My Manifesto - please vote for Sweetasnuts/Bimbo Xonservative party on 1st Feb 2024

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Secville
04.01.2024 19:09:33
Honey Beee

Chris, I am happy to say that I like most of the things in this program and I hope that we can work together in the future! As the Secville SM, I’m happy to contribute to making Ximboland a better place alongside everyone else in the Pink House and all other Ximbos

04.01.2024 19:09:33

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Antitheocra
04.01.2024 19:13:40
Pollyx

hey chris! thank you for listening to so many suggestions from the people. I think many of these plans are a great step towards fixing democratic, financial, and social issues on the site. the idea of a political forum area free from any censorship is an important one, and making SMs senators automatically helps to relieve the financial burden. would you institute any other plan for helping SMs pay for the financial costs of the position (running contests, something expected by the userbase)?

I agree that this site is 18+ with an adult theme and that there should be a forum area specifically for those discussions. you may also want to clarify what counts as explicit imagery under this measure—will all explicit imagery be disallowed or are you talking about real-life photographs, video, realistic depictions, etc? is drawn art included in this? many online communities fail to adequately outline exactly what they mean here so laying that out exactly would be an amazing step in the right direction for the internet. 

player houses are a great thing to bring in, especially for monetization. if the site is in need of any artists to help draw assets for this I would love to do so and i'm sure others would as well if rewarded with some form of in-game compensation. same for drawing for the shop—there are not currently consistent guidelines in place for what exactly designers should or will get paid for their efforts, and your transparency in this program shows this is something you are committed to, so giving more detail about this would be great.

clarification about exiles and jailing and how this would be managed under your term is very helpful, especially the part about checks and balances (multiple rounds of approval for exiles) and punishments (but not warnings) being made public.

senators having more voting power is a mixed bag but also a bit of a no-brainer monetization strategy for a site such as this and a motivator to pay for senatorship.additionally, regarding PB elections—I am undecided on if I will run (your program is largely good, after all) but need clarification. all senators are allowed to run if they have been a senator for 3 months, but I will not have been a senator for 3mo at the time of the feb election. does my status as an SM, someone who has proven an ability to manage stress and create popular community measures, count towards that? I strongly believe SMs should be allowed to run regardless of how long they have been senators (not just for me but in general), so can you clarify if this is the case?

even if I do not run, I would be happy to serve in PH alongside you as antitheocra SM for your term!

can you also clarify how jailing for being "unfashionable" would work? this seems subjective and like it might lead to abuses of power.

thank you for writing your program with so much detail! there is a lot more i could praise or discuss but for now this is what I will write and i'll add additional questions later as I think of them.

04.01.2024 19:13:40
(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
04.01.2024 19:52:19
Gemima1984

I fancy myself as a bit of a journalixt today so I have a few questions if that's okay, Chris.

Firstly I just want thank you for taking on board a lot of the feedback you received in the last thread, a lot of the features and changes to how the site will run going forward are welcome changes and I think will have a positive impact on the site and game. I especially like the proposed changes to the SM role and elections. I think your idea for a note system instead of direct post edits is also good. I especially like that you've balanced the need for free speech with the need for social responsibility.

Here are my questions:
1. You've proposed a lot of changes to the rules and moderation of the site and will be allowing Fashion Police to take a cut of revenue. Will you be opening applications for new fashion police and instating an entirely new team for your term?
2. You've listed a lot of proposed changes, several of these won't require much coding input as it's down to policy but several will. It's likely a lot more than can be taken on in a 2 month term. What's your overall timescale plan for this? Will it be a multi phased approach? How will you oversee the changes following your term or do you intend in staying in post until after they have been implemented?
3. A bit silly but did you get a chance to see my last post in the previous thread? A lot of what I've asked/raised in that post has already been addressed by your manifesto but I have a couple further questions in relation to that but I'm apprehensive of copying and pasting them over here because a lot of my constructive criticism posts in the past couple of days have been deleted as "spam" and I don't want this one deleting too if I bring the stuff across to this thread.

04.01.2024 19:52:19
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Freethinkerland
04.01.2024 19:53:17
LillyAnn

I am sorry to hear this, but SMs will not be part of PH anymore. PH = PB + FP + MoG based on Sweetasnuts's program.

04.01.2024 19:53:17

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04.01.2024 21:12:00
AuntieLice

You want this website to become more conservative, but allowing for everyone to have as many alts as they want will do the complete opposite. Over the years, there have been countless dramas with several different groups creating a countless amount of alts per player, desperately trying to rig elections and one thing all those groups have in common is that not only are they left leaning, they are the most extreme far left chronically online Americans out there who not only harass right leaning players, but left leaning ones as well for not being as far left as they are. 

Alts will also take out the fun out of the outfit fights and debates as people will just vote for themselves from their other accounts.

04.01.2024 21:12:00
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Reasonopia
04.01.2024 21:22:38
Iowa

didn't you say you thought chris would make a great prime bimbo? his platform explicitly allows people like you to remain on the site and force everyone else to tolerate your presence and yet you're taking shots at him to complain about the same old stuff. maybe be grateful he'll allow you to stick around and be quiet for once.

04.01.2024 21:22:38
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04.01.2024 21:49:17
AuntieLice

Considering you and your besties have been banned several times, you are the one that should be concerned about getting to keep your account, girl. Know your place and show some gratitude to Chris for allowing you roaches back. Kindness prevails!

04.01.2024 21:49:17
“Then two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out.” -Amber Heard
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Freethinkerland
04.01.2024 21:54:13
LillyAnn

Iowa wrote:
didn't you say you thought chris would make a great prime bimbo? his platform explicitly allows people like you to remain on the site and force everyone else to tolerate your presence and yet you're taking shots at him to complain about the same old stuff. maybe be grateful he'll allow you to stick around and be quiet for once.
She said that and so what? It doesn't mean she has to agree to all his points. Her arguments about alts voting for each other are valid. Many can agree with that point, but right, since AL brought it up it's invalid by default. If it was Cherri or someone else who said exactly the same statement you wouldn't mind it, would you?

i don't agree with everything stated here but a lot of these changes are actually really fantastic and it's clear you've listened to feedback. good luck on your campaign
Quoted your previous post.. You don't agree either with all Sweet's points but think some are fantastic. Obviously you have a problem with this one:
...his platform explicitly allows people like you to remain on the site and force everyone else to tolerate your presence

Thought you were open for constructive criticism but looks like I was wrong. Maybe be grateful he'll allow you to stick around and be quiet for once.


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04.01.2024 22:51:19
Iowa

i legit don't care at all if someone disagrees with any of chris's ideas considering, as you pointed out, i do as well, it's using this as an excuse to bring up the same petty bullshit that really doesn't fly with me. i also don't think the rule changes about alts are good but you don't see me using it as an excuse to complain about alexstrasza (spelling?) and her fifty million alts or make up conspiracies about why she was allowed to have them so for long, because that's petty, alex no longer plays, and it has nothing to do with the subject of this thread. if AL has criticisms she can be a normal person about them like anyone else instead of trying to get under the skin of me and people she thinks i associate with at literally any opportunity. be for real.

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04.01.2024 23:12:45
LillyAnn

You are the only one who brings up the same petty bullshit over and over again. Can't you see it?

Can you actually quote where exactly she brought up 'the same petty bullshit that really doesn't fly with you' in her first post?

When it comes to allowing multiple alts we are all at the same page. Can't we at least stick to it? Of course, there are players who are willing to make a trade and accept it without voicing a word only because something else suits them.

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