Wrath

Oh I felt wrath this morning. And sadness. Disappointment. I did something really silly. I did something unintentional and it upset someone enough to report me and get my blog link in my signature pulled at UKS. Ugh!

I was angry because it seems so petty to me. Honestly. I was angry because if feels like stupid forum politics. I don't like that kinda stuff. But most of all, it upset me that I'd hurt someone or caused someone to think badly of me. I didn't do it maliciously as implied. I didn't do it because I'm not a sponsor there any more. Whoever reported me indicated that I was promoting my online store via my blog even though I'm not a sponsor of UKS anymore.

I wasn't. I didn't do it intentionally. I host my freebies on my website in my store. It keeps everything all in one place after I had so many people email me asking for them to be like that. Trying to help. Oh well. And I'm doing more tutorials and as I do them I post the links at UKS digi forum. Again trying to help. Seriously. So many people do want to learn digi. I love to be able to help where I can. No strings. If I can help, I always will.

So fair enough. Rules are rules. I get that. I wonder why those people who reported me didn't report other "rule breakers"? Doing the exact same thing as me. If not worse. A couple of them have blatantly posted to products/tutorials etc.. FOR SALE in the digi forums. Many have links to their blogs and those blogs have links to their crafts which they sell. Why is that different to me? Why don't those people get reported? I'm not going to report them. I really believe those people don't realise they are breaking the rules. No more than I did. I didn't know. I should've read the FAQs more closely. I just didn't. Fair enough.

What is more annoying are those people who just "pop" into UKS once in a blue moon, post a link to their latest product and then disappear. But do those people stop around to help, advise and generally "hang out" to make friends and be part of the community? No. Of course they don't. They just want to promote their business. Do they get reported? Nope.

Ugh! It makes me so mad. I don't like breaking rules or causing upset whatsoever and anyone who truly knows me knows that. I apologised to Mary Anne profusely and I've removed the links to my online store here. I'd rather have this blog and post my tutorials and freebies to help those interested at UKS. I know there are people who genuinely appreciate the help and freebies. For goodness sake, we've all been there. We all had to learn. I'm still learning and I certainly appreciate the links, posts and advice people post at the various forums I frequent.

Sorry for venting. Just had to get it off my chest. Feels safe to do it here. It's my blog! Ha!

So yeah. Wrath. Kinda felt it today. Funny as it's the word prompt today for HS|MS. In regards to wrath in my place, apart from me today, ha, I immediately thought of the wrath of Mother Nature. Back in November (I think it was November?), we had a tidal surge and lots of frightening flood warnings. We live right on the coast and nothing major happened overnight but the surge did hit about 10am the next morning and so we decided to walk to the beach and watch it. Stupid. Yes. Fascinating though. Couldn't help it. We just wanted to go see the water and the storm. Ha! We weren't the only ones. So many people all wrapped up against the elements. There was a strong north esterly blowing down the north sea! It was fantastic!


Ok - well - once again - sorry for my venting! Hope everyone has a fab Friday afternoon and weekend!
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