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So, it seems that you, foursquare, do not want me to help you correct the hundreds of bad venues in my area. You’d rather let them continue to build up and multiply through your databases instead of fixing/removing them. After 2 months of not using your app, I found a lot more new bad venues in my area. A LOT more. And none of the super users in my state of Delaware are doing a damn thing about them. The venue threads on your support forum on GetSatisfaction.com are a fucking joke! The way that they’re operated does not lend itself to fixing the integretiy of your database. You have more bad venues that need to be merged, fixed, or moved being deleted from those threads than you have being fixed.

Since you don’t want me to help fix the bad venues, I will then help the majority of your clueless users contribute to the fucking increasing mess of bad venues in my area and wherever I travel to. Duplicates venues (how many venues for I-95 can there’s be in your database? I’ll guess 1000. At least!). Venues that you say people shouldn’t create (“traffic”, “I’m on a plane”, “your mom’s bed”, etc…), yet still do and your super users & staff refuse to delete. Venues that are spelled incorrectly. Venues in the completely wrong real, physical locations. Eventually, your venue databases will be full with more bad venues than good ones.

That’s the fucking mess you continue to let grow. The system you have to “supposedly” fix this doesn’t work like it should. You piss on your users that want to help you.

Fuck you foursquare. Fuck you!

And if you delete my account, I will create another one. And another. And another.

And that was until last summer when I was backstabbed by Gowalla. Do you remember that set of blog posts I did? I quickly jumped back into foursquare and soon got aggravated by all of the duplicate and inappropriate venues in my area. I jumped back onto GetSatisfaction.com and posted under foursquare’s threads to get the venues I found fixed. I check back in a few day to a few weeks later and most of the duplicates and inappropriate venues were still there. So, I would repost the venues that weren’t fixed. Eventually some got fixed. And this same reposting of duplicate and inappropriate venues that were never merged or deleted continued, for months. One time a superuser from outside of the US tried to correct some venues for me. I guess his English wasn’t all that great because it took several different locations of company’s venue I was trying to get fixed and merged them all into one location. That’s a bit aggravating.

So I decided that I wanted to help foursquare clean up their venue database for Delaware up. I found out that you have to be active on foursquare’s GetSatisfaction.com support forum to get noticed. OK. I kept posting venues that needed to get merge, moved, or deleted.

As time went on there would be more and more new duplicate & inappropriate venues popping up and I would continue to post them to get fixed. Funny how foursquare is slow to react to venues that they state themselves are inappropriate and will be deleted. They don’t delete them or the superusers that read the posts on GetSatisfaction.com don’t mark them for foursquare to delete. You can still do a search for “traffic” in Delaware or “on a plane” at the Philadelphia International Airport from foursquare’s website and get a lot of venues popping up that match those key words.

I wanted to get noticed by foursquare. Another funny thing is the only time they do notice me is when I had issues with them, so I decided I would start the “Make @The_BORG A Superuser” campaign. I wrote up my blog post and tweeted it to my followers. Many regular followers gladly retweeted the tweets I had for this. To those followers, I thank you dearly. Thank you for showing me your support. Then there were a few that maybe retweeted my tweets once. Thanks for trying fellas. You heart wasn’t into it, was it? And then many other followers of mine that didn’t even bother. Thanks. You’re some good friends & followers.

Then I started to tweet, mentioning a few foursquare (official & unofficial), about how the venues I posted onto GetSatisfaction.com were not getting fixed. Mostly this is because whoever runs the foursquare forum on GetSatisfaction.com only allows like 15 posts to be listed under the thread for fixing venues in my part of the US. So, another 15 people post on that same thread and my posts get deleted. Not too smart of a system… Well, back to the story: So I got a reply from Chris at @aboutfoursquare. We sent a few tweets back. One of his last tweets to me was that he was endorsing me to become a superuser to foursquare.

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And shortly after I got an email from foursquare stating this and to fill out a short superuser application & submit it. I read everything, answered the questions, and submitted it. Chris, THANK YOU for your endorsement. So now it was just a matter a time before I heard back from foursquare.

Last night I get home from work and there’s an email from foursquare. Look. It’s a form letter stating that my application to become a superuser has been denied, but don’t worry, you can try again in 30 days.

