LPR001 posted at 10:50AM Wed, 16 March 2016 - #4261226

@IceEmpress There is a reason why I have been answering the questions I put my hand up to do this and I am glad I have built up some trust with you, I do try my best and like to work with the members not against them. I might not say much but that is because I am not into pulling stuff out of thin air as it would be unhelpful and some things are out of my control. However since honesty has been mentioned I feel I should point out there is a reason why most of the staff(Mods and Coords) have remained silent. This is because when the members got upset at the start of all this I could see no point whatsoever in the staff getting involved in something they did not implement, they may or may not agree with, being vendors or content creators that possibly shared their freebies may have been affected directly by the changes themselves and at the end of the day have to administer the rules. Taking this into consideration it was hardly fair to have them feel obliged to participate or be put in the position to have to even consider taking sides. I put that forward and did not hesitate in doing so since the staff have had friends here for years and when emotions run high things happen and can get out of control and it would be a shame to see fractured friendships over this when neither party are at fault. The staff were not instructed rather given the opportunity to refrain from commenting. Obviously due to the lack of comments by them throughout this issue the members can be confident their silence is because they don't want to fight with you and they signed up to assist the members, work with and get along well with everybody as best as possible in the community. IMO they all chose the right path.

Well it confirms my belief in that I never once thought it was anyone's fault than the higher management. In fact one of the worse responses I saw in the prime forums came from higher management, I can't member the name so that shows how much I think it added to the debate. The individual quickly return to obscurity, as far as the forums were concern, which dies show some good judgement.

I have always felt sorry for the moderators here as I felt they were between a rock and a hard place. As I have said before I dealt with Hope when I was deleting my gallery here and she tried to change my mind the fact she did not succeed was because the decision that upset me was clearly a corporate decision, not her's. What she did convince me was that she was very genuine in her wish to change things for the better and someone I learnt to trust and still do.

On the whole I did not blame the moderators or the vendors although I do remember posting that one vendors comments were totally out of order but even there I accepted it was probable a symptom of all that was happening at the time and in more normal circumstances she would not have posted anything like she had.

I really do wish we could put this all behind us and get everyone to realise that no matter how hard you try you cannot change where you have been, much better to concentrate on where you are going. Frustratingly I do not know how to make that happen and the longer we continue to look into the past the longer we are going to stay there.

 

 

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