MsBigBad E-mail To Lisa

Hello Lisa. Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you I've been working alot more latley! I wanted to thank you for my review, but I also wanted to clear some things up.  I am a reviewer so I'm not going to act all immature and go off on you or anything, but there are some issues I'd like to clear up. Also you gave me some really good advice and I have already started applying it to the site.
 
The first thing I want to address is the biographies. I wrote every single bio myself I have never one copy and pasted any content on my site. i am very picky about plagerism! I still have the notebook paper I wrote them out on. The websites I listed at the bottom of the bios were used for reference only and nothing was copied from the sites. I am going to be making the sources hyperlinked as soon as I get done writing this e-mail. So i'd like it if you would please clear this up in your review before you post it on your site.
 
I also want to point out that the gallery and the fiction archive are extensions of the site not a whole different site themselves. These are run on different applications with MySQL servers so that those sections will be more organized and easier to browse.
 
I'm going to answer a few of your questions so I'm putting your text in dividers.
 

What’s the difference between a web-miss, a co-web-miss and a news poster? Surely you all contribute to the site? Aren’t you all just co-owners? None of you seem to be called Courtney. That worries me

 
There are major differences in the jobs.
I (Courtney who is called MsBigBad on the net and to all my visitors) am the web-miss who owns the site and does 98% of the work.
 
Jules is my co-webmiss which means she has certain administrative abilities that most staff members never have such as admin access to the fiction and gallery as well as partial ftp access.
 
Nati just has access to cutenews, which is the program that I use to post updates and news. She doesn't even have full access to this program. She just posts the news for me two or three times a week.
 

Why do the ‘of the moment’ buttons have to be so big? I mean, with so much going on can’t you have some smaller buttons? Ditto for the ‘we support’ buttons.

 
The of the Month buttons are actually a lot smaller than they used to be. I used to have a section for each one which took up twice as much room. I do want these to be eye catching though because I work very hard on the awards for them. The we support banners are provided by an entirely different website than mine so the button sizes are random.
 

Unfortunately downloading loads of videos is not part of my internet plan and I don’t feel like wasting my monthly downloads on these. Sorry.

 
Downloading is not the only option that I have available on this page. I also have youtube links so that you may watch them live instead of having to download them. I'm also curious as to what internet provider you have. I've never heard of limited downloads. And are you on dial-up as well? I've never had any complaints about loading times or freezing. I even have the header image cut into 12 different images to help improve loading time. It also displays fine on 1024x768 and 800x600 screen resolutions. I know not everyone has this screen size but the majority does.
 

The Graphics/Wallpapers, Icons and Signs are all links to another site. I can’t really include these in my review without including those whole entire other sites in on my review and I don’t think its fair to review all 3 of your sites in one review.

 
Again these are not different sites they are on the same site. these are displayed on my copermine gallery which is an application.
 

None of the essays are written by you? I suppose its good that you have gotten permission, but its still kind of pointless for me to read them considering they are someone else’s work.

 
These are fan submissions.
 

If round one of the caption contest is already closed, why have all the other entries and the image and everything still up? Just have the announcement of the winner, but remove everything below it?! I mean, the contest is over, so what’s the point? Really, seeing as the contest is over and the viewer can’t enter, what is the point in the whole page being here?

The page is there because a new caption contest will be opening in a day or so. As soon as that contest is started the previous posts will go to the archive. I keep the previous contest up so that others can see what the winning caption was for and also what the winning caption beat out.
 

The crossword could also have been good, except unfortunately nothing showed up there. Broken images and empty coming soon pages are really testing on ones temper

Did you notice if you have java turned on? The crossword is designed to work with java. It's an applet. Also there should be no broken images since I check every page of my site for broken links once a week. This must have something to do with your connection timing out.
 

The squeeze the sneak game froze my computer more than the rest of your slow loading flashy javascripty content. You didn’t write this script, it doesn’t work properly, its messy and I don’t see why you have this on the site. Personally, I would just delete it!

 
Once again I haven't had any complaints about the loading time or any errors with this game.  
 

That said, I really love how you are going on and on and on and on about how everyone must give you a million links back and credit you and not redistribute and all that. It gets so boring for me to read the same empty disclaimers. Here, you have acknowledged that you made thes but not continued this with a whole long spiel about how you think everyone wants to steal from you! Its great!

 I have no idea where you got this idea from. The only thing I ask for is credit if someone uses something I make, which seems fair to me. I don't want a million link backs only my due credit. You sound very harsh here and I'm not quite sure if you were just in a bad mood when you wrote this or what. I write reviews as well and I am honest with people, but I'm never this rude.
 

Your credits aren’t good enough. I was hoping they would be better, sorry. You haven’t once credited the original image sources for all the images you have used all over the site. This just isn’t good enough at all. Sorry, but you need to do a lot better than that.

 
There is no way I am going to be able to link every single place I got a picture from. I have thousands of pictures in the gallery alone. I do have a disclaimer in the footer of my site which appears on all pages.
 
It reads like this:
 

© 2008 Love Unchained I do not own Harry Potter and am in no way affiliated with J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. or Bloomsbury Publishing.
No copyright infringement intended. All intellectual properties within this website belong to their respective owners.
Layout and coding © 2007 Speak! Designs. All rights reserved.

Why do you have an affiliates page when its already on the sidebar? Don’t double up! Its a waste of time for your viewer!

The affiliates on my sidebar are only my top affiliates meaning that they are listed on every page of my site and I on thiers. The affiliates page is a listing of all my affiliates. This kind of question makes me wonder how many fansites you go to. And I don't mean that in a mean way, it's just an odd statement. 
 

I don’t understand a lot of your rules for affiliates! What happens if a prospective affiliate goes to the trouble of linking you but you don’t want to affiliate? Isn’t that just a waste of time!? What’s HQ? Apparently a site must be HQ to be a top affiliate?

If an affiliate links me and I do not accept they can take the link down. Many affiliates have a pending affiliates section were these sites can be listed. This is a very common way of affiliating.

HQ means high quality. Which means they must be well established and/or have a decent layout and very few to no ads.

Sorry this ended up being so long, but I would appreciate it if you would consider everything I've pointed out here. I would really like some changes to be made to my review before you post it on your site.

Thanks, MsBigBad