A day late
I started writing a post a few days ago, it began, “My friend has a shirt that says, ‘Procrastinate, because if the world ends tomorrow you won’t have to do it’”. It should have been completed yesterday, but fittingly enough, I postponed putting the finishing touches on it until today. The post concluded, “Since MLIA began in May 2009, the MLIA community has grown much larger and stronger than I would have ever imagined”.
Today, as I’m sure many of you are aware, a number of inappropriate stories were posted on MLIA. I suppose those involved must have thought it was funny to publish stories with mildly offensive words on the MLIA homepage, but they were wrong. They might have had a giggle, but the vast majority of the MLIA community just thought it was childish. I’ve always believed the community should be able to police itself and have resisted creating a long list of banned words. I hope that what happened today is an exception – not the rule – and MLIA can continue to be the self-regulating, self-moderating, super-awesome community it has been for the past two years.
Keep it average.
Well said. Thanks, Mek.
KGHero
May 31, 2011 at 6:06 pm
That capitalized ‘s’ is going to be the bane of my existance for a long time.
KGHero
May 31, 2011 at 6:07 pm
omfg you fixed it. <3
KGHero
May 31, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Don’t worry, sir. We’ll keep the place keen.
Lycan4425
May 31, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Is there any way to change that green carpety thing?
lycan4425
May 31, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Oh. Well I’ll be darned.
lycan4425
May 31, 2011 at 6:22 pm
How did you do that?
aingo_twin_sis_athena
May 31, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Make a WordPress account.
lycan4425
June 1, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Even though I did not take part in it, I still feel awful for what happened. I hopes it never happens again. You make really nice speech too.
aingo_twin_sis_athena
May 31, 2011 at 6:12 pm
And we will make the MLIA clean again, like it had before!
aingo_twin_sis_athena
May 31, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Thank you Mek. It actually means a lot.
KevinPL
May 31, 2011 at 6:15 pm
I’m sorry, but I had to laugh at “Keep it average.” We all know this website hasn’t been average in a very long time.
Anyway, again I apologise for the post yesterday. Yea, it got some cheaps laughs but it was pretty immature. Fair enough banning us.
ActionMan
May 31, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Oh dang. We aren’t being reprimanded? THERE IS A GOD. Yeah, dude. Seriously though, the only way our little community here can keep living is if people can make accounts. Uh. Think of it like this. We current commenters are elderly people. We’re all in a nursing home. As nature takes place, we die (or ‘leave’, irl). So if all the elderly people die, there’s no one left in the nursing home. You gotta have more people coming in for it to be able to live. MLIA is that nursing home. Let it live, mek. Let. It. Live. /lol deep moment
erinsayyysss
May 31, 2011 at 6:21 pm
*nod* No new blood is bad for us, sir.
lycan4425
May 31, 2011 at 6:25 pm
New people will distract us so it never happens again. I just can’t believe it, and why does I feel so guilty about it? I didn’t do anything! I swear! *hyperventilates* *dies*
aingo_twin_sis_athena
May 31, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Dude. Chill.
erinsayyysss
May 31, 2011 at 7:06 pm
wat
llamafish
June 1, 2011 at 5:15 am
Sorry, I had just taken my meds, and I’m not used to them yet…
aingo_twin_sis_athena
June 1, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Okay, yeah, it was immature, I’ll give you that. But to completely ban us for a few posts that were a bit immature, in comparison to all the Walmart and Harry Potter posts, it seems a bit too much. Could we in any way have the accounts back, but have our submitting rights taken away?
Pedz
May 31, 2011 at 7:07 pm
I agree that those posts were stupid. Once in a while, yeah, it’s kinda funny, but not all at once. There are some people who have figured out ways to get to the front of the queue so maybe you could figure out a way to stop the cheaters.
-but I mean if they had done it with average stories that might have been okay justsayin’-
And maybe could you help us keep MLIA average? The posts are absolutely terrible. I think people posted the innapporpiate stories to “scare away” the unaverage post writers and then make this site average again.
Thanks for all you do!
Sill love ya ;*
xoXdancerXox
May 31, 2011 at 7:16 pm
“people posted the innapporpiate stories to “scare away” the unaverage post writers and then make this site average again.”
That’s a load of pork scratchings. They did it for selfish reasons.
Mek
May 31, 2011 at 7:37 pm
I’ll be honest, I thought that mine would be kinda funny. Just a random one in the midst of the unaverage posts. I had no idea everyone was gonna start pushing them through.
ActionMan
May 31, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Well, duh. Pretty sure the reasons she said were selfish.
Anyway, the posts themselves have gotten tedious and repetitive. Plus, they’re not average. They’re really not. How often do you get into Harry Potter wand fights at Wal-Mart with the guy that works there?
Go ahead and go through just three pages of stories. I guarantee that you will find at least 10 of the following:
A story that ends with Best. (Noun). Ever.
A story about Harry Potter (actually, you’ll probably find a dozen of these).
A story about cool old people.
A story about Waldo.
A story about Pokemon.
A story about Wal-Mart.
A story about a Dear Blank, Please Blank story.
A story about hating Twilight.
A story about hating Justin Bieber.
A story about hating Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus.
Which is why they did what they did to accomplish getting rid of them. Though I don’t condone what they said, I will defend to the death their right to say it.
Mobile
May 31, 2011 at 8:09 pm
I don’t think they “accomplished” anything, except getting banned. Yes, there are many “cliched” posts which are neither average nor true, but *somebody* must enjoy them or they wouldn’t get promoted. If I added moderators, they could filter unbelievable and unoriginal stories, but it would fundamentally change the nature and content of MLIA.
