(Feb 2025) Pollyx's Minister of Fashion Re-Election Program

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29.01.2025
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Pollyx
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Antitheocra
29.01.2025 19:12:16
Pollyx



Hi all! Huge delay on this just like last time! Sorry about that and hope you're all having a great State Wars and Lunar New Year (check out the shop's Lunar New Year sale, also).

Achievements in the last 3 months:
- Ran the yearly Advent Calendar event, which was super fun!! I'm proud of what we managed to put together this year.
- Ran a couple other smaller events (A tiny New Year's event, a Tattoo Tuesday sale, which will continue for another day or two in February, and the current Lunar New Year sale)
- Uploaded a bunch of items (huge thank you to Melpomene for this)! The Pink House page is actually not showing the number of clothing items added this term, not sure why, so I actually have no idea how many items were added, but trust me, it was a huge amount. Tons and tons of recolors from the Advent Calendar, Spooky Surprises, and a number of events from the last few years!
- Continued fixing glitched items and fulfilling recolor requests
- Lots of design work from the entire shop team behind the scenes! This means we have some fun things in store for the next term :)

Goals for next term:
- The designer guide, sorry this keeps not happening. See note below*
- At least one fashion contest related to new shop items!!
- At least one flash sale (one day) per month and at least one larger sale event during the term (though none will be a month long—sorry, I'm exhausted after the Advent Calendar and Spooky Surprises)
- Still would love to get admin on board with a consistent designer payment structure, we'll see. As I've said before, I have pitched a payment structure idea before and it hasn't worked out but maybe, maybe this time...
- Some secret goals that will be revealed in due time, if I'm able to make them happen!!
- Designer spotlights! I'd love to make a thread in Nines once a month about one of our current designers, having them answer some questions and talk about their inspirations, aesthetics, and any tips they have for new designers. We'd also love to include a set or a few new items from them that they feel encapsulate their designer style. Designers really carry this site and they deserve to be recognized, and I hope this will inspire other users to get involved and start designing themselves (this is a repeat goal from last term)*
- Advocate for new shop functions which would increase the number of treasury purchases and Senator subscriptions. The goal is to bring in more revenue so greater improvements can be made (repeat goal from last term).


Why you should re-elect me:
- Even at a lower activity level, I am super dedicated to this site and consistently spend at least 10 hours a week on shop activities.
- I am extremely familiar with the complex and often nitpicky shop tools, making me the best fit for this position which rotates entirely around the shop. I'm also the only current shop worker who has the ability to commit to the position right now (otherwise I know Blecky and Melp would both do an amazing job)
- I'm a designer and active site user with many outfits and a bunch of contest wins under my belt. I understand fashion!
- I'm active and involved with the community and my messages are always open. Please never feel afraid to reach out about anything!!


Alright, and for the asterisk*—
I was fairly inactive in November, my apologies. As many of you know, my spouse and I have been struggling with an extended housing problem since last June and while I thought it would be over by early November, that was not the case (through no fault of my own). Things are better now as we're finally living at home again, but I was sick for a good portion of January (still not doing amazingly now) and there are still some issues that need to be handled which may make my schedule slightly inconsistent, but I hope to be more available overall this term.
Related to this, I feel very guilty about the treasury funds given inactivity and will be working out something with the other shop workers to either split the treasury privately or donate a portion of it to charities of their choice. Melpomene has been absolutely crucial to the success of the shop this term and I really feel she deserves her flowers for that, at minimum in writing, so really truly, thank you!! Could not have done it without you, truly.


