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Since a lot of PEGym'ers are also members of Dick.net, I thought I would start a thread about what might be going on with that site. I hope this is not a conflict of interest for PEGym's owner, since so many of us are or were members of both sites. I just thought people would be interested in knowing, and perhaps others have more information as it develops.
Two days ago, if you tried to go to, or sign in a Dick.net you were redirected to a YouTube video of an extra-large, manic, man recording "his last visit" with, apparently his mental health doctor. It was accusational, and seemed like a confrontation, but mostly a garbled mess.
You could try every which way of getting to Dick.net’s sign-in page, to no avail, always redirecting to the incomprehensible video.
People started leaving angry comments on it, assuming this guy had just hacked the site to get attention for his YouTube channel, and his "new career as a visionary entertainer."
As the angry comments piled up, others noticed that if you expanded the video's "About" to see all the info the poster had written about the video, it included info about how we could support his new career, including a long list of domain names that he is selling, which included Dick.net and RateARod. Not good news for the members, especially those that paid for VIP status.
Many more messages ensued, especially from people who frequented the busy chat/cam room there, exchanging contact info, lamenting, and more angry messages, now assuming that this character was most likely "Dick Hunter", the infamously inattentive owner of Dick.net and RateARod.
Speculation ensued with possible scenarios: The dude went off his meds, and off his rocker, and pulled the plug on dick.net on his way out? Maybe he has it all backed up, and really is trying to sell it intact? Or, wiped it clean just to sell the domain name?
Today, the video was removed along with his YouTube channel... I'm imagining YouTube got hundreds of complaints about it, but perhaps he removed them himself. How he would be promoting the sale of his domains is anyone guess. And, why he would kill it just to sell the name seems completely insane and sociopathic.
So, my guess is that it is gone. A sad conclusion of a thriving community with a few thousand very active members. A single owner destroys a whole community and all their profile's content, pics, videos, blogs, and worst of all, their “Friend” connections, once again.
Respect to the owner here who shares administrative duties, and always has a sharp panel of Moderators here!
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Two days ago, if you tried to go to, or sign in a Dick.net you were redirected to a YouTube video of an extra-large, manic, man recording "his last visit" with, apparently his mental health doctor. It was accusational, and seemed like a confrontation, but mostly a garbled mess.
You could try every which way of getting to Dick.net’s sign-in page, to no avail, always redirecting to the incomprehensible video.
People started leaving angry comments on it, assuming this guy had just hacked the site to get attention for his YouTube channel, and his "new career as a visionary entertainer."
As the angry comments piled up, others noticed that if you expanded the video's "About" to see all the info the poster had written about the video, it included info about how we could support his new career, including a long list of domain names that he is selling, which included Dick.net and RateARod. Not good news for the members, especially those that paid for VIP status.
Many more messages ensued, especially from people who frequented the busy chat/cam room there, exchanging contact info, lamenting, and more angry messages, now assuming that this character was most likely "Dick Hunter", the infamously inattentive owner of Dick.net and RateARod.
Speculation ensued with possible scenarios: The dude went off his meds, and off his rocker, and pulled the plug on dick.net on his way out? Maybe he has it all backed up, and really is trying to sell it intact? Or, wiped it clean just to sell the domain name?
Today, the video was removed along with his YouTube channel... I'm imagining YouTube got hundreds of complaints about it, but perhaps he removed them himself. How he would be promoting the sale of his domains is anyone guess. And, why he would kill it just to sell the name seems completely insane and sociopathic.
So, my guess is that it is gone. A sad conclusion of a thriving community with a few thousand very active members. A single owner destroys a whole community and all their profile's content, pics, videos, blogs, and worst of all, their “Friend” connections, once again.
Respect to the owner here who shares administrative duties, and always has a sharp panel of Moderators here!
A/B
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