[AbyssPlanet]

Someone on that frees@radas forum posted about receiving the same message, but he said that when he went to log in, he didn't actually have VIP access. Here's a quote of his post:

Correspondence with saradas today;

Hi Saradas.org,

I got this letter today, but I can not access the VIP SECTION

Thanks for your time

police187se

"Hello,

We see that you have not been active on Forum Saradas 'The Best Female Body Building & Fitness Discussion Board'  for quite some time now, and we miss you. Please come back, you have friends here that are asking why you left!

ALSO WE'VE A GREAT SURPRISE FOR YOU. YOU'VE EARNED ONE MONTH PREMIER VIP SARADAS FORUMS ACCESS.

If you don't remember your password, you can request it here: http://www.saradas.org/index.php?action=reminder

We hope to see you soon…

Kindest Regards,
Saradas Staff
http://www.saradas.org"

SARADAS REPLY

please donate to the following link and pm us back

https://www.fundable.com/groupactions/groupaction.2008-06-30.5844142351

after your donation you'll get your VIP access

CONCLUSION

So the promise was an empty hand

Classy.  8)

[AbyssPlanet]

Man I'm pissed off, and one else here been banned in the last week or so?

Got banned a little while back, yeah. I figure the site is spiraling the drain at this point if that's how the admin is treating the users.

[AbyssPlanet]

I guess the administration over there was getting off on some "kiss the ring" type thing.

Pretty much. I was always kinda vocal when the Admin would do something colossally retarded. Maybe that was part of my problem, but I really can't stand sycophants when things are clearly being handled improperly.

For example, at one point I decided that hey, I've been actually benefiting a lot from the forum (learning about new previously-unknown gorgeous women, as I mentioned earlier), so I might as well donate, and get VIP access while I'm at it. Especially since a lot of the really excellent threads were being moved to the VIP section abruptly and without warning anyway. You can either get VIP access by donating, or by collecting "karma" by posting quality posts and then the users "applaud" you, giving you a karma point. The number of karma needed to get into the VIP section sort of steadily climbed, and it was at about 500 when I donated. I had about 230 at the time.

So I donate, like, $15 or something via PayPal. I got double-charged, but I contacted PayPal and told them what was up and they refunded my money. Of course, the Admins at sarada$ had no idea why I got double-charged, but whatever. I got it fixed, so no biggie.
The way it was worded was, you donate to the servers, and you get VIP access. End of story. So I get VIP access, that's pretty cool, but the VIP section wasn't all that impressive because it was mostly just ported threads from the "free" section that I'd already seen several weeks or months prior.

About a month and a half go by, and then suddenly I don't have VIP access anymore. I'm all confused, so I PM the Admin and ask what's up. He informs me that if I want VIP access back, I should donate another $15. I (politely, kinda) tell him that that's sort of bullshit, that the instructions for VIP access don't say anything about donating more than once, and all of a sudden I find my account disabled. Post count reset, karma count reset.
I ask him what just happened, and he claims to have no idea what's going on, and that sometimes people "accidentally" disable their own accounts. I obviously didn't do this, and when  I ask for my account to get restored, my messages got ignored.

[AbyssPlanet]

Whoops, they just banned me from the forum for no reason.

Oh well, fuck 'em.

[AbyssPlanet]

Oop, looks like the forum is back up. I even got a PM from the owner/Admin, saying:

A lot of member reported us your actions against Saradas, we wait a detailed explanation from you in 24 hours!

I have absolutely no idea what that means.

[AbyssPlanet]

BlackModelling (the owner) was always a douchebag. The hilarious part is, this "investigation for copyright infringement" came about after he made his entire forum private and "VIP only" (VIP meaning "someone who 'donates' to the forum"). And he had a common practice of taking high-content threads made by "regular" users and moving them to the "VIP only" section, where the regular users who made the thread in the first place couldn't even see their own content.

Making the entire forum VIP only (and thus alienating 98% of the userbase) probably motivated more than a few users to report the forum to copyright holders. Hell, there were several actual Fitness and FBB personalities who held accounts there for whatever reason. Locking them out of a forum where BlackModelling was now charging people "donations" in order to see their content probably didn't make them very happy either.

"randy guillotte" said it best. "Karma" indeed.

That said, I don't know that I'd call the forum a "destroyer of our community". Yes, it undermined a lot of pay-sites with its openly shared content, and no, that wasn't okay. However, there were a LOT of users who contributed freely-available content from the Internet that wasn't from pay-sites. I actually learned about a lot of really really gorgeous fitness women and FBBers from that forum that I would have never heard of otherwise. So while the forum was something of a cesspool of not-so-anonymous file sharing and the like, there was a lot of quality, freely-available content that got shared as well.

[AbyssPlanet]

And then Delilah woke up. She looks down at her frail body whispering "what a weird dream".

The End

Well, you apparently didn't want us to take any of your work seriously, did you? That seems a pretty childish way to respond to some very valid (constructive) criticisms.

[AbyssPlanet]

Did you read this post?  Is it really that hard to believe that he was shot in the gut during a stuggle, won the struggle, finished off Amanda, and then decided to off himself?

Conspiracy theories show up in the strangest places.

Conspiracy theories show up where there are notoriously corrupt police agencies, and where a lot of people have something to gain from one person dying.
So he shot Amanda in the head three times despite getting gutshot, one of the single most excruciatingly painful places to get shot? Man, he must be some marksman!

[AbyssPlanet]

The other 8 shots were during the struggle.

Still not buying it. He committed suicide by shooting himself in the stomach and the head? Who on earth does that? It was an execution, plain and simple. I'd love to see the gunpowder patterns on his body – there should be some, if he fired on himself at close range. If there aren't any, it means he probably didn't shoot himself.

Seriously, he ratted out a huge number of people, pretty sure it included federal people, politicians, local cops, high-profile sports figures… he seriously made a LOT of enemies.

It's like with the "D.C. Madam", she was about to testify against a shitload of high-up politicians and lots of high-ranking people, and all of a sudden she "committed suicide".

Yeah, right.

[AbyssPlanet]

Police are saying it's a murder-suicide, but I'm not buying it. Amanda was murdered, but I'm pretty confident the other guy was, too. He'd just ratted out a huge ring of black market steroid dealers, including numerous cops and other high-profile people. He had a LOT of enemies. And apparently he was shot in the stomach and the chest, and there were other bullet casings around the place as well. So he killed himself by shooting himself in the stomach and the head, and missed 8 times while he was at it?

Yeah, definitely a suicide.

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