Alright, I think that's it. Feel free to ask any questions below or, if you're shy, DM me your question and I'll answer it anonymously in this thread. Have a great day and lots of love! <3

29.01.2025 19:12:16
(full version with links in other tabs of my profile as well as my xeets) Hey all, this is your Minister of Fashion
Pollyx! I can be wordy, and am here, so here’s a TLDR for those who
trust me and just want to know the gist of it: Seriously, for real,
actually this time, cancel your Senatorships. Do not spend money on the
site. Remove the site’s access to your paypal. Do not volunteer for the
site or run for public office. This includes designing for the shop! Designers and prospective designers, I absolutely love you all to death, but this has got to stop.Anyway, the longer version:SweetasNuts,
the owner of this site, is an abusive person and known cheapskate who
refuses to hire new staff or adequately pay his existing staff in favor
of exploiting free labor from his users. Those who DO volunteer for him,
sometimes paying for the privilege of doing so, are treated
abhorrently, subjected to gaslighting and emotional abuse both publicly
and privately. I have personally experienced rampant mistreatment from
SweetasNuts (as have many others) as recently as today!If
you want an example, check any SweetasNuts thread and read it. I don’t
feel a need to drop a bunch of receipts below when it’s overwhelmingly
clear, but I hope those of you who know the love I’ve put into this site
will take me at my word. I have loved Ximboland and love it
still. At various points I have put more than full time hours into this
website and the shop in an attempt to make things better—usually
completely unpaid, as I did a lot of work before I became Minister of
Fashion. The saddest part, at the end of it, is that no matter how much I
work and how much love I put in the site will always get worse on
average or nosedive into oblivion (as we are seeing right now) due to
actions of trolls, hackers, or most primarily—Chris himself.There are numerous sources online which discuss Chris’s behavior as a business owner in-depth, both on this site and on its previous iteration, Miss Bimbo. It’s pretty clear the guy is a troll who likes when people get upset and throw a fit. In that sense, he may love this post!If
you’d like one recent example of someone bringing up issues to Chris,
being subjected to abuse, and being unable to sway Chris away from
terrible decisions, here’s one from a little over a year ago!
And yet nothing changes—the same cycles continue. New people join, they
see the community is lovely yet has a few flaws, perhaps some bad eggs
(rampant trolls), or maybe someone in the Pink House seems like they’re
abusing their power. They work really hard to rise up, join the
government, fight the “enemies” of the day, etc. and the whole thing
just causes chaos and misery for the most part and the site owner sits
back with popcorn.Oh wait, I forgot when Chris put numerous
ximbos (some who disagreed with him, others unprompted to my
understanding) on trial last year for having “bad fashion”! Here’s the trial for Melpomene, renowned designer, shop worker, and previous Antitheocra SM. Here’s the trial for KittyOnyx, who criticized Chris’s behavior. This one’s for Dean Winchester,
who made the grievous mistake of wearing a pink thong as a himbo.
Egregious, right! How dare a man dress in pink? Anyway, moving on.
Anyone care to share older “Chris is consistently a huge jerk to his
players and volunteers and never listens or fixes the site” examples
below?Now, when I talk about “volunteering” for the site
(aka what I am trying to convince you not to do), here are the positions
I mean:Partially paid (larger treasury cut, in theory, but extremely overworked):Prime XimboPartially paid (meager treasury cut —pennies on the hour):Minister of Fashion (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on the hour—so still a volunteer position)Minister of Entertainment (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on the hour—so still a volunteer position)Minister
of Foreign Affairs (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on the hour—so
still a volunteer position, plus you’re doing marketing for free. Not
super fun!)Minister of Justice (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on
the hour—so still a volunteer position, plus you’ll be absolutely
exhausted by the effort of moderation and part of the userbase will hate
you no matter what you do)No promise of payment/unpaid:Fashion Police (exhausting moderation work, now with kneecapped abilities to even stop abuse thanks to SAN)Fashion Worker (the people who upload items to the shop)Fashion
Designer (those who design for the shop—believe me, I have tried very
hard to convince SAN to reward this position in any way but was
unsuccessful)Not only unpaid, but PAYING to do this position:State
Minister (have to pay for Senatorship plus pay for all of the prizes
out of their own pocket—when you receive prizes from an SM, it’s because
they paid for them with real-world money)Please don’t do any
of this! I have been in the Pink House since October 2023 and am very
close with those who have been in or around the PH even longer or in
different time periods. Nothing changes. Talking to the site
owner doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter how you explain it, he won’t
listen and he doesn’t care because he continues to make enough passive
income to ignore people’s complaints. So what now?Well, first, let’s stop giving him that passive income, especially
