I have been thinking deep and hard over these last few days …
I have been thinking deep and hard over these last few days …
All of you must have noticed the sudden influx of new posters from P&CA including Dufrel, FredFredson, Jayne B, and Justin, among others, and those are not your average P&CA posters. They are all hard-hitters. Every one of the four has been a Moderator at P&CA at some time in the past. Dufrel, FredFredson, and I myself have been Moderators until just last week. FredFredson has been the fourth most prolific poster of all times at P&CA (well, no one beats the P&CA Newsbot, of course!). I myself pride myself of being listed as poster #7, trailing Zichao (Neko), and being closely chased by Zan de Man.
Dufrel, Fred, and I have been demoted by the board owner, Dave, last week due to an ultimatum by Connie who wanted to get rid of a set of Moderators unwilling to dance to her tune. More precisely, Dufrel and I were demoted, because we weren’t willing to yes-maam Connie, whereas Fred was demoted by association with the two bad apples. Dave, in order to protect Connie, denies that this is what happened, but I have no doubt that I am speaking the truth.
I need the job of Moderator about as much as I need a hole in my head, and I am convinced that the same goes for both Dufrel and Fred. Had Dave asked me to resign, I would have done so without thinking twice and without any regrets, but he didn’t. He didn’t have the courage to talk to me and tell me to my face that he was unhappy about the frequent quarrels taking place between Connie and myself, and therefore, he thought it was better for me to resign. Instead, he faked a software upgrade that never took place to realign his pawns, and when the board reopened after three days, the three of us learnt that we had been fired. He assured LiberalNation later on that no one had been fired, but this was also a lie.
I have been backstabbed by Dave, and I don’t take betrayal gracefully. I care very much about the wellbeing of P&CA. I have spent many thousands of hours and given a lot of my heart blood to keep P&CA running smoothly over many years, and this is why Dave’s betrayal hurts so badly. I believe that I deserved a bit more respect than that. I deserved to be looked into my eyes and talked to, rather than being plotted against and outmaneuvered.
For this reason, I need to distance myself from P&CA for the time being. I have no desire to have anything to do any longer with Connie in particular, and so, I won’t be posting on P&CA at all for a while, and I doubt that I’ll ever return to post on that board frequently again. I don’t have either the time or the desire to be simultaneously active on two boards with similar goals, like P&CA and TNT. I don’t want to read the same articles and the same discussions on two separate boards and respond to both. I know that some of our posters, like Zan de Man and Benjamin (Don Quixote), for example, do so. They post simultaneously at both boards, but to me, this is not an option.
I have been a member of TNT since day one, but I have so far posted only very little here. My “home” had been P&CA, and I came here only from time to time to touch base with Psyche and Zichao.
I have been thinking deep and hard over these last few days, and I came to the conclusion that I need to move on. I shall now be making TNT my “home,” and I’ll be visiting P&CA only occasionally to touch base with some of the posters over there whom I value highly.
Last edited by Francois Cellier; 12-12-09 at 11:47 PM.
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