I have been writing on the original "iranian.com" for five years. I never ever had any problem with JJ, even when I wrote that he was a bit "moody". I am sure that JJ agrees. My daughter and mother are Pisces, and both of them are moody!!LOL!!
Anyway, during the last 5 weeks, I have been sending Said Amin emails. A lot of emails, because I had problem with blogging and I needed his help or that of his Admin. He did not respond to ANY of them. Finally, Cyrous Moradi wrote a blog criticizing both JJ and Amin. He attacked Amin for not answering people's emails. So, I wrote a comment to Moradi, saying that it seemed he was not the only one who was ignored by Said Amin (and Moradi did not respond to my comment, but to other people's comments - foreshadowing something.:-)
Today, I saw a comment by Said about some dumb subject such as the marriage of an Iranian to Mr. Kerry's daughter. So, I replied to him."Wow. You have appeared. I thought you were kidnapped..." you know, jokes like that. Then an hour ago, I receive this very hostile comment by him telling me that I am TECHNICALLY CHALLENGED, and that I pose too many questions, much more than ALL the members. I have never ever heard JJ telling people that we pose too many questions. The present iranian.com is so screwed up that twice I spent 2 and a half-three hours editing an article that I had pasted. I saved paragraph after paragraph. When the whole article was published, I clicked on the link just to see if everything was Ok. Well, a few seconds later, I saw before my eyes all the text disappear. Did I say I did this twice? Jeeezz!
Then I realized that I had done nothing wrong, but it was the website's problem. So, I waited for FIVE WEEKS, during which time I asked Said what the problem was and if he was aware of this problem and if he could please fix it. He could have written something like" Thank you for the note, what you are mentioning will be fixed in a month because I'm NOT technically challenged (another foreshadowing. Keep reading, people :-)).
Today, this new Rich (nouvel-arrivant) dude replied to my comment by saying that this time FOR THE SAKE OF Cyrous Moradi (a guy who had criticized him in a blog) he was not going to answer me , and then he began answering me (what's wrong with him?), saying that I , Azadeh, POSED TOO MANY QUESTIONS, more than anyone else on the site, that I was technically challenged and then he threatened me (rather a threat that transpired from his tone) saying that I should stop my JABS. What? Jabs. Quel culot!
I wrote back to him and told him that he failed to apologize to me and he was very rude to me. I asked him "What should I do when there is a problem on your site? Should I shut up? Seriously, I said to him. Seriously. I said instead of being rude to me, why don't you take a class in Farsi (writing and speaking) so that you wouldn't remain LINGUISTICALLY CHALLENEGED. (that's called a cute revenge or CR) :-).
After having noticed his presence on the site, I wrote a short blog with a cartoon of a man whose ears are plugged with money. :-).
Now, first of all, he has banned me from his lousy and primitive website where I have left materials. Secondly, because he doesn't read Farsi, or maybe because he is low-class himself, the Iranian men on that website have found a great place to practice their "Art of insults and dirty words and disgusting expressions" without his being bothered at all.
I have the feeling that Said Amin wants the site to be for men only, and for the men of his own type: Rude, Uncivil.
There are so few females compared to males that one wonders if this is a desired situation. After having insulted me for asking too many questions and calling me technically challenged (which makes me responsible for the non-functioning of his website), he could nott tolerate to be called linguistically challenged (and that in relation to insults by the male members, which he cannot read.)
This Said dude not only does not apologize to me for having ignored me for 5 weeks, he also first makes me responsible for his website's 1001 problems, and then he threatens me not to write the way I am writing. I do know that I AM technically challenged (and will remain so, as I don't like technical stuff related to the creation of website, etc. So, why can't this 20+ guy accept that he is in reality linguistically challenged = Not being able to read Farsi. It seems that this young male-oriented dude doesn't like the truth.