Mek
May 31, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Is it gray now?
GymieGurl
May 31, 2011 at 8:14 pm
SUCCESS!
Okay, you may go about your daily lives as usual now.
GymieGurl
May 31, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Well, nothing *was* accomplished. Whatever plan there was failed.
And the commenters have had to deal with ridiculous cliches since the beginning, it’s only gotten worse. However, I’m assuming a majority or at least a good amount of the people who visit the site and vote don’t even read the comments, so they wouldn’t be sick of the posts and probably enjoy them.
theamazingkid
May 31, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Dibs.
erinsayyysss
May 31, 2011 at 8:48 pm
I honestly don’t see the big deal about the “cliched” stories anymore. I mean, I remember when, for about a day, all the stories were average and everyone was bored out of their mind. We kind of need the cliched stories if we want to continue to be entertained by commenting on this website. I’m not speaking for anyone but myself here, so if you don’t agree, sorry.
TMPM
May 31, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I wasn’t trying to accomplish anything, it was a bit of a joke, a little bit of trolling (which apparently was extremely effective).
As for changing the “nature and content of MLIA”, I don’t really see that as a bad thing. I used to really enjoy this site. When the stories were average in the beginning they were a great read. When the stories started getting less average the comments section was a great place to chat with some people and make jokes. You say somebody must like the clichéd posts, but what about the average ones? There’s a hell of a lot of people who like those too, we’re just outnumbered by the people who like the clichéd ones, so we never see ours on the homepage. Maybe if there was some kind of way we could get our average stuff posted without cheating the system we wouldn’t be dicks and post “boner” 2352 times.
ActionMan
May 31, 2011 at 8:55 pm
“I don’t think they “accomplished” anything, except getting banned.”
Well, then that’s called “failure.” They failed because their plan was radical. Maybe they should try something else, like voting instead of whining and commenting. You know, like I got people to do one time and everything was average and everyone was happy. Except for the people who were used to stories about Wal-Mart. They were confused. Oh well.
Anyway, my point is that their actions were unjustified. But it did do something: it brought awareness to the situation. Which is really the starting point for what they’re trying to do, except they were expecting it all at once. So in that aspect, it was a success.
As for moderators who filter stories, I don’t want that. It’s a democracy, not a republic.
Mobile
May 31, 2011 at 9:03 pm
I do agree we’re outnumbered in what we enjoy as average, but this site has turned into what it is now. There’s no real compromise it seems we can make. To those now, these posts are “average”. I do enjoy when a commenter gets a post through, but not through cheating the system, or posting vulgar things.
I know I scoffed at some people on the boner post about how they’re ideas of average were stupid, but after all the spam posts of the same thing I’d rather have the cliches instead heated arguments over what is or isn’t childish, or the way the site should run.
I’d rather chat with the other commenters then have to defend the purpose of what is average. Someday this site might be average, but in the meantime people are too attached to the cliches to go back.
RegurgitatingCow
May 31, 2011 at 9:11 pm
I don’t know, that’s what people told me. That originally was the case, at least for some people, but I know in the past people have cheated the queue for selfish reasons. I wasn’t online when this all happend, so I really shouldn’t be talking.
xoXdancerXox
June 1, 2011 at 3:06 am
…my reply’s at Mek’s original comment…
xoXdancerXox
June 1, 2011 at 3:10 am
Erm… “pork scratchings”, sir?
lycan4425
June 1, 2011 at 12:11 pm
I’ll scratch your pork.
A. Commenter
June 1, 2011 at 4:07 pm
It shouldn’t matter if a lot of people enjoy the cliche stories, the site is called My Life is AVERAGE. It’s like putting romance books in the horror section, sure, romance books make lots of money, but they don’t belong in that section.
tophatman
June 1, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Hi.
I just wanted my comment to be gray.
GymieGurl
May 31, 2011 at 8:12 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Fml.
GymieGurl
May 31, 2011 at 8:13 pm
I disrupted the site and got posts on the blog about it *before* it was cool.
TheDFRA
May 31, 2011 at 7:22 pm
My hero. *swoons*
GymieGurl
May 31, 2011 at 7:23 pm
so hipster
theamazingkid
May 31, 2011 at 8:05 pm
I’ll probably get shot down on this one, but what does Mekaroni And Cheese think about a small system of moderators controlling minuscule things like deleting offensive or spammed comments/posts? Amrite.net functions as a working example of what I’m talking about; there is one administrator who has selected a handful of responsible people to delete repeated, spammed, or reported posts to keep the content clean and semi-original.
Whom
May 31, 2011 at 8:18 pm
That would have been a great idea, but I think would be a little too late to implement it.
ActionMan
May 31, 2011 at 8:24 pm
See my response to Mobile’s comment
Mek
May 31, 2011 at 8:33 pm
I’m so cool, I get hyperlinked. Sort of.
Mobile
May 31, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Yeah, the post was funny at first, but it was mostly the shock of seeing it there. It was extremely immature and any “plan” there was failed. Hard. Also, if the posts were all average, people would get bored. The occasional average post is refreshing, but seriously, you can’t hate on an average post too much.
mylifeisjulie
May 31, 2011 at 9:40 pm
There isn’t even an occasional average post because they can’t get through though.
rocketshiptothamoon
May 31, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Then people should vote, not whine and complain and be extremely immature.
mylifeisjulie
May 31, 2011 at 10:32 pm
I still can’t vote on submissions unless I open another browser. *sad*
llamafish
June 1, 2011 at 2:40 am
Well said. What people did the other day was immature and you’re a saint for dealing with us and not just shutting down the site completely or something drastic like that. ._.
