KatieBoutique wrote:
LillyAnn…Prime Bestie…I want to say something about you
and I want it to live forever in Bimboland History buried in this thread.
You are the only person in this game who had the balls to bring PinConeUpMyAss to trial.
No one else, including Mariolka, wanted to do anything.
For that alone…you have my eternal thanks.
The details of that investigation are still Top Secret…
But the end results are known:
I didn’t get so much as a thank you from any administrator
For the costly Job I did for them.
Not a peep…from you either, Mariolka.
I did your job for you. 5 months of my time, every day
and at the very end…I found out you did a simple search query,
and saw for yourself the damage she had done.
Where was the “Thank you Katie” DM…from you? There wasn’t one.
Instead, you crashed my Mailman Outfit Contest
And ruined the fun.
Get over here MarrQ…and let’s talk about your Mailman Outfits.
You are a no show. Except on outside, Ximboland Servers.
Come here…and thank me. Just that will help heal something.
LillyAnn…you have a great sense of humor, and have balls of steel.
You are not The Problem. Neither is Miss Bimbo.
Mariolka…you are the problem.
You are The Elephant in the room
Thank you Katie for the kind words, I truly appreciate it.
Rest assured that your work and help with that didn't pass unnoticed. It was never a secret that you pulled the most back then, did almost all the work and I am sincerely grateful for it. The credit for it goes to you, I just dealt with the official part. Team President is aware of your and another player's (not mentioning username here because I am uncertain she agreed to be mentioned in public) contribution. Just checked the email I sent back then so yes, it is all there. Rest assured no one has ever wanted to take the credit for it away from you, I certainly haven't.
Here is one small part from that email, I am sharing it because it was my email and I don't need anyone's permissions for sharing it since no third party is involved
What is known to me is that you have contacted Sachem regarding that matter, not Mariolka. Sachem also was the one who checked Pine's duel pattern, confirmed cheating to me and mentioned you have reported it.
What is not known to me is whether or not someone more was messaged about it and if yes - who. We were in it together and I was transparent with you with my actions but can't say for sure it was mutual. This is the first time I hear you have expected the answer specifically from Mariolka.
If you have reported the issue using the 'report a problem' button at the bottom of the page be aware these reports go to all admins, not one of them. Same way the one who saw it first replies to it. In that sense it doesn't really matter much who saw it and replied, it is important the problem has been addressed.
If you contacted them both in private it makes sense for you to expect feedback from everyone you have messaged, tho since they work together it is not strange they shared it and only one replied to you. Or to me, as Sachem did. Same way, sometimes more than one FP member reports the same issue and not all of us get a separate reply but rather only one, usually PB, and share it with the rest. It is not a thing to be taken too personally, what matters is that the answer is there.
I get if you feel you were left out and expected a more personal response from TB. I don't know if it matters anything to you, but for the biggest part of my terms which is a whole year in total, I also had very sporadic contact with TB. On some messages I've never gotten a reply. Some issues I reported over a year ago got dealt with just recently, during Blecky's 2nd term. Some ideas about updates that I brought up during my first term came to realization during Blecky's terms. Some ideas for which I am sure BL would benefit from a lot I introduced in my second email never even were discussed.
Should I take it personally and be annoyed? - Maybe. Yeah, I was annoyed at some point over waiting for replies on issues and suggestions I saw important for days, even months (in case I actually got one). Then I realized I don't need bitterness and negativity, instead I can focus on positive stuff and use that energy for something constructive and fun. PB position has its limitations but my point was to do my best and max it out with frequent events, contests of various kinds, some kind of contests I introduced we have never had before, bringing back IG contests, promotions that I ran on my own using my own resources for it (you can see some of it on IG), gifting designers with my own resources (Ds were for all, senatorships for some who were frequent with their work but not senators), gifting PBFC theme winners from my pocket again with buying them subscription or giving out my own Ds (while previous PBs had a privilege to not use their own resources but instead the game covered for prizes), rewarding my team (my own resources again), ran 2 actions for donations - one was for the cat shelter, another for one of our players, did my best to be responsive to players both in BL, dc or IG (in short anywhere I had access too), reporting their problems for them, banning literally thousands of bots (about 10K, maybe more), rewarding players who reported them (using my own resources again), the list goes on.
Was I a fool for doing all ^^ of that, for treating BL, taking care of it and investing in it like it was my own business which it is clearly not or like I was a real employee with a decent wage? Maybe. Maybe I was the biggest fool in BL history for doing all of that, spending a lot of time, energy and money on it and what for? To be dragged in here like some criminal or BL biggest villain by some group of players because I
1) followed the rules both the one introduced by MB a few years ago and those me and my team introduced (with a blessing of MB, yeah, checked my emails for that one too)
2) for just not being able to meet everyone's wishes
3) for simple disagreements on some matters
4) for making a couple of obvious jokes that some decided to take too seriously and to extreme
5) (...)
