skulls bearings hoard!Noyes!…

The WP community is actually pretty small, so I can understand your apprehension. This sponsored links business has been generating a lot of ‘discussion’ for well into a few months now. I don’t have any hard feelings for anyone involved, and Sadish handled the situation very gracefully.

Hopefully in two weeks time the community can get chatting about some of the new designs from the SDC, rejuvenate things, you know. So that’s why it’s important for the SDC to be ‘non political’ in these political times.

Thankfully (and only by coincidence) the SDC can totally avoid this issue, since it’s CSS-only. Whew!

This episode has not been pleasant at all.

We do not intend nor get entertained by causing others’ grief/embarassment, we were compelled to say this only because we were pushed to a corner. We hope everyone would put all of this in the back, and move forward “united”.

I hope this will not in any way undermine Sadish’s capability as a designer, and the fact that he reported ripoffs long before anyone else did.

I implore all of you to refrain from making a big deal out of it, as we all make mistakes.

We understand and hold no grudges.

@ Jenny

I see no issue with a site setting some base rules to play the game with. It’s a community site, that does not give anyone the open permission to abuse it.

You’re angry and that is valid - I have no argument to make there at all. I don’t even have a problem with being the ‘whipping boy’ for all of the rampant manipulations that went on way before and way after my brief involvement there. It comes with the territory of the mistake I made.

A word about Mark and Matt, if I may - - I don’t believe anyone ‘conveniently forgave’ me before this thread - - I’ve not held discussion with a single person on the matter prior to this. As stated, I walked away from active involvement at the Theme Viewer site last fall, due to my own frustrations and ridiculousness of the matter. I have no way of knowing what folks like Matt and Mark feel, one way or the other. I can only imagine they’d shake their head and say “fool”. I think that’s probably what I’d do, in their shoes.

I regret it and am not quite sure what else I can say or do about it at this point - except to apologize to those involved, take away the lesson of it and move on. I don’t, however, regret making my post about it here - so thank you for allowing me the opportunity, I’ll not take up any more room here on it.

I commend your post on this issue too! Thank you.

I’ve been moderating for the past 4-5 months, nonetheless I figured out all those who were downrating our themes even before the rating system was removed.

Thank you for make this post. It’s a real good eye opener.