Keep up the awesome work Mek
<3
KitSnicket
May 31, 2011 at 9:41 pm
He wouldn’t shut down the site for something like that, you have to remember that there are thousands of other people that read MLIA and don’t read this blog so they have no idea what is happening.
llamafish
June 1, 2011 at 2:41 am
I am seriously confused about the people who want a return to the old style of “average.” You seem to think there’s some greater evil out there forcing this site to be “unaverage” when it’s we, the users, who create what is seen on the main page. We write them and we vote on them. It is what we make it. And the majority of people seem to like it the way it is.
Of course all the stories aren’t true. But we can’t exactly require proof of everyone’s posts before they’re submitted. It’s a web site, not a court of law.
For me, I like the overall tone of MLIA. It actually makes me feel better about humanity when I see people celebrating the silly, oddball things in life. There is too much negative crap out there in real life, and I like the bits of happy I see on MLIA.
The commenters seem to thrive on making fun of what gets posted, anyway. I would think changing that would be like shooting yourself in the foot. If the comments went back to being like they were in the beginning, you’d have to find something new to belittle. Do you really want to go to all that trouble?
Peace
June 1, 2011 at 2:11 am
Yes.
llamafish
June 1, 2011 at 2:26 am
Yep.
Vinneh
June 1, 2011 at 2:37 am
The “greater evil” you speak of would be the current majority on MLIA. The people who comment used to be the majority, but slowly the website changed from MLIAverage, to MLIAwesome, to MLIAnnoyinglyrepetitive. I agree, we can’t make sure every single story is true, but some stories that are even vaguely possible would be nice.
The silly things wouldn’t be too bad if it wasn’t constantly the same thing over and over and over again. If you scroll up to Mobile’s comment, he pretty much sums up what MLIA now is. The site used to make me smile when I read the stories, things like, “Today, I ate rice. I’m Asian. MLIA” or “Today, I had sex with my secretary. My secretary is my wife. MLIA” They were completely average, yet humorous at the same time.
Yes, the commenters do thrive off bashing the posts, but that’s not how it always was. Making fun of the posts began when the stories became unbearably unaverage. I’m sure that changing back to the old way of MLIA would leave some commenters nothing to do, but for myself and many of the other members, both old and new, would just go back to reading the pleasantly average stories. I feel like there was too many commas in that last sentence.
ActionMan
June 1, 2011 at 2:39 am
And now I’m feeling like it wasn’t worded quite correctly, but oh well, you get the gist of it.
ActionMan
June 1, 2011 at 2:41 am
Long story short, yes.
ActionMan
June 1, 2011 at 2:48 am
That was pretty lovely.
xoXdancerXox
June 1, 2011 at 3:07 am
Even though I wasn’t around for these days, I totally agree with you.
Kal
June 1, 2011 at 7:46 am
Yes.
NZChicky
June 1, 2011 at 2:47 am
I’ll agree that we’re mainly united in hatred of the posts. But I, for one example, feel that it should be returned to how it once was. Chaos is fun and all, but we need order, too. If someone says, “Write true, average things here,” while paying out of his own pocket to let you do it, you should listen to what the man says.
lycan4425
June 1, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Yes I do. These posts are very boring to read, and I mostly just skim through them now. They are far from entertaining and they are too cliched. Sometimes if a post gets too unbearable, I will go to the very last page and read the first posts, which were actually average. People like you cannot see it, but there is lots of humor that make me smile, even if the stories are average. They are not boring, but just…average. This site is not MLIAverage anymore, it is more of MLIAnnoyinglyfake. The stories are not real, and whenever someone do submit an average story, people don’t let it through because it not about Walmart, coloring book, or Harry Potter. This site needs a change!
aingo_twin_sis_athena
June 1, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Mekky… I’m sorry. That is all. Please can I have my account back?
NZChicky
June 1, 2011 at 2:48 am
I’ll unblock your account on Friday.
Mek
June 1, 2011 at 10:45 am
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MLIA!
YAY!
llamafish
June 1, 2011 at 2:52 am
I feel like I should write some long winded speech about all this.. But this place has changed, and I guess from your point of view you have to do what you have to in order to keep this website up and running, even if that means it not being average per say anymore and turning from us. I dunno I just thought you wouldn’t be so hard on us about it since like the people who were involved have been here from the start and we’re like your minions yo.
It was not my intention to upset you Mekky and I am sorry we did so. So yeeeeeah, are we good?
NZChicky
June 1, 2011 at 3:34 am
While I’m not particularly a fan of most of the stories; I’d rather see the site stay popular than get abandoned to satisfy the whims of a handful of people.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
CaptainAndy
June 1, 2011 at 4:04 am
This ^^^
Riley__
June 1, 2011 at 5:24 am
I don’t care why they did it. I don’t care if the stories are average or not. Although I would like to say that even when the stories were average, there is a good chance they were not true, but at least they were clever. Either way, I just want the site to stay popular, for the readers and the commenters. And there are a couple things that need to be fixed before that can happen. I know I have mentioned these before, but I am going to keep bringing them up until they are fixed. Sorry, Mek.
First, and this is the most important one, the others are much less critical, you have to fix the issue with not being able to create new accounts. As I have said before, as much as we hate newbz, the site is dying without new commenters.
Second, I would like to see a couple things that we have lost in the updates brought back, such as the show/hide comments button, and the link to the ACTUAL story, with comments, on our saved stories.
