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I am migrating my original Mayfair Witches Parlor to its new home here and on the new site attached to this one. It's a Google site and is where you will end up when you select from one of the topics on the Home page of this Chronicles site.
Why?
Because.
Well, yes, there is a reason. And a story or two, one of which definitely bears repeating. Before I do that, though, let me make something clear.
How many times have I had to issue a reminder that I do NOT run the ads on the Original Parlor or any other platform I'm on? That's because I don't. I'm not monetized and never have been. You need to keep in mind that my online presence began at a time long before monetizing on social media became a thing, back when monetizing was largely restricted to established merchants and so on. Considering the topic of my site, monetization is not something you just go and do. Not when you're talking about someone else's work.
Now, my own words, my own commentary, is mine. I've done a lot of the design of my site in recent years. Also mine. And I've created graphics by means other than AI that I had to create basically from scratch--mine. But monetizing? Tricky.
And I have never been comfortable with the idea of just throwing some kind of monetization on my site or social media because business is business. My discomfort has to do with the ethics of the situation, not because I have anything against the Almighty Advertising business model.
It is also why I was not amused by recent attempts to try to inject tags onto my site to basically poach its data and even use pages of it as landing pages in an ad campaign I did not authorize by someone who did not have any permission whatsoever to do what they did.
Here's where things got weird enough to bear repeating.
The same whoever kept injecting and injecting and injecting their tags into my site (there was a tag manager there somewhere) one page at a time. My web host doesn't need to do it that way; they have tags themselves. I kept trying to fight them off but then, in the last few days, I was fed up with it.
I decided to go ahead and continue migrating my site content to the new site--basically, this one--and whoever was doing this, well, sucks to be them. And yes, I said why. Never mind where. It gets pretty clear when the site is first backed up so thoroughly, you'd think it was on its way to the Library of Congress or something.
So.
The web host of the Original Parlor somehow got wind of it (how, I do not know since I'm not sure they even have humans employed there anymore) and took a toy away from them. The nitwits were determined to continue injecting tags, though. They started trying to inject them into the site builder!
That just isn't done. Normally.
If you've ever built a website in the classic way, you probably have some idea what I mean when I say, "site builder". Yes, they actually tried to tag the site builder.
What I'd like to know is who shoved my actual tag onto a much smaller site I have and how. As for why, I think I can guess. The tag on that site was the only one left with advertising signals still on. I say "was" because...well, that tag's not with us anymore. I sorta deleted it.
I had a container for a tag manager that wasn't in use, or so I thought. People, the word "Atari" has not been in my personal orbit since I played Pac Man on an actual Atari--over 40 years ago.
That container's not with us anymore, either.
Why was this being done? Why did this entity seem to be so determined to get their hands on my website? Because whoever they are, they were DETERMINED to somehow exploit the site. I'm sure there is a lot of traffic I don't see, but I don't need clues dropping as to the site's true...value in such an underhanded, dishonest and flat out illegal manner.
If I want to monetize something, I will. But I will not monetize something because some nameless, faceless stranger who can't say one word to me directly thinks I should and if I don't, they will.
That's pretty galling. Someone refuses to so much as engage with me or the site content openly but thinks they have the right to just shove their tags on the site for their own monetary gain.
If I choose not to monetize certain content, that's my right. And I have never monetized the Parlor. Hijacking my site data or throttling it is not going to get me to monetize something. When site data, reach, traffic, engagement are throttled, that doesn't encourage reasonable people to throw money at it. Why would anyone in their right mind throw money at something if there is absolutely nothing to show it's worth the investment?
What I've seen in the past few weeks has been very telling.
I'm more than sure you've noticed that I don't have fan fiction anywhere around here. Why? For one thing, I just don't like it. I've become more aware of some of the finer details concerning a fan fiction fiasco that erupted sometime around 2000 and refreshed my memory on some other controversies over the years.
There are some distinct dynamics that I recognized immediately. That's because those particular dynamics are not unique to the fiascos I'm referring to here. I've had some pretty traumatic experiences with those dynamics myself. You cannot imagine just how traumatic, both directly and indirectly.
I hope to God whatever has happened here is not the result of anything like that.
Either way, it has been very, VERY revealing.
So...
Does this mean the Parlor is leaving once and for all or that I'm packing it in because it convinced me that I just MUST be hated or something stupid like that?
Ohhh, HEEEEEEELL NO!!
Am I finally going to make the pay-to-play model happy and monetize?
No, but cult membership fees go into effect next month.
Oh, whoever you are that keeps trying to tag my website's pages and use them as landing pages for your ads: first of all, that is not allowed anywhere on my platform. That's MY rule as well as a platform rule, y'all. If you still think you're entitled to just do whatever you want but you're not smart enough to look in Tante Oscar's fridge first, well, don't say I didn't warn ya.