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In the letter they give a list of possible reasons for being denied to be made a superuser. Not much help there in determining why I was denied. It’s pretty vague. And they basically gave you the answers in the application itself before you submitted it. And I’ve been a foursquare user for 2+ years. In the past foursquare has made superusers from BRAND SPANKING NEW users that have only checked in a handful of venues only a few times. SO I DON’T GET IT!

I have not seen anyone from this area take any public interest in becoming a superuser to help clean up the mess of bad venues in Delaware. I have been the only one and foursquare denied YOU, the people of Delaware, the one person that was actually interested in doing so and working with a local organization, a local chapter of a nationwide company, and every other foursquare user in Delaware to help clean up the mess that’s here.

Now, what are my choices? Well, (1) I could do nothing and wait 30 days to try again, (2) delete my foursquare account and remove it (and other apps tied to their venue database) from my iPhone and rip foursquare apart for this, or (3) Use the account of a co-worker that is an inactive foursquare user and a superuser.

Option #1 doesn’t seem so good when it feels like I’ve been stabbed in the back again or getting pissed on by foursquare while they’re shaking my hand & smiling. And that doesn’t sit well with my boys and girls. Option #2 I’ve thought about. One thing that has slightly irked me was the quest for badges in foursquare and in other apps like GetGlue and Miso. Do we really need these stinkin’ badges? “(We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” – The Wild Bunch). And then there is the ever-present “mayor” thing. Finally there is option #3. I would have preferred that foursquare acknowledge me by making me a superuser and help them and their users out by cleaning up all of the bad venues and not do it by sneaking around their backs with another loophole that they have open (They have had many loopholes open over the past few years.).

There is another option, but that mainly entails me sticking around and seeing what happens with a few things. Is it possible for a large US organization request that I be made a superuser on the condition of uploading their database to foursquare? How about the Governor of Delaware? The Vice President of the United States? Would they help me?

For now, I’ve been put off from using foursquare. The biggest losers in all of this is foursquare and their users in Delaware.

1) What 13 year old has friends that drive? REALLY?
2) I wouldn’t get in the car with any of those KIDS. Are they even driving LEGALLY?
3) What 13 year old girls dress up like “party girls” to go out at night?
4) Do these kids’ parents know & allow all of this? These parents should be humiliated in public for this.
5) 13 year olds do not party on the weekend. I’m sorry. They’re not allowed out of the house to go to a party.
6) “We so excited”? Nice grammar! Stay home & study! Learn English!
7) Kids: Grow up first and then starting singing about partying. You’ll be doing plenty of it in college and you’ll learn what “partying” entails. Maybe some binge drinking and blacking out? Stomach pump and alcohol poisoning? Unsafe sex & teenage pregnancy? Always fun. Kids, you will learn the hard way.

I might be able to come up with some more… But for now, this will do.

UPDATE: A friend just posted this for me. A good DEATH METAL cover of “Friday”.

It’s been almost 2 weeks now since a Gowalla user posted about an issue on their support site at GetSatisfaction.com about the lack of bonus items dropping when checking into spots. Since that first post, Gowalla marked it as “Not a problem” yet more and more people are adding replies to the post about having the exact same issue, including me. The issue has quickly been labeled as the “Item Drought”.

I stumbled upon Gowalla back in the late summer/early fall of 2009 and quickly got addicted to it. I used it all the time, creating new spots in my spotless area and got others to start using the app. I was in love with Gowalla. I loved the fact that it had items to find and collect and I got addicted to finding the new bonus items. Then all of the sudden no bonus items were appearing.

Gowalla users have been getting quite upset and frustrated due to the lack of response from Gowalla until yesterday when a Gowalla employee finally responded. Some users where relieved that Gowalla had finally said something, although for some what was said didn’t make much sense. And with 2 new updates released this week for the iPhone, the issue was still there. I, for one, was hoping that the new updates would fix the issue. Sadly, I was disappointed that they had not. The issue isn’t related to the iPhone app alone, Android and Palm users are also experiencing this problem.

Last week Gowalla tweeted that the “item drought was over”, but it wasn’t and that tweet was eventually deleted when users continued to inform Gowalla that it wasn’t.

With the world’s attention now on SXSW (South By South West), thousands of people have flocked to Austin, Texas to partake in the interactive, film, and music parts of the conference that started today, including Gowalla. A lot of their recent changes where in preparation for SXSW, like the redesigned web site and smartphone apps. They quickly got a semi-working Android version and a WebOS (Palm) version recently to add to their original iPhone app.