Third, Well, I don’t really have a third right now, I bet eventually I could come up with something. But I feel like this comment needed a “third”…
Well that’s all I got. Some might agree, some might disagree, really it doesn’t matter, it’s all up to Mek. At least I have said my piece. Thanks,
KayGee
KGHero
June 1, 2011 at 5:46 am
You’re spot on with all those, but I think this site definitely has lost a lot of the commenters. I barely come here anymore because I just got completely sick of the same posts coming through, meaning the comments were pretty much the same as well.
ActionMan
June 1, 2011 at 4:03 pm
And can we be able to delete our saved stories again, also? Because when I used to read this site, I would accidentally press the save button and my saved story section is unorganized. Thanks. I agree with most of your points, though.
xoXdancerXox
June 1, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Also, I would like to see the report button actually do something.
KGHero
June 1, 2011 at 4:53 pm
I’ll fix the first issue (the new accounts and password reset bug) tomorrow.
I just finished fixing the show/hide comments link, put a link to the original story on the saved links page and (per xoXdancerXox’s suggestion) put the unsave link back (I don’t know why that disappeared in the first place).
The report button is a little more tricky, but I’ll try to put together a fix soon.
Mek
June 2, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Words can’t express my appreciation. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication.
KGHero
June 2, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Thank you so very very much, Mek. I appreciate your fixing this site.
xoXdancerXox
June 2, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Thank you, Mek! <3
Kal
June 2, 2011 at 6:35 pm
This is such shit. You’re full of it. You’re too lazy to fix what is wrong with this site. This shit is so unaverage, it makes it painful to read. I bet you’re one of those Harry Twatter fruits who post the lame cliche posts. You’ve sold out to those cock faces who have ruined this site.
nootchie
June 1, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Harsh. Somebody needs a time out and a hug from mommy.
lycan4425
June 1, 2011 at 4:25 pm
^^ This
Athenalena
June 1, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Trolololol
Kal
June 1, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Who on earth are you to chastise Mek for this? The majority of visitors are readers that enjoy the type of stories that are posted these days. He can’t just say “screw you” and fix the site up for the tiny minority that we as commenters comprise. Unless I’m mistaken, you aren’t even one, or you’re not a well-known commenter, so your comment is even more pathetic. Asking Mek to cater to us is like African-Americans having equal rights! Loljk I’m not racist. But in all seriousness, grow up and accept that MLIA does not revolve around you. Many of us that have been around on MLIA for a while accept that this is how stories will be. Why can’t you?
Nonagon
June 1, 2011 at 4:28 pm
It would make sense for him to cater to African-Americans only if the site was made for African-Americans in the first place. As in, this site was made for average stories, so it should be kept that way, not changed just because a lot of people use the site for the wrong reason.
tophatman
June 3, 2011 at 10:29 am
Yeah, a few people want the average stories back. Me included. It’s just that I’ve accepted that it’s not gonna happen. Just calm down, abusing him isn’t gonna solve anything.
Pedz
June 1, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Sit the fuck down.
erinsayyysss
June 2, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Thanks for not responding more seriously to something dumb like this. I don’t like what happened but I’d hate to see people punished too harshly over a moment of clouded judgement – although it must have been quite a foggy day for them
Nonagon
June 1, 2011 at 4:31 pm
That smiley face looks extremely weird and not as awesome as my nonagonal icon does.
Nonagon
June 1, 2011 at 6:52 pm
I think all of you who are unhappy with MLIA are missing the point. You would rather ruin it for everyone just because it’s not what you — a proven minority of people, since you can’t get enough votes to get your version of “average” posted on the main page — think it should be.
That’s just petty and mean. If there are technical issues, then fine, that’s a justified complaint (which you take to the site owner, not post crap on the main page). But the rest of it… get over yourselves. If you don’t like it here, move on, find something you do like. I honestly think some of you thrive on complaining, and wouldn’t know what to do with yourselves otherwise.
And Mek doesn’t owe any of you anything. He can run this site as he sees fit, so stop acting like the universe should cater to you and your specific needs. It shouldn’t, and it won’t, no matter how hard you try.
And for goodness sake, this is just a web site. Grow up.
Peace
June 1, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Awesome for not replying to anything I said. The thing is, some of us that are unhappy with the site were around at the start of the website (like me for example). This website was ruined for us, the majority, with the influx of unaverage stories and a lot of people just left the site all together. I’m not saying all the unaverage stories have to go and only average stories be posted, but it would be nice to see the back of the clichéd posts that are repeated every day and see some average/humorous posts get through.
As for the bit about complaining, see my reply to you up there.
ActionMan
June 1, 2011 at 10:26 pm
I didn’t reply to you up there because there were already several responses, and I wasn’t sure exactly where to join the thread again.
But my point is — there are obviously plenty of people who like the overall tone of the site as it is, because they get voted up. It’s not complicated.
If you don’t like them, then write posts you do like. If others like what you write, they’ll get voted up. Vote on the ones you do like. Again, it’s not complicated.
It’s like how people don’t like our current president, so instead of supporting candidates they do like for the next election, they go to all kinds of crazy lengths to try to find a reason why he can’t be president, like maybe he wasn’t born here. All that energy wasted when it could have been used elsewhere to do something productive.
Honestly, if it really is the majority who want it to go back, as you say it is, then that majority should be writing and voting. But it’s not like anyone is out to get you, it’s just how the site is going now. Things change. It’s part of life.
Peace
June 1, 2011 at 11:16 pm
Not once did I say it was the majority who wanted it back. I said that we used to be the majority, previous to the unaverage stories.
The problem is that most of our stories are original and don’t have anything childish about them. I have seen some hilarious stories that get denied within minutes. The only way to get stuff posted any more is to give in to the trend, as some commenters have proved by making up ridiculous, clichéd stories and having them posted. I don’t want a complete overhaul of the website, it would just be nice to see a little compromise.
