Suggestion Box

 

Since I'm always interested in adding new and better things to the site, it helps me to know what you want to see here. Below, I've pasted the suggestions I've received recently, along with my response to them. If you have a comment on one of these suggestions or have a suggestion of your own send them to me.

 

From Jacquie:
I think you should recommend the movie "Two Can Play That Game" on your site, it's awesome!

I haven't actually seen the movie but I'll check it out. It also brings up a good point. We have songs and poetry so we probably should start a movies page. Start sending them in. -- Kim

From MANWAPLAN:
APPARENTLY NOT ALL US MEN ARE BAD CAUSE YOU SEEM TO BE MARRIED TO ONE. HOW ABOUT SHINE A LITTLE ON SOME OF OUR GOOD QUALITIES.

Apparently, you didn't understand the name of the site. It's called "I Hate Men." That means that we're not particularly interested in the "good qualities." Try searching for ilovemen.com or something like that if you need the ego boost. -- Kim

From Mali:
I really love your I Hate Men page but in addition to the reasons why men are useless, I'd like to see some space devoted to why women are wonderful.

It's already in the works but I can always use additional material. -- Kim

From Amanda:
Hey, I liked your site so far. I was just wondering since your site is all about how girls hate men well why dont you have any information on how to get back at them...destroy them, make their lives miserable like they did to us! Like how to hurt them and make them relaize what they did was wrong and realize they didnt just get away with it???

Hmmmm....well, I don't really advocate destroying anyone or ruining their lives. On the links page, there are places where you can send them things like dead roses, dog poop, and hate cards. I'm not opposed to non-violent/non-destructive forms of revenge...more like practical jokes. If anyone has gotten someone back in a non-permanently-hurtful way, send in your story and we'll see what we come up with. -- Kim

From Deb:
Hello, I am in Australia and saw you on the Ricky Lake show. I had an idea. Why dont you have an "exposed" page.. where women can go to look up a mans name and if he has been 'exposed' then we can be warned. I was in love recently with a guy that was supposedly going to marry me. Today I recieved an email with this attachement (i have attached it). Someone went to a lot of trouble to send this to all the women on his (andres) list. When i read it I saw that he has told many woment the same thing he told me. I think us women should be able to go to a site where we can do a search on a mans name and find out of any previous bad history (submitted by burnt women). I am unsure of the legalities but maybe you would be able to look into it. Look forward to your response.

In theory, I agree with you (and the several others of you who have made similar suggestions). However, in reality, it's too dangerous legally. There are a couple of sites on the net that do this but they are opening themselves (and those of you who write the information) up to law suits. I just don't think it's something we want to risk for the site or for the fans who submit things. -- Kim

From KraZieAsh:
i have an idea for your site. i think you should make a page on there with screennames and or pictures of guys no one should talk to or date you know. something like that it seems pretty cool.

See the Guys Online section. I have posted profiles and IM conversations with annoying Internet men. That's as far as we can go with that because like the above suggestion, just telling about guys (with identifying information) can cause legal trouble. However, the word-for-word IMs or profiles they have posted in the public domain are safe. Send those to me if you have them and I'll post them. Lately, a few people have found their significant others on the site and got them in BIG TROUBLE. LOL. -- Kim

From Jennifer:
I forgot to tell you that I think you should change the name of the site to "I hate boys dot com" After all, if he's a REAL man, he won't do all the things that piss us off!!

Thanks for a great place to blow off steam.

LOL. Excellent point! -- Kim

From Angie:
I've noticed that you are selling emails @ihatemen.com and it stated that the person needs to mail the money in. I wanted to suggest putting a link or payment option of www.paypal.com :) I use it for my ebay stuff to accept payments and people can pay through it using credit cards and bank accounts and I know quite a bit of people out there have a paypal account.. Really simple to set up. Just a suggestion. I still think this is an awesome site. Keep up the good work and I'll be back when I save the $12 in change *LOL*

That will happen eventually. While my computer was "sick," Slammy put up the e-mail stuff and I haven't had a chance yet to go over the page and make sure it's up to www.ihatemen.com standards. We don't do things around here like they do on THEIR site. :-) -- Kim

From LadyoftheLayk:
Hi Kim :o) I have a few photos that make most men cringe and would like to share them so possibly a photo section? Lady

Hmmmm....that's an interesting idea. You mean, having some pictures that women can send to men when asked for a picture? Things that would get rid of them quickly? That would be kind of funny. So if anyone has any pictures to share, send them to me. -- Kim

From Melissa:
Dear Kim
I like your site very much and I would like to suggest that on your Serious Stuff part of your website that you do a part on pornography and how it affects its influence on men. I think that porn is tasteless and dusgusting. Not only that but its also disturbing to women and children and teens. I'm so mad thatmen like to see women and children being brutalized and degraded in front of the camera. There are so many forms of explict forms of hardcore porn ranging from sadomasacism, mutalatiom, Raping, Gang rapes. urination and defication to more severe forms like torture and killings of women. I don't think for a minute that pornography is "all about sex"! Pornography ISN'T sex! its taking sex, somthing sacred between two people whether gay, lesbian, or straight, and turning it into filth and digusting stuff.
I HATE MEN so much for watching that shit. We have to put an end to this garbage by standing up and saying WE WILL NOT PUT UP WITH THE DEGADING OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN FILMS ANYMORE!!!!!!!!

