My thoughts, decisions are never based on black and white.
I always weigh things over in my head and think things over and over. Yes, I still may come up with the wrong answer, as I am still human.
The biggest difference, with other sites so far and AL is that other sites had problems with other sites, whereas AL had a problem with one of our own staffers. We all agreed we weren't going to police the outside rivals and be responsible for those things. Those sites didn't steal our data base, or ddos us etc.
The fact remains one of our family was kicked/banned while trying to do a job that shouldn't have happened. The staffer that contacted us may not have been the higher ranks that gave the order, but they would have had to ask or get permission to be listed here, and would have been given the "OK" to do so. So why would those higher ups have one of our guys kicked? It makes no sense.
I still stand by my decision of FSC as well, though I don't think any of us would have to worry about them, as Retro didn't want it on here while he was here.
But, He was rude to Snake's wife when she came on, and he didn't even have the decency to post in Snake's death thread, he had the audicty to ask moo to do it for him, and then even after putting moo on the spot, wound up insulting him and not even apologizing for it. Those things happened here..... to our staffers.
I am very forgiving, possibly even gullible when it comes to giving people a second chance if they have wronged me personally, but, I find it a lot harder to stand by and see those I care about most being hurt. It's one of my best traits yet also one of my worst traits.
My issue is not how trustworthy these places are, or how they run their own sites. That's their own problems, and not our concerns. My issue lies on how we are treated. If you kick one of us, being a family it's like they kicked "all" of us. It's not like they kicked joe blow, or dickydoo, they kicked one of OUR own.
It has nothing to do with being a dictatorship thing when something is refused over standing by our own team. I see that as loyalty. Protecting our own.
Honestly at this moment, I'm thinking it was a mistake to return back as I'm not ready to see things such as this go on internally. People may say things about how it was before, but we never ever had an outside site or outside staffer come between us in the past as it's doing now.
Seppy was mistreated wrongly. It's not like he went in there and started a fight purposely. He did nothing wrong and He is our family. That itself should tell everyone the right answer.