Hi all, Daryl here - and I'm back temporarily!
I have set up this account as a one off, for a one off thread and after which I have had my say on what I have got to get off my chest to you all, then I will no longer use it.
I left Fruit Emu over three months ago now, because real-life matters meant more to me than FME ever could, and would and also, to be honest I had had enough of it with the fighting here with individual members who seem to be running their own forum and agenda within the forum… and it is for the latter reason that I have had to come back and have my say.
Each and every one of you - and I mean everyone of you - take a step back and look at what you are doing to Fruit Emu…
The fighting, which is becoming vicious, tenacious and downright childish in most cases is destroying a forum that we all loved… From when Fruit Emu started back in 2003 I have been here, and only within the last few years have I seen it start to fall apart since certain members joined and also since inner circles had started to form, that made the original Mecca one look like a walk in the park!
Now, it is even spilling over on my own personal Facebook pages… I walked away from FME because my time with it had finished and I wanted to move on - but how can I?
If you think I am going to just sit back and expect some of you to take snide potshots at me without mentioning my name, but with every full intent on implying it, then you are sadly mistaken - I'm not going to tolerate it, as the friends I have in FME-land who are on Facebook have shown me on to the Fruit Emu links to read (yes, you can read them all as a guest).
Now you're all grown ups here, so start acting like it… Is it that some of you with an agenda want to get Fruit Emu closed? If it is you're certainly going the right way about it, and I wouldn't blame Alex (aaamusements) one little bit if he did.
But why should just a select few with axes to grind and points to try and prove get a whole forum closed down in order to prove a point or some kind of victory? I've read that some of you are mentioning bullying - well consider this: if you're planning on getting Fruit Emu closed because you think you are always going to be some kind of ‘forum police’, then just think of the database of tens of thousands of members on here who aren’t involved in FME politics and have come to Fruit Emu to play and download slots from their past and present - and how it will affect them?
I've also read that I have been labelled as a ‘Toadie’ who goes on ‘Fruit Emu on Facebook’… Let me tell you all something about that too: I set that page up myself personally when I was a Moderator here because life nowadays involves social media, and quite a few had approached me and asked about something like that to happen, to a) bring fresh blood into the FME scene, and b) show off our layouts and creations to a wider audience to let them know that some amusement centre slots can be played on their computers, especially those with nostalgic memories of the slots of yesteryear.
I am disgusted and ashamed with FME and Fruit Emu in particular by having to come back and make this thread, but such is my anger over this, and the fact that I have been sought out over things that are not even anything to do with me anymore, I am not letting that stand and why I have made this post.
NOW EVERYONE, PLEASE - TAKE A STEP BACK FROM ALL THIS BITTERNESS!!
It is festering like a boil needing to be lanced… I just hope I am the prick that can burst it!
Peace and love guys, still xx
( reason for edit: to let you know who I am on the first paragraph - as if you haven't guessed! )
Edited by stardust, 25 August 2014 - 06:57 AM.