We don't want to destroy the site.
The frustration and anger built up over so long and so much that the original start of this probably seemed really irrational to other people. We get that, we get we seemed over the top and silly but as Marie kindly did, we just need people to take into consideration exactly what we deal with just as much as what you're dealing with.
We know staff have lives etc but the point is that so do we but myself and Kirk still manage at least an hour on the forum a day. Nobody else did anywhere near that much and there were lots of times that every single staff member was gone.
To add; they may volunteer but they volunteer for hard work. I'm a mod on another site. I don't get paid but I put just as much effort into it as I do with CI.
If people who apply for staff have busy lives, they should not apply if they can't find time for the site, simple. We don't ask for much, honestly, I can even post staff checklists if you desire. Only a couple of people made the effort for a little while when me and Kirk were gone.
I was very disappointed and felt really let down.
I have an incredibly busy and stressful life, but I manage. All I needed was for people who'd volunteered to do so to help us out more so than they were. Bowie got those rank titles done within a day, a member did that without us having to ask and I appreciate that.
If we remove staff it isn't out of spite, we just didn't want the CR rank anymore and not a lot was being done. Simple as that, we didn't expect to be met with hostility because anyone in staff could understand why we did it.
The community deserve a big thanks. I'm so grateful that CI has gotten here in merely a few months and we have all of you to thank and I'll never doubt that. All we worried about was losing the site, everyone seems to have the mentality that we can just let it grow on its own and actually no it's taken hours of hard work to get some members here, it's taken ages of work on my part for designing/drawing artwork, and Marie who's done some lovely work too.
We already work extremely hard and then to see barely any posts on the forum is really upsetting and two people can only come up with so many thread ideas. I mean we have huge post counts merely from trying to keep the thing alive. Sometimes I've replied to almost every single thread on this entire forum.
The work is stressful, it's caused stress in my relationship, it's caused stress in my life dull stop and as much as I appreciate what you guys are saying, we also need people who volunteer lots of time. If you're busy there's no point in committing yourself to a site who need you daily. We don't want to be those teen sites that just have their friends as mods and staff and not demote them because they're our friends. We've been on a site like that and it's a recipe for disaster.
We've only ever made decisions that we thought were in the best interests of the site.
We had a lot of commitment which means we had to make decisions we didn't want to make. We didn't WANT to demote people but we did if we felt it wasn't working and we didn't just keep them just because we liked them as people.
We love our friends and sadly I feel like all this is just making rifts when it shouldn't.
It may be for the best we sell the forum if it means we can focus on our relationship but I suppose me and Kirk will talk that over.
Thanks for your post Wizard
you were really constructive +1 rep.
You're proof you don't have to be rude.
