Paranormal Pettiness

In October of last year an article was published titled “One Ego or Two?” within this article I spoke about the paranormal and the many conflicts which give raise to bad name and publicity it can often receive. Still a year on and the rivalry seems to continue.

One of the other websites we run titled “Haunted England – Top 100” (sister website to “Haunted England Search Engine“) is a voting website where paranormal groups and individuals can list their website and have members of the public vote and comment, now in a just world you expect adults to be able to behave and act in a professional manner when proclaiming to be professional. Not the case!

We get three kinds of comments on Haunted England, self reviews where they praise themselves, Team rivalry where 1 person or a team makes attacks against others they dislike for what ever reasons and the third are accusations we fix the rating, here are some of them:

Self Reviews:

Great website, great team!
This team is the best in the worlds.

Aggressive Rivalry:

Boring site, boring content and boring people, half of whom havnt the faintest idea what exactly they are talking about!!! To be sucessful, you must offer something your competitors do not….and sadly, you dont!

dogsmess

What a pile of sh**

total rubbish what a complete con this group are the worst event i have ever been to no organisation and fraud mediums dont bother is my advise.

Accusations Against Haunted England:

Haunted England is fixed for all you mardy I have a nice hats

Haunted England only publish the positive comments.

Addressing intellectually retarded individuals

I’ve not published all the comments here, some are really nasty which can often be real personal and won’t ever see the light of day. I think we’ll address the comments in reverse and talk about the ones made against Haunted England.

The reason we don’t list our main website which we run, “Ghosts-UK” is because it could seem unfair and like a fix, if we wanted to fix the ratings we’d add our own main sites to further self promote but we don’t and we don’t influence the voting in anyway. We don’t touch the database except in occasions where we believe people may have found a way to cheat the system, we then examine the data and take whatever action we deem appropriate. We believe in allowing people a fair chance to be listed without our influence.

So, we have nothing to gain by “fixing” it as some Muppet wrote.

Now to address the issue of only allowing positive comments, I suppose you could say this is true in most cases but only because people struggle to string together even one constructive sentence. Its like a war in the comments section with people having a go at each other because they have some differences or because their groups are competing or just because someone left one group and made their own.

Everybody wants to be a founder!

If you can’t be constructive rather than resorting to animalistic attacks then don’t bother, we won’t set them live.

The self-reviewers, it’s obvious when you do it. You write in the same style, same gramma, same bad spellings and pretty much saying the same thing over and over and over again. It’s boring, stop it!

We once allowed simple comments, but no longer set them live so comments like “good site”, “Brilliant”, and “Fantastic Team” will not go live, there maybe some older ones still in our system though.

The comments feature is not to abuse other websites or to make personal attacks, it’s to give constructive feedback, if their going wrong with their website then how can they fix it, what can they do. If it’s feedback on an event then how could they improve, or what did you love about it and what didn’t you love and why.

Be constructive in your comments, don’t be personal, don’t be aggressive, stop being petty and for goodness sake grow up and be adults for once in your life. There is nothing remotely scientific or professional about some of the conduct we’ve seen.

This is obviously not true in all cases and doesn’t apply to all websites, it’s just a select few and they know who they are.  If it doesn’t stop then we’ll simply turn comments off, end of story.

Life is to short to be angry all the time, if you can’t accept your differences and get on, then just move on.