Complaint Review: Moderators of Tulsa Freecycle.org - Internet
Ripoff Report on CBS 19
Ripoff Report on CBS 19 - Global Marketing Alliance
Ripoff Report on ABC 15 - Smart Shopper
Ripoff Report - Girls Gone Wild
Ripoff Report on Fox 11 - Car Repair
- Author Not Confirmed
- Moderators of Tulsa Freecycle.org Internet United States of America
- Phone:
- Web: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tulsa...
- Category: Websites
Moderators of Tulsa Freecycle.org Cherity S. I WAS BANNED FROM TULSA FREECYCLE BEFORE I EVER GOT THE CHANCE TO USE THE SERVICE! Internet
*UPDATE Employee: Sad
*Consumer Comment: You're not the Only One
Show customers why they should trust your business over your competitors...
listed on other sites?
Those sites steal
Ripoff Report's
content.
We can get those
removed for you!
Find out more here.
Ripoff Report
willing to make a
commitment to
customer satisfaction
Click here now..
I DO USE ALL CAPS, AS I CAN SEE IT EASIER WITH MY EYESIGHT TROUBLE. TRULY, I AM NOT "YELLING" AT ANYONE. THIS ISSUE IS PRECISELY THE REASON WHY SHE BANNED ME FROM THAT WEBSITE WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO POST MY FIRST 3ADS. IF A PERSON HAS A VISUAL HANDICAP THAT IS LESS INTENSE BY USING ALL CAPS, WHICH MAKES SEEING EASIER, THEN THAT IS A "REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION." IT SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS "YELLING" IF IT IS ANNOUNCED THAT IT IS A MEANS TO LESSEN THE DIFFICULTY ASSOCIATED WITH A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT BY USING ALL CAPS TO TYPE WITH, WHICH IS WHAT I ORIGINALLY DID DO. IF AN EXCLAMATION POINT IS USED AT THE END OF A SENTENCE INSTEAD OF A PERIOD, THEN THAT CHANGES THE SENTENCE FROM DECLARATORY TO EXCLAMATORY, AND STILL SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS "YELLING," WHICH IS WHAT THAT MODERATOR TERMED IT IN HER TERSE REACTION OF HER SUBSCRIPTION TERMINATION LETTER TO ME. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT SHE BANNED ME FROM EVER BEING ALLOWED TO RESPOND TO HER WITH ANY KIND OF COMMENTS AT ALL IN MY OWN DEFENSE, OR TRY TO CLARIFY ANYTHING! IN FACT, SHE THREATENED TO HAVE ME ARRESTED FOR LIBELLING HER NAME, AMONG OTHER THINGS SHE SAID. SHE MISREAD WHAT I HAD WRITTEN, AND THEN REFUSED TO ALLOW ME TO CLARIFY WHAT WAS SAID IN REALITY. THE SENTENCE SHE REALLY HONED IN ON WAS NOT A PERSONAL ATTACK ON HER; I MERELY STATED HOW I PERSONALLY FELT ABOUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO ME THROUGH THIS WHOLE ORDEAL. IF SHE IS NOT GOING TO BE MATURE ENOUGH TO ALLOW ONE TO RESPOND IN ONE'S OWN DEFENSE, AND INSTEAD JUST BANS A PERSON, THEN THIS MODERATOR SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THIS LEADERSHIP POSITION BECAUSE SHE IS NOT WISE OR MATURE ENOUGH TO HANDLE THE POSITION. THAT'S MY FEELING ON THE SUBJECT!
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 04/10/2011 12:52 AM and is a permanent record located here: https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/moderators-of-tulsa-freecycleorg/internet/moderators-of-tulsa-freecycleorg-cherity-s-i-was-banned-from-tulsa-freecycle-before-i-e-715932. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report. READ: Foreign websites steal our content
If you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here:
#2 UPDATE Employee
Sad
AUTHOR: Davedoes - ()
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, August 13, 2013
I think it is very sad that you would generalise an entire group of people that are connected by the fact they volunteer their time to run a grassroots online organisation. I've been a moderator of Manchesters Freecycle group for 3 years now. We are the largest group on the planet with over 63000 members. There are 4 of us who moderate the site. Sometimes the answers we give people are 'canned responses' so they may seem curt- but this is only because we have hundreds of posts a day that we need to ensure are appropriate and include all neccesary info.
I think, next time, just remember that you are speaking about over 6500 people who volunteer their time to reduce landfill. Don't generalise, and take up your gripe with the one lousy individual you're speaking of, not all of us.
Thanks for reading.
#1 Consumer Comment
You're not the Only One
AUTHOR: Gale Dubois - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
A friend of mine attempted to join Freecycle.org recently. They were quite happy to spam her email with their rules, but they wouldn't let her join any group because of her email address. Why? Because the email address contains a "prohibited" word: surveys.
She even emailed one of the moderators and explained why that word is present. She created that email address to take surveys. She knew that the survey sites would spam her inbox relentlessly. But the moderator only cares about their cyber-country called Freecycle. Even if you were never going to use the service to "advertise", you're guilty of doing so through an email address. So she was more or less told that she couldn't "re-purpose" an email address because it says "surveys"? Guilty of "advertising" via email address even though it doesn't mention any of a multitude of survey sites?
Oh, and get this. You're not allowed to use a free gmail account with Freecycle either. But Freecycle is quite happy to use Google's services to raise money.
So basically, if you don't submit to their little Internet "kingdom" that "makes their job easier" as moderators, you're not allowed in. Stuff that you wanted to get rid of is just going into the landfill, thereby negating the worth of Freecycle and their so-called "mission".
And by the way, Craig's List does have a "free" section in their classifieds. So the best recourse is to not use Freecycle. Let them waste time and money on their fascist moderators. It'll wind up driving off so many people that their "charitable organization" won't last.
Advertisers above have met our
strict standards for business conduct.