ActionMan
June 1, 2011 at 11:23 pm
@ActionMan: I can’t reply under your last comment, so I hope this reply works instead.
What exactly is Mek supposed to do, then? He can’t change the attitudes of the people who vote, so is he supposed to approve every single post? Or use mods?
I personally think using mods is a terrible idea, as no matter what they did, there would be unhappy people. Yes, I get annoyed by all the repeats — how many times can the “person who thinks Snuggie commercials are stupid but they can’t change the channel because their arms would get cold” story get voted up and posted before people knock it off already — but I still don’t think mods are the answer. Repeats come with the territory of letting voters decide what gets posted.
As for the made up stories getting posted, I don’t know that it proves much of anything. I think the voters are willing to give the benefit of the doubt.
@Riley: What I mean by different versions of average — for some people, appreciating the strange or funny things in life really is average. I was raised to appreciate the humor in things (in a good way). It may not fit your idea of how things should go (yes, your version of “average”), but the majority of those who currently use the site disagree.
Peace
June 2, 2011 at 9:54 am
I think mods with limited power would be feasible. Like having the ability to approve a certain small number of posts per day, so that some average ones are able to get through.
Amirite uses mods which have the ability to delete repeated posts and that website works great.
A while back, I did force a post through just to see how many people agreed with my point of view.
“Today, I meh’d every story on the home page. I miss the average stories. MLIA”
767 averages, 1198 mehs.
Yes, it gained more mehs than averages, but it still showed that 39% of people enjoyed the average stories (I know it’s not exactly scientific, but it’s not bad for a quick test). That just makes me think that a lot of people wouldn’t mind seeing some average (and funny) posts come through.
ActionMan
June 2, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Who’s going to watch the watchers? Does Mek want to have to supervise the mods to make sure they’re doing what they’re supposed to do?
I’m not sure “forced” post shows much of anything.
I’ve submitted some stories (they’ve even been true… strange, that), and a few have been published, most haven’t. I’m cool with that. I haven’t done anything to promote any of mine, so it’s been up to the community. I still don’t get why you think that’s a bad thing?
Peace
June 2, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Because the community is full of retards.
llamafish
June 3, 2011 at 12:54 am
Well, only a few of the votes came from forcing it through. The rest of the votes came from when it was on the homepage.
Again, as amrite does it, the moderators can be reported to the admin. That system works.
As Llama so eloquently put it, the community seem to only enjoy certain kinds of posts. Out of curiosity, what was the content of your posts that were homepaged?
ActionMan
June 3, 2011 at 4:41 am
@actionman: sorry I didn’t reply sooner, but I’ve been ill.
You asked about what stories I’ve had posted. One of my stories was posted yesterday:
http://mylifeisaverage.com/story/3091566/
Tt does reference wands and lightsabers. I am so ashamed. And, sadly, I didn’t think of the clever answer of ‘penis’ as several commenters suggested, but I neither have a penis, nor do I wish for one.
A couple of others of mine which were posted:
http://mylifeisaverage.com/story/3045861/
http://mylifeisaverage.com/story/2508666/
I don’t profess to being the most clever person out there, so they might not be up to your standards. But they are what they are, and they aren’t completely cliched.
Peace
June 5, 2011 at 2:48 am
Are you saying you’re a lesbian?
llamafish
June 6, 2011 at 12:11 am
I wouldn’t mind making everyone else unhappy and me being happy. They should get over it anyway, as it’s “just a web site.”
llamafish
June 2, 2011 at 4:01 am
The person didn’t reply to me. So I’m just going to make up what they would have said to me if they did reply to me.
“I’m a stupid dickwad that doesn’t know poop all about anything. You’re wrong because I am right, I have no facts about anything because I’m a dickwad but you’re still wrong.” Yep, that sounds like the general tone of your comments.
llamafish
June 2, 2011 at 2:29 pm
I think you are missing the point here, it’s not our version of average that people are looking for, it’s just average in general. You can’t construe average to your standards of it as there is only one definition of average: the norm. Anywho, I don’t really care, it’s clear we can’t do anything about it, as morons have taken over the submissions and voting ridiculous stories through. Oh well. That is all.
Riley__
June 2, 2011 at 5:47 am
But Mek! I can’t get my account back on friday! D: I’ll be too busy getting down! D:
Pedz
June 1, 2011 at 11:30 pm
*sits back and watches the show* Lol you guys are getting so arsey about it all.
Cedz
June 2, 2011 at 5:48 am
*hands Cedz some popcorn*
Peace
June 2, 2011 at 9:54 am
Hahaha, popcorn.
llamafish
June 2, 2011 at 2:25 pm
I keep getting this screen. http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7184/mliabroken.jpg
Admiral
June 2, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Hit Ctrl + R on your keyboard, at the same time. Does that fix it?
Mek
June 2, 2011 at 5:24 pm
What, refreshing? It fixes it temporarily, but it still pops up sporadically.
Admiral
June 2, 2011 at 5:25 pm
hmm.
Mek
June 2, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Erin and I had the same problem. I assume other people have too. Also, sometimes I’m unable to submit comments or click the reply button. I have to wait a minute or so for it to fix itself. Don’t know if anyone else had this issue.
ActionMan
June 2, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Mhm. It’s happening to me too, sir.
lycan4425
June 2, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Seeing if my pink picture has finally changed.
ActionMan
June 2, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Hi Mekky
I just wanted to say that somehow my account is older than yours.
…That’s all really.
