Over 16,529,947 people are on fubar.
What are you waiting for?
One thing about turning Orange this past December is I've learned who my friends are. In the first 18 months that I've owned a fubar ID number, I barely had 80 friends, of which two spoke to me on a semi-regular basis. Once my name lit up like a citrus fruit, random people suddenly want to add me. And these are people who don't read profiles... or they'd see that in my About Me section, in bright red, lives a statement that reads, in part, "PLEASE, NO BLIND FRIEND REQUESTS." There are nearly 300 people on my list, most of whom wouldn't even pee on me if I was on fire... until they needed something fixed.
I couldn't tell you how many times this conversation happened (and usually this will be after weeks of not hearing from this person):
Her: Hi there, sweety/babie/sexi/hunny, do you have a moment? Me: How can I help you? Her: Well, see, sweetie, this horrible hater flagged my pic and I want to know if you could unflag it for me?*1 Me: OK, let's take a look. Time passes as I check the photo and see it's her, dressed in lingerie so sheer I can count her eggs. Me: Umm... Sorry to break this to you, but I can't unflag this photo. Her: Why not? Me: Because it really is NSFW. I can see your ovaries in this photo. Her: But there are other pics out there that are worse! Why do they have to flag mine?*2 Me: Because your pic was reported. You do realize that if you see objectionable content, you can report those, too. Her: *sigh* OK... I'll just ask some other bouncer and he'll unflag it for me if I offer him a free show.And there you have it. And, sure enough, 10 bouncers later, she finds one that agrees with her and not only is it unflagged, but she also makes it her primary picture and her Happy Hour photo. People seem to believe that just because I share a friends list with them, this makes me their personal bouncer. Prior to turning Orange, I had no loyalties except to myself. Now that I'm a 150, my loyalties lie with the website and making sure the public areas are clean. There are entirely too many of you tiptoeing around the rules and saying "But my nipples are covered!" in a picture where only your nipples are covered (with whipped cream, no less) and expecting me to say "Oops! You're right, this is a loophole! OMG, unflagz0rz, you haz it!". Do me a big favor. If you're on my friends list and you received a message in your inbox that says a photo you uploaded got marked NSFW, don't go into my shoutbox and ask me to unflag it -- especially if you don't speak to me regularly, and specifically if you know the photo is bad. Footnotes
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