Live Support Chat Removed

The Live Support Chat feature has been taken off my website. For those of you wondering why, here is a general breakdown of how people were using the live support.

In total, I received 82 incoming chat requests.

31 (37.8%) were from friends that had nothing website-related to talk about, and could have instant messaged me instead.

20 (24.4%) disconnected without saying anything.

18 (22.0%) were from people that called me gay, commented about my sexuality or appearance, stated how horrible my website was without justification, or asked for sexual favors.

10 (12.2%) were legitimate questions or comments about my website.

2 (2.4%) made death threats (guess who has their IP address).

1 (1.2%) said he dialed the wrong number.

The live chat wasn’t the only thing being abused, there were people leaving pointless offline messages as well. In total, I received 148 offline messages via the support interface.

94 (63.5%) were from the same person saying "R U GAY?" over and over again.

18 (12.2%) were friends talking about things irrelevant to my website that could have emailed me, left an offline instant message, or contacted me through a social networking website.

15 (10.1%) were spam or advertising for Viagra.

12 (8.1%) were from other people that called me gay, said my website sucked, or asked how long my penis was.

4 (2.7%) were death threats.

3 (2.0%) had to do with x10Hosting, which should have been posted as a support ticket on the official x10Hosting support site.

1 (0.7%) was a legitimate question related to my wesite.

1 (0.7%) was a link to child pornography on 4Chan. Poor girl doesn’t even know what she’s doing to herself.

Don’t expect live support chat to ever come back.

 

x10Hosting Raffle Results (December 31, 2009)

Update: This video was made back when I used to be a community staff member at x10Hosting. I have since then left x10Hosting because of internal conflict among the administrators. My story of my time at and departure from x10Hosting is outlined in an anecdote on my website.

http://parkzer.com/articles/thetruthaboutx10hosting

This is the verification video for the x10Hosting raffle that took place on Thursday, December 31, 2009.

WINNERS:

Grand Prize ($5 Gift Card): Sharky
First Prize (1000 Credits): leafypiggy
Second Prize (500 Credits): leafypiggy
Third Prize (200 Credits): jtwhite

Consolation Prizes (50 credits each): Sharky, Christopher, Christopher, leafypiggy, leafypiggy, jtwhite, Sharky, Sharky, Sharky, XGI Admin

 

My parents went after-Christmas shopping today and bought this.

Five Minutes in My Head by Adam Parkzer - Sunday, December 27, 2009

It’s popcorn.

Apparently, the cashier didn’t know that it was popcorn, saw the Miller Lite logo, and thought it was beer. Their store policy requires manager approval for alcoholic beverage transactions to be made after age verification. She didn’t ask for my dad’s identification because he’s obviously older than 21 years, so she called her manager over right away so the transaction could be done.

I’m sure it was a genuine mistake, but how does someone make a mistake thinking that beer comes in a giant aluminum cylindrical container, 10 inches in height and 8 inches in diameter? o__O

 

I think we got over a foot of snow today, because there was about a foot on the driveway that I had to clear off. Luckily, thanks to our new too-powerful-for-its-own-good snowblower, I was able to finish the job in about 25 minutes.

Five Minutes in My Head by Adam Parkzer - Saturday, December 16, 2009

Five Minutes in My Head by Adam Parkzer - Saturday, December 16, 2009

 

I spent the day at the family business today. Except for when I went to eat, go to the bathroom, or find out what someone was complaining about, this is essentially what I saw all day (a view from the chair in the office):

Five Minutes in My Head - Thursday, December 24, 2009

 

I found some MORE BOOTS.

Five Minutes in My Head by Adam Parkzer - Wednesday, December 23, 2009

They’re a lot more comfy than the boots I found three days ago. And they don’t have odd marks on the tips.

And I think they’re steel-toed, so I can go around kicking people’s shins and not hurt my toes.

 

So I finally opened up the new snowblower that we bought, took it out of the box, and assembled it.

Five Minutes in My Head by Adam Parkzer - Tuesday, December 22, 2009

I used it to clear our driveway, and I think that’s the fastest I’ve ever cleared the driveway in my life. I think I finished in like 20 minutes.

That thing’s too powerful for its own good.

 

I’ve been pretty busy lately trying to catch up on everything at once, and haven’t had a chance to blog. But now that I’m on winter break for the rest of the year and the first few days of next year, I’ll try to blog everyday with something I accomplished that day.

Today, I was digging through one of the storage containers in the garage and found my old brown boots from last year. After I pulled them out and took a look at them, I concluded that there were rats in our storage container.

Five Minutes in My Head by Adam Parkzer - Sunday, December 20, 2009

What else would leave marks like that on my shoes?