Insim under new management!

[Piratey]

Oh they deserve to rot alright. What they did is unforgivable. No, I never knew them. But for those that did, I have a lot of sympathy for you. As for Kathy and Eric, I don't care what crap is supposedly going on in their lives. It gives them absolutely NO right to do what they did. They get no sympathy, and they will get what's coming to them no matter how lazy Karma is. They almost make TSR look like fraudster wannabes. Almost.

And this is turning out exactly as I predicted. The ship is sinking, and based on posts made at GoS it appears that Pescado's WFIS plan is going ahead.

[Quorneater]

This is one reason Insim used to drive me nuts. They worshiped Kathy and Eric as gods over there -- including worshiping Kathy's stupid booby picture.

I used to find some of her humour quite irritating, but I wanted to be nice to her because people used to tell me what a hard time she was having in her personal life.  But I think she's made up for that now with a few thousand of our dollars.

[redisenchanted]

She always got on my nerves. I donated to the site maybe a year ago but she got so annoying, I quit. I wanted to be sympathetic, but she was so unstable and profane I just couldn't.

So I would swoop in, grab downloads, post enough thanks to kill the "why haven't you posted message" and be on my way. Some of the creators there are really good. I hope they find a new place to post their stuff, they don't deserve this.

[Paden]

Not to mention trying to sell a community of individuals and thinking the staff was gonna roll over and expose our throats and bellies to this new son of a bitch like trained dogs. When I think of the hours that some of the admins spent on that site, doing the damn updates, chasing down some of the folks that uploaded stuff in order to get rid of pay content, and just generally doing shit that K&E ought to have been doing, it pisses me off more than I can express.

[HystericalParoxysm]

I used to find some of her humour quite irritating, but I wanted to be nice to her because people used to tell me what a hard time she was having in her personal life.  But I think she's made up for that now with a few thousand of our dollars.

The sad thing is, if they had just been up-front and said that they needed $700 before the end of the week to pay their rent or fix their car or whatever it was for, I bet people would have donated anyway just out of loyalty and a feeling of friendship.  It wouldn't have necessarily been classy, but at least it would have been honest.

[neriana]

This is one reason Insim used to drive me nuts. They worshiped Kathy and Eric as gods over there -- including worshiping Kathy's stupid booby picture.

I used to find some of her humour quite irritating, but I wanted to be nice to her because people used to tell me what a hard time she was having in her personal life.  But I think she's made up for that now with a few thousand of our dollars.

Other people have pretty much said it, but having a hard time in your personal life does not give you the right to treat other people like garbage. What kind of hard time were those other people having, and what gave her the right to walk all over them? It was just an excuse.

[SoggyFox]

Paden, I'm glad you locked it -  after reading some of those posts I want to explode - and I don't explode usually.

And I think the goodbye to the boobies was pretty funny.

[Anouk]

So yeah, Walt... good luck with your server and domain name. The soul of insimenator (creators, creations, shitload of members and staff) is simply moving elsewhere to continue to make the community you tried to buy.

[Paden]

I think I prefer Elton John's "Good-bye, Yellow Brick Road," it has a hell of a lot more honesty to it.

[Sherry]

The sad thing is, if they had just been up-front and said that they needed $700 before the end of the week to pay their rent or fix their car or whatever it was for, I bet people would have donated anyway just out of loyalty and a feeling of friendship.  It wouldn't have necessarily been classy, but at least it would have been honest.

True.  But honesty is almost never the easy way out, and I believe that is exactly what they were bargaining for.  It's the same reason they neglected to even notify their own staff of the changes.  They would have been subject to alot of criticism.  Selling the site to Walt was easier.  They got the money from someone who was probably more than willing and were able to check-out without having to deal with the drama, anger and hurt feelings.    

[Anouk]

Oh yeah, if anyone's interrested, there's always a place at Noukiesims 2 if you wanted your creations there. Either resident creator or a Community creator.
Edit: DUH, there's this server space and help with building your own site too, ofcourse. 100% free.

[kenmtl]

So HugeLunatic I assume between the two of us we got Ole covered, so I'm gonna give it a break.

[Paden]

Walt's first post, condensed to reflect honesty and brevity: "Hi, my name is Walt, and I'm a greedy dumbass and I own this site, everyone here and all of the creations posted. You'll like slaving for me and bringing me more monies and if you don't, you will be forced to watch my incredibly boring YouTube videos and learn how to shoot yourself in the ass with no help at all. Support this site, my mommy does, and she's nice enough to let me live in her basement and she even gives me allowance money cause I just suck at businessman. Isn't my mommy great, she went through the Great Depression and she knows how important it is to be entertained. So, give me monies and I'll act like a dancing jackass for you!"

[HugeLunatic]

Yep.  I've got images too.  Downthemall was not working quite right, kept giving me php.  I'm sure I used it wrong.  But got all of ole's stuff.  And a copy on my external as well.

[WedgewoodBlue]

Walt's first post, condensed to reflect honesty and brevity: "Hi, my name is Walt, and I'm a greedy dumbass and I own this site, everyone here and all of the creations posted. You'll like slaving for me and bringing me more monies and if you don't, you will be forced to watch my incredibly boring YouTube videos and learn how to shoot yourself in the ass with no help at all. Support this site, my mommy does, and she's nice enough to let me live in her basement and she even gives me allowance money cause I just suck at businessman. Isn't my mommy great, she went through the Great Depression and she knows how important it is to be entertained. So, give me monies and I'll act like a dancing jackass for you!"

You owe me a new monitor, mine has milk spewed all over it.
I love my Paden. WOOT!