Ok I have a little rant today as I was going thru my emails and get one of those form letters that I have a site that is not showing.  Owners – You Need to Let Members Contact You – let me tell you what I have just been thru.

Now here is funny part here and what really got my goat – the link that the email says is not showing is not even my link grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

After getting this report, I went to the site to check out what is going on as obviously I still have credits otherwise the site would not be trying to showing.  Well I logged in to get this message

Your account has been suspended!

This has happened to you for several reasons:

• You are not surfing enough
• Your websites violate our terms. Breaking frames for example Etc.
• You are clicking on the wrong image consistently

This can be fixed.

If you are not surfing enough, you need to let us know you are goin to surf at least 200 pages every week. If you think you can do it just send a request to xxxx.com@gmail.com. Your account will be activated. Surfing will help deliver credits to your websites.

If your account has been suspended because you clicked on the wrong image just let us know and we will acitave it.

If your website is breaking frames your account will be suspended. This is annoying to everyone. It breaks the surfing rhythm! This is not good!

Well for one, I have not been on this site in long time and my site was still showing so I must have had credits but yet you want me to surf 200 a week to be part of your site.  So I tried to find the support button on the site and there was none as I wanted to share my 2 cents – so decided to come here and share and then send them the link to my blog.

Listen owners you cannot have your cake and eat it too – give your members a reason to surf – don’t demand that we have to surf or get suspended.  It’s YOUR responsibility as an owner to do this – it’s NOT the members.

Also, if you don’t keep the lines of communication open you will NEVER grow your site – YOUR members are people and not a robot or just a number – treat them like that and there will be not be issues of getting them to surf.

Now that I have this off my chest I feel better but I can’t even get in to your site and delete my account because you don’t have a contact button on the site for members that want to contact you.

Being the type of person that I am, I did take out the name of the site and thought I would just make this an in general so other owners would re-think their policies.

Owners – Stop Slamming The Door In Your Members Face

P.S. With all the people showing as staff on your site, you would think one of you could do a spell check – hint, hint