The Reluctant Blogger

So, there’s a company listed on JobVent.com called First Investors Corporation. It seems to be (from the comments) one of these investment companies that gets people to register for their series 6 or 7, and then puts them on a mostly commission based salary to sell investments. Some people are great salesmen and are into that sort of thing. Others, clearly, are not. And the reviews reflect both sides of the story, and it has remained, at least in my opinion, fairly balanced.

Of course, like many other companies on JobVent.com, reviews have been removed because they violated any number of our policies. The same applies to comments about those reviews. There’s no explicit policy against it, but comments that threaten to expose users of JobVent.com have to be removed. Some of the comments stated that identities would be exposed. And based on how JobVent.com is built, that’s simply an impossibility. Any “Exposing” of user identities would simply be conjecture.

Anyhow, this one particular person making threats kept doing it. So they had to have their account blocked. This is the email I received for my troubles:

Hello Venter (another name for Complainer),
So you decided to block me because I did to you what you do to others.  You really are a pathetic loser.  Guess what?  In just 40 or so short days, I will be launching a site that will expose all of those complaining losers on your site.  Know what else? I will be advertising on your site and there is nothing you can do about it.  That’s right……hire an army because you will need it.  I will be worming my way around LoserVent.com.  In the mean time, I will just create unique e-mail accounts and toy with you.
James

After the laugher subsided, I tried to come up with an adequate response, but failed. This guy references a site called LoserVent.com. That’s an unregistered domain name. I was tempted to register it myself, but this guy isn’t really worth my $10. Besides, he’s apparently going to advertise on JobVent.com, which if he goes about it properly will net JobVent.com at least $100 or so. Otherwise, his claim that he is going to advertise on JobVent.com and “there is nothing you can do about it” holds no merit whatsoever. The best he can do is post a review or comment with a new account referencing his site. And those, of course, will be summarily removed. Why, exactly do I need to “hire an army”?

Since his email was received, 20 or so accounts have been created. None of them by him.

This is one the rare cases where an email to Venter@JobVent.com is not going to get a response. This email doesn’t deserve one.

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