SaltLakefreecycle twatwaffles *UPDATE*

I received a response and am applying once more. Lets hope it turns out better. I still didn't get an answer about why the process included rejecting me as an applicant. Maybe it's because I smell like a troublemaker. ;)

This is my experience with SaltLakefreecycle. WTF hippies? Seriously. Over four thousand members and you reject me? What a serious fucking ego bummer. It makes me question my worth as a human being when I get rejected by hippies like fucking FreeCycle in Salt Lake City of all places.

Excuse my while I go listen to hootie and the blowfish and then shoot myself.

On 8 Jun 2008 06:09:38 -0000, SaltLakefreecycle Moderator
wrote:

Hello!

Thank you for your interest in joining the Salt Lake Valley Freecycle group. We're glad you want to join us!

Because we are trying to lower the amount of spam
we receive, we need some information from you! Please reply to this email with the answers to the following
questions:

1. Where are you located? (a city, a county, or a zip code will do.)

2. Name a business or landmark near you.(this is to help us verify that you are actually in or near the Salt Lake Valley) You can name a store near specific coordinates, any well known local business and basic coordinates, or a famous landmark.

3. Please verify with us that you have read the rules and guidelines. We follow these strictly to make sure everything continues to run smoothly.

Thanks agan for your interest in joining! We hope to hear from you soon!

The mods, Salt Lake Valley Freecycle


On 6/8/08, Holden Caulfield wrote:
1. Salt Lake Cit, Avenues, 84103
2. Cathedral of the Madeline
3. I have read the rules and guidelines and I understand them.

howabout now, did I pass the Turing / Void Comp test yet? Have I been
judged as "Human"? I swear I am not a Replicant ;)


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hmm, maybe I was wrong in assuming that the person on the other end of this process was a person as well. Was it an algorithm designed to process my application and my numbers didn't add up? Like a credit score? I would like to know more about this process if it is a real process and not an automated scripted process.

Is there a limit on membership? Did I already get my two Strikes? Did I have too many spelling errors? Grammatical Errors?

I don't take rejection well, especially when it seemed like such a simple process. Can you explain to me why I'm going home from Prom without a date tonight?

It's because I'm in the Avenues isn't it? We are shunned up there because of the stigma attached to sexuality in the avenues. That's it isn't it ;)

Is it because I used a winky emoticon? I was not professional enough?

I *thought* that I read the rules and guidelines and I *thought* that I understood them, but I did not see anywhere what your basis for applicant rejection is. Maybe I can do some searching around on the website.

Really, what is going on here?

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Response from Salt Lake Valley freecycle

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Sorry I was such an ass about it :) I just wasn't understanding the process too well and like I stated before, I suck with rejection and I take it very personally :) Thank you for not taking my childishness personally.
On 6/8/08, Evelyn Cox wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks so much for letting us know what is going on. With so many
> applicants, it's easy for the moderators to miss a mix-up.
>
> Please re-"apply" to join the freecycle group, and I will make sure your
> membership is approved. I will also forward this message to the other
> moderators on the group so that they will know that I've asked for you to be
> approved.
>
> We ask the questions we do to avoid spammers and scammers, and you are
> obviously local, and so I personally apologize that your membership was
> rejected.
>
> Thanks again for letting us know. We do, in fact, LOVE the avenues, and
> winks! Promise.
>
> Evelyn, co-owner Salt Lake Valley Freecycle
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SaltLakefreecycle
>
>
> Holden Caulfield wrote:
> I had the false impression that freecycle was a user created and user
> supported community. Without people offfering or wanting stuff, things
> just get thrown away.
>
> I wanted to support my local community and do my part by joining the
> Salt Lake City group for freecycle. This probably does not reflect
> upon freecycle, but the Salt Lake City freecycle group in particular.
>
> I applied, I answered some questions, and I was rejected. Sure, I
> don't take rejection well but for a group like this, with over 4000
> users? And no explanation anywhere in the policies or returned emails
> asking "wtf doodz?" I really don't understand.
>
> Of course, me acting like a little bitch about it doesn't help my
> chances of participating in their closed community, but I think I got
> over it when they denied me for no apparent reason. Either that, or
> they don't have a sense of humour.
>
> Here are their polices, and my correspondence is available through the
> link at the end