Hello everyone
Before I make my final departure from PP, I thought I would let you all know the events that led to my decision to leave!
As you all know it was my idea to start PP and I asked plax to come in with me. We were equal partners in PP and spent several months creating it! It started off as a very happy and relaxed place to be, but, sadly due to the strict rules that kept being placed on everyone, members started to get edgy
The Bird Safety rule that was always in place here was upheld by all of us here and always will be! All staff members were aware of this ruling and very always very vigilant in making sure members did not post pictures that would show birds in dangerous situations!
Unfortunately one of our staff members happened to miss one of these posts which lead plax to put up a notice in the Mod section basically telling all staff members that if they could not stick to the rules on PP in regards to bird safety then they were not welcome as staff members on PP. He asked them to comment on this individually. Our 2 main SMods decided against replying to this, which was their choice. In no way did it mean that they did not agree to this ruling. They had assured plax of this time and time again and did not feel they needed to state it again!
Basically, plax then gave me an ultimatum. If I did not agree to these 2 SMod's having their status taken away then he would close PP. I was absolutely horrified by this and said under no circumstances would I agree to this. IMO, this was blackmail! He went ahead and demoted them anyway He then sent me a message to say he would be closing PP and had an announcement ready to put up about the closure!
While I was waiting for PP to close, I approached the founder of a forum that used to be very active but due to not having the time, he left it. I asked him if he would be prepared to let me take it over. This, he agreed too and I asked the 2 demoted SMods' to join me! plax then decided he was not going to close PP after all, so I decided to stay and see how things progressed. Sadly, plax was never going to let the issue with the 2 SMods drop and went on to say some pretty nasty and uncalled things about them. I was told that I needed to pick my friends more carefully and how I was a bad judge of character! These 2 SMods had done absolutely nothing to deserve this hate campaign against them and they are very dear friends of mine and were always very loyal to us here at PP. All members loved them both! In fact, one of these SMods donated $150.00 towards our "Win $500 for 1000 posts" contest! She was very dedicated to PP and as you can imagine, she was left feeling very hurt over the actions of plax! The other SMod involved was left feeling exactly the same! They were treated appallingly by plax and I decided I could not stay in partnership with someone that was going to treat people in this way!
The version of events that plax has made an announcement about is totally fabricated. This is not how it happened at all!
I hope you can all forgive me for leaving you here, but I simply could not carry on with a partner that was treating people in this way! I hope we can all still stay in touch and I will miss you all.
Goodbye,
WendyX