Important Information Regarding Adoption Please read before continuing!!Every day I have to delete about half of the forms I get because they are missing vital info such as name, email, or website URL. I can understand if you don't want information about you floating around the internet, but all form input is kept 100% PRIVATE. So not completing the form wastes my time and yours. You must understand that, besides other important cyber-business, emails, and several other websites, I have a life. Not a very exciting one, but the time I have to spend going through Irinath's forms is often wasted on people who don't have a website or didn't include their email address. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE complete the form! If for some reason you don't have information for every feild, don't even bother submitting. Sorry to sound rude, but it's very frustrating to deal with these kind of things everyday despite the fact that I try to urge against it. Another thing I've been getting a LOT of are people with incomplete/pointless sites. Please wait till your site is done or almost done before submitting. After that, I'll be happy to accept your adoption request. Let me elaborate a bit on pointless sites. I'll start with an example. Remember that episode of the Simpsons where Homer starts his own little gossip site and calls himself Mr. X? Well eventually he's taken off to this island of people who know too much and hilarity ensues blahblahblah. In the beginning of the episode, the Simpsons have been connnected to the internet and Homer explores the Web, being easily amused by a "Dancing Jesus" animation. Soon he starts his own website, basically a collection of stolen animations and gifs with a little jingle playing in the background. Anyway Lisa comments about how his site is unoriginal and he's not offering the web anything new, just already-copyrighted images. And soon, Mr. X is born. Where was I? Oh yes, Homer's site is an example of about three fourths of the site submissions to Irinath's that I recieve. So many people have these kinds of sites, with just a million gifs they've taken from other webpages and slapped on their own. (Most of the time they're direct linked, too. Don't even get me started on direct linkers.) Or I see these pages like "Hi, my name's Fred and I live in California. I like to play soccer. I'd like to make a shout out to my friend Ashley. Hey, how's it going babe! I'll see ya next weekend at the party! Remember the thing with the muffins at lunch? That was so funny! (inside joke lol)" Okay, I understand that you people are overcome with excitement because you have webspace and all, but these kinds of pages are basically virtual dumpsters and they waste my time every single day when I go online. Yes, this has a point. When I say "You must have a website" in the rules, it means several things. Number one, it means that it is a complete--or at least mostly complete--website. Number two, that it is a website with real, original content that has something people on the web want. And number three, that it is an existent website. I won't be too picky, but I'll click delete on worthless submissions faster than you can say "Irinath." Everytime I have to go to a site that isn't finished or has no valuable content, it wastes time that I could use replying to a submission whose site is one of those rare ones that took the creator a virtual eternity to complete and deserves to have one of my hatchlings fair and square. The dragons do not like the be cramped up on hard drives waiting to be put on a site that will never be finished nor do they want to be surrounded by barrelfuls of pointless/confusing ramblings or stolen animations. As you can see this is something that REALLY bothers me. (Took a little longer than I'd anticipated. -_-;) Please think before you submit! Kudos to all of you who care enough to take the time to read this message. Thank you, and may Irinath never bite your head off. ~From the Irinath's Dragon Adoptions team, Kousei Finniks, webmaster/owner Tatsuno Shihara, founder/artist Adopt a hatchling |
