So, as of today, the 20th of August, I’ve been a part of the PPC for five years now.
That is a nice, even number, which is why I am officially quitting as of today.
For those of you wondering why I have chosen to quit, or are wanting to ask me to stay, I've been feeling this way for months now, even after the events of last year and the mass of bullying 'ended'. This is because it never really did, it just went quiet until people thought it was forgotten about and could attack me for various reasons to satiate their various grudges.
I’ve become disliked by many people, repeatedly, and am often at the center of many attacks just because I made a good target. That, if anything, is an excellent reason to leave. To make it explicit: I haven’t felt safe here for nearly two years now.
Beyond that, the PPC has a glaring lack of competent writers, and has many people who call themselves PPCers being disrespectful of writers- this is, given the intended fundamental nature of the PPC, a large problem. There's a huge, constant stream of disrespect at people in and out of the community that's constantly ongoing, and it only happens when the people who will call it out aren't around to slam down on it.
There are many people who don’t bother reading, and become disgruntled when they’re told they should read. This goes hand in hand with the above- a community centered around writing and reading becomes hypocritical when the community itself insults writers but cannot write, and will not read.
Other reasons are just the fact that the PPC's just decayed so much. We should never've been in a position where we had people going 'homophobia is acceptable on the board because we can't tell someone that opinion is bad', or with someone spamming up the board to demand to know what was going on because they wouldn't bother to read.
Beyond that, 'creepy' has seeped into the PPC. I will never associate myself willingly with people who apologize for rape, accept pedophilia, condone bestiality, much less practice or fantasize about any of those things. Those things do not fall under 'Your Kink Is Not My Kink'. This is one of the reasons I am leaving.
It's bunch of stuff that's not changing, and has only been getting worse.
While I love what the PPC was, and the underlying ideas of it, I hate the community and what it's become, and what it has been doing to me, and don't want to associate myself with it anymore.
To that end, I'm officially retiring most of my agents; I am leaving Agent Library in Makari's good hands for a few more missions, and am leaving Building Maintenance to Huinesoron if he'd like use of them.
The wiki is in good hands; Neshomeh's, and Doctorlit's.
Finally, I would like Cassie to take on the role of Permission Giver.
If anyone has anything to ask me, or anything they'd like to say, they are welcome to do so; I will reply to things for the next day or so.
I think that's everything for now.
So, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
-JulyFlame