ILYMD
June 2, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Ah, Bleesus. I feel so bad pointing out something wrong just like everyone else is.
I’m noticing that the submit/reply buttons will all of a sudden just stop working altogether, usually at the same time as the page going white and losing its neat-o design like Admiral pointed out.
I’m reeeaaally sorry that I’m adding to your pile of stuff to do. I know you’re already working hard and busy and stuff. D:
Fishcakes_Feels_Bad
June 2, 2011 at 7:05 pm
I’m on it.
Mek
June 2, 2011 at 7:08 pm
ohmygodMekrepliedtome. O_O Er.. Thank you!
Fishcakes_Feels_Bad
June 2, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Are you still getting ugly white MLIA pages?
Mek
June 2, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Not so far, nope!
Fishcakes
June 3, 2011 at 6:19 pm
So, sir, how’s life?
lycan4425
June 2, 2011 at 7:11 pm
…Does it bother you that I call you sir so much?
lycan4425
June 2, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Hey Mek, you said you would un-ban us today…could you? Please? Once again sorry about the posts and they won’t happen again.
Missaverage9
June 2, 2011 at 11:51 pm
Done.
Mek
June 3, 2011 at 12:12 am
Thanks Mek!!
Missaverage9
June 3, 2011 at 12:45 am
Ohhh, I like the thing that happens when you put your mouse over a persons username. It’s dope.
llamafish
June 3, 2011 at 12:58 am
Hey, I’m that_pedo_in_the_bushes, and in Australia, it’s Friday, so… Any chance of unlocking my account again?
Pedz
June 3, 2011 at 1:07 am
welcome back.
Mek
June 3, 2011 at 1:33 am
Thanks Mekkins. Thanks also for not being too hard on us.
Pedz
June 3, 2011 at 2:16 am
Hey Mekky <3
Please may I have my account back? Thanks lovely!
NZChicky
June 3, 2011 at 1:41 am
Gladly.
Mek
June 3, 2011 at 1:43 am
Super star! Thanks heaps! Love yoooooou <3
NZChicky
June 3, 2011 at 1:49 am
Mekkers!! Could you possibly put the show/hide button ( [-] ) back to where it was? It looks totally weird in front of the usernames. You don’t have to, it’s just a suggestion. Cheers!!
Riley__
June 3, 2011 at 5:27 am
Hey, Mek. I have an idea. How about instead of censoring the word “fuck”, you somehow filter it to say “flup” instead! I guess it’s more important for you to do more important things before acknowledging this request, but I’m just throwing it out there.
TheDFRA
June 3, 2011 at 6:17 am
Hey, as someone that’s totally not TheDFRA, I second this idea. Ignore the little pink box next to my name and the fact that I put in the same email address. I’m definitely a different person with my own individual opinions, and I like this idea!
P.S. TheDFRA is such a stud.
NotTheDFRA
June 3, 2011 at 6:18 am
Actually, I think that he’s pretty ugly. justsayin. So just shut the flup up.
xoXdancerXox
June 3, 2011 at 1:09 pm
You know, this idea was so good I cried a little and it made me forget about my numerous daddy issues. I finally feel a sense a purpose. IT’S FLUPPING HANDTASTIC.
P.S. He really is a stud… *swoon*
LandonDonovan
June 3, 2011 at 7:55 am
You! I’m postin’ on the blog! Woot!
Kal
June 3, 2011 at 11:08 am
*Yo. Sorry!
Kal
June 3, 2011 at 11:08 am
Sorry to be a bother, but the unsave button doesn’t work. You don’t need to fix it now, it’s not important, but just letting you know. Thank you!
xoXdancerXox
June 3, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Sometimes there’s a glitch when you try to post comments. It looks like if doesn’t save properly and the comments eat themselves. I’ll try get a picture.
llamafish
June 3, 2011 at 3:02 pm
A picture would be helpful
Mek
June 3, 2011 at 3:40 pm
I have that issue too! Er.. I have a picture, but it’s small and blurry, since everything popped back to normal once I tried to zoom in… And I had to use Photobucket to get a link. I hate Photobucket.
But I want to help. So.
http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l592/MLIPictures/MLIIssue.jpg <- You can see the comment-eating. I would've highlighted the bits where they were eaten, but I suppose you'll find them. Mek is smart.
Fishcakes
June 3, 2011 at 8:00 pm
I actually sort of like this glitch. It’s like a little old man. And MLIA is supposed to love old people, right? So…we should keep it or something. It could be like a little pet glitch. ._.
Shut up, typer.
typer2131
June 3, 2011 at 5:43 pm
I wouldn’t say no to a pet glitch. We can call it Ferdinand!
aHeartFullofCinnamon
June 3, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Why can’t we say “vagina”?
erinsayyysss
June 3, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Because I don’t think it’s appropriate for the homepage and the filter applies to stories and comments alike.
Mek
June 3, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Yet we can still say “penis”. …
erinsayyysss
June 3, 2011 at 3:46 pm
…for now.
Mek
June 3, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Oh God.
erinsayyysss
June 3, 2011 at 3:50 pm
I’ve been trying to make an account. Everytime I do it says 500 error: Our serve is average. Like the screenie someone else posted. But if I refresh it like you said, it keeps saying the username is taken. I even typed “uhdsiauhgfrahg” as a name and it said it was taken because it has to send the information twice when I refresh it. How can I fix this?
DillonMcD
June 3, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Making accounts is broken for now. *cough*getonthatmek*cough*
erinsayyysss
June 3, 2011 at 6:20 pm
I thought Mek said he fixed it on Friday. Now it is Friday afternoon.
