Chris
You keep saying the forum is in decline - you know what? Let's think about this for a minute. Around January there were somewhere between 25,000 and 40,000 Bimbos here. Bad publicity came out and almost over night you have 800,000 Bimbo here. You keep saying the forum is declining, you have said this for weeks. Over 700,000 new members is 5 months is not considered a decline Chris.
Did you ever once stop to think that any decline at all is because the SITE DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY and people are tired of it? The huge swarm of people that showed up after the news reports played for a while and said forget this! You took my money, I didn't get my game money, nothing works... why WOULD they stay around?
Instead you choose to blame it on the drama. Fine. Whatever you can dream up to make yourself look better. But you are not facing the facts at all.
The facts are that you pretty much just admitted that you were more than heavy handed with the "harsh" actions taken here, when Izzy and everyone else has gone on record as saying all those girls has legitimate reasons for being banned. Clearly they did not. many never had an argument or a dispute with their avatar or signature, went to bed and woke up banned. Not one single warning. Many were banned for one week. While they were in the middle of their ban, they noticed the date they could return had been changed, the ban length extended. They had not been here to do anything additional, you just made it longer. Then to top it off, you completely disabled the accounts of a select group of Bimbos. Again, no warning, no requests, no nothing. They were already banned. Additional violations did not occur. Some girls were pm'ed and asked to change their signature, which they went and did. Then 2 hours later, with no warning, banned. Even though they changed it. Even though they hadn't posted in the forum in those 2 hours. You fired a Mod today with absolutely no explanation at all, because he was known to be distantly associated with the "meanies". You banned people for writing to you privately and asking you a question, worded respectfully, with no warning.
Many of those girls personally phoned Nico and guess what. Your decisions were overturned. Many of them had all the actions you took reversed today, further proving that everything you have been saying is different from everything Carrie has been saying (all bans were justified) and both of you have a different story than Nico, who seemed to not even realize what was going on and began to undo what you had done and correct the situation.
Do not take this part as an insult, but you come up with these hair brained ideas that you think are the absolute solution to everything. They are not. Maybe you need someone on your team experienced in high volume customer relations. Maybe you need a vacation. maybe you need to sit back and observe more and find the natural flow before you put a halt to everything. Prior to all these crazy ideas being implemented, you popped over here once in a while, posted a weekly announcement and left.
Honestly you just never got the natural feel for the place. You have 800,000 woman in one place. Do you really believe you are never going to hear some whining about how much they hate x bimbo and y bimbo and how they are bad? Please think about that. Do you really think you are never going to be fooled by these women praising you so highly when taking their underhanded pot shots at many while claiming innocence?
As I said before, you went from 20-40,000 Bimbos to 800,000 Bimbos nearly over night. The flood of new players was brought here by the media storm. I really do not believe you are so naive that you thought all those players were going to stay. And if you want to deny 30 forum pages of bugs and glitches since April, posted right here for all to see, go right ahead. But do not insult our intelligence and once again, make a completely inaccurate judgment and think that declining numbers are the results of 40 woman you have banned.
Did you factor in the fact that players under a certain age cannot post in the forums anymore? Months ago the forum was overrun with 10 year olds. If their access was turned off, well.... I think you see the logistics there.
Here is the thing though. Every time you post one of these announcements and do not tell the story accurately, you infuriate a lot of people. That in itself continues the drama. I understand you want to paint a beautiful, rosy picture for all the Bimbo's in Bimboland and make them all cheer and applaud you. But it is not the truth! The numbers are not declining because of forum drama! If you even read more than 30 minutes a day, you would see all the posts from the people responding to comments about the dramas that say "this is why I come, I love watching it". and similar statements. That is not to say it is all good, obviously it's not. I am saying for every one person you want to claim left the forum because of dramas, there is one more than never misses a day because of it.
You make so many statements that so harmful to others, such as when you said the reason for MaBimbo's success is because the leader of the Mods there, Lisbeth, doesn't take any bull from anyone! She keeps them in line! Well you know what Chris? She tried to come over here and run this site and you know what one of her brilliant ideas was? To ban Shyla because she said "she is Jesus among you and people will pay attention to me when I talk if they see me ban her" She said this in the open forum Chris. I have plenty of screenshots to show you if you would like. Now. Think about this. The events that have transpired around here lately, how well do you think that would go over here? She was run out of here because of her insanity about things, such as posting statements such as those in the forum. Openly banning people because she misunderstood what they were talking about, after posting a big full page rant about how "stupid" they were, and when corrected, deleted her thread calling them stupid and then couldn't figure out how to unban them. You don't mention the fact that MaBimbo had nearly a million players before Lisbeth had any real control over there. But go ahead an attribute an entire site's success to something as basic as just the forum section, and one ridiculous person running around it, while ignoring the fact that the site is riddled with bugs and has been for ONE YEAR.
I know you do not want to hear any of this, but here is a something interesting. Point out one thing here that is not true. Now lets look at your announcement. "A group of friends (though not all of them) were encouraging exclusivity". Chris, it was YOU that decided to develop contests to MAKE those groups exclusive. We have told you a thousand times our groups are not exclusive. YOU found a way to make them that way by having us compete for an exclusive group. "The numbers of users and posts made in these forums has been in decline over the last few months before these changes and in contrast to what those people may want you to believe the last week has seen an increase in users on line and posts made the forums." Chris, other than the first 4 bans, all 30+ bans were made in the last 24 hours. Please do not keep insulting us this way. "Many of you have praised me for my efforts" - Yet many dozens of us begged you to not have a "body" forum and you told us to shut up? So when many people talk, it only matters when it's in your favor.
And lastly, your continued reference to cliques (or "cleeks" for whatever reason you spelled it like that), "ringleaders", and "bullies" is not professional. We are adults playing a doll game. You are supposed to be a businessman. Please act like it and quit using ridiculous terms that do nothing but create more dramas with people flooding the forum copying your words. If you don't want those things to exist, maybe the first step would be for you to stop using the words every single time you post.
Of course this will be deleted and banned from the forum, but if you were truly so fair and honest, you would address it, and not do so in a political manner which you seem to love. You say what you think will make everyone stand up and cheer, but sadly, it's just not always true. Then the backlash comes when all those people that stood up and cheered for you don't see your words amount to anything, as has been the case for the last 2 weeks.
Sincerely,
1 of the 40
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