[The Doctor]

The past month has brought out the best and the worst in those in and around the virtual pet communities, but mostly the worst.

About a month ago now VPL was allegedly "hacked" and went offline for a brief period, the VPL team lost all of the back-ups and a week or so later, reopened fresh with no members or posts at all.

Over the next little while they quickly gained members and active ones at that and then the main leader Carlos (cpvr) went on a rampage for a few days and proceeded to blame this on a medical condition.

Carlos went offline to allegedly get help with his illness so that he could come back and lead VPL as the strong leader he has proven himself to be.

During his rampage he attacked anyone who said or did anything that he perceived to be a direct action against him, trying to tear these people down and tarnish the image of them.

He went and attacked all the competitor communities, simply for that; They were competitors.

Some of the key phrases during this saga of events was his infamous "Content is king", however during this time he was failing to make any quality content. This rampage brought out the worst in him, a side of him rarely seen in the virtual pet "industry".

During this time he hurt his community, VPL, and the members of it. Some of the members we're quick to forgive and forget, but not many.

Once he left for alleged "help", EBK was put in charge of VPL, during this time things started to go back to normal and the issues started to be resolved, as EBK worked on putting this behind the community.

A week or so later Carlos returned and started posting and blogging and for a short period look like he had returned to normal, but once again he started attacking people and trying to tarnish the image of others.

He's been using his blog and the competitor site Virtual Pet Community as his personal soapbox, fine for the blog but not VpC. By using VpC as a soapbox he could speak his mind where the members of his community wouldn't see and he could try to deter members away from VpC and direct them to his community.

We've seen the worst in Carlos, but what about other people in the communities?

Other people have been very immature about the situation resorting to childish name calling a tactics like spamming. These "Other People" are the ones responsible for the bulk of the drama related to the events.

Sure they can say what they wish, but does posting about it 10000 times change anything? No, It makes a bad situation worse. These people gave Carlos power to continue his actions, had the members largely ignored him things may have been different.

The moral we all need to take from this, is that while Carlos did bad things and should take responsibility, we all had our part in crating the current situation, none of you didn't help advance this to what it is and will be.

I write this on behalf of the users at VPL and VpC, to get a better insight into this situation and see whats been happening. I like it very much if this topic didn't go to hell like so many others, because I see this as a non-biased topic or at the very least, less biased then most of the other topics made by people.

I've tried to present what I've seen in this situation, so you may not agree; This is simply my view on it all.


I'm sorry if you've been ofended.

[tezeti]

After contemplating on this issue, I've realized a few truths. The first is that cpvr is not going to stop trying to create drama. He will try to gorge his community with it by any means necessary, as he believes it is the only key to renewal. The second is that ignoring him, hard as it may seem, might be best for the community as a whole (unless something truly outrageous occurs). If he wants to crown himself "King Content", let him and we can see how it turns out. This also has the added benefit of leaving him as directly responsible for his actions, as he will no longer have any viable way to wrongly blame this on the users or on VPC.