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During our research into the Reality411,
SendAGig, and
Letz Talk controversy, we were contacted
by a moderator and staunch supporter of Reality411 that gave us their view of the
situation. It was with much suprise that we realized that the moderator was
also the same person from Top 50
Network who, as Admin for the Top50Network had informed me that the
Jokers Update site had not been
removed from the list, and that our site had been removed and should be in the
Reality TV Top 50 list instead of the Big Brother list.
When questioned about this, the moderator assured us that the position held
with the Top 50 Network did not conflict with the position held as a board
moderator on Reality411, and that the owner of Top 50 knows that they are a
moderator on the site. We were also assured that the hits on the Top 50 are
automated, that there is no way to alter any statistics for any website on the
Top 50, and that there is no possible conflict of interest in the positions.
We contacted Top 50 Networks for comment, however we have not received a
response as of this writing.
One thing that does puzzle us, however, is that the e-mails seem to indicate
that the Admin is not the operator of the Big Brother, Survivor, and Reality TV
Top 50 lists. We have not presented this question to Top 50 or the Admin, but
we would like to know who the actual operator of these lists is. |
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By MissMary - Editor RealityTVfans.com
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started our site I wasn’t aware of copyright issues and how they worked. I
was soon informed, in a very nice way, by a friend of mine that works in the
newspaper biz. I figured that as long as you put a link to where you acquired
the article, copying and pasting it was perfectly ok. Where I got this idea,
I’m not sure, but I can only surmise it’s because of what I saw other
sites doing. That was over a year ago. Since that time our site has solicited
for original content writers to cover reality TV shows and specials, and
received dozens of applications. We currently have about 30 authors that write
for our site. These people work for free, and spend several hours not only
watching the shows, but also watching them over again to write their recaps
and/or editorials. I in turn as the editor, read them over and make any
corrections or ‘editing’ as needed. The articles are then published
to our site for visitor consumption. All in all it is a process, but a process
we all do because we enjoy it. Our articles are picked up by major news feed
sources on the Internet, which in turn is picked up by thousands of other sites
looking for reality TV news. So what am I getting at? Well, the best way I can
explain is by using an analogy that I hope all webmasters and visitors of other
reality TV sites take to heart.
Amy
Once upon a time there was a little girl named Amy who lived in a small
house far away in a town called Webville. Amy discovered at a young age that
she could paint portraits quite well. Her parents took notice and realized she
was a real child prodigy. Soon their friends noticed the lovely paintings all
over the walls at Amy’s house. They told their friends, and their friends
told more friends, and on and on it went. Soon many people were coming to look
at Amy’s beautiful paintings. Every week Amy would paint a new portrait
and more and more people from all over Webville would come to Amy’s house
to see her work. She worked very hard; spending many hours to make all the
visitors happy. Some of Amy’s parents’ friends said that they should
charge admission for people to see Amy’s paintings because they could make
a lot of money. However, her parents thought Amy’s paintings should be
free for everyone to enjoy and Amy didn’t want any money, as just seeing
people’s faces and hearing them talk about how much they liked her work
was payment enough.
Some people in town decided that traveling so far was just not convenient
for them though. They loved to see Amy’s work, but they rarely went so far
out of town. One day one of Amy’s fans, Erma, overhearing some people
talking about Amy’s paintings, got an idea! She went to Amy’s house
and when no one was looking she took a snapshot of Amy’s latest work. She
took the picture to a local copy shop and they printed out a picture that
looked just like Amy’s painting. Erma told everyone on her side of town
that they could now view Amy’s paintings at her house so they didn’t
have to drive that long way every week. Every week she would return to
Amy’s house and take a picture of her newest painting, go to the copy
shop, and come home and hang it on her wall. She even had friends that would go
and take the pictures for her! Soon everyone that lived in Erma’s part of
town stopped going to Amy’s house and instead went to Erma’s because
it was more convenient.