given the recent major hacking incident has proven AGAIN that the site
is not secure. Chris is a liar—do not trust him when he says your
payment information is fully secure just because of Paypal, that is not
necessarily true. Remove your Paypal from XL (on the Paypal end) and
consider removing your bank accounts from Paypal for the time being,
better safe than sorry.When you spend money on this site, it
does not go to the people running it, to those who put in love and time
into moderation, the shop, contests, and even advertising the site. It
goes to Chris, who does not pay his staff properly and does not improve
the site. He only makes it worse based on his agenda. A small amount of
Senatorship goes to the government ministers, sure, but the amount is
not significant enough to matter (and there’s decent evidence that the
treasury doesn’t even reflect what it should be—⅓ of the cost of all
Senator subs). Besides, half of the treasury this term will go to
KatieBoutique (since she and her alt Slayyyocrates are both ministers),
and if any of you have been paying any attention to Katie that will
likely ruffle your feathers.It’s not worth contributing to
this place financially. It does not help the site grow. It does not go
to fixing bugs. It does not go to adding a mobile scroll bar. It does
not pay your favorite designer. It does not fix minigame glitches. It
likely won’t go to refunding people’s State Wars purchases after the
hack or restoring corrupted outfits (IF restoring them is even
possible). Cancel your Senatorship, never buy top-ups, don’t volunteer
your time for the site, and turn on ad block! Don’t let Chris get your ad revenue either!That’s
pretty much it. I do have some last thoughts if you’re interested, but
if you don’t care feel free to leave. It’s up to you to decide what to
do now. You can still help the site if you want to, but I strongly
believe it’s really only going to degrade, and as shown by the hacking
incident, this site really isn’t secure. It’s built on popsicle sticks.
You could lose all of this at any moment. Are all these users who lost
their outfits ever going to get them back? It’s really hard to say.Secondarily,
if you want to make a difference in the world there are a million
better places to do it than on XL. If you want to make art in a
community, lots of ways to do that too. Art Fight, a yearly event, is
great for this. You could make a game, write a novel, make outfits in
the Sims, join another dressup game (I hear some people here are making
one), generally touch grass. We should all touch grass. If it’s about
making the world a better place for you, maybe you could join a local
chapter of an organization that means something to you or donate what
you WOULD have spent on top-ups to a good cause. Join a rally, write an
op-ed, talk to people you love about what matters.If you want
to keep in touch with me, feel free to message anyone on XL you have on
Discord and they can probably connect us, I’ve got a lot of people
added.Alright, and now that we get to the end I just
want to shout out the users who have spent a lot of time showing love to
the users and uplifting the site as a whole. None of them asked for
this or even know that I’m doing this, so I won’t list them by name as
much as category. I may have individual personal issues with some people
on this site (not most), but I think this is kind of beyond that. We
are all victims of an exploitative site owner who constantly sets the
site up for interpersonal conflict because he finds it hot. He gets off on all these sexy bimbo avatars going at each other’s throats. So this is kind of an act of solidarity in that.Thank
you to all past and present government ministers, prime ximbos, state
ministers, fashion police, fashion designers, fashion workers, and
anyone else who has run contests or events.Thank you to the
active duelers staying up late into the night, the state generals and
citizens fighting for their state, those who help others get their
curious badge, those who leave comments on all the new players’
profiles, those who share gifs on weird gif wednesday, those who share
support when someone says they’re struggling or upvote posts in
Reputation Points Helper thread. Thank you, even, to those
I’ve fought with, those I’ve made up with, those I still dislike, those
who grate at my nerves. You’re part of the site, too, an ecosystem we
all exist in—this insular little community. Though of course I
will be leaving this community now, probably permanently. Not sure
about emigration yet—we’ll see. But I’ve got big things coming up soon
in my life and I can’t have this site’s nonsense messing with my groove.I’ve
loved growing as a person through my interactions with each of you and
I’ve loved designing and adding for the shop and running events and
making outfits and all of it, but I hate the way the site is run by
Chris (which is: generally not run at all, and if it is it’s done
maliciously). I hate receiving constant abuse from the site owner and
trolls and hackers and I hate seeing other people experience that too. I
hate that this site many of us feel is a second home has become so
foul, is rotting from the inside because of neglect and mistreatment
from the site owner. I had enough mold in my real life home last year,
as many of you know, and find myself uninterested in choking on the
spores here.Anyway, so much love, care about you all (except
in those few cases where the feeling of dislike is mutual, in which case
I say one last hearty “fuck you!”). Stay slutty, babes.