And still, let's assume it all made sense because PB gets paid after all. But, there was work I used to do for BL a few years before becoming PB for free.
Let's see... literally thousands of items added in the shop by myself alone. Even at the times when there were more shop workers, I was the most frequent. And I am not pulling it from my a$$, I have evidence of my work as well as of previous shop workers' work. Some of them have added literally zero items for a time period that was longer than a year or even more. Did hundreds of recolor requests, added names to items that had no name at all and so were impossible to be found in shops, fixed positions of God only knows how many items, sorted many in proper categories, and so on...
Are you aware how many hours and time it took? It lasted for a couple of years, not months. Do you think someone was thankful for that for real?
That could be a whole new topic to be discussed. Yes, there was some 'thank you' here and there from some players after their requests were met, but such things get forgotten fast, in a day or few, and then come new requests and same thing all over again. I learned well how long that 'thank you' lasts and how easily it gets forgotten everything that has been done before when some of the requests were not met.
Do you think MB or admins said 'Thank you' for it - not really, except for Mariolka who recognized it and commented that I've done a lot and never asked for anything in return for myself but always asked for others.
But should I expect or demand MB or other admins to come saying 'thank you' or acknowledge it or reward it one way or another? -Nah, I don't think so. It's their choice, the same way certain things were mine.
Should I be salty or vindictive because of that? Maybe, but I am not. Wondering why not? - Because, at the end of the day, it was MY choice. Neither Mariolka, Kimsim, Sachem or MB asked me for all of that. I decided I wanted to do it and did it. I liked doing it and enjoyed it. As long as I had resources and time for it I was doing it per my own choice because I liked and wanted it.
Was I dumb for doing it and not expecting, even less asking for anything in return, that is a totally different topic. Someone may say I was dumb, I don't really care. I am at peace with myself because I knew I did something good and enjoyed doing it. For that I don't really need any external validation.
I can say too it was someone else's job. I can also say I spent a lot of time and other resources I could spend on something else that most likely would be more appreciated and valued and so on. But it is too late now to think about that. Time cannot be reversed, can't and don't want to be bothered by that. It was the choice I made and I am responsible for it. All that matters at this moment is that I can make different choices now and in the future. Or the same, if decide so and take responsibility for that.
Katie, we might disagree on this matter or other matters, I also have no idea what is your perception of me now, am I still Prime Bestie or if I ever was. But consider this as a friendly suggestion. You did a good thing with your investigation on Pine. You were doing it because you wanted to. If this can make things easier, imagine that you were helping me. I am grateful for what you did and wish I was able to reward you somehow since it was during my terms. Even if you didn't have any intention to help me, but did it for other reasons, I am still thankful because you did an amazing job, did the right thing and players and the game benefited from it.
1) When it comes to court cases - it was the job of other admins, Kimsim and Bobitzka. They used to handle it in the past. Mariolka, Sachem and MB have never dealt with it. Also, court was not a common thing to use, it was used a couple of times only by mentioned admins and a few years later by Dye and myself.
2) 'Thank you' - I referred to it already, the biggest portion of this post is about that
3) Mailman contest - Just went back to it to read it again. Can't agree Mariolka crashed it and ruined the fun. There was a contest, right? There was the fun. All he said was that mailman won't be updated again, after it was updated a few days before it. Moreover, first mailman was updated, then you made a contest after the update. Did you consider talking with Blecky first regarding it? She was PB at that time and perhaps could have dealt with it.
4) Mariolka is the problem and the elephant in the room - How about MB taking care of that elephant? Mariolka works for MB, MB pays him, not the people in this thread. As an employee he has an obligation to be accountable towards his employer and co-workers. If he has to explain himself to someone then these people are Chris and perhaps the rest of the admin team. He may but is not obligated to do it here. Chris has posted already that he is working on the issue and will report back.
Is it necessary to force it? Chris had a chance to see the same stuff and evidence over and over again during the past few years anyway. It was not a secret and was all over the place as well as many past and current players have Chris's email. Maybe C and M have already dealt with it indeed, maybe not. It is not on me to make assumptions. In the past (speaking of the last 2-3 years), several times a couple of players already talked about they emailed it to Chris and the rest of TB, whether it's true or not I have no idea. The thing is C has all the info already, and we will get the feedback like he said already.
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Reply to one of your previous posts about dc... Chris got my dc username in the very first email I sent as PB in June last year. If he ever wanted to join or add me, I was there. The idea I had was to add him to the PH server if he wanted. If it was too much to be on the server it's understandable, I just thought it would have been handy if he had a dc account to keep in touch there instead of an email. The rest of TB members also have my dc. All of them were welcome to join if they wished.
The server you talked about was made later. If Chris had a dc account and wanted to join it, he would be there of course. Admins know about that server, they were invited, only one joined back then when it was formed and left after some time.
The server is private because it is only for BL players. Not everyone is there, not all players use dc or want to join.
