It's a good site
Great format. Couldn't ask for more. HOWEVER lurking in the forum chatbox (the caps nazis hate CAPS) there are some unruly individuals and the whole karma system is whacked.
God forbid you use caps for ANYTHING, or your asked to not use caps. I understand completely if you continually write in caps every word every sentence, but, there HAS to be a way to emphasize some things, OTHERWISE, without emoticons etc, there's no way to really get a feel for. That is of course unless your a written and oral communications major.
Anyhow
And as they said above, unless you kiss $#*!, live in everything is peachy land, where its ok to troll the people who are just being real, then it wont be long before your banned.
Fortunately for me I am points up. Only because i was nice at first, then i caught on to what was going on. And evidently the truth hurts. "Wah, my mangina hurts because you used CAPS"
If you cant figure out why a video isn't playing, go download Video Lan Player, and or DivX. If its the stupid ads, use the Firefox add-on AdBlock Plus, personally for me I use admuncher, but that costs me 20 a year. They do have a free trial, might be worth checking. (no this isn't an ad for anyone, just know what works and doesn't) I have zero problems playing anything from the site ever unless the video has been removed for infringement.
Outside that blurp above, you shouldn't need much more help, Id suggest stay clear of the weirdo clique they have going on in there. Ive used another chat program for 4 years, and yes Ive seen as much whining, but this is only my second day in on the chat and im over the $#*! kissers
I am writing this review in order to highlight what I feel is an important misuse of an internet website. The site concerned allows people registered or unregistered, to watch movies and television programs for free and in this respect it is quite good. You can also talk to some very nice people from around the globe and from the UK who are interested in films, although as always, there will be the odd person, who you will not want to engage in conversation.
However, there is a chatroom attached to this site and I have been on the receiving end of some disturbing behaviour by a particular moderator. Now I know this sounds odd, but over the couple of months I have been in the chatroom, I have noticed a disturbing pattern. The first example was when someone began to site racist language. When I asked the moderator in question to please ask them to stop, I was immediately turned on and told to stop causing trouble and shut up. A number of what I believe are this persons 'followers' then began to bully me online. I was more than perplexed by this and have never experienced this in a chatroom before. As I was new, I thought that may be, there was a misunderstanding of some kind and decided to let it go.
However, I began to notice that every time I was online and this particular person was moderating, another provocative message would pop up in the chatbox. I started to put 2 and 2 together and my theory is that this person is deliberately getting others to make inflammatory comments in order to cause trouble. As I had cottoned on to this I made sure to steer clear from any argument and keep everything light-hearted. I did not take the bait and kept calm and tried to talk about movies with people in the chatroom. As she continued to goad me all I said very calmly was that they did have a responsibility to be fair, which resulted in me being immediately banned from the website.
I was also warned that peoples photographs have been taken from this site and turned into pornographic images and published online. I have no proof that this is something this person is involved in, but like I said, i have a nasty feeling that there is a very spiteful manipulative person at work here. Some people on the site will swear blind she is the nicest mod there ever was, but thats how clever she is. She will be nice to others in order to manipulate them into backing her up when she engages in cyber bullying, but if your face does not fit you will be treated very badly.
This is all highly unprofessional, but not only that, there are young people who use this website, some as young as 13. These sort of games, bullying and manipulation could be used against much younger and more vulnerable people than myself and I find that worrying.
You may join the chatroom and have no problem at all, but - and I know this sounds like a cliche - but if you are good looking/pretty, are intelligent and articulate, get along with people on site and have a lot to say about movies etc. you may be the subject of harassment or if you threaten this somewhat insecure individual in anyway, you will be the focus of her spite.
If you read site directions e. G regarding viruses, the tone of what is written, gives you a flavour of where the people who have created this site are coming from. Its quite abrupt and aggressive. If you are banned you are told to beg for forgiveness before being let back on. Its presented as a joke but after experiencing what I have, in actual fact it isnt. I believe this mod is a founder of the website, hence her power mad attitude. I tried to complain about the racist incident and never received a reply. I think that says it all really.
Now, to put this into perspective, I am a 40 year old mother of two, who is a mature medical student. I physically train 6 days a week, play the piano and electric guitar - a bit :) -, love the cinema, club still and enjoy a rich and fulfilling life with my boyfriend and my dogs. My point is, that Im not someone who is in need of a life and doesn't have anything better to do than to complain about things on the internet. Far from it. The reason I have bothered to write this is, that when I get a nasty gut feeling about something, it bugs me to the point where I think other people should know what is going on.
Remember, there are many faceless people on sites such as these, who hide behind avatars and who are probably not the happiest of souls. Take care online and enjoy the websites which deserve your support.
Thanks