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Sorry mune, I probably shouldn't be aggravating him more, but I just have to put my two cents in here.

Mr. Bloop, (or Mr. Morton or whatever you want, I will be calling you Mr. Bloop regardless,) I have some words for you. These will be the only things I say to you, so that you can twist them and spit on me and consider me "envious" of you as little as possible.

First, I would say that I DO NOT envy you in the least, and I'm sure both Munerift and Griever feel the same. I'm quite happy as I am, doing what I do. I would not wish myself to be anything like you, any more than I would wish to be raped by rabid gorrillas and thrown off a cliff to a jagged, slow, painful death. Second, I want to make this perfectly clear: I don't like you. You piss me off with every word you type. I was fully intent on just letting your application get left to be forgotten, but after seeing your egotistic, self-centered and ignorant attitude, I just had to let out my frustration. I will not say that my words aren't biased, but all human thoughts, including yours, are biased.

Now on to the real rant. Just to warn you, I am going to make assumptions based on what I know and what you have said. These will probably also be "biased," so there's no need for you to mention it.
I noticed that you were a lawyer, which makes me think that you feel you can talk your way out of everything. This is not, however, a court of law, and you have no power here at all. You also think that logic will previal, which is really very stupid, if you think about it. This is a community of artists and likeminded individuals, not a business that gives out free hosting to whoever thinks they're hot stuff. Here you are NOT judged by what you can do or how funny your comic is alone, (in my opinion you lose points there anyway) you are judged also on your character and what you give to the community AS A PERSON. And frankly, you're not a nice person, you constantly talk down to the people who HELP TO DECIDE whether you stay or go. Ever heard of a "holier than thou" complex? You have also INSULTED Munerift more than once, then insisted you did no such thing. Yep, sounds like a typical lawyer to me. What the hell are you doing in the artsy business now?

Xepher made this site because he wanted to make a community of artists and likeminded people who could showcase their skills and hobbies without ads. In fact, the only way for anyone to make money on xepher.net is to beg for donations or sell merchandise. Even those simple google ads which make other artists on other sites more than a little extra money are not allowed. Why would anyone apply to a host who doesn't seem to want them making tons of money on their stuff? Because here it's NOT ABOUT MONEY. It's about people who love doing what they do, just for the sake of doing it. Not because they consider it a "cash cow." Not because they love money more than whatever it is they do, but the exact opposite. What makes you think that someone like you could ever hope to be a part of this community? What rogue thought got into your head that made you believe you could ever try to weasel your way into our digital homes?

Oh, in case you couldn't tell, those are rhetorical questions. I really, REALLY don't want to know what goes on in your head.

I will leave you with my thoughts, Mr. Bloop, and ask only that you do not twist my words as you did Mune and griever's, and as I'm sure you have twisted countless others'. I really don't expect you to comply with this request, but it was worth a shot.
Remember also that Xeph is human. Not a machine, not a businessman, and most certainly not a lawyer. He uses the forum as the means of applications because he expects us, the community, to help him with his decision. And you just got on the community's bad side.

I honestly hope that Xeph not only rejects you, but bans you from ever coming to darken our doorstep again.

(edit) oh, one more thing. You seem to think that your "fans" will help you here. For one, you are not judged by how big your fanbase is here. For another, I looked around on all of those topsites and stuff you're on. Looks like you have a total of....3 fans who like you. While this probably does not represent the whole, I just want to say: Some fanbase. :

Ah, but that's just the thing about fandoms. No matter what it is, it will always become the "in" thing eventually, and there will always be the crazy fans that latch onto it and give the other, less psychotic fans a bad name. So is life. :

the text is there for me, but the links are...how shall I put this? Nearly invisible and waaaaay too small. Those little yellow x's are just....too tiny. Couldn't you just make the entire title of the poem the link, and in a color that actually shows up?

Also, while this is just a minor pet peeve of mine, you may want to do some research on how to keep the background of an iframe from scrolling with the text. Again, minor peeve, not the end of the world.

When I was reeeeeally little (like, barely-just-learned-to-read little) I liked to obsess over four things: Ancient Egypt, Greecian myths, bats, and pirates. I think I have read every pirate book, at one point or another, in the entirety of the santa cruz county library system. My dad and I would stay up late watching old pirate movies (including the ones Gracey mentioned), sing pirate songs and dress up in piratey stuff. Me and my friends even had pirate-themed birthday parties. XD Ah, the good ol' days...

And I would definitely go as a pirate for Halloween this year, if I wasn't sure every other comment would mention the PotC sequel. Then again, I'll prolly still go as one anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0yI2MQf8Tk&search=Lazytown%20Pirate
Proof that kids shows are getting better and better....why couldn't they sing about pirates when I was little?

well, it shows you know how to use HTML, so for me everything looks fine. The size leaves something to be desired, but whatever. Then again I'm not the big cheese around here, so you'll just have to wait and see what everyone else thinks.

But be happy! You passed the first trial: me! *dun-de-dun!* (I went easy on you )

Also, don't mind my random comments. I say (type?) weird things now and then.

Alright, I'm really bad at poetry so I won't critique any of it (let someone else who actually knows poetry do that) but there are two things I would like to point out.

First, I've said this so many times, usernames can't have capital letters. They are your URL (yourname.xepher.net) and URLs and capital letters don't mix. This is a minor thing, but it's laid out in the rules or guidelines or something, so I'm just clarifying.

Second, you'll have a hard time getting in without a temporary website that YOU made. Xepher doesn't do the "pre-made" thing, you see. So find some free hosting (is atspace.com what everyone else is reccomending? I forget...) and show us what you can do on your own. If you don't know much HTML, look for a tutorial or two to help out. (yaaay google!)

Other than that, all I can say is "good luck."

...also, how exactly is that email spam-proofed? This has nothing to do with the application.....I'm just....confused. Maybe I should wait until I'm actually awake before posting stuff.

I want that song. Yar!

Also, databits made this real nifty guide here: http://guides.databits.cc/SSH/

That's the thing I use, I'm sure it works relatively the same either way.......right? :

As a side note, FTP and PHP are two very different things...

I did....only because I watch waaaaaay too much TV.

Apparently, lawyers aren't human.

What, you mean you didn't know that?

that was awesome. The best use for some of the worst soda ever.

YES.

I see them, my firefox's pop-up blocker sucks XD Anyway they're most likely from the TAGBOARD, not xepher. I've been to many many sites wherein the tagboard is wired to give the site pop-up ads...much to the dismay of the webmaster...

You've really got to read the fine print when it comes to stuff like "free" tagboards.

Wow, you actually have a decent application. Are you sure you're in the right place?

Anyway, your art just blows me away. It's really good however, there's a slight problem....namely that there's no webpage that you made yourself here, all the links are generic gallery websites. Xepher.net doesn't work like that, you've got to have at least SOME knowledge of HTML and FTP to even make a site here in the first place, and since you never mentioned either.....I'm not sure you know how to use those. Do you? If so, you may want to look into some simple temp hosting to show that you do.

Other than that, your application is one of the best I've seen.