I have the feeling that Said Amin dude does not like women (contrary to JJ :-)). He writes that “this time” (what?) he is not going to answer to my comment for the sake of who? A man by the name of Cyrous Moradi. Does he know Cyrous Moradi? Are they friends, special friends, neighbours? I mean, this is too weird. Because many people made comments on Moradi’s blog and he replied to everyone except me. I see the possibility, just a possibility, that this whole thing was organized (it doesn't take a high IQ to be a jerk :-))
Anyway, I guess I have no choice but to join civilized people such as Orang Gholikhani, Nazy Kaviani, Majid Nafisi, Azarin Sadegh, JJ, and a couple of others. Talking about GOOD LUCK for me on this Valentine's Day 2013, as a result of the Devil’s work on the "sold iranian.com) :-).
Cheers,
Azadeh
Ps. The cartoon is not by me. The words are.
Thank you for this Azadeh! I am very upset that the links to all my old articles on Iranian.com do not work! It is a tragedy of sorts for me. And Said is yet to apologize or explain or really fix the problem. I cannot believe that my life's work, so many years and words, have gone up in the air and that the links to my articles lead to Said's new site which as you so aptly put is terribly maintained. This is an offense not just to the writers some of whom risked much to write for iranian.com as well as to the entire diaspora experience of the period. Iranian.com is a piece of history and should be treated with more deference and without the tyranny of egos or the laziness of derrieres!
Well right before i.com closed shop I wrote a blog called People! Abandon i.com! It will close soon! It was a tongue in cheek blog but most of what I wrote there has come true, even though people were skeptical.
This morning in response to Setareh's comment about old articles being lost in space I was going to find a "cached" link of the 2nd page of my blog where I had written a comment saying those old belogs are "worthless"! Cached means stuff that were "erased" but still available on internet. Nothing is ever erased from internet and some of the most famous scandals have been known because of people "trying" to delete scandlous material!
Anyway, I realized today that the links to old comments are now back online again! Here's the 2nd page of my blog with original comments on it's page one. It's pretty interesting and most of what was said and we thought have come to fruition.
Setareh your prior and after 2007 profile links are below:
http://iranian.com/sabety.html
http://iranian.com/main/member/setareh-sabety.html
I just realized that the prior pages link on the old i.com still works. If you go to the below link which is the archives, you can go back page by page and click on blogs tab and go back page by page. This option and these links were not available before and I just found out about it while looking for links above.
Anyway, the slow pace of the old links working again is very frustrating and both JJ and Said being stubborn and hardheaded don't make it go any easier. They want to make their sites something that it can't be. Both of them don't want us to communicate like before! They've cut off the routes of normal communication though i.com is a bit better.
Here in iroon if someone posts a comment in one of my old blogs I won't know about it. It is slow and we just have to deal with it and hope they can go on and things can get better.
Iranian.com has become a chelokababi where the loudest burps win the most points regardless of how repugnant they are. And everyone knows no woman can match the onion-stinking burp of those dudes.
Esfand jan: Please don't put JJ's and that guy's names in the same sentence. JJ reads books, travels the world and is capable of analyzing a situation. What does the dude know? Matchmaking!!! You know, I can bet that when he was 3 years old, in response to his Baba’s question: "What do you to be when you grow up?" He answered with great enthusiasm: "I want to be a Matchmaker, Baba joon." :-). Using the desperation of thousands of people around the world to make money is simply unethical. One has to be a crook to do that. No serious relationship has come out of these match-making sites. Well, among the 300 million, I have heard of 2 cases. JJ should have thought of someone honest or psychologically balanced when he decided to sell the IranianDotCom. I predict that the new IC will turn into another matchmaking site - possibly for men only :-).
Meybokhor: Yes, you're absolutely right.
