Hey there! So, I recently put up a news post that put out a negative light. A few things that I want to apologize for immediately include these:
1.) I'm sorry for seeming like I was complaining and feeling sorry for my song that got voted to neverland. This is most certainly not the case; I was hoping simply to use my own song as the basis for an argument against dishonesty on NG, something I've fought since July 2009. Unfortunately, this leads to my next apology.
2.) I'm sorry for seeming ignorant, self-centered and "elite." The real point I was trying to make is that I'm one to put hard work into my music, and so my hard work should pay off -- as it does with anything. This is true for any of y'all out there: Your hard work in your flash, music, art or whatever, should mean you reap the benefits. Unfortunately, this isn't the case on NG, and there are plenty of people who put hard work into their stuff that register barely a blip on the radar -- which leads to the final apology.
3.) I'm sorry for seeming like another "I got 0-voted" thread. It's very hard to distinguish what exactly I was going for, but in the end, something I've realized is it's not the 0 voting that's the issue -- it's the mind behind that 0 vote. People who go to the length to screw people over on NG don't have any business participating here, because they make it ten times harder for everyone who wants to do well here (and even if you're "just the artist," you can't tell me you wouldn't be happy that your stuff got Frontpaged, even if you could care less about the score on your work -- which is essentially arbitrary). Take Egoraptor, for example, who recently got his account phished. Question is, to what benefit would it be to hack into Egoraptor's account, other than to screw him over? Sadly for him, because of that little scheme, he lost some modding privileges -- something that should never EVER have happened in the whole wide world. People who know Egoraptor know he's loyal to NG and is a large contributor to the flash portal, so why does he deserve to get screwed over because some little fuckwad decided it would be funny to send demeaning PMs to people? It's all sorts of injustice I just cannot support.

With that said, I feel sorry for no person that thinks they have the balls to do shit like this. Nobody deserves it. In my last news post, although their was a major incongruity that needed to be cleared up, people ATTACKED me, for absolutely no reason except to produce white noise on a thread and look like a little badass. If you read the post though, the only thing that I can read that is only mildly offensive is "people suck on NG," which, to some degree, in my opinion, is true -- but it doesn't single out, haze or slander anybody! I'm sorry, but a person that takes a major offense to "people suck" needs to grow a pair and move on; it's not offensive, it doesn't mean anything except to make my point. And with that, there would be no reason in the world that people should tell me "fuck you" and that "nobody wants to listen to [my] shitty music." Okay, thanks a lot guys; I come to this site to show people some of the music I produced, and I get this. Since day 1 on this site, I've had to put up with dishonesty, unnecessary and cruel obscenity, and just downright meanness, and I've watched and seen plenty of other people struggle with it, too -- not that I DON'T expect it, being on a site like this, but seriously? It's gotten out of hand, pretty much.

Knowing that, there is no way in hell I'll apologize for talking back to somebody who is obscene to me. In fact, if you try to demoralize me, I'll make sure to know you're the real doofus, since you won't be able to make sense of anything I tell you -- or I'll just outwit you. Of course, this is to anyone who IS obscene, which is different from being critical. Critical is something I can roll with, because even though it might be just as harsh, if it's more than a "fuck you" then that means you put some time and effort into letting me know that I really do suck, which is in turn something that I can respect. I don't respect anyone who treats another human being like a piece trash that needs to be thrown out, because, in effect, you're telling me that you just don't give a shit about anything or anybody in your life and you'll tear down anybody to get your way, much in the way of a criminal. THAT'S why it's so offensive to me to see that on either my posts, or someone else's.

Anyways, I hope that, at some point, some of this sort of activity can be regulated, or at least funneled off somehow. Many apologies to Egoraptor, once more, and, more than anything, just go out there and enjoy yourself on NG; don't take into account what anyone else says unless it scars you for life!

Jazzman