Early this yearInterac fired an employee who missed work when his new born baby died. Companies in the English teaching business pull off a lot of sleazy stuff and this story tops the list. slot oasis
http://www.letsjapan.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=256648&start=30
Like a loyal lapdog Gaijinpot purged all the forum threads related to the topic because Interac is an advertiser on the site.
Seems somebody at Interac didn’t like the story being exposed because I started getting emails from an Interac employee directly while they were at work.
The IP address of the Interac employee visiting the site just happens to be the same as the IP address leaving all the flame love. Using their Yahoo email the Interac employee (Roger Starkey – rogstarkey@yahoo.com) forgot to mention they worked for Interac and pretended to be an impartial defender of Gaijinpot. The emails consisted can be seen at the bottom of this post.
Interac.,co.ltd. (221.249.196.147) [Label IP Adress]
Anybody thinking of dealing with Interac should think first…
Do I want to work with someone like this?
Do I want to work for a company like this?
As a Board of Education should we rely on Interac for ALTs ?
Should Interac be notified this employee needs more to do?
Also anybody thinking of dealing with Interac should be aware of a group called the General Union which is a union set up to protect English teachers in Japan. The General Union has an Interac branch and when you look at their record they have managed to achieve a few noteworthy accomplishments.
Flame Mail 1
I don’t get it? You’ve seemed to have devoted this whole farce of a site to slashing G-Pot for NOT reproducing material that is readily available on another site? Back in the early days of the Internet (before the web) re-posting was considered to be a type of flame, and it’s somewhat obvious that the bulk re-posts of the debito content almost anywhere and any time it has anything to do with any English company in Japan almost always degenerate into flame wars. So, why wouldn’t G-Pot want to protect it’s forums from being reduced to a slag-a-thon? Eventually, it would reduce to ad hominem attacks and senselessness, as all flames do, until someone calls someone a Nazi, and then the discussion is over.
On that point, who made you the Internet Enforcement Bureau for Japanese-related-content? Or, is it that you can’t read the last line of the forum rules you posted above? It’s their forum, not yours, not debito’s, not NOVAs, not Shane’s, not ECCs, not W5s, not Altia’s, not AEON’s, not Joytalk’s, and definitely not Interac’s. Usage is a privilege, and if the content doesn’t generate traffic leading to the goal of a business model for a site, then it has no purpose being on a moderated forum. If you believed in free commenting, you wouldn’t enable moderation on this forum!
BTW…I like how you got the proxy service to do your registration, so you don’t show up on WHOIS, and using a gmail account just adds all that more legitimacy to your site. The only thing you’re missing is a fake name in the “Your Name Here” below, and some Google AdSense adds to generate a little cash, just to make it seem like this site is not just a total straw-man for Debito, Louis Carlet, Glenski (who is one or both of the former,)or the few dozen similar smacktards that haunt almost every Japan-related forum like some kind of strange semi-erotic mania that makes them feel like their like they have some kind of power.
Flame Mail 2
Again, you can’t read well, it seems. G-pot pulled content because of a flame war, which is bad for any site trying to make legitimate money.
Can you blame G-pot for controlling the content of it’s own forums?
Can you blame them for not allowing people to post content that threatens the industry upon which their business model operates?
If so, that would be like Microsoft hosting a forum on how to create viruses, wouldn’t it? Would you say about a forum on a site selling Microsoft products that hosted an open forum about how to create and distribute viruses that Microsoft would not contact that forum owner and ask them to remove the content? slot machine online games
The question is: where is your credibility? Is it in pointing out the obvious? You’ve hidden your identity, your affiliations, and your motives. The reader can only assume that you’ve set yourself up as some kind of self-appointed “check” on G-pot. This isn’t “news,” it’s self-serving nitpicking to a very small audience. Check out your Alexa…you’re meaningless:
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