While catching up on my Yahoo groups last night, I saw (remembered, actually, since Kim told me in email) that Mistress Mommy Katt's Yahoo group had been deleted. Making a long story short, it probably happened because somebody sent a false, malicious complaint to Yahoo, which just deleted the group and some of MMK's accounts because they don't have time to actually check these things out. What a despicable thing for somebody to do, tearing down something that MMK was trying to build for all of us to enjoy! I understand the group was just starting to take off, too.

The suggestion has been made that this detractor (I'll call them AC for Anonymous Coward) was mad at MMK for having a pay site. OK, yes, you do have to subscribe to see everything. But you know, hosting a web site costs money! Especially if you have a lot of pictures on it, and videos are even worse. Also, the more popular the site is, the more bandwidth it consumes for the hosting service, and the service charges the content provider for that bandwidth! What's more, creating all the material that goes on a web site takes up time, time that could be used to have a second job or otherwise make money. Here at LilJennie's page, you're seeing the results of little bits of work here and there over a few years, and since I have very few pictures and my hit numbers are low, I don't get charged much, thank goodness! So I can afford to provide my page to you for free. But an undertaking like MMK's page is quite another story.

People like AC, on the other hand, see sites like MMK's and get angry, somehow thinking that everything on the Internet should be free (and that's free as in free beer, not free as in free speech, as the Open Source programmers say). Which makes everything that MMK does seem like some kind of advertisement or self-promotion, in AC's eyes, and therefore is motivated by greed and tainted. If we accept this as true ... then, for anybody who is trying to make any kind of money (is there anybody who isn't?), everything they do is self-promotion related to their making money. Therefore everything that anybody ever does in the entire world is motivated by greed and tainted. To disprove this, just think of one instance where anything you've ever done was not motivated by greed. And the whole ridiculous house of cards falls. Sure, maybe MMK is happy if her Yahoo group results in another person checking out her web site, but that doesn't mean that greed is her motivation. Maybe she just likes ABs and wants to do something for them. I've met her. She does like ABs, and she's really nice!

I'm just really disgusted by this.