Email me at tkpurbrick@gmail.com if you want to contact me. Later all.


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Danie ($Moonbeam13 ) has gotten back to me so now that I've given the time to do things in private channels I can come and say this in public. So here we go, as quick and straightforward as I can be:

I did not resign from the Gallery Director position. I was removed.

I was removed without any notice or discussion. There was no "six month review" or any sort of meeting at all. In fact, I hadn't received any direct notes or emails from Danie for a few weeks before I removed. I logged in and found that I was now a ' instead of a ^. There were two notes in my inbox. One was Danie saying thank you for your time as a GD, etc, and another that had been sent not even 24 hours before that note, again by Danie, asking for a good time to schedule a meeting.

So I guess you can say that's kind of like notification. I hadn't even read it yet and wasn't even given 24 hours to reply, but the attempt was there.

I want to say now that I have no idea about the details of James's (`PoeticWar ) removal. I also want to say that I do not think Danie is out to get the community or want to ruin things. I simply think she made an error in judgement and doesn't want to to admit.

I say this because almost a week and several notes and too many emails later, I still haven't been told exactly why I was removed.

At first I was told two generalities:

1) There were complaints made about me
2) I haven't been active enough.

When I asked for clarification I was told:

1) Danie: "I can't say what the complaints were because they wished to be anonymous."
2) I haven't been active enough.


I asked if the complaints could be paraphrased. I wasn't given the chance to defend myself so I would like to know what was such compelling evidence that I was removed without any discussion. I also asked, again, what kind of activity I did not do.

1) She told me (with names, too, because all of a sudden it's okay for them to not remain anonymous) that there were a handful of complaints about some notes that went unanswered. That's it.
2) You haven't been active enough with official GD duties.

I was also told then that it wouldn't have mattered if there was any discussion before I was removed, because the decision had already been made and anything I said wouldn't have made a difference. Man, those guys who didn't get an answer to their note must hold stock in the site or something.

So I asked about 2) again. You know, specifically, what didn't I do?

And she can't answer me. I didn't get an answer. Over a dozen emails/notes sent back and forth and no specifics whatsoever; nothing like "you didn't do X, Y, or Z." None of that.

So I was removed because I didn't answer a few notes. What were these notes about? Who knows. Maybe they were angry people who didn't get their DD suggestions posted.

I want to make this clear: I'm not contesting the decision. I have already made it clear that if the position was offered back to me I would refuse it, because there were some fundamental problems with the Lit GD trio, despite Literature being quite stable at the moment (relatively speaking, there are no riots or mass bannings, or anything close to the crap that went on back in the day). I don't want to bad mouth anyone so I will leave it at that, especially since that's not the issue here. The issue is that I'm sitting here almost a week after I was removed without a single clue as to why it happened.

So there you go. I don't think I'm going to get an answer at this point so I stop trying. I hope the next batch of GDs have a better run of it.

(To the Litmas winners, I have been told over and over again that you have already been contacted, so if you haven't already, send notes to ^StJoan and $Moonbeam13 with the same prize choices you told me. I'm sorry for this being delayed even more, but I wasn't even given the opportunity to finish up anything that I had outstanding.)