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My policy, unless otherwise noted, is 'do whatever you want as long as you credit everyone whose work is involved and don't break their policies.' Usually, someone whose meshes, textures, actions, coding, or templates I've used has 'no paysites' somewhere in their policy, so it's probably a good idea to assume, well, no paysites.
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Date: 2017-01-19 01:32 am (UTC)Hi, Hat. It’s been a while. I don’t think I ever expressed my sympathies regarding Harley. For what it’s worth, I’m sorry. She looked like a sweet kitty.
I don’t even know where to begin a proper response. I guess let me preface by saying:
A. that I have zero interest in gender politics, identity politics, U.S. politics, or politics politics. If you’re consenting, informed adults and you make each other happy, more power to ya. I haven’t lived in the States full time for (*slowly counts on fingers*) (goodness, has it been THAT long?) 22 years, and I really didn’t have a pony in the race. To an outsider, debating Hillary vs. Trump is like debating the merits of orange-flavored dogsh*t vs. strawberry-flavored dogsh*t; neither option is particularly great. What I’m still scratching my head about is how the conversation got so severely derailed.
B. that I’ll do the best I can to present this from an unbiased perspective. I’ve gone it alone for the most part after SimTrek closed for good, but my closest friends in the simming community have consistently been NixNivis and StephSim, so my perspective may be slightly skewed.
C. that I’m done with forum drama. I had my fill in my early MTS days, and watched it rear its ugly head again at SimTrek, at Garden of Shadows, at Back Alley Sims, and so on. It accomplishes nothing, and all of that negative energy can be used in much more constructive ways (i.e. CREATING AWESOME SIMS 2 STUFF). I’m not here to cause more drama. I’m here (hopefully) to mend fences.
Overall, my experience with PBK has been meh to positive. I lurked for a long, long time, contributed content for a few months, and finally wandered off to do my own thing. My dealings with the admins and moderators were mostly upbeat. Wawa and wawayaya are good people, and CelestialSpider is a sweetheart. My exchanges with Frac were a bit more limited: the few PMs we exchanged were mostly technical stuff about the inner workings of an overlay box. Steph and Paradox07 have a different opinion in this regard, but I honestly haven’t had any negative exchanges with her and I respect her ability as a creator.
My experience with Sunni is limited to her decision to remove several of my posts. Essentially, this is what happened:
1. Frac invited me to share an 18+ posebox, which I had posted at my adult blog, behind the adult wall at PBK.
2. I shared the posebox, and continued sharing both family-friendly and adult content at PBK
3. One of the members was *triggered* by the images from one of the poseboxes I shared and made a fuss about, even though
a. The post was behind the adult wall, which has a clear warning about the content therein
b. The post was not in violation of any community guidelines at the time when it was posted (the guidelines have since been rewritten).
c. A clear warning was displayed at the beginning of the post.
The member asked me to make the warning more visible, change the title and content of the post, and so on. I did what I was able even though I considered the request to be completely unreasonable. Another member also began to make a stink about the post around this time.
4. One of the admins (no names named) made the quite reasonable decision to remove the adult permissions for the member who had started the forum drama to begin with.
5. Sunni not only reversed this decision, but unilaterally decided to remove not just the offending post, but all the poseboxes I had shared up to this point, citing that “a number of members have voiced their concern about the content of these poseboxes, etc., etc.”. At the time, this represented about half of everything I had contributed. My suspicion is that the “number of members” that she cited were the two members who had originally complained about the post, but as I’m not privy to Sunni’s PMs, I have nothing to substantiate this.
6. I stopped contributing at PBK.
I have nothing to say about Sunni as a person; I don’t know her well enough to opine one way or the other. I can’t offer any criticism of her character. As a creator, I respect her talent. But I have lost all respect for Sunni as a site admin.
I realize that it’s Sunni’s playground and Sunni’s rules. I just can’t be a part of it any longer. I don’t know what transpired between Steph and Sunni, or between Paradox07 and Sunni, but I do think that Sunni’s decision to ban Steph and David was a bit heavy-handed; Steph was a regular contributor and had at the time over 2,000 posts and if I remember correctly something like 130 threads. And David was banned simply for being married to Steph! The scathing irony is that the ban-worthy posts were on a thread that had been started about community building.
That said, I’m not sure where all the divisiveness is coming from. We’re all Simmers; why do there have to be “sides”? Can't we all just get along?