Not quite a feline fotobomb, since he was already there when I put down the for-sale items to be photographed.
oh yeah, that's a thing. I had someone blocking my piano instruction ads for weeks.
"you're not really qualified."
"um, yes i am."
"well, you're posting too often."
"*people point out that other teachers do this all the time*"
"well, i still disagree. i don't know why i don't like this, but I don't."
i eventually gave up. good job, CL
I told this person they had too much free time. There are stores I can resell my things at, should Le Splainer have a soul so dead they decide to spend even more time blocking my ads.
@amylsacks Right? I mean, this is the weirdest of hobbies. I'm all about that, just not on other people's backs, please
@amylsacks "Can't you do something normal, like cataloguing unmarked graves, or identifying every mechanical bank ever made and writing about it's social history? i mean, come *on*."
Yes, I'm shitposting myself here. But I'm doing it for a reason, without harming anybody. *hint* nerds *hint*
@shoutcacophony I would read the all-history-of-mechanical-banks thread, so long as it had some pictures.
@amylsacks I had a thing for mechanical banks when I was a kid. There's all sorts of social history (and unfortunately, a lot of racism) encoded into them.
They're definitely under the "toys as as social markers" category of things.
@shoutcacophony Yeah. When I post ephemera (20th Century adverts) I usually snip out the worst racism: the grotesques, etc. I think it's fine to analyze these things in certain settings. They're a part of our history. But on the other hand you *know* WS assholes cruise around collecting this stuff and I don't feel like making that easier for them.
@amylsacks exactly. i wound up avoiding it altogether, which beats "...but i'm cataloguing the things and writing about them :slightly perplexed look:", but it's important work.
In the right context though, and with the proper allowances, like you said.
@amylsacks it's such fuckery! i mean, i could teach someone:
basic to intermediate-level piano, no problem
how to improvise, no problem
how to integrate different approaches to music theory with composition and performance, no problem
how to improvise with others, free improv especially, no problem
jazz and contemporary theory, no problem
but no. 😡
@shoutcacophony @amylsacks wow, some people are just dicks
@a_breakin_glass @shoutcacophony
Now I feel lucky. The worst CL experience I've had so far is someone stealing a free item I left out for somebody else to pick up when I wasn't home. I had it tucked behind a planter but someone saw fit to help themselves anyway. 🙄
@shoutcacophony It sucks that there's nobody running the board who you can complain to when this happens.
(re-set to Public)
Oh, that. *that*. I complained to CL one time about them listing *UNPAID LABOR* under "gigs."
"Gigs are paid. You need to ask people who do this for a living."
"No, gigs are volunteer work."
"...I don't know where you're getting that idea, but absolutely not."
A few weeks later:
"Our board that handles this met, and you're wrong."
What the board is, how to appeal (read: there's no way to appeal), and why on earth they thought this ridiculous idea was valid..."no, sorry, decision's been made."
[slaps forehead for 30 minutes]
And hours later this jaggoff still won't get out of my face. Finally introduced them to my good friend the Spam filter.
🙄
"You can get flagged for running deceptive ads," they said in a voice which probably sounds IRL exactly like Frank Burns from M*A*S*H*."
Yeah, because disagreeing about the proper name for a piece of used cookware is *exactly* like trying to, say, sell generic soft drink mix as a cure-all for a life-threatening disease.
Fuck people.
Related: can we take a moment to appreciate that there are people using Craigslist who'll contact you to correct your ad because they don't think your description was up to snuff?
🙄
"Craigsplaining."
(I'm going to Hell for this and I don't even care.)