This is an interesting issue because I have sort of a split opinion on it. I feel strongly that anything which exploits children or glorifies violence is bad and should not be tolerated. However, if we're talking about Playboy, that's not something I get too worked up about. Men like looking at naked women (or naked men) and it's generally a harmless pasttime, if not taken to the extreme where it takes the place of a normal sex life. It's a multi-billion dollar industry, and many women are making a lot of money this way. So "degrading," (when talking about consenting adults) is subjective. But I'll look into the hardcore stuff as relates to child abuse and violence toward women. -- Kim

From G-Boz:
Please can you interview Gareth GATES please!!!!

My first instinct was to ask, "Who the hell is Gareth Gates?" but like I tell people to do before asking dumb questions, I looked it up. Now my question is, "Why?" What in the world does a "Pop Idol" have to do with www.ihatemen.com? -- Kim

From Anonymous:
i think a good addition 2 ur site would b REVENGE...hehe

That was already answered above. -- Kim

From Athena:
Have you considered a section where we can ask a gay man for advice? I think in some instances I'd trust a gay guy's opinion over a straight one's. Gay men have better taste anyway!

Sounds good to me. Anyone know a gay man that wants to join the advice team? -- Kim

From LiL:
I know that this site is basically new ... but i suggest putting better graphics and a little more organization. Also the color coordination is clashing. But i still love this site.

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From Julie:
Hey, just an opinion, not that you need it or anything but please can you change the colour of your writing? It really makes a lot of people dizzy. But you know what? Your site rocks. Good, good pick up lines.

Ya think? As I've said several times before, I did not design the site originally and I'm planning on changing the design as soon as I get the content where it needs to be. Would you rather have a "pretty" site with nothing on it or a great site in crappy colors? -- Kim

From Irene, Greece:
I'm writing you to inform you that I cannot run the Voodoo Doll which I downloaded from your site cause a file called VBRUN300.DLL is missing.

VBRUN300.DLL is a windows file, not a game file. If you don't have this file on your computer, you can find it easily online. Try here. -- Kim

From AJ:
I had a great idea for your site! I live in Fort Lauderdale, FL and god knows there are so many jerks that live here too. Well, I thought it would be so wonderful to have a spot where women could post about local men and gossip of the sort. This could work out as a type of "background check" when a girl might have suspiscions about a guy, she might find he has a history of abuse to other women. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I dated a guy who turned out to be a jerk, and I always wished there was someone there to warn me or a way to find out his love history like one would check a criminal record. Anyways, I just thought this would be soooo great. I can already think of at least ten guys I would post on.

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From Lola:
A list where women can name (well, almost) the men who have wronged them and why. I'm sure it'll be wildly popular!!!!!!!!!! I understand the liabilities associated with this, but there are ways around this. The men's indentities could be partially protected by only printing their first names on your page.

Please see above where I explained why we can't identify these men by full name and location. However, if you want to use their first name and tell what they've done to you, submit your stories to the Rants & Raves section.

From Lisa S:
Hi Kim, I love what you've done with the site, it's better all the time. I just wanted to call to your attention the person who keeps posting horrendously disgusting feces-fetish pictures on the public message board. I know it's unmoderated and everything, but I was just wondering if there's a way to maybe ban all pictures or something, because it's really and truly disgusting and out of hand, and the person is only posting the pictures to try and make other people leave. Anyway, keep up the good work with the site!! thanks,

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From Megan:
I love your site. But I am disturbed that the message board is so full of idiot men posting nasty pictures. Can’t these pictures be filtered out or deleted? I am trying to have intelligent discussions, and a few morons are ruining it. I would appreciate it if you could delete offensive material from the message board. Thanks!

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From WWSD:
We really need IP's on this site. I've noticed they have them on ihatewomen.com, and they don't have half the problems we do. I'm sick of the childish imposters and porn being posted by these losers.

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From AA:
Hey. I am a regular on the Ihatemen board and we have a serious problem. Someone named Shawn has been spamming and ruining the board for the past two weeks. I really don't understand why you haven't done anything about it. A member of the brother site has even contacted Network54 about him. Please do everything in your power to keep him off. Thanks.

You don't know how much I hate these message boards. I'd delete them entirely but people seem to like them so I'll over you guys some additional solutions...

(A) We can ban obnoxious posters - Doesn't work because they just come back as someone else so this is basically a waste of time

(B) We can ignore them - Most of these people get bored pretty quickly and move on. Just don't read their posts.

(C) We can get rid of the Public Message Board and just have the Private one -- We don't have these problems on that board.

(D) Someone (not me) can moderate the dang thing - That would be a time consuming VOLUNTEER position requiring someone to approve all posts before letting them through.

You all decide what you want to do and let me know!

 

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