When I joined the sweeps site in 2005, I fell in love with the site. Most of the prizes were geared toward adults and the forms were simple. Shortly after joining I submitted some sweeps and received a note from OLS informing me that the sweeps were run by known spammers, unbeknownst to me at the time. They then threatened to ban me if I submitted any more sweeps, even though this is part of what my premium membership entails. As rude as I thought it was, I said, fine, why share anyway and up the competition, even though it would’ve been more reasonable and polite to simply delete any sweeps they didn’t feel belonged there. That’s what they do all the time anyway. And of course, sweeps that generate all kinds of spam such as survey sites have always been allowed to be submitted. Sweeping at OLS has caused me to get roughly 150 emails a day.

Except for one time when I had trouble logging in, all my requests and comments have been ignored.

Around 2007 I noticed a sudden rise in hard-work sweeps. Essay, recipe, video, photo, and other contests of this type started popping up by the dozens. I said to myself then, “Wow, one could just go out and get a job and work just as hard and get PAID for it!” So OLS was changing, becoming much more work than fun.

About a year ago they went from bad to worse and now the site is filled with hundreds of bloggy sweeps each day where you must leave comments or reviews of various types that is way too much work for the odds of winning what’s mostly piddly stuff. Blog/comment sweeps are not governed by any type of laws, are often rigged, and provide a goldmine of personal information for spammers/scammers.

On top of this, OLS has turned into a real mommy/social network. Over half of the prizes now are for moms/kids. Well, I’m not a mom and I didn’t join OLS for “friends.”

The MODS are often rude, deleting comments that are totally appropriate to the sweeps and that are not the least bit offensive in any way.

Not willing to work so hard just to be at risk of being scammed and spammed any more than I already have been, and since I don’t need an endless supply of designer burp cloths, diaper bags, pacifiers, baby clothes, breast pumps, cribs and maternity clothes anyway, I can say that I definitely will NOT be renewing my membership at the end of the year.

Understandably, many have complained numerous times and have asked that the simple task of segregating the comment sweeps be done. But OLS doesn’t care about its paying members and customer satisfaction. OLS simply bans those who would like to get the service they’re supposed to be getting or tells them to simply submit sweeps of their own liking. I have never been banned myself, but I no longer use the site anyway. Maybe once they start losing enough members/money, they’ll start caring.

For many months now there’s been a message on the homepage saying: Major OLS Upgrade Coming Soon. Yet nothing has changed. I would bet every penny I’ve got that it’s only there as a ploy to try to shut people up who are sick of the crap that’s been going on there. OLS has never changed anything in the last 4 years other than to allow members to use avatars, post Blogs and pictures, and add each other as friends.

As soon as the economy picks up, I will be sweeping at another site that cares about its members and weeds out all the potentially dangerous, piddly junk sweeps that takes so much time and effort for next to nothing in return.

That above, which you just read, is what I submitted on a blog someone set up that is trying to bring to light the ongoing and worsening problems with OLS.

After posting my two cents I read the blog in more depth as far as the pros and cons of SA and OLS. It’s so true too, from all I’ve seen and heard. OLS’s owner, Brent, really has had some shit to answer for. Everything from BBB complaints to tax evasion. He favors MODS and allows them, along with himself of course, to ban people arbitrarily. He fails to give refunds to those who are due them, and they also mentioned his bullshit upgrade promises, too.

Not much else going on other than the fact that we’re getting slammed with rain. It’s poured all day and night so far. Just when we think it’s done till the fall, the sky’s pissing rain down on us like crazy!

The way my body loses weight is definitely connected to my cycles. I get insanely hungry 3-4 days before my period which stops as soon as my period starts. It seems I spend two weeks out of the month getting a new weight that I’ve hit down at to stick, then the other two hitting a new low. There are the sticker weeks and the chaser weeks. Right now I’m making a run for the 126-pound marker. Guess this is just what I’ve got my body trained to do at the moment.

The 130s are officially a thing of the past now. See, even when I first busted down into the 120s, I was still ending my day in the 130s. Not anymore! I remember when the 140s became a closed chapter. Now hopefully the 120s will one day become old news, too!

I had to put my bags of incense in a drawer because they were all overriding each other just due to the sheer number of sticks. I did a wholesale order this time around, allowing me to get twice as much for the money and so there are about 1400 sticks. I’m burning the Jasmine Vanilla now. I just opened the drawer before bed and the room stayed smelling like a candle shop all the while I slept.