Welcome to Gaia! :: View User's Journal | Gaia Journals

So it's getting near Christmas... I haven't been able to celebrate it in many a year.. I don't get that excitement the night before because I won't have a morning filled with presents to wake up to.. Not even a few dollars.. My family hasn't been able to afford it and we haven't done anything for years..

Because of this I stopped doing Christmas on Gaia a while ago.. Then my friends started getting me gifts so I did the same thing, and in the end I actually gave up more than I got and because I had to make more money so I could afford the gifts I actually made a lot more money just in the few weeks before Christmas than. In total if I remember correctly the presents totaled close to 2mil, maybe 1.9mil. Not a lot by todays standards (RIGs have really driven up the prices of everything on Gaia, among other things Gaia has done) but it was a lot then.. And so it was nice.. But soon after Christmas, before New Years even they decided to ban me. I appealed, nothing.. They claimed I was botting.. I may be mechanical in how I do things but I'm no bot.. I click things many times, I click the same spot usually (almost always out of habit), I sell things fast for prices that are even (I'm ocd, and only on rare occasions will things not have a price that ends in 000, 250, 500, or 750. (I originally only did 000 and 500 but I decided 250 was okay, and since 250 was okay 750 had to be also.. So everything adds up nicely to make 000..) Only on rare occasions will I add some random number to the end just for fun or as an inside joke no one will get but myself.. I did things systematically.. But no, they decided that I, a warm-blooded emotional human being was a cold mechanical bot and that I should be banned. So since they I have not celebrated Christmas on Gaia and I came on a lot less.. I was revisiting when zOMG came around, it was a great game.. But by then my spirit had just been crushed.. Last year and the previous year some people actually gave me presents despite the fact that they knew they would get nothing in return, and it made me happy.. And I was going to return the favor this year, not just to my friends who gave me things and not just to my friends but to anyone else I could find who may of needed it. (The movie Millions always kind of inspired me..) So I worked hard again, making a lot in a very short time over a few accounts (over a few accounts because after making too much gold once and not getting it fixed I'm more than a little paranoid.. Plus being systematic I had various accounts do various things, and also lastly these accounts had no friends because.. Well, I make a lot less gold on this account because I'm busy talking to friends to be frank.. sweatdrop ) But in the end Gaia stopped me.. So I guess that's that then... Gaia has killed what little Christmas I have not once, but twice now.. To express my anger let me say this.. If I was living in California now Gaia's headquarters they'd still be getting their Christmas present.. But know that they would of been happier without.