Since Precisely Parrots is no longer a thriving community, and because the recent boycott/exodus by our formerly active members has predominantly stemmed from certain maliciously crafted false facts which they were fed by certain individuals, I'm considering changing permissions on our administrator discussion thread so that everyone will be able to browse, search and read what really happened. If I do this, all registered members and guests will be able to access the conversations that were truly happening behind the scenes (i.e., who said just what and how each of us responded).
The thread contains a humongous history of events dating back to the inception of Precisely Parrots in early 2013. There are 826 pages comprising 8,259 separate posts. If I decide to unlock the thread it will be permissioned as read-only and it will be entirely searchable. If this is in fact done, anyone who cares to take the time to research any particular incident relating to this forum site, dating back to the very first post submitted on March 3, 2013, will find that many of the claims leveled against me are in fact either inaccurate, or just plain false. They will also learn the genuine opinions on many topics from myself and each of my co-administrators (there were three of us when we went live in April of 2013).
Please be mindful that this thread is NOT private, meaning that it is NOT, nor has it ever been designated or represented as a private exchange of messages. So it follows that none of the posts contained therein are 'private messages'. The thread is merely permissioned for a particular usergroup on this forum site, nothing more. I can easily change that permission status. And I really see nothing to lose since everyone is already angry anyway.
Speaking of anger, it's difficult for me not to feel bitter toward those who have fabricated false facts and twisted others to suit their purpose in vilifying me. Especially considering that said efforts have considerably slandered my reputation with bird forum folks. Sometimes the best thing to do when one cannot combat false claims hurled behind their back is to disclose all of the relevant documents. And there are plenty of those in this case! Since it would be enormously time-consuming as well as impractical to try and parse all of the pertinent exchanges contained within the thread at issue, the simplest thing may be to allow anyone who's interested to read whatever they wish. Right now it seems that this is perhaps my only option to defend myself against a number of the false facts used against me. There is one caveat to making this thread public, however. If I proceed to grant general access permission to the thread, even if I tell the search engine crawlers to ignore it, there will undoubtedly still be certain spider bots that persist to access and archive posts therein. That means that portions of the thread will likely become permanently cached on certain websites. So effectively I won't ever be able to 'turn it off'. And that's one of the reasons I'm not jumping to this step before thinking it over carefully.
I haven't made my decision yet about publicizing the thread. I wish I didn't have to even consider it. I wish it hadn't come to this. I feel that I have little more to lose, though... and there's no other way to defend myself against the privately conveyed slander
Originally Posted by jacksmom
And you do have something to loose...the posts of the people that are trying to help liven up the forum again, and not dwell in the past that yes, we were not involved in. If you have already lost these other people, why should they matter? 
