Tomsde opened this issue on May 04, 2006 ยท 89 posts
AlleyKatArt posted Sat, 06 May 2006 at 5:06 PM
Just to put my two cents in, again, because I'm a loud mouth and cannot help it...
No. Just... no. We should not turn a blind eye to someone who purposefully defames, degrades and insults fellow members of a community just because they're popular, talented or cool.
To use a real world analogy, this is like saying that we should forgive Madonna if she murders someone in cold blood for no reason, because she's famous.
This is what we call favoritism. It is not a good thing. It encourages bad behavior, because if you can get away with accusing someone of owning warez and get away with it, unscathed, then you'll be more bold in future endeavors, until finally you're jibbering and shrieking at everyone and their brother throwing a tantrum and throwing random accusations of wrong doing at people who were actually supporting you.
Apollo Maximus will be missed, yes. He is a very good figure with a lot of potential. It's my hope that Anton will use this time to re-evaluate his behavior and come to his senses.
As to the 'Apologies' people keep mentioning... The only people Anton owes an apology to are JenyK, Acadia and Ernyoka for publically insulting them in an uncalled for fashion in his goodbye post, and Shahara, for dragging him through the mud, whatever Anton's intentions.
As to Clark... Clark isn't great. NO ONE has said Clark is great. No one presumed to say that Clark was any real threat to Apollo's status as an amazing figure. A percieved threat, perhaps, but not a real one. Clark is a very basic figure on the scale of Michael 1 as far as sophistication goes, but he's got some amazing textures and some good morphs out there.
Don't stop supporting Apollo. A lot of us still own him and still use him.
Anton, if you're reading this, I wish you nothing but happiness from here on out, and I hope you succeed at whatever you do (as you always have.)
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