Azadeh jaan below is a link of an interview that JJ did with Said back in 2004. I do know that these internet matchmaking sites, be it Iranian or American like match dot com or whatever, have horror stories about charlatans which obviously as an owner you get involved with it a lot, so it's not as easy of a business that it might seem! Anyway below is a link and may shed some light and as much as JJ reads and travels a lot he is stubborn and sometimes his stubborness (like in the old i.com) does cost all of us a lot!
http://iranian.com/Diaspora/2004/November/Personals/index.html
For God's - or Evolution's - sake stop nagging, Azadeh; and start writing something good, positive and useful for the human race; and not just for those dudes you hold responsible for all world's ills. Can you?
naazer:
I don't know you. Introduce yourself. If you were intelligent, you would have known that I write for everyone, as these sites are open to the public. And next time you call me Dr. Azad before giving me condescending advice.
It would not be fair for someone who uses a pen name - like me - to respond to your "intellegent" reaction accordingly. Suffice it to say that this is not something - condescending or not - "good, positive and useful for the human race."
Dear Azadeh, it was obvious what was to happen to the iranian site after all of our material that we had contributed over the years disappeared overnight. I simply removed iranian from my bookmarks and moved on. No grudges. Just not my cup of tea. I am a bit disappointed that this site too has the same look and feel, instead of the feel of a, how to put it, more "serious" site. It's too gimmicky for my taste but oh well. At least I know I can trust JJ to pull through.
Dear Jamh:
Thank you for your comment. My reason for continuing with iranianDotCom was to have all my materials to be on IC site. Someone had said that the old materials that were archived would be out of archives at some point- and I believed that. Esfand is right when he says that both JJ and Amin were negligent and callous about contributors' materials. Both were irresponsible. However, JJ is a journalist, a man who wants to know and learn, and quite transparent by temperament. Unlike the charlatan Amin, he values many things besides money; he is generally respectful of women and has always said that he wanted more women to participate on his site.
In the Machmaker's website, I also missed your poems and those of Majid Nafisi, and probably much other stuff. No site can be perfect, but at least JJ et al are putting at our disposal a functional website. For instance, here, I can save my article while writing, in the "Matchmaking site for men only" which is very primitive, I had to write in the title: "I am in the process of writing. Please come back late."
After several months, Said Amin has been incapable of offering a decent website to people. And it is very interesting to see that he suddenly and out of the blue called me "Technically Challenged". He was obviously projecting his lack of technical abilities on me; forgetting that writers and poets and other contributors are NOT supposed to be technically skillful. He was afraid that I or someone else calls him "technically challenged", so he decided to launch a "pre-emptive attack!" LOL!
Yes, like you, I do trust JJ to pull through no matter what technical problems we have.
Another puzzling thing I have noticed in Iranian men: the less creative they are, the more they want to have the last word in every exchange. Just look at the guy above your post "naazer". He *had to* write back "*something* to me, no matter how meaningless, because he needed to have the last word. If I reply to him, he would keep answering.
Anyway, it is an honour for me to be in the same site with you and other creative people. It seems that creativity is the enemy number one of incivility and aggression.
Cheers,
Azadeh
Azadeh jaan
Welcome to the club !. I believe now you know why I don't visit iranian.com any more & like a site which calls my country Iroon.:-)
cheers
Ebi jan:
You and Naghi and the rest of the team, please write here for only 7 days, a week. If you don't like it, well you just leave. This is the first time I hear the word "Iroon". It must be slang from some parts of Iran or some layers of the slociety. Siince I realized that this SAID AMIN guy is into Online Matchmaking (= trafficking of women), I have much more respect for JJ. No wonder the dude mistreated me. All the Johns are like that; a man who gets rich by helping to trafficking women would never behave better than this guy.
Ebi jaan:
I want each of you non-writing writers on Facebook to write one piece for iroon.com. Any kind, Anything. I have asked ou rbeloved Tissa to write as well. By writing on this site, we do not allow the site of a man who is part of the trafficking of women via his matchmaking sites to continue deceiving people.
Said Amin has the intention of keeping his site for men only, to be able to provide them with something that they want: from Russia and other places.
I think enoughj is enough. What is more important to you? That Iran should not be called "Iroon", or that Iranian criminals like Said Amin should not succeed in geting t rich by the trafficking of Iranian girls and women inside the countrhy through their fraudulent Matchmaking sites?