One thing that has pissed off a few more Gowalla users is that a Gowalla employee said that we should have “Patience while we work (really hard) on your free app, please!” I was a bit ticked at that comment as were a few others that stated if it wasn’t for all of us Gowalla users that their app would be nothing without all of the data that we’ve been supplying them.

Some users are starting to believe that the issue has continued due to a glitch on Monday when many spots suddenly disappeared. Spots that did not go missing seem to be dropping items, while spots that went missing and new spots are not dropping any bonus items. I plan on testing this out, if possible.

So far, it seems no one at SXSW are having issues with finding the new items that are only at SXSW. Gowalla did release four new bonus items for everyone last night, but how can we find them when there are no bonus items dropping for many people? That is what is pissing me off. I’m no longer interested in using Gowalla, as are other users. Without the bonus items, Gowalla is just like Loopt, Brightkite, and Foursquare, and other users are saying the same thing. They’re removing Gowalla from their iPhone’s first home screen or deleting the app altogether until the issue is resolved. Some users think that we won’t see anything fixed until SXSW Interactive is over and for some Gowalla addicts that is too long of a wait. And I’m trying to wait and be patient. ARGH…

The Empty Pack: 20+ Check-ins, 13 days, ZERO bonus items thread at GetSatisfaction.com/Gowalla.

2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?

4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?

5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?

6. Why does “slow down” and “slow up” mean the same thing?

7. Why does “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same thing?

8. Why do “tug” boats push their barges?

9. Why do we sing “Take me out to the ball game” when we are already there?

10. Why are they called “stands” when they are made for sitting?

11. Why is it called “after dark” when it really is “after light”?

12. Doesn’t “expecting the unexpected” make the unexpected expected?

13. Why are a “wise man” and a “wise guy” opposites?

14. Why do “overlook” and “oversee” mean opposite things?

15. Why is “phonics” not spelled the way it sounds?

16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?

17. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?

20. Why is bra singular and panties plural?

21. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?

22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?

23. How come abbreviated is such a long word?

24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?

25. Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

26. Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one?

27. Christmas – What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?

28. Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

All comments to any posts here on my site are moderated. I have to approve them before they are public. There is no fucking way in hell that your comments will ever get approved. They’re all marked as spam. You are wasting your time and my time by posting your fucking shit garbage that no one will ever see. So please, stop posting your fucking shitty spam comments on my blog.

Thank you and go fuck yourselves.

The_BORG

Next intersection: I’m still in the parking lot of where I work. I come to a 1 way stop sign at a T-shaped intersection of the main road. The straight away I want to turn onto does not have a stop sign in either direction. Two cars are approaching from my right. Just before the intersection on the straight away, there is a speed bump with a sign that says “SPEED BUMP”. The first car stops and the driver motions for me to go. The sign says “SPEED BUMP” not “STOP”. I motion for the driver that HE has the right of way. He drives through, maybe thinking I’m an idiot. Second drives pulls up now, stops, and motions for me to go. WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE? Are you fucking stupid??? YOU HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY. Don’t you remember ANYTHING from Drivers’ Education in school???

I can understanding that drivers are nice to other drivers most of the time, but there is still something called the “Right of Way” that are basic rules for drivers to follow. Ignoring those can cause accidents. And yes, stupid people cause accidents. YOU STUPID DRIVERS could have caused an accident from trying to be nice because you were too stupid to remember who has the right of way or to even read the traffic sign that said “SPEED BUMP” not “STOP”.

For some reason, this stupidity drives me up the fucking wall!

Don’t get me started on YIELD signs. It seems most American drivers believe that a Yield sign means “speed up and merge into traffic very fast”. According to Wikipedia a Yield sign “indicates that a vehicle driver must slow down and prepare to stop if necessary — usually while merging into traffic on another road — but needn’t stop if the way is clear.” Obviously, most American drivers do not know this. How many countless accidents do these fucking morons almost cause? Too many.

I HATE STUPID PEOPLE and I hate stupid drivers that don’t know the rules of the road. YOU SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE!

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iDon’t need scare tactics
iDon’t need to imitate
iDon’t need a droid…unless it’s R2D2
iDon’t have a problem with iTunes
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