bad place to go due to the fact that they think they can’t control their users. I assure you this is not the way to go, this will just end in pity and you’ll be digging a deeper hole for yourself then the one you are currently in.

Seriously, I hope that this issue dissolves and everyone can live happily ever after. These guys seriously need some help getting outside to the real world or just need some counseling and some seriously needed punishment. The fact that they’re going to game the system just because these guys got in trouble is inexcusable, gaming the system just to get the message across. Whatever message that is, it’s bad, it’s unnecessary and it could of been spread if the users would of been following the Terms of Service and it’s also an example that people should learn from their past mistakes. I wish them the best of luck at seeking help or a local physiologist to help them get their life back in shape and make them realize that what they’ve been doing is wrong. Also I’m still taking that break and also I’m not dead as my Twitter stream suggests, no. Merely I’m doing the same thing Megan is currently doing. Sad to see her show ending but hey, it’s her decision, she needs more time with the kids. In the meantime, I’ll break my twitter-silence eventually, just keep on watching.