Jetsa, and others who have asked, it's only right to respond to you. I will have to do it here, despite knowing the fraud will jump on this immediately and post his nonsense and drivel, but I can't PM anyone as BAS took away my PM ability - even though I did not misuse it. Anyway be prepared for the usual, ELITIST, TOTALITARIAN STATE, DOUCHEBAGS, PEASANTS drivel we are all accustomed to, because he will repeat it all again for the umpteenth time I assure you. So anyway, here it is.....
So, first off, I'm not privy to anyones private conversations with anyone else at the forum. What you and Pennywise said between the both of you, I don't know what that was. I know when I was asked about getting in to the private area of the forum, I always explained what we were doing and why. I know I never promised anyone access at any specific time...it was always open ended.
I had also explained in the general area what we were doing and why, and went out of my way to reassure people that we were working on a solution to the problem INKY was presenting us. Believe it or not, but in 4 days after the plays became posted in the private area, we added 25 or so people. That was in addition to the people already in there and had been in there for a month or so prior. We were carrying out what we had decided, which was to take the plays away from INKY and the thieving scum that had invaded OUR forum, and add you guys to that area slowly and steadily to ensure none of the nasties got in. 25 guys in 4 days.....we were adding as fast as reasonably possible.
What you have to realize is that we didn't want to cut people off from plays and being part of the overall community. That is total BS and simply perpetuated by a jealous INKY because he was cut off from the plays and his ego has taken a damn battering. imagine being shunned by the person you idolize.....that's got to hurt!
Anyway, you all know we asked INKY nicely on many occasions to stop taking the plays that pennywise didn't want posted anywhere else but the new forum. We asked nicely and politely. And he would not listen. He even stuck two fingers up to Pennywise when he asked him nicely to stop. Do you guys forget that Pennywise posted 2 announcements in the general are asking guys to not take the plays and post them elsewhere, and that was ignored too.
INKY populated YOUR forum with multiple fake personalities and used them to spy, to steal and to mock. How many times has he cut and pasted content from the forum and posted it over here, crying to to BAS to ban them because they frequent another forum. And as we chopped down more of INKY's colorful personalities, you see how hateful and vitriolic he has become in this thread. He is behaving like a real nasty piece of work. But as soon as we were getting rid of dirt from the forum, another INKY clone popped up, another piece of content was stolen from the forum and posted over here. We always said we wanted a nice space to bet sports and hang out...INKY was destroying that from the inside.
The forum was inheriting a nasty vibe to it, all because the guy would simply not just leave as he had been asked to do many many times.
The choice for us was we knew already we we could trust, and we were adding more to that group as time went by - quite quickly like I said. We hated the idea that guys were missing out, but we also had to balance that with protecting the forum as a whole. But as fast as we were acting more dormant accounts were popping up and more content being stolen. If it wasn't plays, it was bit s of conversations, avatars e.t.c. I mean how many profiles did Inky have...we ban one, more content gets stolen. W banned another, more stuff gets stolen....where does it end??? Imagine us guys who have jobs, family trying to run a forum, and then we have some malcontent weirdo from Thailand making our free time a chore.....can you guys empathize with that at all? I know you want the plays, but do you know how much time and effort we put into getting the place up and running and maintained for you all, only for it to look like it was going down the shitter. Something has to give. INKY knows nothing about giving, he sits on here all day typing garbage to people. He does nothing positive.
INKY would have you believe we despise you and treat you with contempt....thats pure fantasy. Anyone at the forum who spoke to me and dealt with me would know I'm a kind and generous guy, as are the other mods, and not a hateful creep like the owner of this thread. We wanted a forum for everyone but this guy who claims to be your champion is the one who destroyed it all through hate and jealousy as I have said already.
The only way to preserve the forum in the short term was to keep the membership base to those already in VIP. We regret having to do what we did, but were backed into a corner. Thank INKY for that.
Perhaps we could have done better in terms of making you aware of the decision. Thats a lesson learned.
Now, if anyone does hate me for what went down, then I accept that. I'm ok with taking the brunt of your criticism....hate away. But I, nor the other guys are to blame....it's a crying shame that good people got caught in the fallout.
Maybe we will all meet again in the near future in a forum not populated by a toothy serpent and his degenerate zealots.
Take care all.