Amy noticed that a lot of the people that used to come and see her and her
paintings weren’t coming anymore, but she didn’t say anything,
because she didn’t want to upset her parents. She thought no one liked her
pictures anymore – that no one liked her anymore. Amy’s
parents were concerned and confused as to where all the visitors went, but they
didn’t know what to think of it.
One day some friends showed them a flyer that advertised one of Amy’s
paintings being shown at Erma’s house, so out of curiosity they took a
ride to Erma’s to find out what it was all about. When they got there they
couldn’t believe their eyes. There were copies of their daughter’s
paintings all over the walls with hundreds of people smiling and complimenting
them. They asked Erma to please stop copying their daughter’s work,
because although they were flattered, as Amy would be, that so many people
loved her paintings, what Amy really liked was seeing all the people that came
to her house. With so many people now coming to Erma’s house, Amy would
never get to see any of these people again. She was losing interest in painting
altogether and was very sad. Erma didn’t realize what she had done and she
immediately stopped copying Amy’s paintings. She thought that as long as
they had Amy’s name on them it was ok. She apologized and said from now on
when people asked her about Amy’s paintings she would give them the
address to Amy’s house instead, so they could go see the paintings there.
Even if it wouldn’t be as convenient for people, if they really liked Amy
and her work they wouldn’t mind going those few extra miles, she surmised.
Amy’s parents thanked Erma, and soon many of the people that had come to
see Amy and her paintings before came back again. Amy was very happy and
painted her best pictures ever!
Throughout the years there were other ‘Ermas’ in Webville that
would try to make it more convenient for people that didn’t live near Amy
to see her work. Most didn’t know what they were doing was wrong, but some
did. Some even refused to take her paintings down when her parents asked! They
liked having all the people come to their house so they continuted to
copy her work. This made Amy very sad. She painted because she enjoyed it, but
she liked sharing her work even more. She just wished people would not copy her
paintings, but the only way she could stop them was by not painting anymore.
She didn’t want to do that because she loved it so much, and that would be
punishing herself for something that she didn’t even do. Instead she sent
letters to all the people that were copying her work and asked them not to do
it. When that didn’t work she went to the Webville Town Hall and made a
plea to the townspeople to come see the paintings at her house because she
missed them all so much. It worked and everyone in Webville lived happily ever
after!
The End
I don’t really think I need to point out the moral of this story. It
was not written to chastise anyone, but more so to inform those that are not
aware of all the hard work that is put into creating original content, where
the only payment that is expected is perhaps a kind word, to pass along the URL
of the content, or to just return to view more. For those that knowingly allow
copyrighted material to be copied and pasted onto their sites or forums, please
forbid it in the future.
Fair use, in regards to copyright means quoting a SMALL amount to discuss
and/or gain interest along with a link to the original article, not reposting
the ENTIRE thing.
Thanks to David Bloomberg at
RealityNewsOnline.com
for explaining copyright to me, way back when.
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We are not sure exactly what is going on at
BBInsider
but whatever it is - it is extremely amusing. Almost every post on the board is
now Zeb related - well actually every post claims to be authored by Zeb,
one of his numerous aliases, or by his use of other poster's names.
Though we are sure that all of those posts can't actually be from Zeb (or can
they?), it is really hard to tell which is which. Seems Zeb is blaming
Digilady, Flint, Nos, Soeur, Elitist, and
just about anyone else he has held a grudge against.
Our amusement stems from the fact that it seems our troll has acquired his own
contingent of trolls.
As a side note: It seems that though Zeb has said goodbye to our
messageboard several times, he continues to troll and post to it. |
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First Week of October
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The following is the first weekly submission by
Reality TV Fans about their
site.Our
most popular forum seems to be
The Mole 2. Everyone is studying
the taped episodes over and over again to look for hidden clues as to the
mole’s identity. The board is filled with posters’ ideas of what the
clues could be and who is the Mole.
