Unfortunately, she has serious personality issues. As you could see, I stripped out about 98 percent of the text, along with the links to her site. Next possible step is deleting this post altogether.
Cheri Horton

Ow, no! I must be evil. Does someone know of a good Second Life psychotherapist?

Cheri, like I said before, I do did not want to pick a fight, and if you hadn’t overreacted in the first place, this post would have been about last night’s shopping spree and Mardi Gras beads. I doubt if I respond at - what used to be - my Photo Friday Finish you would leave the comment, although you’re rather willing to insult me there and on my own blog.

I’m not going to accuse you of having personality issues. I do think your reaction is rather childish and unprofessional. I did send you an email which you chose not to respond to. We could have had this discussion by mail in stead of out in the open.

You say I should be grateful for the exposure? Well, I did not ask for you to blog about my photographs. Your Second Life PixelPulse is a commercial blog/magazine that sells adspace. Did you ever consider sending me an email to ask me if I was OK with a nude me featured on PixelPulse’s front page? No. I just had to figure it out by the trackbacks and the comments on my photographs on Flickr. Well, I figured you would have to find out about the spelling mistake the hard way too.

Talking about trackbacks and comments linking back to your magazine/flickr stream, you leave them on my tutorial posts and photographs, but your site does not accept trackbacks. Doesn’t seem very fair to me. If you don’t accept trackbacks, don’t send them out either. This way it’s just link-whoring. (Before you overreact again, I’m not calling you an escort, just a link-whore!)

About taking down the photographs screenshots and the blogpost: I did never and shall never delete / change a blogpost, except if I made a flagrant mistake in the information I was providing. Not even if you would have asked to take them down. Which you didn’t. View rates on the two screenshots are 76 and 44 views so I hardly think the whole of Second Life knows you spelled my name wrong.

As for marking spelling mistakes in red, it’s not utterly tasteless, it’s just common practice in Belgium. I don’t remember if I ever accused my teachers that handed me back my papers with lots of red upon them of having personality issues. Probably I did.

I never did send someone into orbit. I try to help out if people have questions. I don’t laugh at people who don’t have a decent skin and I tend to be honest about what I think. Am I really such a horrible creature Avie?!

But look at it on the bright side: even bad exposure is exposure. So may I kindly ask you to link the ‘personality issues’ in your comment to vintfalken.com? :D

Tags: cheri horton, vint falken

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