SOMEONE WITH AUTHORITY!!!

(***the story behind this: just for the heck of it, i looked at providers of free website hosting. something where you make your own html page from scratch. i didn't want one of the things where they give you a 'template' of any kind, and you just fill out an easy form where all the boring details have been taken care of. instead i wanted to learn how to handcraft my own html with a text editor, just for fun, and then see how to get it noticed by a search engine. i've practiced learning html-from-scratch a couple times in the past but never really done anything big, just 'hello world' type stuff.***)

okay. with free-space.net, or whatever it is, they have a facebook group for the webmasters. and there is this guy who's FREAKING OUT because his application for a free site was rejected. he's writing all these messages, asking for SOMEONE WITH AUTHORITY to talk about this with him. he has on this sailor hat, like a navy guy, and the name of his site is 'childminders.com' or something like that. and he's like 'WHY WAS MY APPLICATION REJECTED! I NEED TO TALK TO SOMEONE IN AUTHORITY! THEY'RE NOT ANSWERING ME!'

1. you get what you pay for. this is a free site. it's run by a couple of college students who are busy doing everything else in addition to hosting this free web site. that is what i gathered from reading the forums and just glancing around. it's not really a professional, official thing, just some half-assed project that they're doing on the side. you are not going to get instant responses or reliable service. i gathered this very quickly after they said they'd activate the account within twelve hours and more than a day has gone by, and i read about other people getting the same problem, and i just got this feeling that i don't really know when, or if, they will activate the account at all, or how many days i'll be waiting. i looked around at the forums and the support section, and it's very informal. a 'just something they do on the side' kind of thing. when they feel like it. that doesn't bother me, since i wasn't starting a life-or-death website where i'll starve and be unable to pay my rent if my free website isn't up and running right this very instant. i just wanted to look at it and start an informal practice website. but this sailor-hat guy is acting like THERE ARE NO OTHER FREE WEB HOSTS AVAILABLE ON EARTH! THIS IS THE ONLY ONE, AND, BY GOD, MY APPLICATION *MUST* BE APPROVED!!! WHY WAS IT REJECTED???

2. sailor hat. do not take a picture of yourself wearing a sailor hat, then go to a facebook forum and expect everyone to take you seriously when you are shouting about 'someone with authority.' there is something about people wearing sailor hats that makes me think of that singing group, what was their name, the guys singing the song 'YMCA,' and every time i see people in navy uniforms and sailor hats, i am going to think of them from now on.
3. childminders.com. anything with the word 'child' in the url, run by a guy with a sailor hat who is freaking out about 'someone with authority' just somehow doesn't work for me. the more you freak out, the guiltier you look. why not just go to some other free web host? why take it personally? why not just call them a couple of half-assed, unprofessional, busy, involved-in-other-projects, college students, who aren't getting paid to do this, and therefore aren't giving reliable service? but no, you have to DEMAND that something gets done about this terrible injustice of your free website application getting rejected. because if someone rejected your application, there must be a PERSONAL REASON why it was rejected... they must be *accusing* you of *doing something BAD*!

4. so, is this going to be a website about little boys wearing sailor uniforms while 'someone with authority' tells them to do things?

there really is such a thing as giving a *really* bad first impression to people, and communicating badly, and undermining yourself when you try more and more desperately to DEMAND that they give you what you want, RIGHT NOW! SOMEONE WITH AUTHORITY!