Here's the Deal..

Look at my position.
From my angle, I have no way of seeing what is happening between other administrators on the forum, because of lack of communication. I only really speak to timyoshi to discuss any changes to the board which may benefit it. Fair enough if conversations between you and timyoshi are nothing to do with me, but, obviously, it's having an effect on all of us, and in the end, instead of telling timyoshi what your intentions were (If you did, I have no idea about it...), you decided to remove the affiliation betwen his board and your site.

To avoid being the one to cause harm where not due, I shall iterate why I beleive something is wrong here, so, you're free to enlighten us on what has, and hasn't happened, so, you're free to correct me, but from my angle, I see nothing going on...

The reason I originally thought all this broke loose, was the fact that a large group of members of the board disagreed with the move you made, of publicly ridiculing tehyoshi, because of the news fader thing. Bear in mind, I hadn't heard of any differentiation between you and timyoshi at this point. I was due to post comments on which the community was being angry toward you, where it was not due.

If you hadn't noticed, a board I was a highly active member on, was broken into, and destroyed by someone using an exploit on lycos's email service to retreive the link one of the admins email account's received when the 'Forgotten password' button was pressed. I've been trying very hard to get Invisionfree to restore a backup, and their lengthy replies are frankly quite aggrivating, so I didn't have time to, because, the time I had to use it, I see the board, this very, aqua colour, and it was too late to respond in the way I had wished since yet another Yoshi forum I work on had suffered a large blow by arguments I had not even known about until 10 minutes ago.

All reasoning pointed to that one thread.

What else was I supposed to do? Say "oo, they'll kiss and make up soon" and give the community false hope that this would be sorted out? You've made it clear that there was something other than that thread, only now.

Damn. I didn't expect this to happen, you know. This was quite literally "out of the blue", however, saying that you didn't care what the community thought about your decision to ridicule tehyoshi, was very wrong indeed. That is not the way you look after a community. Your serving your own creation to the masses, and people respect you for it. The one thing I've always wanted to do, is build a large site powered by code built entirely by me, and see other people using it and enjoying it. If someone had a suggestion, I'd welcome it, and use it to further improve the system, like the way someone comments on a peice of art saying to change something there, or add something here. But not listening to the people who are using your site, and services, your site stops as it is, people get bored, see another service offering the same thing, but with features they requested, and people all of a sudden leave you, because you refused to listen to the people who were most important to you. Your visitors, the people using your service, and making it popular.

While thats slightly different to what we have here, it uses the same idea, and shows what can happen when you suddenly stop caring what other people are thinking.



You know full well that journal entry was left up too long. I made that clear that the fact that you saw it before I had taken it down, was entirely my fault, and that was something I apologised for in that email, that night.

You know me by now. If something aggrivates me, I tend to show exactly how I feel. To think you've only been let down by me twice, things that you've done have caused me to retaliate in *your defence* many times. It used to be a situation where if someone started bad mouthing you, I'd run to your defence, giving all the valid reasons as to why that person was wrong to say that. You've cropped up in the Yoshi lore chatroom on the odd occasion, and since I've got your name in my irc highlight, I go in there straight away to defend you. You know, it's what friends do.

It harms me, to have to say something like that, because it's like attacking myself. I'm sitting here just wishing that half of the arguments that start on YC have nothing to do with you, and it's demoralising when you're involved in making that argument start, when, as an admin, you're really meant to be setting a good example.

Remember the argument that appeared between koshi, bry, grae and you? From the very start, my head was in my hands. Fair enough, caring for your community was the right thing to do, but to create a thread about it on the board, when it hadn't had anything to with it, and it happened a month beforehand, it was just fuelling those that wanted to see you complete your next move, ready to critisize. What was I supposed to do then? Was I supposed to go against the community I so dearly love, to defend you, when I knew the community were right? Fair enough, that people were very nasty to you, and they were wrong to do that without first seeing exactly what was happening, but you had just started a war of words that should never've happened.

Yet again, I was caught in the middle of a war between two friends. The Yoshi's corner community, and you, soul.

It was just by chance, that the journal post was left up an hour too long.

Getting back on the subject of this board, I've met some damn nice people here, and I've had some good times too. If this board had not've existed, I would not've had the chance to meet people like Contention, Joshi, tehyoshi, Mailtroid, Toshi, Graedius, Yoshiken and a whole host of other people I've not mentioned. They're all damn nice people. This forum is the only one with such nice people. Leaving this forum is like leaving a bunch of memories behind, and to be quite honest, thats not something I can do, but is something I wish to carry on protecting, even if it means pulling my own perpetually licensed forum down.

I guess you're now going to slam me for actually giving a crap?

Before you reply, just think how much crap I've had to deal with during the last 2 weeks. My hosting service being DDoS'd, hacked into via an out of date phpBB installation, then TYFN being destroyed, then this. This is why I'm so damn annoyed.



I was unfortunately too late to see this topic/post. It would've cleared a few things up, and this whole mess would not've spun as far out of control as it has done now.