You'll be the judge.
Azadeh
Esfand jaan:
Thanks for the link to the “Revealing Interview” between a Charlatan and JJ who seems to have watched the film “Godfather” too many times. The title of the interview would have been more appropriate if it were “: Adam, Steve and Amin” as our charlatan Bezan-Bahaador likes to be surrounded my men only, as, for instance, he didn’t want to be nasty with me FOR THE SAKE OF A MAN WHO HAD INSULTED HIM (he enjoys to be put down by other men, because he loves them too much. But he targets women as the cause of HIS BEING “technically challenged” by asking too many question.”
JJ calls the pathetic interview with this Charlatan, “Interview with a pioneer in the internet personals business”. “Pioneer” in what? “Internet Personals Business?” Well, none of us were born yesterday. We all know what type of men or 18 year-old boys run these types of websites that exploit people’s loneliness and desperation for love and companionship. They are called Crooks, Charlatans, and Scums of the Earth.
JJ says: Today IranianPersonalDotCom is by far the most professional and successful site of its kind. And he has expanded to other ethnic markets as well.
JJ? Do you know that billionaire R. Allen Stanford was sentenced to more than a century in prison for defrauding thousands of people of their life savings? IranianPersonalDotCom was as successful as any fraudulent enterprise, because it gave false promises to desperate people and defrauded them of a lot of money, plus worse than that: collaborating in the world industry of the trafficking of women. Do you think an honest and educated man with solid morality would have banned me from his site and have kept the lumen males? I think not.
JJ says that this Charlatan’s “influence on the Iranian online community has been tremendous.” Really? By teaching others how to get rich quickly by selling Russian women to American pimps? I know a thing or two about the enslavement of Russian and East European women via Matchmaking websites and have also written about it on the old iranian.com.
JJ says: He (the crook) has been instrumental in transforming the dating habits of a significant segment of Iranians, and, more important than that, he is one of the few who has developed a financially successful Iranian site
Are you serious, JJ? Who cares about the Iranians’ “dating habits” when our best sons and daughter are dying, body and soul in Evin and Kahrizak and other prisons in Iran? And worse than that, when naive women are cxaught by the crimina friends of Said Amin.
And “he has developed a financially successful Iranian site”? Well, let me tell you that the sons and daughters of the Islamic Fascists in Iran have developed a more financially successful site in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada.
Then the Charlatan talks about his low IQ for being capable of studying Law and becoming a lawyer. And he adds: “I tried to break away from corporate life (LOL. Does he call Match-making sites that do collaborate with the kidnapping of women and girls around the world “Corporate Life?”
You know, Esfand jaan: I cannot go on, as I had to go to the washroom and vomit when I read this interview. I just say one thing: Tell everyone not to use any Personals Website, out of respect for girls and women the types of Said Amin and his likes help kidnapping, selling and forcing into prostitution in the USA, Canada, and all Western countries. These women are from Iran, Turkey, Poland, Russia, and South-East Asia.
Enough is enough!
One question for the technically not-challenged Said Amin:
How many technically adept people such as you takes to make a one-to-one correspondent between user ID's of the old site and the new chelokababi -- and belonging to the same actual person?
Anyone with a bit of IT knowledge knows that it should not be such a big deal. A couple of SQL commands to merge the two databases and voila you have it! So my guess is, this hurdle is a calculated move to eradicate the real and rich content of the old IC. After all, the burping dudes who appeared around the start of 2008 are neither interested nor have anything to recover or lose.
Going through their rantings of the past 5 years, one can see that everyday it's the same thing, same hatred, same vulgarity, same dictates. What then if you deprive them of 90% of their material? The remaining 10% is still the same.
As for others, any decent site owner/dministrator would have at least established a temporary ftp server for former members to download own material.
I raise my hat for Said Amin. He has made the ultimate match making site: Setting up the worst elements of the Iranian society all together under one umbrella to practice their hatred orgy.
It is time for all self respecting and literary Iranians to leave the site all together before further humiliation.