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Atheista
29.01.2025 20:36:28
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GO POLLY GO

29.01.2025 20:36:28
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Antitheocra
29.01.2025 21:36:10
Melpomene

Sincerely wishing you the best of luck for getting the MoF position again <3
You're definitely the best person for the job!

29.01.2025 21:36:10

Furiously drawing new designs 

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Freethinkerland
30.01.2025 03:31:50
cannabisbimbo

Simply superb ❤️

30.01.2025 03:31:50
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Agnostica
30.01.2025 06:13:51
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Dear Minister of Fashion Pollyx ♥️ Thank you for doing a 5 out of 5 Hearts performance in your role as Minister of Fashion ♥️

In your every term, you have achieved many goals, as well as not giving up your highly structured plans. ♥️

Thank you as well for still pressing through with previous goals, and I know you will achieve them greatly. ♥️

You are looking out and caring for everyone, whether that be the Shop Workers, Fashions Designers, Customers and more. ♥️

You have always been working together with others. ♥️As well as lead many in achieving goals. ♥️

You show great respect to fashion, the clothes, the arts, efforts and all that makes fashion be accessible and appreciated to all. ♥️

You are patient and kind, explaining to us clearly and truthfully of any matters without any screaming nor shouting, allowing all to feel comfortable without harassment, understanding you as well as be understood without any derailment. ♥️

You make us all feel confident, comfortable, happy, enjoying what we wear and all that the many fashion designers (both previous and present) made as wearable art. ♥️

Even with how things are challenging and unpleasant in your real life (housing repairs, daily problems, etc), you are always very focused and resolve matters completely. ♥️

When you first started as a normal player, with remarkable intelligence, whether in your debates of real life events, even providing actual, existing. non-fictional evidences. ♥️

You soon became State Minister, even Minister of Fashion and during your terms, not just your state people but even I myself and the rest of the people from other states enjoy your activities and happiness you bring. ♥️

You encouraged us all to do art in Ximboland, something which had been very absent , and with your actions, brought art and artists to Ximboland. Even awakening the talents and joy of arts for many, including myself. ♥️

From your ♥✉★ February Art Fight (All-State Competition) ★✉♥ (https://ximbo.land/town-square/february-art-fight-all-state-competition/t14206?page=1)

Even your ✂ Inventing Vogue (Fashion Design Contest) ✎ (https://ximbo.land/town-square/inventing-vogue-fashion-design-contest/t14491?page=1)

In addition, you help us learn more about art and historic artists in your ❀☂ Styling Impressionism (February Fashion Contest) ☂❀ (https://ximbo.land/town-square/styling-impressionism-february-fashion-contest/t14315?page=1)

Especially your fine dining feast in ✧✤ Culinary Couture (December Fashion Contest) ✤✧ (https://ximbo.land/town-square/culinary-couture-december-fashion-contest/t14123?page=1)

As Minister of Fashion, even before this role, you have worked excellently with people from different walks of life, whether we are from different races, beliefs, LGBT , and more numerous than I can list.

Thank you for the thousands of new clothing items uploaded to the stores, even when the tools are extremely complex and even the downtimes that prevent them being in Nines. ♥️

It is also because of you, Dear Pollyx, your invitation to do arts once again many years ago, that I started doing art again, the first step to the many thousands steps that I can make my banners too now, spreading joys to many ♥️

My humble gratitude to you, Dear Minister of Fashion Pollyx. ♥️


You , yourself are a work of art and masterpiece of fashion, here and in real life ! ♥️



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05.02.2025 18:34:16
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Polly please report to me any copyright infringement issues you discover in the shops or elsewhere...like banners.  Thanks. K

05.02.2025 18:34:16
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