DillonMcD
June 3, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Working on it. Definitely fixed by Monday.
Mek
June 4, 2011 at 10:22 am
It should be fixed now.
Mek
June 4, 2011 at 11:29 am
He has a life, yknow. He can’t meet our commands willy nilly.
erinsayyysss
June 3, 2011 at 6:37 pm
THANK YOU MEK, MY HERO!
HIDDEN0606
June 5, 2011 at 11:34 am
I was thinking about TheDFRA’s comment, and I though that might work. It just gets so annoying, being used to having the ability to say it, and then having to change it whenever you say it. But also, not “flup” please… Something totally random like “kitten” or whatever.
Pedz
June 3, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Sunshine! That’s what my German teacher has Broderson use when he raps for us. One of them involved his dentist and a tennis match….
lycan4425
June 3, 2011 at 6:48 pm
On amirite, if you type “blowjob” it gets auto-changed to “happy time in the mouth” or something.
ActionMan
June 3, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Flup is essential.
TheDFRA
June 3, 2011 at 7:29 pm
MEK IF YOU BLOCK KITTEN I WILL KILL MYSELF AND MY DEATH WILL BE ON YOUR HANDS.
llamafish
June 5, 2011 at 2:31 am
Well.
We seem to be at an impasse.
And when I say “we seem to be at an impasse,” what I mean is “you seriously have all the power over this community so if we just roll over and expose our bellies can we please at least be able to say the fuck word in the comments section again?”
The stories in question were indeed immature, and, in hindsight, not as hilarious as they might have seemed to some *cough*as in not me but I hoped you got that because I was being really subtle there*cough*okay yeah I thought it was funny at the time.*cough*
I’m willing to compromise, and I’m sure I cannot be alone in the MLIA community on this. You have my blessing to censor the stories all you want; start de-f-wording the comment section, and I’m afraid that we will be unable to reach an agreement. I do not care if you censor “vagina” or “penis” or even “elbow,” but swears express emotion.
I’m sure I can speak for every commenter who wants to be able to say “fuck” in the comment section when I say that we want to be able to say “fuck” in the comment section. Please take us into consideration.
aHeartFullofCinnamon
June 3, 2011 at 6:50 pm
In addition to this, although I really don’t mind not cursing, people are navigating their way around it so it might as well be allowed anyhow.. And I’m thinking we should have “c0ck” back. It’s not really used as an insult, and it’s part of larger words we use surprisingly often, like “cockatiel,” “cockroach” (especially today) and… Er, other words. I understand that you want to keep the site clean, but the comments are barely noticed by people that are against cursing, anyway…
Fishcakes
June 3, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Cockatrice?
lycan4425
June 4, 2011 at 9:04 am
Peacock?
Kal
June 4, 2011 at 9:26 am
… Yeah, sure. Those too. Don’t laugh. My brain is like my internet. It disconnects or doesn’t work too well sometimes.
Fishcakes
June 4, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Dude. Ban hait_tread. http://mylifeisaverage.com/story/3090743/ http://mylifeisaverage.com/story/3007757/ etc.
Ejfjdjdnffn
June 3, 2011 at 7:04 pm
No.
llamafish
June 5, 2011 at 2:32 am
Hey, is there any point asking for fuck back? I just want to know if there’s even the slightest possibility of you giving it back, or are we wasting our time?
Pedz
June 4, 2011 at 4:58 am
I hate to add to your to-do list but when a comment gets hidden because of too many bads, it hides all the comments below it, too. I don’t know if this was intentional… Um.
Kal
June 4, 2011 at 9:31 am
That is intentional
Mek
June 4, 2011 at 11:28 am
Oh. Okay.
Anywho…. OMG MEK SPOKE TO ME HI I LOVE YOU!
Kal
June 4, 2011 at 6:46 pm
So.. Is this whole censor thing here to stay or what, Mek?
Cookiemonster978
June 4, 2011 at 9:40 am
This censor is stupid. I can’t say “analyzing” because it has “anal” in it.
Mobile
June 4, 2011 at 1:36 pm
THANK YOU.
erinsayyysss
June 4, 2011 at 3:26 pm
For what?
lycan4425
June 5, 2011 at 6:12 pm
For making accounts make-able again.
erinsayyysss
June 6, 2011 at 10:07 am
I was just wondering, what about the usernames created when we couldn’t make accounts?
NopeTheOtherOne
June 6, 2011 at 7:34 am
you read my mind. I’m working on a fix to delete those accounts and free up those usernames.
Mek
June 6, 2011 at 10:23 am
Awesome!
Now, I wonder if I could read your mind again.
You… want to put the Average Word Of The Day up again.
NopeTheOtherOne
June 6, 2011 at 12:37 pm
wha??…get out of my head…
Mek
June 6, 2011 at 2:19 pm
No, I like it in here.
NopeTheOtherOne
June 7, 2011 at 2:41 am
Mek, I wasn’t going to ask for my account back but I have a retarded clone. So can you please unban it?
I’m llamafish69
llamafish
June 7, 2011 at 4:59 am
Llama, that was M_N.
Clouds
June 7, 2011 at 7:53 am
That doesn’t change anything.
llamafish
June 7, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Unbanned
Mek
June 7, 2011 at 8:21 am
THANK YOU I LOVE YOU
llamafish
June 7, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Hey, Mekky. I wasn’t apart of any of the posts or anything- I came back a little while after, with no clue what was going on, to be perfectly honest.
I think that while sometimes the comment section gets out of hand, a lot of people use the commenting section to blow off steam. I’m not excusing their actions- what they did was unacceptable and stupid. But what happens in the comments section needs to STAY in the comments section.
