I was to put up a quick disclaimer before I continue, this is not an 'I'm coming back' topic, this site is still way too hostile for me to want to be here.

But in light of recent events, I felt some things needed to be said.

Roughly a million things have happened over the past week. A lot of negative stuff boiled over right around the creation of this thread.Old rivalries were exposed, bottle up anger was released, and the environment of KH13 as a whole did a sudden U turn. 

The topic I created was to voice a dislike I had for a new rule in random, yet people seemed to take it as something more. A little later, i created a bunch of threads as an exaggerated satire of what the opposition wanted, but it was instead it was interpreted as a fit of rage. Something very out of character for, if I do say so myself. When the topics started to damage the website, I stopped, because that wasn't my intention.

Finally, I posted an idea for a solution. An idea I freely admitted was probably unfinished, and would need some tweaking. An idea that I would update whenever a complaint came my way.

But I started getting personal attacks. Blame by association, in a lot of cases. People claimed I was trying to destroy KH13, that I was on an ego trip, basically, a large percentage of this site turned against me, and started insulting me.

That's why I left.

Now I want to say something. KH13 is probably the reason I am alive. I'm not exaggerating. KH13 whas been a very positive place for me, where I could be appreciated for who I am, where people actually cared that I liked Kingdom Hearts, and who would comment on videos or pictures I made. I've been battling a very sporadic depression for a couple of years now, and the friends I met, and the overall positive atmosphere of this site probably plays a big role in me not killing myself.

With the events of this past week, I've become pretty depressed again, because this weekend has shown me something fairly depressing.

It has shown that despite several months of good times, people can go from liking my shitty admin marriage poster to calling me a douche after a bad week.

Now, I don't know if I've done something to get these people mad at me, and I just haven't noticed it. If it's something that can apologize for, then I AM sorry, because I don't go and look for ways to get people I think of as friends angry with me. In particular, I'd like to ask Snow, kalnet, and Kishira what happened to make people I previously thought to be on good terms with to treat me the way you did. If I can apologize, I will, if I can't, feel free to contact me, I want to sort this out. If I haven't done anything, then I don't really know what to say.

DChuich. Are you mad about the complaint topic? The fifteen KH threads? My proposed solution? What? What did I do that got you so mad at me? While I was busy writing this to you, you were busy complaining about me.

Honestly, your previous actions actions confuse me. I understand why you want to have more KH discussion, and encourage new members, I use adsense too. But what I don't understand is why you don't seem to want to acknowledge any problems that exist above or below KH13. I've talked to a lot of people about this DC, and you're hurting them. I know it might be hard to acknowledge at times, but you don't seem to want to put any effort into maintaining public relations. You feel under appreciated? Even after that DC appreciation topic full to the brim with supporters willing to treat you like a god? And as far as I can tell, you didn't say the whole truth about the Koko thing. And beyond that, there are myriad of things below the surface that I am barely privy to, Believe me when I say that I understand how difficult it can be to deal with stuff like that. But you're surrounded by support, you just need to accept them. I'm more than willing to help in any way I can, and beyond that, you have a veritable army of willing workers. But they're not being paid, and you are, so you need to be willing to treat them how they want to be treated, and support them when they need it.

You've created a great thing, Daniel, I can say with confidence this is the best forum I have laid eyes on. It's a very happy place, and I don't want to see it damaged the way it has.

So would it really kill you to apologize to all of the people you're hurting?

 

 

I knew the withdrawal symptoms wouldn't take long.  Thanks for the message Hatok, but if it's alright I'm going to lock this so that there isn't another unnecessary explosion. These things happen but they always pass and this will too.  All these problems can be resolved in pms so I hope you can pm your friends and DC to work things out.

 

And we are always open to constructive criticism and anyone is welcome to voice their opinions about the site in the Website section like this thread: http://kh13.com/forum/topic/45183-what-should-i-work-on-for-the-main-site/