Our funniest new
poster is JP. He has been posting great recaps on the
Love Cruise forum, and
we’re publishing them under our
Episode Guides section as
well. They are very witty. Here is an example from one of his most
recent recaps:
Lisa:
"I'm worried for Toni, Andrea. I think Greg wants me, the aging, dour,
homely, dumpy, pathetic Yenta with the inferiority complex, and not really the
fun schiksa blonde with the double d boobs, the three of whom which with he
spends all of his time."
Andrea
(then
to Toni): "Gee, Toni, I think Greg is, like, not really loyal to you and
wants the ugliest girl on the boat instead."
Toni:
"Oh, wow. Like, I was so blind. Let's kick him off the boat, my
girls!"
If
you like that, there's a whole lot more
here.
You can't talk
about the posters at RealityTVfans.com without mentioning Infidel In The
Temple. He does
not like reality shows, especially ones that require other contestants to vote
their counterparts off. We love him anyway and his posts although mostly
thought provoking, do show a
sense of humor at
times.
Our troll of the
week, who does not have a screen name, did not post on the boards but rather
emailed the Editor and complained
to her for publishing
an
article
that he claims was a spoiler about the first one kicked off Survivor 3.
We stand behind not labeling the article as a spoiler, as it is not based on
fact, but instead speculation. However, our reply fell on deaf ears and the
person has (gasp) threatened to never visit our site
again!
LuckyLynn has been voted by our members as having the
funniest posts. She is also a favorite
sparring partner with Infidel in
the Temple, albeit a friendly spar.
Grundy
has been voted as
being our most knowledgeable poster.
Supershirll has previously been recognized at RealityTrash as
‘poster of the week’ and she deserves it. She does visit many
reality TV site boards and post, but we love her so much at RTVF that
we're willing to share. Her most recent topic on our Love Cruise forum -
Do I hate Lisa? Yes I
do... is just an example of how she will tell you exactly what she
thinks.
There are many
more members of our forums that deserve to be recognized, and next time I'll
introduce you to some more of them.
Be sure to sign
up for our
Survivor contest on our forums
by October 25th. The prize is an awesome RTVF sweatshirt, and make sure
to
read the rules first.
:
We’re also
working hand in hand with ABC to help promote The Mole II, and in addition to
interviewing the latest victim of the mole in our
Interviews section every week,
we will be holding live chats with the latest evicted player every Friday at 4pm
PST (7pm ET, 6pm CST, 5pm MST), so be sure to stop in to say hi to the
mole’s second victim, Ali, this coming Friday.
Until next
week,
Jacalynn
and Marci – RTVF Trash Reporters
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We were somewhat disappointed when we went to
Reality TV Addicts after reading
about their site and found out you had to register to view their message board.
We even tried registering, and got a nice e-mail saying our request to join was
denied. Luckily, however, we tried again this morning and found we could view
the site - I guess there must have been some technical problems with the
ezboard software.
In like manner, we tried finding the Reality411 board. We were also
denied membership at that message board. We are not sure if this is technical
problems or not, but we still can't get in to see what's happening.
Our message board has been hopping with recent events. We don't mind the
controversial topics, but please do not post personal information, posts from
other sites, or personal e-mails. Also no personal attacks against other
posters and do not use profanity. Thanks. |
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Though things have slowed down on all the reality
tv sites, we find that SnowRaven is keeping things hopping over at
Elite TV. Taking the high road in
entertainment, this poster has started a very interesting "quotation"
game in which someone gives the starting line of a literary work, and posters
try to guess the name and author.
This is enough for us to present SnowRaven with this issue's Favorite
Poster! |
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If you have some good scoop on the reality web
scene, or want to nominate a favorite poster, send it to us at
realitytrash@yahoo.com and we will
try to get it into our next issue. And thanks to all of you who have
contributed!
We are also looking for article submissions from our readers. We will give you
your own byline and let you be part of our "Who Runs Reality Trash"
game! |
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