We’re kinda of a community there, like a family almost. When I can’t talk to anyone about what’s going on, I come to MLIA to talk. Some people are jerks to me about it, sure. But I agree that you need to put some of the swearing back, or like TheDFRA said, make swear words replaced with something else. I agree that some words are completely unacceptable- racial slurs and the like. But some words are just words.
Or, if you can do it, could you make two separate filters- one for the comments section and one for the stories?
I’ll respect your decision either way, but I’m just pointing this out.
<3 Pyro.
pyrotech
June 7, 2011 at 8:01 am
YAY AN AVERAGE WORD OF THE DAY!
HIDDEN0606
June 7, 2011 at 11:57 am
So a lot of people are starting to “hate” you because of the changes you’ve made, like the censorship and supporting MLIA not being average and they want to end your “reign.” I just want say that they’re stupid because you own this website so you can do whatever you want to it. Just wanted to let you know of how unpopular you’re becoming. I support you, even if I don’t agree. *cool person nod to you*
xoXdancerXox
June 7, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Oh, and I guess this is just a message to whoever wants to come and complain to you about like the censoring or unaveraeness or whatever. Just let it be. If Mek doesn’t want to change something, then it’s not going to change; no use trying. THIS IS HIS WEBSITE. You can’t tell him what to do. I think you should be appreciative of what he’s done, not getting mad.
xoXdancerXox
June 7, 2011 at 3:04 pm
I dunno what to do about that. I don’t want to make them more upset, but the prospect of an angry Mek scares me….
lycan4425
June 7, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Hi Mek! Did you know that June is LGBT Pride Month? It would be really cool it you could do something for it like you did for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Just saying. Oh and you can unban my kellcheck account if you want to because I’m super sorry and I’ll never do that again. D: But it’s okay if you don’t. Keep on Mekking! <3
kellingbee
June 7, 2011 at 8:54 pm
You know we can get around the censors, right? Fr examnple, we can’t call someone a “slut-” but we can call them a drossel, which is defined by Webster’s as “An unclean slut; an overly whorish woman.” We can also call them a droshky, which is a four-wheeled Russian carriage, and has no relation to anything I’m saying except for the fact that it’s on the same page of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary as ‘drossel,’ and also it’s one hell of an insult. I mean, would YOU like to be called a Russian four-wheeled carriage? I DON’T THINK SO.
Also we can call people walango, which, as I’m sure we all know, is an Uberwaldean pastry made out of curtains.
aHeartFullofCinnamon
June 9, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Speaking of “self-regulation” it apparently doesn’t work… The site went from being average to completely made up and is now one of the most annoying sites to read on the internet. You might say, “uhh, well don’t come to it if you don’t like it!!” Sure, but I was a user before everything turned into Harry Potter, ninjas, Narnia, and “epic battles”. It just saddens me how a good site has been ruined to the point that several ex-users have made blogs titled, “my life is ACTUALLY average.”
NotSoDangerous
July 15, 2011 at 11:43 am
Congratulations, your one-day unexpected event has turned into several days of trolling.
As I opened the site for the first time in my day, the very first page has two EXTREMELY LONG stories about public sex. Yes, VERY LONG STORY ABOUT PUBLIC SEX. ABOUT A TINY DICK.
Give me a break, this is annoying, frustrating and tasteless since nobody seems to be doing about it (the troll stories about the Norway terrorist shooting is still up BTW); your contact link is 404′ed, I ended up in a Google link for MLIA (wth?) and just led around in a maze, frankly speaking. Are you guys trying to emulate the bureaucratic skills of the US government?
Nobody-in-charge appears to even be around and I’m about to give up on this site. The comments section are one but really? Really?
Levynite
August 2, 2011 at 2:16 am
I thought I removed all the MLITerrorist stories and the long story has also been removed. I can’t always catch them immediately, but I tried to remove the troll stories eventually. I’ll look at fixing the contact link, sorry about that.
Mek
August 2, 2011 at 2:41 am
Congratulations, your one-day unexpected event has turned into several days of trolling.
As I opened the site for the first time in my day, the very first page has two EXTREMELY LONG stories about public sex. Yes, VERY LONG STORY ABOUT PUBLIC SEX. ABOUT A TINY DICK.
Give me a break, this is annoying, frustrating and tasteless since nobody seems to be doing about it (the troll stories about the Norway terrorist shooting is still up BTW); your contact link is 404′ed, I ended up in a Google link for MLIA (wth?) and just led around in a maze, frankly speaking. Are you guys trying to emulate the bureaucratic skills of the US government?
Nobody-in-charge appears to even be around and I’m about to give up on this site. The comments section are one thing but really? Really?
Levynite
August 2, 2011 at 2:18 am
LOL, haven’t you gone to the first few post, you idiot? One of the first ones is something along the lines of “My girlfriend screamed out “TOMMY!” while having sex with me. My name is Tommy. MLIA.”
And lay off of Mek, jesus. He runs this entire freaking site, give him a break. And the Google link is a bugsite specifically for MLIA, I’ve used it a few times, and Mek ALWAYS fixes the problem. ALWAYS.
pyrotech
August 2, 2011 at 9:10 am
So Mek, I really like the idea waaaayy up there ^^^^^^^^ about automatically changing words like ‘fuck’ to ‘kitten’ and ‘blowjob’ to ‘happyness in the mouth’ or whatever and even though you probably have like loads on your schedule, do you think if it’s not to much trouble (you now probably know what I’m going to say) to do it? <3
Missaverage9
August 2, 2011 at 9:30 am